Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
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/
Hemza ZEGHAR @hemza-zeghar.bsky.social Full-time University Assistant Professor and Researcher (Translation Studies) / Official Sworn Translator and Interpreter (Arabic-French-English) / Musician and Dilettante Artist. 🇩🇿
IBBY UK @ibbyuk.bsky.social UK section of the International Board on Books for Young People
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Innovations in Linguistics Education @innovations-ling.bsky.social Innovations in Linguistics Education is a diamond open access journal dedicated to teaching and learning in linguistics. We're accepting submissions from January 2026.
UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social We are the University of Essex branch of the University and College Union (UCU). Reposts, follows etc are not endorsements.
Elisabeth J. Kerr @elisabethjkerr.bsky.social Linguist / syntactician / Africanist
FWO Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University
Antonio Ascanio @antonioascanio.bsky.social English teacher studying how language shapes our thoughts.
MA student → PhD candidate | Cognitive linguistics, CDA, meaning & metaphor addict. University of Córdoba (Spain).
Scriptwriter when I have time.
Dr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social Ex-researcher turned science communicator #scicomm, cat mom
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Pint of Science FR @pintofscience.fr Faire découvrir la recherche au grand public dans un cadre détendu : le bar | ⚡#pint27 | festival de retour les 10-12 mai 2027 |
🗺️ @pintsWorld.bsky.social
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Margo Van Poucke @mlvp7.bsky.social #linguistics #SFL #appraisal #corpuslinguistics
ManyLanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social ManyLanguages is a globally distributed network of language science laboratories that coordinates data collection for democratically selected studies.
http://many-languages.com
account managed by @congzhang.bsky.social and @timoroettger.bsky.social
Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity.
I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned.
justinjhlo.github.io
Jay @newcomer.bsky.social Hi! I'm Jay📗I'm American, C1 in Spanish, and an edtech indie dev.
🎮 Creator of Newcomer (language learning rpg)
🎮 Creator of Wisp (learn languages from any PC game)
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@afuahirsch.bsky.social @afuahirsch.bsky.social
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
Website: FolukeAfrica.com
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Dennis A Francis @dennisafrancis.bsky.social | migrant | queer and racial justice activist | yogi wannabe | french bulldog whisperer | kurta aficionado | professor |
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Dave @dmalinowski.bsky.social 🕘: Applied linguistics, language education & linguistic landscape
🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains
🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social 🇪🇷🇬🇧 | Researcher @UofGlasgow | Fellow @YoungAcademySco | @soasalumni | Views own
Helen Spicer-Cain @helensc.bsky.social She/her. Senior lecturer, researcher and SLT at City St George’s University of London, focusing on early language and communication development, autism and increased likelihood children. Owner of a crazy westie.
Señora Luna (she/ella) @suyang.bsky.social Early language education, learner and teacher of language, languages are indivisible from the cultures of the communities who speak them.
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Robert Blackwood @robjblackwood.bsky.social Professor of French Sociolinguistics, Editor of Linguistic Landscape, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Global Engagement & Partnerships at the University of Liverpool
Jackie Lou @loujiajackie.bsky.social
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
Patrick Andrews @patrickandrews.bsky.social Online teacher of English. Lover of literature and languages. Coventry City fan #PUSB. Tends to the left politically but not dogmatic.
Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social نسرين العلوان
Pronounced /nisri:n/ with an s not a z and a long ee ☺️
Professor of Public Health MBE
Southampton
Not afraid of my voice
Still curious
Posting my personal views not those of any organisation
Reposts not necessarily endorsements
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Wim Remysen @kwebek.bsky.social Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke, directeur du CRIFUQ (@crifuq.bsky.social) et responsable du Fonds de données linguistiques du Québec (@plateformeFDLQ.bsky.social).
Recherche en #sociolinguistique #histoiredelalangue #linguistiquedecorpus
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL @tcsaltjournal.bsky.social Open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing research on language, language use, language acquisition, language teaching, language learning, language assessment, language teacher education, and language & technology. tesolal.columbia.edu
Petre Breazu @petrebreazu.bsky.social Asst. Research Professor @ University of Cambridge | Online Hate Speech, LLMs, CDA & Multimodal Analysis | Former Marie Curie Fellow.
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.
UoN English @uonenglish.bsky.social The School of English at the University of Nottingham, part of the Faculty of Arts.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/English/
Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/education/bhopal-kalwant
Dr. Florence Bonacina-Pugh @bonacina-pugh.bsky.social Associate Professor in Language Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK. Book review co-Editor for Language Policy.
Applied Linguistics | Language Policy | Conversation Analysis | Translanguaging | French Heritage Language Education
USBBY @usbby.bsky.social The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children's and young adult books.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Linguistics department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, including its imprint Mouton. Posts by our editors.
Hannah Moushabeck @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social Palestinian American 🇵🇸 Book worker @interlinkbooks 🏳️🌈Author of: Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine📍Western Mass
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
Fatma Said @fatmasaid.bsky.social Sociolinguist/Applied Linguist|Assistant Prof @Zayed_U| Early childhood bilingualism|Multilingualism|Arabic العربية|Family lang policy|lang. development|Early Childhood|Rare 📚|All views mine
IAPLL @iapll.bsky.social Welcome to the Bluesky account for the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. IAPLL is an interdisciplinary association of scholars with an interest in exploring the psychological dimensions of language learning and teaching.- B BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) @baal-linguistics.bsky.social British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is a professional association and charity (264800), based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. Account managed @melevans.bsky.social
Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Specialising in Philosophy for Children, Children’s Literature, & Antiracist Education
Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA https://www.darrenchetty.com/ https://linktr.ee/DarrenChetty
Dr Nkasi Stoll @nkasistoll.bsky.social Qualitative research psychologist interested in mental health, community support, and tackling (in)equalities
Marco Santello @marcosantello.bsky.social Applied linguist at the University of Turin #multilingualism | language & migration
Check out my new book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/constrained-multilingualism/D716E81D0C1D09EF51A7A3946F8C66AC
Azahara Veroz-González @azaharaveroz.bsky.social Lecturer at University of Córdoba. Member of
Tradit UNED, GID ARENA, @tradilex.bsky.social, HUM-940, co-editor in chief of Hikma: Translation Journal. Corpus linguistics, AVT & DAT
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
Yael Peled @ypeled.bsky.social A language ethicist in the baking. Research fellow at the MPI MMG (www.mmg.mpg.de/home); website: www.peledy.com.
George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social Community archive of black grassroots activist and cultural movements associated with John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books, and many others. Testimony to the creativity and resilience of black resistance.
https://linktr.ee/thegpi
Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy I Write. I make films. Transmedia artist. My blog @dilman is about my works and life. I daydream a lot and want to be paid for it. Been creating #sff #scifi for […]
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Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
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
Gonzalo Maestro @gonzalomaestro.bsky.social Researching Comparative Linguistics @ Masaryk University
Victoria Odeniyi @victoriaodeniyi.bsky.social Research Fellow (Applied linguistics)
University of the Arts London Decolonising Arts Institute
Interests: Ethnography, higher education, coloniality, identity, multilingualism, race, educational inequality, research
Erik Hansson @erikhansson.bsky.social German-Swedish translator since 1995. Occasional keynote speaker. Language nerd. Member of SFÖ-SAT (SE), founding & honorary member of DVÜD (DE). 3rd last Curator of Sweden back in 2018. That guy who founded Things Translators Never Say on FB. #xl8
Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social Professor of Psychology and Mental Health, Deputy Director of the Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. Memory, mental health, service user rights, lived experience perspectives. Hammer House of Horror obsessive and avid follower of post punk
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
The Layman's Linguist @laymanslinguist.bsky.social Fun facts, exhaustive etymologies, & informative infographics for both linguists & laypeople
Marina Ortega-Andrés @mortegaandres.bsky.social (Ella, she)
Philosophy, language and cognition
https://sites.google.com/view/marinaortegaandres/home
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/
Annadís G. Rúdólfsdóttir @annadisr.bsky.social Professor @ University of Iceland. Qualitative research methods, gender, motherhood, social psychology… but also knitting, reading and films. And yes this is a volcanic eruption that is visible on my background photo (taken from my balcony).
Heli Paulasto @hpaulasto.bsky.social English sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language contacts and multilingualism at Päivännouzusuomen yliopisto or @uniuef.bsky.social. Singing here and there. She/her (pronouns forever!)
Marina Antony-Newman @marinaantonynewman.bsky.social Doctor of Education, UCL Institute of Education. Plurilingualism, social justice, critical theory, literacy development, language policy.
Languages of the Future @futuretense2025.bsky.social A research cluster based at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social exploring the theme of Languages of the Future
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•they | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
Sheena Shah @sheenashah.bsky.social Linguist @uni-hamburg.de | Humboldtian @humboldt-foundation.de | PI of English in Botswana project (DFG Research Unit CODILAC) | Multilingualism, Endangered Languages, Documentation & Revitalisation, SiPhuthi, Southern Africa | https://www.sheenashah.co.uk
Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social phenomenal woman 🦹🏻♀️| deaf 🤟🏼| cyborg 🤖| friendly troublemaker 😈| <Dr/ 👩🏻💻| she/her 👩🏻🌾| | language, disability, and tech | views my own
Languages, Society and Policy @lspjournal.bsky.social LSP publishes high-quality peer-reviewed language research in accessible and non-technical language to promote policy engagement.
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Misan Harriman @misanharriman.bsky.social
Ahmed Alnaouq @ahmedalnaouq.bsky.social Co-founder of We Are Not Numbers | Host with Palestine Deep Dive | Journalist
We Are Not Numbers @wearenotnumbers.bsky.social Advocate for the human spirit. Champion of stories over statistics. We Are Not Numbers-because every voice deserves to echo beyond the data. Driven by purpose, defined by passion.
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is the UK’s largest national centre for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees
Chartered Institute of Linguists @ciol-linguists.bsky.social For languages and linguists. The Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) serving linguists and language professionals in the UK and worldwide since 1910.
UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
Ramona Gonczol (PROLang) @ramonagonczol.bsky.social Assoc Prof in Romanian at UCL SSEES. Convener of PROLang Group. Academic coordinator for Language short courses at SSEES.
Jessie Cox @jgcox.bsky.social Linguist, language learner, dog lover, gluten-free baker. She/her. Follow the Bilingualism Lab at F&M: Facebook.com/bilatfm
Nina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social perennial killjoy, academic & aspiring poster | language, computers & power at work and bikes, twin peaks & cats at home | she/they | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | based in the uk |views (and errors) mine, for more of those see: https://languagemechanics.neocities.org/
EmpathyLabUK @empathylabuk.bsky.social Jump into someone else's story!
Social Enterprise. Read stories, build empathy, make a better world. Founders of #EmpathyDay.
Lantana Publishing @lantanapub.bsky.social An award-winning children's book publisher and social enterprise with a mission to see all children reflected in the books they read.
EAP for Social Justice @eap4sj.bsky.social A special interest group focused on Social Justice within the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) ✊ #eap4sj
🌐 Our website: eap4sj.weebly.com
✉️ Our mailing list: https://shorturl.at/rvGHL
@scholarsforsj.bsky.social @scholarsforsj.bsky.social
Ceri Morgan @ceri-morgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @Anglia Ruskin University Early Childhood | BAAL RICH SIG | family language learning | researching through play #ChildVoice #ChildLanguage #Multilingual Home Educator
University of Essex @universityofessex.bsky.social We are Essex. Are you?
Top 25 in the Guardian University Guide 2025
https://www.essex.ac.uk/
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
Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..
We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social 👨🏼🏫 Prof. he/him.
📚 Books on children's books & comics: https://philnel.com/writing/books/
📷 IG: thephilnel
🐘 Mastodon: @philnel@mastodon.green
🎵 Spotify: thephilnel
🐦 ex-Twitter (deleted in 2022): @philnel
Professor Karen Sands-O’Connor @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social Always thinking about ways to bring literature representing ALL children’s lives to readers, educators, and researchers.
Dr Leanne Henderson @leannehenderson.bsky.social Lecturer in Education Studies, Queen's University Belfast. Languages, assessment, children's rights & educational transitions. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺 Personal views, rp≠endorsement
Africa Special Interest Group at University of Essex @africasigessex.bsky.social The Africa Special Interest Group is the hub for interdisciplinary studies focusing on Africa @universityofessex.bsky.social, and contributes to joint research activities, education, as well as student and cultural events on Africa.
Anna Katila @annakatila.bsky.social