By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax+phonetics; R & stats & dataviz; art & craft & textile & nature; reluctant immigrant to normal island; nj; she|they; not funny (earnest); ai apologists go away; דאיקייט
Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social Linguist, reader, knitter, video gamer, Canadian (in no particular order). Thinks a lot about auxiliaries and pronouns, Stardew Valley, and books with magic and/or spaceships and/or kissing in them. Experimenting with context collapse. (she/her)
Dr Monika Pleyer @linguisticisms.bsky.social PhD in linguistics. Researching Impoliteness in children's fiction, and metaphors in virtual health discourses (esp. on dementia). 🩷💜💙 they/she
Amy Plackowski @linguistihawk.bsky.social High school ELA & linguistics teacher. A justice-centered, culturally responsive pedagogy must include the study of linguistics. hslinguistics.com. LSA, NEATE, NCTE. Venmo: @AmyPlackowski
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person. 
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd). patreon.com/becauselangpod
Language Science Station at Planet Word @langscistation.bsky.social We do language science research and engagement with the public! Find us at the Planet Word museum in Washington D.C., and here: https://go.umd.edu/LanguageScienceStationAtPlanetWord 
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social & @fritinancy.bsky.social
Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social Linguist (revitalization, documentation, sociolinguistics) but also not a professional account so I’m gonna say cuss words 🤷♀️ she/her
Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living in California. Author of "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" from Oxford University Press, published in January 2025.
Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social Linguist, nature appreciator, big fan of sambal & soursop. All things Austronesian & NW New Guinea. Swarthmore/Philly. She/sie/lei/dia/andi.
Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in Ireland
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social linguist
a less cruel world is possible
neurosomething (autistic)
all posts reflect private opinions
Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Slips of the tongue, uh & um (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: An anthology, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
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
Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social Glossa Psycholinguistics is an #openaccess journal of #psycholinguistics published by @eScholarship.
https://escholarship.org/uc/glossapsycholinguistics
Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social Speech perception & brain nerd, University of Connecticut. Opinions my own, not my employer's.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
sigh @wulatum.bsky.social Phonetician / 他, wù / pro-international student
Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social Linguist at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴
#SignLanguages, #Linguistics, #RStats & #DataViz
Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
savithry @savithry.bsky.social conference live-poster moonlighting as linguist (she/her/ആ ബഹളി)
Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
(he/him)
www.michaelpleyer.com
@symbolicstorage@scholar.social
@symbolicstorage
Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social Postdoc at Høgskulen på Vestlandet 🇳🇴. Hearing. Thinking about attitudes, multimodal language contact, iconicity, typology, Creoles, and how to do good linguistics (!)
Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.
Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social Comics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social Official account for the Bergelson Lab at Harvard, sporadically maintained by the PI:).
Just a lab, trying to figure out how babies learn language, somehow caught in the crosshairs of gov't admin battles.
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
Lisa Davidson @lisabdavidson.bsky.social Phonetics, Language Acquisition, CogSci | co-editor Laboratory Phonology | ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social Professor at San Diego State University; sign languages, neuroscience, reading, gesture, all things linguistic
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
Carrie Gillon @carrieg.bsky.social linguist, cat lover, nerd
Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social Chicana. Child language development expert. 🧪 Forever a Scientist👩🏽🔬First Gen. Linguist. Writer. Podcaster. she/her. The Vocal Fries 🍟 co-host. Tucson, AZ
A Way with Words @waywordradio.org Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social Podcast of adventures in language with @helenzaltzman. theallusionist.org patreon.com/allusionist
The Vocal Fries @vocalfriespod.bsky.social a podcast about linguistic discrimination.
“compelling and never preachy” - NYT
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
Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/
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
James Grama @dalaigrama.bsky.social Sociophonetician in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Interested in language variation and change, phonetics, dialect (typology), ethnolects, life-span change, Hawaiʻi, creoles, and prehistoric fauna. Proud papa. he/him
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
Heddwen Newton - English & Dutch @heddwen.bsky.social I write the monthly newsletter English and the Dutch, about all the ways English and Dutch interact: https://englishandthedutch.substack.com/
English teacher at Bielefeld University (EAL & ELA)
Dutch English
World Englishes
AI English
Lexicography
Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social US linguist in UK. University of Sussex.
Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist
Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social Dr. 🎓 LMU Munich 👩🏫 Sociolinguistics, (post) colonial varieties of English 🌎 stylistics, historical fiction 📺 Québécoise ⚜ she/her
Martin Konvička @teapotlinguist.bsky.social Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 💚
Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @dclberlin.bsky.social
Vocabaret @vocabaret.bsky.social New York City's home for wordplay comedy since 2019! Catch us the second Friday of every month at Caveat, or streaming/VOD from anywhere. https://vocabaret.start.page
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
May Helena Plumb @mayhplumb.bsky.social needlecrafter, dancer, baker, Mainer, she/her
PhD in Linguistics, now doing non-ac qual research
Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social Asst prof linguistics @ Michigan state. I like cats, fiber arts, people. I’ll finish the rest of this later.
Marcie Sundaram @alliterative.bsky.social Interdisciplinarian, historical linguist, philologist, medievalist; I make videos & podcasts about words, history, and literature. Married to @AvenSarah. She/her
a nguyễn @scientifical.bsky.social psycholinguist, semanticist, pragmaticist || việt, asian american || californian || she / they / chị / em || asst prof interested in the Internet & language || and cycling
aghnguyen.github.io
Rachel Burdin @rsburdin.bsky.social Ling prof in NH; intonation, lg. variation, lg. and identity, Jewish languages. Occasional runner, knitter, garment maker. she/her.
Rikker Dockum @rikker.bsky.social Linguist ‘n’ stuff. I was @thai101 on the other place. I’ll probably still talk about Thai too much.
You can read stuff I wrote here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FeZWg9QAAAAJ&hl=en
Sylvia Sierra 🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social Linguist who studies accents, slang, references, memes, cringe, and singing in conversation. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in language, culture, identity, media, music, art, literature, history.
sylviasierra.com
Onondaga land
Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social Sociophonetician & Associate Prof @ Georgetown. Linguistics, cats, DC, science, quips. She/her.
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social Philologist and historical linguist. Formerly UCPH, MPI-SHH, and Cambridge. Mostly Ancient Greek, comparative Indo-European, and nonsense. (ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟⲟⲩ)
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1782-5223
https://brill.com/display/title/57781
https://iecor.clld.org/
Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social Linguistics. Cognitive Science. Academia. Baseball. Music. Cats. Naps. University of Chicago. Opinions (all mine).
Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social (Socio)linguist at TU-Dortmund: military-adjacent linguistic landscapes in the KMC, Germany
Virtual breathing spaces for minority languages
Language Policy | Ethics
Jewish and nonzionist. Maxim flouter. Full of boundless enthusiasm. She/Her
Jeff Holliday @jeffholliday.bsky.social Linguist @ University of Kansas. Interested in phonetics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, and Korean. He.
https://jjholliday.github.io/
Roman Feiman @romanfeiman.bsky.social Language, development, and language development. Assistant Prof at Brown. PI of the Brown Language and Thought (BLT) Lab.
Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com Sociolinguist at BYU. American English (Utah, Georgia, and Latter-day Saints), mostly vowels, some methods. Organist, bread maker, fan of succulents, beginning knitter.
joeystanley.com
Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social Sociolinguist. Spinner, weaver, knitter. Parent. Queer. Chronically ill. she/her
David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social syntax and other stuff, mainly more linguistics and cogsci but occasional queerness, poetry, cats and @ans.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
https://davidadger.org
kevin b mcgowan @kbmcgowan.bsky.social phonetician, linguist, associate professor, musician, gen x nerd, he/him
Jadin @jadincmoore.bsky.social Socialist & sort of linguist
/‘d͡ʒeɪ.dɪn/ they/them
Allison Shapp, PhD @schwadevivre.bsky.social sociolinguist, crossword-puzzler, folkie
Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. Opinions etc etc my own. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)
Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social Sociolinguist at Virginia Tech | Academic mama | Studies New Orleans Language & Culture | she/her
Author of ‘Language and Place’, available open access 👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/language-and-place/E95116DA21FDDFCDF4DFE5375765514C
Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor & Associate Dean of Education
@Stanfordeducation.Bsky.social. Af. Am. Studies & Linguistics by courtesy.
PI of the @StanfordBADLab.Bsky.social
Jan Barker Alexander Resident Fellow of Ujamaa House
🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green psycholinguist by training, now working in public health. L1: American English (~Philly). any pronouns, they/she if that's too hard.
i do not post as my worksona. posts are mine and not my employer's.
https://linktr.ee/colorlessgrey
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
📰 Sign up for the newsletter at LinguisticDiscovery.Substack.com or LinguisticDiscovery.com!
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social language & cognitive scientist at @mcgill.ca; co-founder of @wicscanada.bsky.social; she/her
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social linguistic anthropologist, she/her
Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social they/them 🏳️⚧️
linguist; educator; grad student in the Trans Research in Linguistics Lab at UCSB
http://montrealbenes.ch
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social assistant professor of English Language
at the University of British Columbia. cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, gesture studies. she/her, singular they is as old as Chaucer.
http://elisestickles.com
Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social 黃吉贊 (he/any) | Queer Cantonese 🏳️🌈 researcher working on responsible computational social science using language data. Te Pūnaha Matatini / Fulbright Scholar (US 24/25), Aotearoa NZ.
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
Grant Barrett @grantbarrett.com Linguist, lexicographer, broadcaster, editor, writer. Co-host of fun coast-to-coast US radio language show/podcast "A Way with Words." @waywordradio.org. +1 646 286 2260 grant@grantbarrett.com #linguistics #lexicography #etymology #podcasting #writing
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/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827