tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social assistant professor, department of history, university of rochester (she/her)
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Matthew Rowley @mbrowley.bsky.social Write | Lift | Travel | James Beard finalist | Past Southern Foodways Alliance board | Contributing editor, Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails | 🏡 San Diego | Typos no extra charge.
Frank Lynch @fplynch.bsky.social OK, you found me. Ex-marketing researcher, retired. Editor in chief, samueljohnson.com
Flickr: flickr.com/photos/frank_lynch/
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social I know my library card number off by heart. She/her
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Laura Braunstein @laurabrarian.bsky.social Digital librarian. Crossword person. Cross wordperson.
I reskeet your puzzles
Tod Robbins @todrobbins.com 🏴 friend+wizard
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Lisa Levy @lisalevywrites.bsky.social Critic. Essayist. Style maven. Chronic Migraineur and Patient Advocate. Lover of reality TV, fancy notebooks, and vintage dresses. WIP FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN: A BIOGRAPHY OF MIGRAINE (St Martin’s).
John Neilson @jneilnyc.bsky.social Occasional musician, writer, programmer, traveler.
"I'm worth a million in (consolation) prizes."
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
ClaireViolet, fully-integrated solution. @object.cv Transsexual panoramic 35mm film photographer from Seattle. Interested in infrastructure and the mechanical.
→ ultraviolet.photo & ultraviolet.photo/newsletter
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social Relic fan, lighting designer by night, bus-pilled in dtla.
dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
sam henri gold @samhenri.gold animal, vegetable, and mineral. product designer/engineer-er (prev Tavus, @lickability.com)
David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social Interested in: books, language, music and sound, computational linguistics & NLP, my cat
📍Seattle
pax 🪴 @paxwords.bsky.social the people’s boyfriend
https://glass.photo/pax
Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social Early medievalist at University of Kent, he/him
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Rachel Nuwer @rachelnuwer.bsky.social Freelance science journalist contributing to NYT, SciAm, Nature etc. Author of "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking" (2018) and "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World" (2023). 
Claire Atkin @catthekin.checkmyads.org Co-founder of Check My Ads, the adtech watchdog. Please send me protopian fiction.
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person. 
Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach @mariazielenbach.bsky.social I post mostly about Linguistics and Tolkien | PhDing at @VUamsterdam about historical linguistics & North Halmahera langs | SilmariaPodcast | {female markers}
Madeline Miller @madelinemiller.bsky.social Writer (The Song of Achilles, Circe), reader, theater lover. Cats, Long Covid. She/her. 
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop 
Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies
Academic research: https://freeuni.academia.edu/ThomasWier
Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, @forward.com. Help fund our independent, nonprofit Jewish journalism! https://forward.fundjournalism.org/membership/
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.com Author of USELESS ETYMOLOGY, WORDS FROM HELL, ONCE UPON A WORD, INTO THE WORDS. Podcaster, Words Unravelled. Adjunct prof at Emerson and UFL. Speaker, content director, social pro, ad world wordsmith. https://linktr.ee/JessZafarris
Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
Billness as Metaphor @tripleblip.bsky.social Busting out my brains for the word. 1/3 of the podcast An Embarrassment of Prog. Asst. to The Amazing Sargasso. Editing things @WSJBooks. Opinions dumb, and my own.
Traci Nagle @traciatlarge.bsky.social Research Development @ Stanford. Posting & re-posting about Science, Language, Writing, Food, & things Clever & Funny
Katie Hamill @haiticamel.bsky.social 
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
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.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
John Garth @johngarthwriter.bsky.social Writer, speaker, award-winner. Books in 18 languages on Tolkien’s life and work. Contact me via http://linktr.ee/johngarth. Support my work via Steady: http://bit.ly/3N191bi
Adrian Doyle @andubhghailleach.bsky.social Historical/computational linguist, celticist, Senior PostDoc on the DiAgnostic project at Maynooth University, guitarist, and data analyst. Creator of wuerzburg.ie. Tá Gaelainn agam.
Géraldine Moinard @gmoinard.bsky.social Lexicographe, directrice de la rédaction des dictionnaires Le Robert
Paper Airplane magazine @paperairplane.pub The grown-up mashup of the magazines you loved as a kid. No cynicism. No ads. No A.I. 👉 Subscribe now for 2026 at PaperAirplane.pub
Guillaume Winter @glwinter.bsky.social 
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
Mark Peters @markpetersjokes.bsky.social Writer, humorist, primate. Author of Bullshit: A Lexicon. 
Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social /'dʑowɪn/
• taalkundige | linguist
• schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord' | author
• all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk
• Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk
• photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social Linguist & Programmer. The former makes me happy, the latter makes me money. I write about linguistics in media. Blog at https://gliese1337.blogspot.com/, donation box at https://ko-fi.com/loganrk
Gwenifer Raymond @gweniferraymond.bsky.social Guitar convincer. Banjo thumber. Primitive Welsh composer.
EU/UK bookings:
andy@earth-agency.com
North America bookings:
josh@crossovertouring.com
Kim Scheinberg @tiltmom.bsky.social Retired speechwriter. Big fan of Peppermint Patty and wooden jigsaw puzzles.
kims@mas.to on Mastodon
Header photo is a fanned out deck of playing cards with all the KINGS missing
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social Buddhist vegetarian polyglot reader, author of Another green world, The Private Life of Books, and A Conversation larger than the Universe
/ ‘the reader is the artist’ | Tom Phillips
https://endlessbookshelf.net
https://temporary-culture.com
MoreBad @todseelie.bsky.social I make photos
Michal Měchura @lexiconista.bsky.social Kopfmensch mit Bauchgefühl.
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social 📖 Writer, translator, medievalist
🏹 Weekend longbowman
Views mine.
https://nikolasgunn.co.uk/
Erik Hoover, Gardiner NY @listfix.bsky.social Restoration carpenter, investigative researcher, and local #Dem committee chair in the Hudson Valley.
Deep Springs College alum.
Distantly related to everyone.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Derek DelGaudio @derekdel.bsky.social Dust Collector
Mark Liberman @myl1947.bsky.social 
Greg Pliska @gregpliska.bsky.social Husband, father, composer, puzzler. World traveler, culture hound, book lover.
Coming soon, THE PUZZLER PODCAST on iHeart.
Allison @schwadevivre.bsky.social sociolinguist, crossword-puzzler, folkie
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com Brief elaboration of a tube.
Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic, former daily book critic and Monday op-ed columnist for the NYT. Author of All Joy and No Fun & On Grief. Wife of Mark, mom of R, step-mom of E and G.
Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca programming and exclamation marks
blog: jvns.ca
zines: wizardzines.com
Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social Purveyor of sprachgefül in assorted venues
Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com Authoritative quotation information. Book: Hemingway Didn't Say That. Website receives 4.5 million visitors/year.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/about/
Chris Molanphy @cmolanphy.bsky.social Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate's #WhylsThisSongNo1? Author of book #OldTownRoad. Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)
Cecelia Watson @ceceliawatson.bsky.social Writer
Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social Professional book person at WME, amateur parent everywhere else. Posting from the Quiet Car.
Chris Cannon @chriscannon.bsky.social Writer. Actor. Portmanteau aficionado.
cannonwriter.substack.com
cannonwriter.com
americabutbetter.com
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4756598/
Astoria Feminist Book Group @astoriafeministbks.bsky.social A long-running intersectional feminist book discussion group in Astoria, Queens, New York. www.astoriafeministbookgroup.com.
Ammon Shea @ammonshea.bsky.social bog-standard middle-aged dictionary-enjoyer
Christophe Jammet @cjammet.bsky.social Connects dots, builds teams. Hobby hobbyist. #coffee #pleinair #painting #PCgaming #scubadiving #vinyl #fountainpens. you can also find me on #Mastodon:
@cjammet@mastodon.online
Encyclopedia Briannica @e-briannica.bsky.social technical editor, historical linguist, 2D cartoon person
http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/
https://bit.ly/briannica
Emily Brewster @ebrewster.bsky.social 
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
Robert Simonson @robertsimonson.bsky.social Journalist. Cocktails, etc. Author of Substack “The Mix.”
Barry Popik @barrypopik.bsky.social Author of an online dictionary (over 41,000 entries) investigating the origins of American words, names, quotations and phrases. King of Dad Jokes & Oneliners. BarryPopik.com
Leo Carey @leojcarey.bsky.social Senior Editor at The New Yorker, ex-X?
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online Director at Library Futures, a project of NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. MPA, MLIS. Words at Flaming Hydra and other places sometimes. she/her
David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social Crossword maker. Evenings host ABC Vic. Writer, and Wordplay columnist SMH & The Age. Verbaholic. My views only davidastle.com 
Corrin @ahkerchoo.bsky.social Reader, baker, sarcastic AF
Christopher Bonanos @heybonanos.bsky.social Longtime @nymag city editor and the invisible hand of Instagram’s @OldNYMag. Books: Weegee, Polaroid, Greeks.
Carolita Johnson @carolitajohnson.bsky.social Cartoonist at The New Yorker, writer everywhere else, caregiver, anchor baby, she/her/they/them/ma’am
Jana Luther @janaluther.bsky.social woordeboekmaker | lexicographer
https://www.wat.co.za/
https://afrikaans-vandag.co.za/
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/
Andrew C. Blume @acblume.bsky.social Parson | Art Historian | New York City
Rector @saintignatiusnyc
Jane Solomon @janesolomon.bsky.social 👁 Typeface Designer at Lettermatic.com 👁 Word Panelist at Scripps National Spelling Bee 👁 Ex-Lexicographer 👁 Lapsed Emoji Expert 👁 Author of The Dictionary of Difficult Words 👁
Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.