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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Joanne McCuaig @joannemccuaig.bsky.social #Qualitative Researcher | Wellbeing when working with Emotionally Demanding Material; How the public uses Mental Health Terminology #trauma | #Linguistics and Communication She/Her
Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info The 14th International Corpus Linguistics conference
12-16 July 2027 | Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
🌐 www.CL2027.info | 🔗 linktr.ee/CL2027 | #️⃣ #CL2027
The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social PhD in Sociology •• Researching: immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism, food justice •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• 🏳️🌈
John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Retired lexicographer and academic, most recently at the University of Portsmouth. Committed trade unionist. I mostly post about things I know about or am good at. If I stray into other areas, it's usually because there's a language angle.
Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social Online teacher of English. Lover of literature and languages. Coventry City fan #PUSB. Tends to the left politically but not dogmatic.
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social "Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer
Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social MF Pride of the Tyne
🏳️🌈 🚲 😷
She/her.
pfp: black and white photo of me, dark circles painted under eyes as though extremely tired, black lipstick, collar of black faux-fur coat
MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social 🌍 The #Sustainability Index
🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact
💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature
💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics
🔗 madeindex.org
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social Chartered Civil Engineer working in the world of active travel 🚴♀️ 🌍 Likes to talk about transport, urbanism, climate change, the environment and nature ❤️ Mum to two boys, a dog and a cargo bike. Laka insurance referral code: AYCD2
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Reporter. I work for the BBC based out of Birmingham. Focused on Environment/Science & Rural Affairs. Cargo bike rider. PhD/DSc. RTS reporter of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/davidgregorykumar
Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath
Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social Cycle campaigner and comms professional • Former TV Producer • Award-winning cycle campaigner • Former clown, expect jokes.
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. University of Nottingham. World-class research. 🌏
https://linktr.ee/aecral
Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social More housing, bikes, and transit.
https://youtube.com/@ohtheurbanity
📍 Montreal, Quebec
Reena Mahajan @reenamahajan.bsky.social Founder, Studio Divercity & StreetSmart | Helping replace car-centric urban sprawl with people-centred, water-sensitive & nature-positive cities
Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social Sociolinguist. Spinner, weaver, knitter. Parent. Queer. Chronically ill. she/her
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social Cartoonist for The New Yorker
Words and Actions @wordsandactions.bsky.social A podcast about how language matters in business, politics and beyond
Hosts: Erika Darics, Veronika Koller, Matt Drury (standing in for Bernard De Clerck)
https://wordsandactionspodcast.wordpress.com/
Hui Chen @huichen0826.bsky.social PhD candidate in linguistics at Lancaster University
discourse analysis|corpus linguistics|business and environmental communication |ESG and Sustainability
Martin Price-Phillips @mrmjprice.bsky.social I design public services. Doctoral researcher: design thinking x urban transport delivery. Former @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org.
"I hope you can make me as happy as cycle lanes do" - my husband. 🏳️🌈🟢
📍 Birmingham, UK
🔗 https://linktr.ee/martinprice
Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social Linguist, early career researcher and face-blind nerd at Bielefeld University
(they/he)
Some of my interests: Pragmatics; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; HRI; language, gender & identity; fictolinguistics (and more)
ENG/GER/日本語/繁體中文
Phonetics & Phonology Group @ Newcastle University @phonncl.bsky.social Phonetics & Phonology Research Group at Newcastle University. Researchers uniting around language and sound. For enquiries, please contact us at phoneticsphonology.ncl@gmail.com. Our website: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phonphon/
Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org I am an advocate in the United States for infrastructure & transportation improvements which will save lives, for not just for the drivers of motor vehicles, but also the most vulnerable road users such as bicyclists, pedestrians and the disabled.
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language (@ University of Liverpool). Corpus/culinary/queer linguist. Runner, feminist, food enthusiast, coffee lover. Views are my own. she/her
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
ML Vercellotti @mlvercellotti.bsky.social professor of linguistics and TESOL, research on L2 speech (she/her)
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org The latest research in Language and Linguistics from @universitypress.cambridge.org
cambridge.org/linguistics
BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG @corpus-sig.bsky.social Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Ralph Morton @ralphmortonlang.bsky.social Research Associate at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
@prof-julieta.bsky.social @prof-julieta.bsky.social Associate professor, applied linguistics (pragmatics, analysis of interaction)
Daniela Schneevogt @danielaschnee.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Forensic Linguistics at aifl.bsky.social | she/her
@katiechiang.bsky.social @katiechiang.bsky.social
@emmac-oldfarm.bsky.social @emmac-oldfarm.bsky.social
Toby Chiang @tobyjchiang.bsky.social I do whatever the family dog suggests.
@sc-oldfarm.bsky.social @sc-oldfarm.bsky.social
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social Big Honking Dyke
Chad Vale Primary School @chadvaleprimary.bsky.social Primary School serving the community of Harborne, Edgbaston and beyond.
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland
Verena Minow @verenaminow.bsky.social [vəˈʁeːna ˈmiːnoː]
Linguist @ Ruhr-Universität Bochum. I love TV, film, board and video games, cycling, travelling, photography, (urban) sketching, watercolour painting and ranting. Fuck generative AI. (sie/she)
Felicity Deamer @felicitydeamer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics, Aston University
Philip Seargeant @philipseargeant.bsky.social Language / Politics / Dystopian narratives
Professor of Language & Communication, Open University
Recent books:
The Future of Language
Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape
The Art of Political Storytelling
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 #CL2025
30th June - 3rd July 2025 • Birmingham, UK
Aston University • Birmingham City University • University of Birmingham
https://www.cl2025.co.uk/
Lucia Busso @lucia-busso.bsky.social Researcher at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @AstonUniversity.
(cognitive) linguist, Italian, human (in random order). Views my own
Homestar Blade Runner 20X6 @checarina.bsky.social Carina is a ridge in the sagittal plane of the trachea where it splits into the two primary bronchi. | Chinese-American in 🇨🇳 | Trans rights or GTFO
Michaela W @michaelaw0.bsky.social RA at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.
Hiking. Knitting. And dogs
Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John @lsjysj.bsky.social Official Bsky account of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research @yorkstjohn.bsky.social. Follow for news, updates and events! https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/centre-for-language-and-social-justice-research/
Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno
MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill @mantrap.bsky.social A group of researchers at various UK universities investigating the language of the manosphere
👤 @jessaiston.bsky.social
👤 @veronikakoller.bsky.social
👤 @alexiconartist.bsky.social
👤 @markmcglashan.com
🌐 https://www.markmcglashan.com/projects/mantrap
Aston University Press Office @astonpress.bsky.social The latest news, research and expert comment from the Aston University press office. Need an expert for your story? Email pr@aston.ac.uk or DM us.
Angela Zottola @angelazottola.bsky.social Tenure Track Researcher in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Torino.
Mom. Activist. Capoeirista.
Corpora journal @corpora.bsky.social
IAFLL @iafll.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics | https://iafll.org/
Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham, as well as Director of the Centre for Corpus Research.
Website: http://www.akira-murakami.com/
Twitter (X): @mrkm_a
Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social Professor of Discourse Analysis @Uni of Birmingham researching trust, business communication, AI. He/him. Views my own.
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social Associate professor of linguistics at University of Bologna, editor-in-chief JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social, research in #corpuslinguistics, #discourse, #journalism, #nostalgia. Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.marchi/en
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
Emily Powell @empowell.bsky.social Linguist and A-ha fan. Research interests: forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, narrative criminology.
Leigh Harrington @leighharrington.bsky.social Academic Skills Tutor at Nottingham Trent University. Applied linguist. Honorary Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Manchester. Honorary Member, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.
Better Streets for Edgbaston @betterstreetshq.bsky.social Campaign group for safe streets outside of a car.
Edgbaston constituency in Birmingham, UK.
Edgbaston, Harborne, Quinton, Bartley Green
https://betterstreetshq.com
https://betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org We want streets where everyone gets home safely and where there are genuine alternatives to driving.
Account semi-monitored by volunteers trying to cover all bases!
📍 Birmingham, UK
🔗 betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
Lily Zhou @lilyzhou.bsky.social Linguistics PhD candidate at Lancaster University🦆 | MSc, University of Edinburgh | Corpus Linguistics🌟
Fuelled by coffee/tea/milktea☕️🍵🧋| Always curious🧐
Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social Researcher | Assistant Editor
Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
Dr Kate Steel @katesteel.bsky.social Linguist • Conversation analyst 💬 Researching: first response interactions in domestic abuse policing; human-AI interaction • Senior lecturer in #forensiclinguistics @ UWE Bristol (she/her)
Annina Y. Van Riper @avanriper.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. Studying trust, persuasion, and #forensiclinguistics. Views my own. #discourseanalysis #corpuslinguistics | they/them
The Rest Is Entertainment @trientertainment.bsky.social The Rest Is Entertainment pulls back the curtain on television, film, journalism and more with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde.
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Emma Richardson @emma-richardson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Language & Social Interaction, Lboro Uni. Researching how reports of #VAWG (DA & RASSO) are made and progress though the Criminal Justice System using Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis #EMCA
https://tinyurl.com/yc885pyf
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK. NTF, SFHEA, FRSA. Rock singer. Accents & speech, language & prejudice, pronunciation, sci-fi, cats. She/her/hers
Charles B. Chang @cbchang.bsky.social Linguist & cognitive scientist at CityU of Hong Kong 🇭🇰 PI @pamlab.bsky.social. Phonetics, phonology, speech, bilingualism, multilingualism, DEI. he/him 🇰🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈⛸🤸 Views my own ✌️
More: linktr.ee/charlesbchang
Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social Chicana. Child language development expert. 🧪 Forever a Scientist👩🏽🔬First Gen. Linguist. Writer. Podcaster. she/her. The Vocal Fries 🍟 co-host. Tucson, AZ
Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social i’m a linguist. he/him https://jofrhwld.github.io/
Dr Alexandra Krendel @alexiconartist.bsky.social Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton | CDA/CDS, corpus linguistics online discourse, (anti)feminism, hate speech
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
Andy-Luke @andy-luke.bsky.social Northern Ireland work-horse writing lots of words
YouTube TV: https://youtube.com/@andrewluke
Discworld podcast @discworldgnu.bsky.social
Comics Fest: https://captionfestival.co.uk/
Patreon needs: https://patreon.com/andyluke
Natascha Rohde @natascha-rohde.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics researching Incel discourse, queer linguistics & collective identity construction
Friends of Handsworth Park trustee
🏳️🌈 they/she
Dakota Wing @dakwing.bsky.social Forensic linguist
PhD candidate at York University
#ForensicLinguistics #LanguageAndLaw beekeeper 🐝 skier ⛷️ dog dad 🐕
he/him
📍Toronto
www.DakotaWing.com
www.ForensicLing.com
Neus Alberich @neusalberich.bsky.social PhD researcher at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. Investigating normalisations of sexual violence against women online and misogynistic discourse • Committed to protecting animals • she/her
#ForensicLinguistics #LanguageAndLaw #manosphere
Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast, President of the Dickens Society
https://michaelamahlberg.com/
Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social Professor in Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University; ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Metaphor, narrative | corpora | cancer, pain, Covid, vaccines
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino
Dr William Dance @williamdance.bsky.social Expert in disinformation, social media, and online safety | Senior BBC Policy Advisor @ DCMS | Previously: Senior Researcher at Lancaster University | Also run @fakebelieveblog.bsky.social. Contact: w.dance@fakebelieve.blog
Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social 125 Anniversary Fellow & Associate Prof, University of Birmingham • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides
➡️ https://linktr.ee/niallrcurry
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207