Sarah Kirk-Browne @sarah-kb.bsky.social PhD student (corpus linguistics / English dialects) at Queen Mary University London. Spoken English cataloguer at British Library's Sound Archive. She/her. https://join.greenparty.org.uk/
Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
Ralph Morton @ralphmortonlang.bsky.social Research Associate at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Chris Sanderson @sandersonchrisj.bsky.social PhD Linguistics Candidate at Lancaster University
Working in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science on the UKRI-funded Public Discourses of Dementia Project.
Jonathan Culpeper @jculpeper.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University
CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Based at Lancaster University.
Lizzy Hanks @hankslizzy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of South Florida
corpus linguistics | conversation | pragmatics | vocabulary
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
Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social Applied Linguist at Lancaster University | Senior Research Associate on the Public Discourses of Dementia project.
Especially interested in health and environmental discourses, multimodality, critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, metaphor, etc.
Rachelle Vessey 🇨🇦 @rachellevessey.bsky.social linguistics, corpus/discourse analysis, canadiana, media studies, language, politics, academia, education, language ideologies, language and gender, military discourse, French, English (& other things)
https://carleton.ca/slals/cu-people/vessey-rachelle/
Ibi Baxter-Webb @ibibw.bsky.social Linguist with opinions; mudlark & beachcomber, co-creator of games & language podcast 'Say It Like You Play It' https://shows.acast.com/games-and-language
IAFLL @iafll.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics | https://iafll.org/
Felicity Deamer @felicitydeamer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics, Aston University
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
Emily Powell @empowell.bsky.social Linguist and A-ha fan. Research interests: forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, narrative criminology. 
DeSmog [Unofficial] @desmog.com.web.brid.gy Award winning website researching and exposing campaigns attacking climate change science.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://desmog.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/desmog.com
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)
Lexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social A podcast about English Language and Linguistics aimed at students in the UK.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0EPs83hWYk0XX8cKkJplbT?si=FPrMfDI1RBG_VeWKB43Epg
Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social corpus & applied linguistics, TESOL, discourse analysis, surveillance discourses
Coordinator MSc TESOL (Online) University of Stirling (@stirtesol.bsky.social)
Knitter
Personal account
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
Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Research: political communication, cognition, multimodality. Hobbies: hill/fell walking. Views my own.
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
Yufeng Liu (Kiki)劉雨鳳 @kikiliu.bsky.social senior research associate at CASS centre, Lancaster University. #4DPicture Project
corpus linguistics | metaphor | discourse analysis | health communication | intercultural communication
https://yufeng-liu-kiki.github.io/
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
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
Claire Nance @clrnance.bsky.social Professor of Phonetics at Lancaster University. Gàidhlig, Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Bilingualism, Articulation, Sociolinguistics. Otherwise in the mountains.
She/her
https://clairenance.github.io/
Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social Professor of Discourse Analysis @Uni of Birmingham researching trust, business communication, AI. He/him. Views my own.
Johnny Unger @johnnyunger.bsky.social he/him, linguist, critical discourse analyst, tea anarchist extraordinaire, dadcore, vegan, foodie, ❄️, dad, intersectional feminist, D&D nerd (not necessarily in that order)
Latest publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101825
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
Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social I’m the master of my soul
PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
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.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social Corpus linguist, CL methodologist, and rock climber. Strong believer in the importance of healthy work-life balance. Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University.
Hanna Schmück @hannaschmueck.bsky.social Computational Linguist
👩🏻💻🇩🇪| RA (Comp Ling) at the University of Augsburg
🦆🇬🇧| PhD/ MA (Linguistics) from Lancaster University
🌉🇩🇪| BA (English) from Bamberg University
🔗 |hannaschmueck.github.io
Jesse Egbert @jesse-egbert.bsky.social Text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics, language and law
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/
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.
Jennifer Baldwin, CT @j-a-baldwin.bsky.social Freelance linguist. French/Spanish to English translator with a background in computational linguistics and forensic linguistics.
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.
Patricia Canning Pask @patriciacanning.bsky.social Trees and bees, innit. And @fearghas_the_whippet
Janny Leung @jannyleung.bsky.social language, law, and everything in between. 
div-ling e.V. @div-ling.org founded with aim of promoting diversity within linguistics | organisers of forensic linguistics short course #FLsc, statistics for linguistics #SfL & other great events | 🐘 http://lingo.lol/@divlingassoc
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)
https://sorensandagersorensen.dk/
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.
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
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 🏳️🌈
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social Chair Professor of Media & Communications @uumediacomms.bsky.social Critical discourse research on normalisation of racism, discrimination, inequality & illiberal politics of exclusion. Editor in Chief @jlanpol.bsky.social www.languageandpolitics.com
Isabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social Caffeinated forensic linguist researching deception in authorship style and faked (con)texts.Visiting Research Fellow, AIFL. 🇪🇺 🖖
Ex-archaeologist
#Humanist #ForensicLinguistics
Prof Claire Hardaker @drclaireh.bsky.social Forensic linguist | corpus linguist | @factor-lu.bsky.social director | @en-clair.bsky.social podcaster-at-large | supervillain
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
@aifl.bsky.social
www.aston.ac.uk/aifl
Personal: timgrantforensiclinguist.com/home/
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
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052
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/
Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues 🏳️🌈🦜🏳️⚧️ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
they/them
Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social Professor of Organisational Communication at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Odense (Denmark)
Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Taylor&Francis journal. We publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures and social change.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcds20
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
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
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
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
John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
Website >>
https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home
ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
Robbie Love @robbielove.org Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Communication and Culture
Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University
https://robbielove.org/
Patricia Palomino-Manjón (she/her) @patriciapalomino.bsky.social Ph.D., Assistant Professor in English Language at Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza). Interested in (critical) discourse analysis, (anti)feminism and (sexual) violence in social media.
Views my own.
https://patriciapalominomanjon.wordpress.com
Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social Researcher | Assistant Editor
Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
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
Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University｜UKRI Future Leader Fellow｜Fulbright @ NAU｜Associate Editor of IJCL｜Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS｜FRSA
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
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 🇮🇹.
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
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
@paul-at.bsky.social @paul-at.bsky.social 
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.
Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social She/her. Researching language, gender & sexuality, especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality.
Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK.
https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/
ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577
Views my own
Matteo Di Cristofaro @matteodic.bsky.social Researcher in Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities @ UniMoRe. Corpus and Cognitive Linguist, Python & R user. Overall nerd (posts not representative of employers).
Website: https://infogrep.it
Online materials: https://catlism.github.io
Aimee Bailey @aimeebailey.bsky.social Discourse analyst at Uni of Birmingham • Language, gender and sexuality in (digital) media discourse
Larissa Goulart @larissagoulart.bsky.social Assist Prof in Linguistics @ Montclair State Uni. PhD in Applied Lingx @ NAU. Hornby alumna, MA in ELT at Warwick University & Fulbright @ University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Sara Bartl @sbartl.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Birmingham
researching metaphor and cognitive semantics through computational models of language
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social PhD in Linguistics. English Teacher @unil.bsky.social. Research: language, gender & sexuality, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), health communication, corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, constructive grading practices
www.elviscoimbragomes.com
Sten Hansson @stenhansson.bsky.social Associate Professor @UniTartu interested in #government #communication #blameavoidance #disasters #disinformation #discoursestudies
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=AmIeTJYAAAAJ
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.
David Griffin @linguistlawyer.com American lawyer and linguist interested in the nature of law, pseudolaw, and the semiotics of authority. He/him
Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social Linguistics postdoc at Queen Mary University of London, working on 'Autism in Affinity Spaces'.
My research covers critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, digital communication, autism & specific interests, misogyny/antifeminism
Geordie. she/her
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
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 | 🦇
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
Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social Assoc/prof in linguistics in Tampere • interested in digital language and new communicative environments, persuasion • owner of a malamute •
Editor-in-Chief for Pragmatics & Society
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.
justinjhlo.github.io
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
Andrea Nini @andreanini.com Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester
Em_Chiang @emchiang.bsky.social Research Fellow in forensic linguistics, casual gamer, reluctant runner. she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️