BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG @corpus-sig.bsky.social Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
Petre Breazu @petrebreazu.bsky.social Asst. Research Professor @ University of Cambridge | Online Hate Speech, LLMs, CDA & Multimodal Analysis | Former Marie Curie Fellow.
Robert Smith @smith-r.bsky.social Computational Linguist, PhD, Lecturer at TU Dublin, Researcher, robertsmithresearch.wordpress.com
Dr Heather Shaw @hshawberry.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology & Behavioural Analytics at Lancaster Uni 📊Researching behaviour biometrics, digital ethics, mobile sensing & the science of situations. Yarn crafts, cute animals & film photography might also make an appearance.
Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social Senior RA, Wellcome-funded project on sustainability, ethics and inclusion. Linguistics PhD at Lancaster University. #sustainability discourse #greenwashing #Greenlash #corpus linguistics #pragmatics #ethics #responsible AI.🏃🏻♀️ in training
Phoenix Perry @phoenixperry.bsky.social researching play, experience design, machine learning, cognition, making, and games. I hold hands with strangers. 💜🕹 Typos promised.🛼❤️
Lowri @lowriwilliams.bsky.social Tonyrefailian in Aberystwyth. PhD student in #linguistics and #Cymraeg at Cardiff Uni.
Pattern-seeker. Word nerd. Cymraes swil.
/ˈlou̯ri/ (She/her) 🍉
Foxing Around🦊🏳️🌈 @foxingaround.bsky.social 13 Foxes in a Trenchcoat. All of them pretending to be an Illustrator named Val
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FoxingAround
Twitter: https://x.com/foxing_around
Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 #CL2025
30th June - 3rd July 2025 • Birmingham, UK
Aston University • Birmingham City University • University of Birmingham
https://www.cl2025.co.uk/
pro² network+ @prosquared.org Making the manufacture of digital devices more accessible. Learn more at www.prosquared.org
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social Professor Applied Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics
Visiting Prof EduHK @UMU Lecturer U. Cambridge, Sen. Res. Fellow S. Madariaga NAU- CUP ReCALL journal Co-EiC PI @BsddlP77567
Sarah Rankin @techrankin.bsky.social New Brunswick Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovation |🇨🇦| #MIEEFellow | #micro:bit Champion | #AiEDU
Andreea Calude @drandreeacalude.bsky.social Language, people, fun, writing and combinations thereof
James Cheese @tr00st.co.uk Developer, re-enactor, probably other things too.
MicroBlocks @microblocks.bsky.social MicroBlocks is a free, live blocks programming language for microcontrollers such as the micro:bit, Calliope mini, Raspberry Pi Pico, ESP32 and many more.
https://microblocks.fun/
https://fosstodon.org/@microblocks
https://discord.gg/TCpHYbcvkS
SparkFun Electronics @sparkfun.bsky.social Start Something.
www.sparkfun.com- A @acs2023.bsky.social @acs2023.bsky.social
UCREL NLP Research Centre @ucrelnlp.bsky.social Research centre for the study of corpus linguistics and corpus-based natural language processing at Lancaster University
T: +44 1524 510357
E: ucrel@lancaster.ac.uk
W: https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/
Y: https://www.youtube.com/@ucrelcrs8222
Matthew Coole @matthewcoole.bsky.social Senior RSE @ukceh.bsky.social
Linguistics and English Language @ Lancaster University @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Carlos @carlosperate.bsky.social ⚡️ Love everything embedded software/hardware.
🧑🏫 Passionate about STEM & EdTech.
👨💻 Embedded Software @ #Microbit Educational Foundation (microbit.org).
🐍 Oxford Python user group co-organiser.
🤔 Views my own.
pimoroni @pimoroni.com Purveyors of fine Maker goods worldwide and creators of fun, useful, and educational electronics for all skill levels. Come play with us! 🏴☠️
adafruit @adafruit.com Engineer - Founder of Adafruit - Brooklyn, NY USA - Manufacturer, open-source hardware, certified Minority and Woman-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) https://adafruit.com - support https://forums.adafruit.com & order/customer help support@adafruit.com
loreto @loretod.bsky.social Occupational therapist, technology and education lover to help open doors for all learners. #OpenAT #AssitiveTech #3D #Make #RightToRepair #FreeFairElections #OpenSource
Jonny Austin @jonnya.bsky.social CTPO at Micro:bit Educational Foundation (microbit.org), co-founder of Makespace Cambridge (makespace.org), Feminist sea shanty techhand (auntieshanty.org). Sometimes t-shirt designer.
Gareth Stockdale @stockers.bsky.social
KiCad EDA @kicad.org The world's most popular circuit design suite. https://www.kicad.org
Matt Parker @standupmaths.bsky.social That maths guy from the internet.
Electromagnetic Field @emfcamp.bsky.social A weekend of geekery in an internet-connected field. Returning in summer 2024.
Website: emfcamp.org
Fediverse: @emf@emfcamp.org
Twitter: twitter.com/emfcamp
CheerLights - We are all connected. @cheerlights.bsky.social #iot #make #thingspeak #adafruit #adruino #esp32 #particle
Dr Lorraine Underwood @lmcunderwood.bsky.social Maker, Author, Senior RA at Lancaster University, UK. Ireland born, Yorkshire living. I wrote a book! https://tinyurl.com/bdfr2ava
My interest is in physical computing and data science for children, especially anything micro:bit
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change
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
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
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
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 Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Stroud/Lancaster (UK)
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.
Andrea Nini @andreanini.com Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester
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 Reader in Languages and Linguistics, Manchester Met • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Climate Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides • FRSA
➡️ 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 🇮🇹.
Em_Chiang @emchiang.bsky.social Research Fellow in forensic linguistics, casual gamer, reluctant runner. she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
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
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
Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
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 Research on critical discourse, language and communication w. focus on normalisation of racism, discrimination & the politics of exclusion. Editor in Chief of Journal of Language & Politics @jlanpol.bsky.social www.languageandpolitics.com
Jesse Egbert @jesse-egbert.bsky.social Text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics, language and law
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
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.
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
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.
Lily Zhou @lilyzhou.bsky.social Linguistics PhD candidate at Lancaster University🦆 | MSc, University of Edinburgh | Corpus Linguistics🌟
Fuelled by coffee/tea/milktea☕️🍵🧋| Always curious🧐
Dimitris Serafis @dimitrisrf.bsky.social Assistant Prof @rug.nl
https://www.rug.nl/staff/d.serafis/?lang=en
Editor @cadaad-journal.bsky.social
CDS | Argumentation | Multimodality
Researching #racism #hatespeech
#populism #authoritarianism #crises
@maxdemata.bsky.social @maxdemata.bsky.social
Poppy Plumb @poppyplumb.bsky.social
Marc Alexander @mga.is Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.
Esra Efeoğlu @esranureo.bsky.social Former Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Co-founder & co-convener @discore.bsky.social
corpus-assisted discourse studies
youth language, metaphor, crisis discourses
🪄 https://linktr.ee/esranureo
Hale Isik-Guler @hale-isik-guler.bsky.social Associate Professor of Linguistics @METU; Research Lead @DISCORE, Discourse and Corpus Research Group (discore.metu.edu.tr)
Yasemin Erdogan @yaseminerdogan.bsky.social PhD @METU_ODTU / @DISCORE research group coordinator / sociolinguistics & critical discourse studies / language ideologies • multilingualism • social media • gender • migration / posts in English and Turkish
Miguel Pérez Milans @mpmilans.bsky.social Professor of Language, Discourse and Communication and Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics @University College London | Critical ethnographer
Paweł Szudarski @pawelszudarski.bsky.social Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham
Expertise: vocabulary, corpus linguistics, TESOL, replication research, distance learning, international education
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/pawel.szudarski
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
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
Malgorzata Chalupnik @mchalu.bsky.social Linguist (discourse analysis/professional communication/language, gender and sexuality)
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
Dr Duygu Candarli @duygucandarli.bsky.social Lecturer in TESOL, University of Southampton | Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise and Impact Champion |
Research interests: second language writing, academic discourse, corpus linguistics, writing assessment | Views are my own. https://t.co/aq4PA7DWVe
Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Research: political communication, cognition, multimodality. Hobbies: hill/fell walking. Views my own.
I-LanD Research Centre @i-land.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre for advanced study in linguistics, social studies and humanities w/ a specific focus on the concepts of diversity and identity
🔗 https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/
@danagablas.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Passionate about use of corpora for L2 learning, teaching & testing. Creator of CorpusForSchools.
Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
Joanne McCuaig @joannemccuaig.bsky.social #Qualitative Researcher | Wellbeing when working with Emotionally Demanding Material; How the public uses Mental Health Terminology #trauma | #Linguistics and Communication She/Her
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language