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Laura Baiocco @laurabaiocco.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Psychology at @uarizona
Investigating all things metaphor 👩💻
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Mahmoud Elsherif @mamsmandrill.bsky.social Early Career Nonbinary Research Fellow. Interested in #neurodiversity, Open scholarship and reading, using combined eye-tracking/EEG in neurotypical and neurodivergent groups! #Dyspraxic 🧠. We/They/them/Xe/Xem.- A @alfinpogform.bsky.social @alfinpogform.bsky.social
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Robbie Love @robbielove.org Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Communication and Culture
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Aston University
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Tamsin Parnell @tamsinparnell.bsky.social PDRA at Exeter. Honorary Associate Prof. in Linguistics and Health Communication at Nottingham. I work on language and society, including politics, media, and mental health.
Sinéad Jackson @sineadjackson.bsky.social PhD Candidate & Researcher @ UCL's Centre for Applied Linguistics
Metaphor & Figurativity | Health Communication | Corpus Linguistics | Discourse Analysis | Substance Use | Psychosis
Hettie Aliano @hettiealiano.bsky.social Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology PhD Student at WashU | Research Interests: Moral Injury, Trauma, PTSD, Memory
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GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
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
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social Prof @ Purdue, ExLing Lab Director https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/
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Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social Professor of Organisational Communication at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Odense (Denmark)
Emma McClaughlin @emmamcclaughlin.bsky.social She/her | Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics at Nottingham University | Health comms | Applied linguistics | Vegan for the animals 🌱 | All views are my own
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
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Dr Eloise Parr (she/her) @eloisebparr.bsky.social Insight and Impact Officer at CV Life. PhD linguistics at Uni of Birmingham. Metaphor enthusiast. Neurodivergent.
Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change 
Aletta G. (Lettie) Dorst @agdorst.bsky.social Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI @LeidenHumanities (NL). Loves metaphor, stylistics and (machine) translation. PI of NWO-Vidi project "Metaphors in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions" (2025-2030). 
Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬
Multimodality, iconicity, metaphor, gesture, data science 🤏 🔢
#rstats #python #openscience 💻 🔓
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Alex Lorson @lordlorson.bsky.social asst. prof. at Center for Language and Cognition @unigroningen.bsky.social
experimental pragmatics, cognition, bayesian stats, communicative strategies (speech + manual co-speech gestures)
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Bissie Anderson 🇺🇦🌻 @bissieanderson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communications,
University of Birmingham, UK
Paula P Sobrino @paulapsobrino.bsky.social Cognitive linguist @unirioja. Interested in #metaphor #multimodality #methods // @accion_icon // www.paulapsobrino.com
Lorena Pérez Hernández @lorenaph.bsky.social Lingüista Cognitiva en #unirioja #GRISSU y #GA_ICON t.ly/BtyUn
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Colaboradora en Naukas.
Escribo sobre el lenguaje en Principia, The Conversation y JotDown.
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/
Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham, as well as Director of the Centre for Corpus Research.
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Marcus Perlman @mperlman.bsky.social Cognitive scientist interested in iconicity, language, gesture, evolution, gorillas, and the future of intelligent life.
Marah Jaraisy @marahjaraisy.bsky.social M4C-AHRC PhD student at the University of Birmingham.
Sign language sociolinguistics is my passion, working hard to make it a full-time job!
Palestinian from Nazareth living in the UK 
Ana M. Piquer Píriz @anapiquerpiriz-uex.bsky.social Applied cognitive linguist at Universidad de Extremadura (Spain). I love learning and teaching.
Hassan Omotayo B. @hassanomotayob.bsky.social 🎯 Learning the rules like a pro - Applied linguistics & ELT🎯
Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis | Corpus Linguistics | Language Teaching Methodology | CALL
Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of Linguistics @SFU. Discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, NLP, sentiment analysis, social media language, language of misinformation. she/her
Inés Olza @inesolza.bsky.social Senior Researcher in Language & Cognition | University of Navarra
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Niamh A. O'Dowd @niamhaod.bsky.social Linguist at Uni of Oslo | my research focuses on metaphor, multimodality, and environmental communication
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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor is the biggest international community of metaphor researchers.
Our next event will be the 18th RaAM Conference, hosted in Pamplona (Spain) in 2027 🇪🇸
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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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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
M Dolores Porto @mdporto.bsky.social Senior lecturer at @UAH. Metaphors, Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality…- J @joemalt.bsky.social @joemalt.bsky.social
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
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Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
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