Matthew Hunt @mchlinguistics.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in Southampton, with special interests in perception, accent bias, socio-semantics, language and the police.
Charlotte Entwistle @charlotteent.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Psychology at University of Liverpool | Computational researcher focusing on language, personality, mental health, identity, emotion, & behaviour, and their interactions | Kickboxer and Yogi
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Phonetics & Phonology Group @ Newcastle University @phonncl.bsky.social Phonetics & Phonology Research Group at Newcastle University. Researchers uniting around language and sound. For enquiries, please contact us at phoneticsphonology.ncl@gmail.com. Our website: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phonphon/
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
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/
Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social Publishes leading research on language and society. Follow us for info on new articles, theme issues, dialogues and more. EIC: Lauren Hall-Lew, Jaspal Naveel Singh, and Andrew Wong
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679841
LingComm @lingcomm.org Communicating linguistics with broader audiences (#LingComm25, 23, 21 conferences).
Posts by @becauselanguage.com
More info at lingcomm.org
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social Stories of a forgotten London subculture with Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs.
cockneyyiddish.org
Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
BEST CULTURE PODCAST, Independent Podcast Awards 2025
BEST INDIE PODCAST, Silver
Lovies Award 2025
Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social The world's largest online linguistic resource (https://linguistlist.org).
Katy Brown @k8ebrown.bsky.social Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice at Manchester Met, researching far-right mainstreaming, media and discourse. She/her
https://www.drkatybrown.com
Emma Moore @scillym.bsky.social State school-educated Professor of Sociolinguistics, Sheffield, UK.
Linguistics, ethnography, style, socio-syntax, young people, neurodivergence, affect, old school regional dialectology.
(2023) Socio-syntax: Exploring the Social Meaning of Grammar.
English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/engmediacentre/
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)
The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social Your morning primer on news, politics, economics, culture and current affairs – five days a week.
Listen here 📳 https://linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Support us on Patreon 💷 https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast
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
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Web, Python (PSF Fellow), AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Tolkien, Retro Computing, Space, FRSA
PhD candidate @dhssfau.bsky.social
Dr. Johanna Gerwin @johannagerwin.bsky.social Sociolinguistics. Kiel/Germany. London/UK.
London Talks project: https://londontalksresearch.co.uk/
Enregisterment - Metalinguistics Discourses - London English - Pop Culture
Words & Actions @wordsactions.bsky.social A podcast about how language matters in business, politics and beyond
Hosted by Erika Darics, Bernard De Clerck and Veronika Koller
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality.
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
UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social The University Of Massachusetts Boston Applied Linguistics Department. Account managed by @koutropoulos.bsky.social
María José 🇵🇸 @thelasttaquito.bsky.social Likes History, Linguistics, Human Rights. Translator, Interpreter (Es/En/De)
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
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
Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
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/
Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social Linguistics professor at Michigan State University. Co-PI of mi-diaries.org. Poetry, food, flowers, music.
Dr Neil Alexander Walker (𐐝𐐰𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉) @nawalker.bsky.social Vice President, Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation (California, USA); Adjunct Research Fellow, College of Arts Society & Education, James Cook University (Queensland, Australia)
www.wieldoc.org
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
Matt Hunt Gardner (he/him) @matthuntgardner.bsky.social Sociolinguist, nerd, cook 🏳️🌈
Lecturer QMUL, Visiting Scholar Oxford
Ben Zimmer @benzimmer.bsky.social Linguist, lexicographer, language commentator, all-around word nut.
https://linktr.ee/benzimmer
Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Economist-Guide-Books/dp/1639364374
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
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
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
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
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
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
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
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