School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social One of the largest, most diverse Schools of Languages, Cultures & Societies in the UK. A leading centre for Languages, Classics, Film, Intercultural Studies, Translation & Linguistics.
OASIS Database @oasisdatabase.bsky.social Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies (OASIS) is a database of one-page, non-technical summaries of research about language learning and teaching.
https://oasis-database.org/
Leeds City of Languages @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social 
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
Mathieu Avanzi @mathieuavanzi.bsky.social Professeur ordinaire à l’Université de Neuchâtel 👨🏫| Insta 👉 francaisdenosregions | Appli Dis Voir sur iOS & Android 👊 | Team 🌈
Florence Lyons @froggieflo.bsky.social Teaching fellow University of Waikato; initial teacher education; French facilitator Tui Tuia Learning Circle
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.
Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social Professor in Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain
I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life.
Circle U. chair for democracy
Avid reader who likes to go hiking
(Views expressed on this profile are my own.)
Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) @languagesdurham.bsky.social We teach and research Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic, Japanese, Italian and Russian languages and cultures.
We are a World Top 70 language department (QS).
https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/modern-languages-cultures/
Steven Wilson @profstevenwilson.bsky.social Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | President @asmcf.bsky.social | Views my own.
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
Jo Pickering @jopickering.bsky.social MFL Specialist, Trust Lead for MFL, all things T and L
German at Bristol | University of Bristol @germanatbristol.bsky.social Welcome to the Department of German at the University of Bristol! Follow us for student and research news, events, and collaborations! | www.bristol.ac.uk/german
Bernie O’Rourke @bernieorourke.bsky.social 
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
EmmanicolaMFL @emmanicolamfl.bsky.social Subject Leader of MFL 🇪🇦🇫🇷. Mum to 2 teenagers. Book lover, pianist and cooking enthusiast.
NowMrsMFL @nowmrsmfl.bsky.social Working across 9 secondary schools in the East as Trust MFL Leader.
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• Former AHT
• GCSE Team Leader Examiner
• From NI but now based in Essex
• Boy mama 💙
• MUFC ⚽️
Steven Hogan @shoganwhs.bsky.social Headteacher at the amazing Woodbridge High | MFL Teacher | Life chances of young people and social justice | He / Him | Views mine. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Isabelle Jones FCCT NPQSL @icpjones.bsky.social AAHT-CPD,EVC,ITT NPQSL Governor, MFL HOD in 2 schools, A Level Spanish marker, translator, interpreter, FCCT, ALL National Council, researchED Cheshire organiser, conference speaker, author.
Shabnam Ahmed @shabnamagram.bsky.social Here for a good time, not a long time 💁🏽♀️ Head of faculty: English, Film and MFL. Interested in education, boxing and books. All views are my own.
https://shabnamagram.wordpress.com/
Colin Phillips @colinphillips.bsky.social Language scientist. Aging runner. Oxford, UK & College Park, MD, USA.
Marieke Meelen @mariekem.bsky.social Linguist @Cambridge (UK) interested in variation, change and endangered languages (Celtic, Himalayan), NLP for no/low-resource languages and also mountains & speed skating...
https://mariekemeelen.github.io/
Zara Fahim @zarafahim15.bsky.social AHRC Midlands4Cities-funded PhD linguistics (modern languages) @ uni of nottingham 🗣️🇦🇹🏔️• activities secretary @ LAGBPSC • linguist • language contact | MFL uptake & policy • she/her •🪴☕️🐹🌷🦍
https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/zara-fahim/
Magdalena Kachlicka @mkachlicka.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @unibe.ch https://neuro.inf.unibe.ch & Honorary Research Fellow @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @audioneurolab.bsky.social | speech + sounds + brains 🧠 cogsci, audio, neuroimaging, language, methods https://mkachlicka.github.io
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Ana de Medeiros @anademedeiros.bsky.social Academic, global citizen, working with languages and cultures @King's College London
Daniel McAuley @danielmcauley.bsky.social Lecturer in French at QUB
Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus @medericgc.bsky.social Linguistique, langue française, Marseille, #Motchus & jeux de mots compulsifs.
(et aussi MCF en sociolinguistique à Aix-Marseille Université, 🎙️chroniqueur radio 📚éditeur & linguiste atterré.
Prof Becky Muradás-Taylor @drbeckymt.bsky.social Prof of languages and linguistics, Director of programme design, LCS Uni of Leeds | Autistic, LGBTQ, adoptive parent | L2 phon, language education, 日本語, español 
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/
Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools. Editor, Critical Studies in Education. Leverhulme Prize 2026-2029.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-ian-cushing
The Vocal Fries @vocalfriespod.bsky.social a podcast about linguistic discrimination.
“compelling and never preachy” - NYT
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Les linguistes atterrées @tract-linguistes.org « Nous, linguistes, sommes atterrées par l’ampleur de la diffusion d’idées fausses sur la langue française. Il y a urgence à y répondre. »
Compte animé par @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
🔗 https://www.tract-linguistes.org/
French Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social Society for scholars and students of French in higher education
https://www.sfs.ac.uk
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
The Layman's Linguist @laymanslinguist.bsky.social Fun facts, exhaustive etymologies, & informative infographics for both linguists & laypeople
Michelle Macleod @michellenic.bsky.social Leòdhasach. Gaelic Professor and Dean for Impact and Engagement at University of Aberdeen. Interested in languages and cats.
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Li Wei 李嵬 @professorliwei.bsky.social Director and Dean, UCL Institute of Education, University College London’s Faculty of Education and Society. Fellow of British Academy, Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Royal Society of Arts (UK). Professor of Applied Linguistics.
Wim Remysen @kwebek.bsky.social Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke, directeur du CRIFUQ (@crifuq.bsky.social) et responsable du Fonds de données linguistiques du Québec (@plateformeFDLQ.bsky.social).
Recherche en #sociolinguistique #histoiredelalangue #linguistiquedecorpus
French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social Account of the Department of French at the University of Bristol.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/french/ 
Emma Moore @scillym.bsky.social State school-educated Professor of Sociolinguistics, Sheffield, UK.
Linguistics, ethnography, style, socio-syntax, young people, neurodivergence, affect, old school regional dialectology.
(2023) Socio-syntax: Exploring the Social Meaning of Grammar.
Joe Dale @joedale.bsky.social Independent modern foreign languages & technology consultant. UK and Irish dual citizen, pro EU and free movement. AI Project Lead for National Consortium for Languages Education and former host of TES MFL forum
Dr Leanne Henderson @leannehenderson.bsky.social Lecturer in Education Studies, Queen's University Belfast. Languages, assessment, children's rights & educational transitions. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺 Personal views, rp≠endorsement
Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social Publishes leading research on language and society. Follow us for info on new articles, theme issues, dialogues and more. EIC: Lauren Hall-Lew, Jaspal Naveel Singh, and Andrew Wong
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679841
Robert Blackwood @robjblackwood.bsky.social Professor of French Sociolinguistics, Editor of Linguistic Landscape, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement & Partnerships at the University of Liverpool
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
Farah Nazir @drfarahnazir.bsky.social Community-engaged researcher interested in Pahari-Pothwari-Mirpuri; language description & documentation; multilingualism; South Asian langs | Currently a researcher at UofYork | Previously: lecturer in linguistics @ Newcastle University & Leeds Beckett |
LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.lagb.org.uk/
Emma Humphries (she/her) @emhumps.bsky.social Researcher working on prescriptivism in popular culture. Interested in language attitudes and language policy. And Cruising with Jane McDonald.
Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
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Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social Austrian in London. Lecturer & Researcher @IOE UCL (@ucl.ac.uk) & @Vienna University
Sociolinguistics |Applied Linguistics |Language in education and business | Multilingualism | Discourse Studies | Ethnography | Language Policy
www.elisabethbarakos.com
Nigel Caplan @nigelc.bsky.social Professor @ Univ of Delaware: ESL, education, linguistics. Focused on teacher-training for multilingual learners. Also SFL, ungrading, resisting AI. Newish books: ESSENTIAL ACTIONS and GENRE EXPLAINED. All views my own. www.nigelcaplan.com
UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social Lover of the linguistic
Sascha Stollhans @saschastollhans.bsky.social Linguist | Pro-Dean for Student Education (Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds) | @inmfl.bsky.social co-lead | Own views | he/him
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/4328/professor-sascha-stollhans
Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social Reader in Sociolinguistics, Westminster | Research on language in society | Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics | Research Notes Editor, Journal of French Language Studies.
https://sites.google.com/view/jonathan-kasstan/home
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