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Christiana Gregoriou @cgregoriou.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics and Author @ Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction; English Literary Stylistics; Language, Ideology & Identity in Serial Killer Narratives; Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media
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Debbie Cabral @debbiecabral.bsky.social Interested in forensic linguistics and corpus linguistics
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Dawn Knight @dawnknightcl.bsky.social Professor of Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University. Part time fitness (hockey) freak, full time Corpus geek
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Nadia Makouar @nmakouar.bsky.social MCF - Ass prof in legal linguistics - université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3
Dr Elisabeth Carter @drliscarter.bsky.social Criminologist, forensic linguist. Specialising in the language of fraud/scams. 
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Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
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Yvonne Jewkes @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency
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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social Towards an innovative, systematic approach to concordance analysis.
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Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Linguistics @ Man Met Uni, UK. I teach & research: corpora, gender, sexuality, videogames & online misogyny. Own views only. Usually in the gym 🏳️🌈 he/they
Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues 🏳️🌈🦜🏳️⚧️ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
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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
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Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social Linguistics postdoc at Queen Mary University of London, working on 'Autism in Affinity Spaces'.
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Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. Interested in corpus linguistics, language data science, AI, educational technology, and the world at large.
Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw.
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xi’an JTU. All views are my own.
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton. Researching gendered and inclusive language, media narratives of femicide, masculinities and fatherhood. Now focusing on examining Meloni's far-right anti-gendered politics. Born in the South of 🇮🇹.
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
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Dr Abigail Boucher @drabigailboucher.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change 
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Andrea Nini @andreanini.com Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester
Sharon Glaas @slglaas.bsky.social PhD | Linguist | political and media discourse | language of persuasion and evaluation | mis- & disinformation | narratives & framing | #corpuslinguistics #forensiclinguistics | Uni of Birmingham, UK
Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity.
I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned.
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social Assoc/prof in linguistics in Tampere • interested in digital language and new communicative environments, persuasion • owner of a malamute •
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Dr Nicci MacLeod @drniccimacleod.bsky.social Reader in Forensic Linguistics & Deputy Director, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics aifl.bsky.social, Co-host, Writing Wrongs podcast https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs
Dana Roemling @danaroemling.bsky.social Research Fellow @ University of Birmingham | Director and Co-Founder @ The FL Lab | #forensiclinguistics, #languageandlaw, #sociolinguistics, #dialectology, #nlp & #corpuslinguistics | /dɑːnɑ ʀøːmliŋ/ | they/them | 🦇
David Griffin @linguistlawyer.com American lawyer and linguist interested in the nature of law, pseudolaw, and the semiotics of authority. He/him
Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social Forensic linguist - academic and practitioner.
Co-host Writing Wrongs podcast www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
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External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
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Dominic @dmncschmtz.bsky.social postdoc in english linguistics @hhu.de | co-president of @div-ling.org | editor-in-chief of gender linguistics | dmncschmtz on all platforms | dominicschmitz.com | he/him 🏳️🌈
Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social Linguist by day, foodie by night (or the other way around?).
Guest Professor in English Linguistics @FU Berlin, PI of DFG Project on Carnivalesque Consumption Online
http://www.sofia-ruediger.org
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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Professor Karen McAuliffe @profkmca.bsky.social Professor of Law & Language at Birmingham Law School. Irish. Interested in law & language, EU law, sociolegal research, multilingual law, arts & law.
Prof Claire Hardaker @drclaireh.bsky.social Forensic linguist | corpus linguist | @factor-lu.bsky.social director | @en-clair.bsky.social podcaster-at-large | supervillain
Søren Sandager Sørensen @sorensorensen.bsky.social Linguistics, Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, a bit of Phonetics & Prosody. Postdoc at University of Agder, Norway, originally from Denmark (he/him)
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Janny Leung @jannyleung.bsky.social language, law, and everything in between. 
Patricia Canning Pask @patriciacanning.bsky.social Trees and bees, innit. And @fearghas_the_whippet
Karen Ashton @karenashton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Applied Linguistics: Teacher agency, Language education, policy, curriculum, assessment. Forensic Linguistics. ❤️☕
Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand Executive.
Jennifer Baldwin, CT @j-a-baldwin.bsky.social Freelance linguist. French/Spanish to English translator with a background in computational linguistics and forensic linguistics.
Dennis Baron @drgrammar.bsky.social I write about language and … language and law (free speech and regulation); gender (pronouns!); tech (how tech affects readers and writers); language reform; and language policing. All from a historical perspective.
Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social Caffeinated forensic linguist researching deception in authorship style and faked (con)texts.Visiting Research Fellow, AIFL. 🇪🇺 🖖
#Humanist #ForensicLinguistics #Eurosky
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
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
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Dakota Wing @dakwing.bsky.social Forensic linguist
PhD candidate at York University
#ForensicLinguistics #LanguageAndLaw beekeeper 🐝 skier ⛷️ dog dad 🐕
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📍Toronto
www.DakotaWing.com
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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
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
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)
Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
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