Jonathan Duffy @sixjbd.bsky.social Barrister
(exclusively criminal defence)
Liverpool
eXiteer
www.7hs.co.uk/personnel/jonathan-duffy/
Dr Abigaël Candelas @consentcactus.bsky.social Educator & researcher working on language use in sexual violence prevention and survivor support. Inclusive pedagogy. Windowsill gardening enthusiast.
https://acandelas.gitlab.io/
Sarah Frances Gordon @sarahfgordon.bsky.social PhD in Psychology. Diamond OA Journal editor. Psychology teacher & researcher in Mexico. All things open access. #ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #Researchethics #idiomas #QualitativeResearch #Multilingualism Views are my own. She/her/ella 🇿🇦🇲🇽
Hui Chen @huichen0826.bsky.social PhD candidate in linguistics at Lancaster University
discourse analysis｜corpus linguistics｜business and environmental communication ｜ESG and Sustainability
Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social Linguist, early career researcher and face-blind nerd at Bielefeld University
(they/he)
Some of my interests: Pragmatics; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; HRI; language, gender & identity; fictolinguistics (and more)
ENG/GER/日本語/繁體中文
Anja Giudici @anjagiudici.bsky.social Lecturer in Education - Cardiff University
Comparative education politics & history
https://anjagiudici.github.io
LIP Research Group @liprg.bsky.social Language, Ideology and Power Research Group, based at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, Lancaster University. We hold regular CDS research talks during term time.
Dr. Valerie Hobbs is on strike 🍉 @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social linguist, #religiouslanguage specialist, author, #slowacademic, #FreePalestine
Also here: https://t.co/B6JnGOmMJ4 & decreasingly on Twitter as @vhobbs5
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/
British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social 
Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum @yclf.bsky.social A collaborative research initiative by the Universities of York, Leeds, and Sheffield. We aim to foster scholarly exchange in the field of criminal law and justice.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/yclf/
Dr Amanda Potts @amandapotts.bsky.social Reader/Associate Professor, corpus-based discourse analyst, cat caretaker, citizen of the world. Opinions mine; my precious. 🌱 she/her
Petre Breazu @petrebreazu.bsky.social Asst. Research Professor @ University of Cambridge | Online Hate Speech, LLMs, CDA & Multimodal Analysis | Former Marie Curie Fellow.
Discourse, Context and Media Journal @dcmjournal.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal addressing the relationship between contemporary discourse, mediated forms of communication & context.
#Linguistics #Discourse #MediatedDiscourse
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/discourse-context-and-media
Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social UK based criminal defence lawyer 
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Jackson Allen @jallen7.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at University of Sheffield | criminal law, evidence, and legal philosophy | 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
Virtual Criminal Law Group @vclg.bsky.social The Virtual Criminal Law Group is an online academic discussion group for criminal law broadly construed, founded in April 2020 and co-organised by Scotland-based criminal law scholars. Write to vclgscotland@gmail.com to join our mailing list!
MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill @mantrap.bsky.social A group of researchers at various UK universities investigating the language of the manosphere
👤 @jessaiston.bsky.social
👤 @veronikakoller.bsky.social
👤 @alexiconartist.bsky.social
👤 @markmcglashan.com
🌐 https://www.markmcglashan.com/projects/mantrap
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
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
@michaelfarrelly.bsky.social @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social 
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
Language & Power Podcast @languagepowerpodcast.org Using critical discourse analysis in recognising the ecological, social, political, and economic conditions in which we live. https://languagepowerpodcast.org 
Leah Burch (she/her) @leahfburch.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University.
Research interests: disability hate crime, sexual violence, creative methods
Manchester 
Russell Sandberg @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social Professor of Law at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Writes on Legal History & Law and Religion with focus on marriage law and education law reform.
No DMs - please email SandbergR@cf.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/sandbergrlaw
Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social Tant och tönt. Associate Prof in Law at Uni Reading. Lives by the sea. Listens to the Archers, despairs at Politics, loves long country walks with husband and dog. If you have to resort to "F*ck off bitch!" you probably lost the argument a few bleets ago.
Dr Derek Whayman @whaymandr.bsky.social Academic lawyer.
Lecturer in EU and International Law @vicky-kapogianni.bsky.social University of Reading
Sharon Sinclair-Graham @ssg0408.bsky.social Legal educator... University Teaching Fellow.. Professor in Law, Deputy Head and School Director of Teaching and Learning
Daniela Schneevogt @danielaschnee.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Forensic Linguistics at aifl.bsky.social | she/her
FrameLab @theframelab.bsky.social FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.
Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
Sara Vilar @sara-vl.bsky.social Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at Cardiff University
Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social Political communication and media scholar. Macquarie University postdoctoral research fellow. Researching: the far right, media, populism, fascism, and democracy 🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WfjJQqYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Simon Corston-Oliver @simonhco.bsky.social Retired linguist / computational linguist. Keen hiker and nature photographer in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I mostly photograph amphibians, fungus and birds, or whatever comes across my path.
Jilly Boyce Kay @jillybkay.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University
Feminism, cultural studies, politics
Blanca Calvo Figueras @blanca-calvo-figue.bsky.social Interested in the dissemination of public narratives. Went from political science to NLP🗞️💻 Doctoral candidate at @hitz-zentroa.bsky.social
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
Ksenija Bogetic @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social 
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
British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Page for the BSC Hate Crime Network. Follow for News, Updates, Conferences, Discussion Groups and Latest Developments.
CIRAF @cirafcardiff.bsky.social Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Antifascism and the Far Right
Maria-Magdalena Bărăscu @magdabarascu.bsky.social 
Petra W. @petrawaschk.bsky.social she/her
mum, nerd, student, goth
passionate about linguistics, science, media, and pop culture
does software development for a living.
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/
Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social Law prof grateful to be teaching and writing about torts, family law, LRW, repro rights, & legal ed. pedagogy. Hella proud author of “Inclusive Socratic Teaching” (UC Press). Refueled by my family
Tap to reveal more here 🔞💋: https://t.me/+eShHVWUd1JYyZjQ9
Debbie Cabral @debbiecabral.bsky.social Interested in forensic linguistics and corpus linguistics
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Dawn Knight @dawnknightcl.bsky.social Professor of Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University. Part time fitness (hockey) freak, full time Corpus geek
Collaborator on @corcencc.bsky.social @freetxt.bsky.social @gdc-wdg.bsky.social
FreeTxt @freetxt.bsky.social Official account of FreeTxt (https://freetxt.app/). Account linked with @corcencc.bsky.social and @gdc-wdg.bsky.social
Cyfrif swyddogol y TestunRhydd (https://freetxt.app/). Cyfrif wedi’i gysylltu â @corcencc.bsky.social a @gdc-wdg.bsky.social
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/- G @gavinbrooks.bsky.social @gavinbrooks.bsky.social
Geraldine Mark @germling.bsky.social 
Moslem Boushehrian @boushehrian.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/in/moslemboush/
Criminology Lecturer | Researcher | Advocate for Equity & Justice
Passionate about exploring hate crime perceptions and underreporting through sociological and criminological lenses. 
Prof. Gregory S. Gordon @profgsgordon.bsky.social Peking University STL, international criminal law (ICL) expert, biographer of Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, leading authority on atrocity speech/incitement law, consultant on ICL speech-related crimes arising from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Suzie Dunn @suziedunn.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute 
Michael Law-Smith @michaellaw-smith.bsky.social JD/PhD Philosophy Candidate | University of Toronto
Fei Wong @wongfei.bsky.social Multimodal critical discourse analyst. PhD candidate at Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya.
orcid.org/0000-0002-2452-2618
linguist life philosophy: wongfei.substack.com
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.
Language Ledger @languageledger.bsky.social Language Ledger provides accessible updates on the latest in linguistics, bridging academia and the public. Perfect for linguists, students, and anyone curious about how language shapes our world.
http://languageledger.substack.com
ACpresso @acpresso.bsky.social digital text studies / corpus linguistics / literature / language 
Willemijn Ruberg @willemijnruberg.bsky.social Professor Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social). #running
Yoichi Mukai @yoichi-mukai.bsky.social Chair of Modern Languages Studies Department at Vancouver Island University teaching Japanese and Linguistics | yoichimukai.rbind.io | Linguistic Research Lab: https://ah.viu.ca/lrl
Val Aston @valaston.bsky.social Criminal law lecturer, protest law researcher, long covid sufferer. 
Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John @lsjysj.bsky.social Official Bsky account of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research @yorkstjohn.bsky.social. Follow for news, updates and events! https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/centre-for-language-and-social-justice-research/
Dr Suzi Rockey @suzirockey.bsky.social ERSC funded PhD candidate writing up my #thesis on how effective the recent governmental reforms to #criminallegalaid will be at increasing the number of younger practitioners, using the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Seeking a #postdoc
Dr Lauren Alex O'Hagan @drlaurenalexohagan.bsky.social 🎵 I got me them Rory Gallagher blues🎵
Creator of Rewriting Rory | Research Fellow at Open University | Affiliate Researcher at Örebro University | Specialist in 19th/early 20th-c. visual/material culture & Irish ethnomusicology
www.rewritingrory.co.uk
Adriano Martufi @adrianomartufi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Criminal Law (University of Pavia) - Research Fellow (Leiden Law School) - interested in European criminal law and penology. Born in Venice, straddling IT and the NL
Ruth Weir @ruthweir.bsky.social Deputy Director of @violenceandsociety centre. Geographer and Criminologist. Researching policing, domestic abuse, abuse in teenage relationships and neighbourhoods.
Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social Academic: VAW, trafficking, gender, law
Director LEX network
lexnetwork.org
Bluesky: lexnetwork.bsky.social
Co-E-in-C Gender & Justice
https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gj/gj-overview.xml
genderandjustice.bsky.social
Michael Sevel @michaelsevel.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence, University of Sydney. Rule of Law. Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy. Maritime Law.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1315432
Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social Professor in #Linguistics #Usyd #CorpusLinguistics #MediaLinguistics #SocioLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis #Stance #Affect #Emotion #DigitalHumanities
Founding director sydneycorpuslab.com
monikabednarek.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-5424
Dr Zoe Handley @zlhandley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Language Education and Programme Leader MA Artificial Intelligence and Technology-Enhanced Learning in Department of Education, The University of York
Angela Zottola @angelazottola.bsky.social Tenure Track Researcher in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Torino.
Mom. Activist. Capoeirista.
Dr Sophie Doherty @sophiedoherty.bsky.social Lecturer in Law: law and art/humanities, justice, VAWG/GBV, menstruation, visual constitutionalism, and feminism. QUB/ Durham Alumni. PhD FHEA. Belfast. 
Noelle Quenivet @noellequenivet.bsky.social Professor in International Law. Interested in International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, use of force and Human Rights Law. Loves cooking.
Isabel Alonso @isabelalonsobel.bsky.social Linguist and Critical Discourse Analyst at UAM. Views my own.
Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He.
Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo.
https://linktr.ee/garicgymro
Jon Garland @jongarland.bsky.social Criminologist at Surrey University, researching hate crime, prisons, policing. Norwich City fan. Ageing mod
Corpus in Focus @focuscorpus.bsky.social 🔍 Corpus in Focus: Exploring the world of Corpus Linguistics! Unlocking insights into language patterns, empowering research & enriching public knowledge. @FocusCorpus
Xinmei Sun @xinmeisun.bsky.social PhD researcher in Linguistics at Lancaster University.
Parliamentary research services & impartiality, cognitive & corpus approaches to discourse.
Linguistics consultant @senso-cloud.bsky.social
Mark Wilson @marksonofwil.bsky.social Works in Community Safety in West Mids. I deliver work around #Prevent [ #CVE / #PVE ], bit of a geek on #FarRightExtremism. I also know a fair bit about #Hatecrime, #Communitycohesion, and #ASB.
Note: All own views & typos! | www.opitulor.co.uk
javier palummo @palummo.bsky.social Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights #REDESCA #IACHR | Former chair #AdvisoryCommittee #UN_HRC & Research Director #IPPDH_MERCOSUR | PhD in #HumanRights | Personal views only.
Jen @bathollow.bsky.social 
Philipp-Alexander Hirsch @phirsch.bsky.social Research Group Leader @MPICSL: https://csl.mpg.de/de/philipp-alexander-hirsch.html
Criminal Law Theory | Legal Philosophy
Strafrecht | Strafprozessrecht | Rechtsphilosophie
Corpora journal @corpora.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
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Victoria Colvin @victoriacolvin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at School of Law, UOW. Criminal law, Evidence, Accountability & Integrity, Prosecution, Neurodivergence in Law
Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social PhD candidate researching eyewitness memory and credibility assessments in cross-cultural contexts @amslablegpsy.bsky.social | @vucriminologie.bsky.social | Mum of a beautiful rainbow baby 🌈 and fur baby 🐕🖤
IAFLL @iafll.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the International Association for Forensic & Legal Linguistics | https://iafll.org/
Summer School on the International Criminal Court @iccsummerschool.bsky.social Annual Summer School on the International Criminal Court at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
8-11 June 2026 (online)
Registration now open
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/irish-centre-human-rights/summerschools/iccsummerschool/
Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social Law Prof at University of Surrey School of Law
Criminal law, white collar & corporate crime, legal philosophy
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/alexander-sarch
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=151482
Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social Paralegal with masters in international maritime law, interested in languages, ethics, governance, environmental protection and human rights. Mythology-loving humanist.
Talia Isaacs @taliaisaacs.bsky.social Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL at University College London | Departmental Head of Research & Inclusion Co-lead | Co-Editor of Language Testing | L2 speaking, language for specific purposes, educational assessment, trials methodology
Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader) in Law and Philosophy at The University of Surrey.
Editor of Legal-Phi (blog)
AoI: Legal & Pol Phil., Crim. Law Theory.
www.lmiotto.wordpress.com
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social Towards an innovative, systematic approach to concordance analysis.
Project team: @michamahlberg.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @nfdykes.bsky.social @apiperski.bsky.social