Kim Smith @kimshere.bsky.social Multipotentialite: Naturalist, native plant gardener, reader, writer, knitter, MLIS, #bugdork. Toledo, Ohio. I write at natureismytherapy.com. 📚 🧶
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social Washington Post alum covering hacking, disinformation and what’s left of privacy. Author of books on the Cult of the Dead Cow, organized criminal hacking, and Napster. Pulitzer co-finalist 2024. Signal joemenn.01
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Robert Lr @roblawrencium.bsky.social Science Editor/Writer in the Hudson Valley | Academia | DataViz | ASD Dad | NY transplant from UT/AZ
Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social Ancient Historian/Classicist. IT/Cognition/Law. | Fellow @GuggFellows.bsky.social and American Academy in Rome | Never, ever speak for my employer | Also cooking @foodoriented.bsky.social
Emily Moyers @emilymoyers.bsky.social Librarian. Writer. Word nerd.
One third of the Butter No Parsnips podcast.
Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social Voracious reader 📚💙, family-tree researcher/storyteller ☘️, under-appreciated punster. TooMuchBrudders.com family blogger. Married to 5th generation farmer. My grandson calls me Goose. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
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Sanderling Editorial 🌊🐦🌊 @sanderlingeditorial.com (I don't really use this, but I do check DMs sporadically. Email me if you want to talk!)
Bilingual (EN-SPA) copyeditor and proofreader | he/him | Not a fan of LLMs | Directly responsible for an amendment to CMOS 18th 😎
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Jason Bergman @jasonxbergman.com Husband, father, Director of Production at Gearbox Entertainment, pie enthusiast, infrequent contributor to The Comics Journal, and unapologetic nerd.
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Steve Case @joebugbuster.bsky.social Technologist, blogger, writer, #NostalgiaChat co-founder
Seattle
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Sterre Leufkens @strr.bsky.social Taalwetenschapster & wetenschapsjournaliste. Leest & speelt viool. Antifascistisch.
Helen Shin @h-x-s.bsky.social She/her.
Formerly @H_X_S on Twitter.
Subtitle @subtitle.bsky.social A podcast about languages and the people who speak them hosted by @patricox.bsky.social and Kavita Pillay. Partners: @lingsocam.bsky.social & Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. Posts mainly by Allison S.
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Mira @mpolkadot.bsky.social greeting card from hell. times new roman firing squad. former law student, former english major, former philosophy club member.
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social Career mostly as an antiquarian bookseller, retired at age 86 after 64 years. Restored circa 1815 home. Avid reader, collector of quotes, lover of languages and history. Happily married for a second time after 67 years with my first love. 94 now.
Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social I write cozy romantasy with protagonists who take time to get to know each other. Now querying contemporary romance! I’ve also published Bread Science and a bicycling memoir. I edit science papers and I live in fear of my cat. https://janebuehler.com
Diana Drumm @dianaddrumm.bsky.social 
Joanne Mason @jmasoneditor.bsky.social Freelance health content editor with interests in health literacy and plain language | New Englander | Fan of Alternative Oldies
Alex Johnson @malexjohnson.com Scribbler/scribbling fixer at NBC News. Recovering politics, tech and world football reporter. Ex-WaPo (when that meant something). Georgian in the PNW. Audere est confidere chao apud Tottenham Hotspur.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/malexjohnson
Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social I wrote Sony's getTV blog for 6 years, created Game Show Network's blog, was an arts reporter for NYC weekly The Villager, and have contributed to Slate, 4 books, and many blogs and podcasts. Currently digital marketing for NYC nonprofit New Plaza Cinema.
Steve Reddicliffe @steveredd13.bsky.social Editor, new NYT Essential Book of Cocktails. Prev: NYT (Intl Edition, Travel, Media), TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly.
Stan Beeler 🇨🇦 @stanbeeler.bsky.social Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern British Columbia. (English, Comparative Literature, Film & TV Studies)
Diane Kilbane @djkproof.bsky.social Proofreader. Professional member of the CIEP.
Read more historical fiction than is probably good for me.
Did a Classics degree <cough> years ago.
Dr. Johanna Gerwin @johannagerwin.bsky.social Sociolinguistics. Kiel/Germany. London/UK.
London Talks project: https://londontalksresearch.co.uk/
Enregisterment - Metalinguistics Discourses - London English - Pop Culture
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social Novelist, editor, fiction addict. Author of GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (film coming in 2025!) and HEART ATTACK WATCH. Opinions expressed here are my own, as far as I know.
https://god-is-an-astronaut.com
Dave Nelsen @thegrammargeek.bsky.social Copy editor, proofreader, deputy editorial manager at Dragonfly Editorial. Oxford comma agnostic. What you learned in ninth-grade English might be wrong. He/him.
APA Style @apastyle.bsky.social This official profile is maintained by experts at the American Psychological Association. We share tips about how to format a paper, create APA Style references in seventh edition (APA7), write with concise and bias-free language, and more.
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social education writer | academic editor | English language instructor
author:
📖 Techniques of Propaganda & Persuasion (Prestwick House)
📖 Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation: A Guide for Student Writers (Prestwick House)
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Ayshea Wild @writewild.bsky.social Book Editor at Write Wild
June Casagrande @junecasagrande.bsky.social Author of the revised The Best Punctuation Book, Period, available 4/21/26. "The best book on punctuation I've ever seen."—Grammar Girl https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224059/the-best-punctuation-book-period-revised-edition-by-june-casagrande/
Kriss Kevorkian, PhD, MSW (she/her) @drkkevorkian.bsky.social Thanatologist/ Doctor of death, dying and grief (including environmental & ecological) at A Dying World. Gaia/Southern Resident Orca crusader at Legal Rights for the Salish Sea: https://linktr.ee/legalrightsforthesalishsea
Jennifer Holmes @jenmededit.bsky.social Freelance Medical Writer and Editor | Bookworm | Communicating science well--for healthy people and a healthy planet 🌳
Ginny Hostetler @ginnyhostetler.bsky.social Learner. Wordsmith. Storyteller.
Kait from Seattle @kaitfromseattle.bsky.social The narcoleptic librarian known elsewhere as kaitlynwithakay.
Sam Kelly @samkellyproof.bsky.social Brit in Argentina. Bad pool player and good reader for pleasure; proofreader for money (also good at that, or at least so I like to think).
Professional Member of the CIEP | https://undisputedproof.com
Also podcast @handofpod.bsky.social
Benjamin Rifkin @benrifkin.bsky.social Provost at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Professor of Humanities: I love golden retrievers, language, literature, linguistics, film, history. Opinions are my own.
Carla DeSantis Editing @cdesantiseditor.bsky.social Scholarly/academic copyeditor, line editor, translator, indexer specializing in multilingual humanities and social sciences texts. PhD. CIEP Adv. Prof. Mem. English, Latin, Spanish, Italian texts. Latinist. Medievalist. carladesantisediting.com
Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.
Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
Berlinarturo @berlinarturo.bsky.social A little country, a little post-punk
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
Kathryn Sidaway @kathrynsidaway.bsky.social PhD in English Language Teaching from the University of Warwick. Research Fellow at University of Bedfordshire. Mainly writing about ESOL, language learning motivation and adult education, and organising events that connect teachers with research.
@vwaldnyc.bsky.social @vwaldnyc.bsky.social Teacher, mom, sexagenarian. Bourgeois sensibilities, radical left sympathies. Seeing the future in my students' faces, and the rhyme of history in newspapers.
Bas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social Professor of English Linguistics, UCL
Here, I post on (English) language topics.
On Substack, I post on English Grammar: https://basaarts.substack.com/
#grammar #syntax #parsing- S West Hills Moose @stemmoose.bsky.social Communication and Public Relations. Prior Journalist.
Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania/Rust Belt.
WX enthusiast. Delta Chi. Cal U of PA. ESU. Penn State fan.
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Amy Frushour @amyedits.bsky.social Editor, writer, geek. AI ethics. Fan of vintage electronic instruments, hiking, and sharks.- D Dianne Bragg @dibragg.bsky.social
AzFilmFest @azfilmfest.bsky.social Arizona International Film Festival is the oldest and longest running Film Festival in Arizona.
34th AzIFF is April 17- 26, 2026
Tucson, AZ
10 YEARS of Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festival
Denise Cowle @denisecowle.bsky.social Copyeditor & proofreader. Advanced professional member & vice-chair of the CIEP. Cohost of The Editing Podcast. https://linktr.ee/denisecowle
mle @inxbetweenxdays.bsky.social community radio personality, writer, editor, orioles fan. art is a gift.
Nathaniel Taylor @nltaylor.bsky.social Genealogist and historian. Heraldist.
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The Chicago Manual of Style @chicagomanual.bsky.social The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar. An indispensable reference, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice at cmos.style/ONLINE. We answer your “Chicago Style” questions at cmos.style/QandA. 
Cristi Kempf @cristi-k.bsky.social Avid reader, traveler & aging rock chick. Former journalist
(@chicagotribune.bsky.social, @chicago.suntimes.com, Vatican Radio) and current Chicagoan. #scleroderma Resist!
Jen Goode Stevens @jgstevens.bsky.social Mom, wife, editor, UU, haphazard gardener, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally, she/her. Views mine, not VU’s.
Ana Ilievska Zavrsnik @ailievskazavrsnik.bsky.social http://ilievska-zavrsnik.com/
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apjanke @apjanke.bsky.social I FIGHT FOR THE USERS.
He/him.
Anne Semmler @colorwheel77.bsky.social Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Amateur artist, calligrapher. Passionate birder, swimmer, foreign language learner, reader. Love the Blue in Bluesky. Love Canada 🇨🇦 Love Ukraine 🇺🇦
Charles Siegel @csiegel28.bsky.social Lawyer representing plaintiffs and whistleblowers, musician, father being raised well by three great kids, guy who married up
Howie Erichson @howarderichson.bsky.social Law professor at Fordham, teaching and writing about civil procedure, complex litigation, torts, and legal ethics.
Jonathan Skillings @jonathanskillings.bsky.social Editorial Director at CNET. Grew up in Maine. Word guy. Jazz lover. Army vet.
Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social I like big dogs | Freelance editor of #KidLit + select books for adults | Referrals deeply appreciated | EFA & SCBWI | She/her | https://bit.ly/LH_EditsBks
Encyclopedia Briannica @e-briannica.bsky.social technical editor, historical linguist, 2D cartoon person
http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/
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Cahir O’Doherty @cahirodoherty.bsky.social Arts & Travel Editor in New York City | Sé/é | 🏳️🌈 | 🏳️⚧️ |🇮🇪 | 🇪🇺 | Donegal | Immigrant | Brooklyn based
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social Interested in descriptive & historical linguistics.
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 & fish-cook henceforth.
Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
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I’m with His Nibs @hisnibs.bsky.social “His Nibs” means “his highness” & my dog’s nickname.
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Iconoclast, agnostic, & cautious optimist.
🚫MAGAs. 🚫DMs.
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Chuck Wooters @chuckw.bsky.social Head of AI at Displace TV, focusing on highly personalized AI Assistants. Co-founder @ https://updaytr.com Ex-Apple (Siri), ex-Microsoft (SemanticMachines). Berkeley PhD. In the San Francisco Bay Area
Views are my own.
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Beth Young @bethyoung.bsky.social Inveterate reader and book-recommender, PI of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online project, mom of three, opinions my own, also on 🧵
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Dr Seán Ketchem @cskwriter.bsky.social An American/German in Berlin. Berkeley alum (Go Bears!). Erstwhile Texan. Credo: “There are other forces at work than those of evil. And that is an encouraging thought.”
Selene Kumin Vega @selenekvega.bsky.social Saybrook University Professor, psychotherapist, dancer, mind- body medicine, Saybrook Self-care YouTube Channel for free access meditations, yoga, workshops, she/her
Joe Gerth @jgerth.bsky.social Journalist. Truth teller. Kentuckian.
Lynne Kiesling @knowledgeproblem.bsky.social Director, Inst for Regulatory Law & Economics & Adjunct Professor MSES, Northwestern University
Research Professor, University of Colorado Denver
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
www.lynnekiesling.com
knowledgeproblem.substack.com
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Alexander Katourgi @eliderad.se Språkvetare och spelöversättare som forskar om skiljetecken. Uttalar mitt namn som /kaˈtʊrːgɪ/. Pronomen han/hen.
Susan Lerner @susanlitelerner.bsky.social Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
Kristin | Detailed Draft @detaileddraft.bsky.social Editor and writer. Résumé specialist (CPRW). Book award judge. Dog hugger. Science fiction, kidlit, and anything else with themes of possibility. she/her
#SCBWI #ACES #EFA #IBPA
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Ayesha Chari @ayeshachari.bsky.social I-sha/Aaye-sha, n. to be, being | she/they. Sensitive academic editor. Conscious language learner. @The_CIEP | @ACESEditors | @IndieAuthorALLi. Serial🚶🏾♀️ | ❤️ nature | ☕️ fiend | 🚸 parent | occasional doodler ✏️ | https://ayeshachari.com/
Ulrike Rettig @games4language.bsky.social Multilingual Language Lover. #langsky Free-to-Use Online Language Games. To-get-started Beginner: A1 A2 French Spanish Italian German Dutch
Christine Steele @kindersteele.bsky.social Editor, writer, ACES lifetime member, copyediting instructor; coauthor of “The Collaborative Editor” (Spring 2027, University of Chicago Press)
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) @the-ciep.bsky.social The UK’s only chartered body for the editorial profession. Championing excellence. Supporting growth. Connecting professionals. Shaping the future. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
Laura Simms @speakersimms.bsky.social Insurance loss control consultant (I find monsters under the bed for commercial and industrial accounts)
Jeff Gauger @jeff-gauger.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Journalist. Teacher.
Editor of https://30secondread.com/.
Ashleigh Imus @editorials.bsky.social Managing Editor of Administrative Science Quarterly. Developmental and copy editor, writer, lover of justice, gardens, music, grammar. Opinions are my own.
John Sailors @johnsailors.bsky.social Writer, editor. History, English language, fiction. Enrique of Malacca's Voyage. JohnJaySailors.com. EFA.
Wordorigins.org @wordorigins.bsky.social Focusing on the origins of words and phrases and their cultural context since 1997, plus astrophotography and dog pics/videos. Run by Dave Wilton (he/him).
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Sara Schaefer @saraschaefer1.bsky.social Comedian, crafter, artist, writer, auntie
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