The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social Linguist (revitalization, documentation, sociolinguistics) but also not a professional account so I’m gonna say cuss words 🤷♀️ she/her
Jack Duff @thebarnfell.bsky.social Psycholinguist, assistant professor @ UCLA. He/him. (https://j-duff.github.io/)
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Erik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social German-Swedish translator since 1995. Occasional keynote speaker. Language nerd. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden back in 2018. That guy who founded Things Translators Never Say on FB. #xl8
11th DGKL/GCLA conference in Bielefeld @dgkl2026.bsky.social Account of the the 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, in Bielefeld, Germany, from August 31st to September 2nd, 2026. Run by @lingucat.bsky.social
Nick Gaspelin @ngaspelin.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences
Area Director, Cognition & Neuroscience Program
University of Missouri
https://gaspelinblog.wordpress.com
Pronouns: he/him
attention | distraction | vision | eye movements | ERPs
Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social It’s okay, I’m in incognito mode.
By @joesondow.bsky.social
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
John Hawks @johnhawks.net Paleoanthropologist | Chair and Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison 🧪🏺💀https://www.johnhawks.net
Crazy Optical Illusions @crazyopticalillusions.net Crazy Optical Illusions: Artbook releases this October.
𓃰 crazyopticalillusions.net
Ben Allan @benallan.bsky.social Subeditor / lamestream media left-wing govt mouthpiece / right-wing govt propagandist trapped in Dunedin, New Zealand. Opinions those of the Voice of the Mysterons. Used to program binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators in most respects
Adam Smith, Sea Through Science Ltd @anhsmith.bsky.social
Simon Young @tarkwyn.bsky.social Dad, Kiwi. Product & Tech @Serko, formerly @Halter, @TradeMe
James Caygill @torshin.bsky.social 3 kids. Social Democrat. Living in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Cabinet/Govt nerd. Toitu te Tiriti. Go Pack Go! Up The Arsenal!
Nic Mason @masonnic.bsky.social New Zealand-born, London-based, inconstant urban gardener, sustainability tech professional, Arsenal supporter, still trying to hold out hope...
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho @rferrericancho.bsky.social
lisa @lisahofmann.bsky.social formal semantics, experimental pragmatics- S Silke Weinlich @silkeweinlich.bsky.social
Daniel Haun @dbmhaun.bsky.social Scientist @ the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Australian Linguistic Society @auslingsoc.bsky.social The Australian Linguistic Society supports the scientific study of language in Australia. We promote linguistics research, teaching and outreach. Hop on board!
Website Link: als.asn.au
@langscipress.bsky.social @langscipress.bsky.social
Joe Salmons @joesalmons.bsky.social linguistics mostly, politics, Wisconsin
Eleanor Ridge @eleanorridge.bsky.social Linguist researching Vatlongos language of Southeast Ambrym, Vanuatu
ICREA Community @icreacommunity.bsky.social 🚀 25 anys impulsant la recerca a Catalunya. Una iniciativa de la Generalitat // 25 years advancing research in Catalonia. An initiative of the Catalan Government.- L languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social I am Ted Gibson, and I study human language in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences. My lab is sometimes called the Language Lab or Tedlab. I edit Open Mind, MIT Press's Diamond Open Access cognitive science journal.
Londonist: Time Machine @londonist.com A playful look at London's history from Londonist.
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Chris Buckley @chrisbuckley.bsky.social Anthropologist with interests in cultural evolution, phylogenetics, classical methods, weaving. Interface of archaeology and ethnography. Author of "Stone and Fiber: Daily life in the Baliem valley, Papua".
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/
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Tiberio Mammuth Vicino @kiviski.bsky.social Linguistica occulta & historicus computans. Verba mutuata antiqua (Finnougristica), mammutem sequor. Scribo plerumque nugatoria (=trash). Ciao.🌈🦋
Liyong Wang @standforever0410.bsky.social Associate Professor of Linguistics at Shaanxi Normal University. Research interests: Construction Grammar(sbcg), Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics interface, Chinese Linguistics. Personal website: https://standforever0410.blogspot.com/
DGKL-GCLA @dgkl-gcla.bsky.social Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik / German Cognitive Linguistics Association https://www.dgkl-gcla.de/
Next conference: Bielefeld University, 31.08.-02.09.2026 https://t1p.de/dgkl2026
ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social assc prof of psychology at brooklyn college & psych & phil at cuny grad center; interested in moral psych—how people judge what is right and wrong, and what they do with those judgments; anagantman.com; https://anagantman.substack.com/p/introducing-psyop
Fall of Civilizations Podcast @fallofcivilizations.com A history podcast by @PaulMMCooper.com looking at a different collapsed society each episode.
fallofcivilizationspodcast.com
Vera Kempe @vkempe.bsky.social Chair of Psychology of Language Learning at Abertay University. Here for language & politics. IRL also tango.
Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social Professor of the Psychology of Language at University College London. Director of the Language and Cognition Lab.
John L.A. Huisman @johnhuisman.bsky.social KVHAA Research Fellow at Uppsala University🇸🇪
Language variation and change | Semantics
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social Neurologist, Cognitive Neuroscientist. Director: Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics https://neuroaesthetics.med.upenn.edu/
Author: The Aesthetic Brain
Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social Associate Professor and Director of the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School / Mass General (MGH)
https://meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ckejHQkAAAAJ&hl=en
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
🐙🐙🐙🐙🪨🪨🪨
FYI👋I zombied IG👎
Anna Graff @annagraff.bsky.social sie/ihr | she/her
Postdoc @isle-uzh.bsky.social
Gemeinderätin der Stadt Zürich @spzuerich.ch
Giovanni Rossi @gio-rossi.bsky.social Social Interaction, Action and Understanding, Body Behavior, Conversation Analysis, Mixed Methods, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Systems Thinking. Associate Professor at UCLA Sociology.
Sasha Wilmoth @sashawilmoth.bsky.social linguist @ uni of melbourne
Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO) @meco-read.com https://meco-read.com is a collaborative international project that brings together researchers from over 40 countries to study reading across different languages and writing systems
@aflico.bsky.social @aflico.bsky.social AFLiCo est l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive.
AFLiCo is the French Association for Cognitive Linguistics.
http://www.aflico.fr/
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
NILOMORPH @nilomorph.bsky.social ERC Synergy Grant-funded project on the evolution of suprasegmental morphology in West Nilotic. PIs: Matthew Baerman (U. of Surrey), Bert Remijsen (FU Berlin), Lameen Souag (CNRS). https://nilomorph.eu/
Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net Linguist | Cànanaiche @schoolofppls.bsky.social. Migrant | Neach-imrich: 🇷🇺➡️🇳🇴➡️NI➡️🏴. Tin whistle (now also flute and 箫) tragic | Droch-chluicheadair na fìdeige (⁊ na cuisle-ciùil cuideachd a-nis). 🇺🇦.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author. Former All Things Considered, NPR, LA Times, NME, McSweeney’s, Stanford University. Singer in this one band.
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Olga Capirci @olgacapi.bsky.social Research Director at Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR Italy. Head of the LaCAM lab (Language and Communication across Modalities). Multimodal Language Development, Gestures, Sign Languages, Autism
Dr Daniel M Ingram MD MSPH @drdanielmingram.bsky.social Applied ethics, regenerative pontification, full-spectrum ensorclement, public health restoration, emergent neurophenomenology, all opinions the natural unfolding of the universe
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Niklas Erben Johansson @iconiklas.bsky.social A linguist who likes cognitive biases, iconicity, typology and maps
Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social Linguistische Forschung und Lehre an @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
http://dcl.fu-berlin.de
Posts: @teapotlinguist.bsky.social
Impressum: http://fu-berlin.de/impressum
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) @bcbl.bsky.social Euskadin kokatutako diziplina arteko ikerketa-zentroa, kognizioa, garuna eta hizkuntza aztertzeko.
Centro internacional de investigación interdisciplinar para el estudio de la cognición, el cerebro y el lenguaje ubicado en Euskadi.
s.mtrbio.com/bcbl
Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
Adam Morgan @adumbmoron.bsky.social Postdoc at NYU using ECoG to study how the brain translates from thought to language. On the job market! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🗳️ he/him
https://adam-milton-morgan.github.io/
Marie Bernadette @marie-bernadette.bsky.social Linguist, Language Educator, Global Citizen.
MSc TESOL, MPhil Literary Translation, MEd International Education, MLitt Writing Practice and Study, BA Studium Individuale.
Research Interests:
Global Englishes, Linguistic Justice, ELF, Language Identities
HANGMAN PAGE @hangmanpage.bsky.social pro wrestler for all elite wrestling. native plant society lifetime member. fat daddy. cowboy.
merch: tinyurl.com/5n93ebb5
actual merch: tinyurl.com/yw5yjhv6
songs: tinyurl.com/ypmh9fw6
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
manvir singh @manvir.bsky.social anthropologist at uc davis.
contributing writer at the new yorker.
author of SHAMANISM: THE TIMELESS RELIGION (knopf + allen lane).
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Cognition @cognitionjournal.bsky.social EiC team: Johan Wagemans, Ian Dobbins, Ori Friedman, and Katrien Segaert
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social Human, executive editor of The Atlantic
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Laboratoire DDL @laboratoireddl.bsky.social Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage UMR5596 🗺️ 👶🧠👄👂🐒📊
CNRS (@cnrs.bsky.social) 🔎
Université Lumière Lyon 2 (https://www.univ-lyon2.fr/) 🎓
Canal-U : https://www.canal-u.tv/chaines/ddl
HAL : https://hal.science/DDL
http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/
UCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social UCL Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and teaching on Latin America, the United States, the Caribbean and Canada.
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Bernardo Kastrup @bernardokastrup.bsky.social Author, philosopher, computer scientist. Executive Director of Essentia Foundation (http://essentiafoundation.org). Views are my own, not Essentia Foundation's.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social Interested in descriptive & historical linguistics.
I like Caucasian & Indo-Iranic languages, & dabble (in decreasing order of oftenity) in the languages of the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas & along the Nile.
Georgian calligrapher & fishcook henceforth.
Pablo Rueda Saiz @pruedasaiz.bsky.social Law Professor - University of Miami. International Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, War, Law and Society, Social Movements, Indigenous Peoples. Latin America. Proud Dad.
Vera Tobin @vtobin.bsky.social Cognition, language, literature, occasional possums, potatoes. Being difficult. Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot.
Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social UCLA Associate Professor, PhD Researcher of brains 🧠 (development, stem cells, neuroinflammation, autism, sensory processing, brain injury & repair)
Teacher of Neuroanatomy, Neurophilosophy (consciousness, cognitive science), & Stem Cell Biology
Emma James @emljames.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology, most interested in learning, language, and literacy across development. Wannabe stats geek. Social runner. https://learnlabyork.org.uk/
MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology investigates the #history and #evolution of #humans and other #primates.
Leipzig, Germany
https://www.eva.mpg.de/index.html
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Catalina Torres @catalinatorres.bsky.social Language science & Speech science. Postdoctoral researcher at UZH, Switzerland.
Tlatoani 🏳️⚧️ @tlatoani.bsky.social Linguist - phonology, formal theory, computation ling (welcomes the demise of LLMs). Reluctant mathematician. 🏳️⚧️ she/her in Florida. Born at 329 ppm.
Main for @nazarre.bsky.social
Fabienne Martin @fabiennemartin.bsky.social Linguist
Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social Lecturer at UAM, Madrid. Linguist (metaphor, CLIL, conversation analysis, CDA), critical theorist (Malabou, Derrida, Deleuze, posthumanism, technicity) mountain biker, cat feeder