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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social Teacher, parent, school governor.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
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Alice Haines @alicehaines.bsky.social Stylistician
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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social Associate Professor History Education at University of Nottingham
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McKenna @missmckenna.bsky.social History Teacher | A Level and GCSE | Lover of economic Stuart history, Jane Austen and cathedrals | Essex based
Mark Enser @ensermark.bsky.social Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
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Once a teacher
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London Fog & Lit @londonfogandlit.bsky.social Teacher of English. Oxfordshire.
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. University of Nottingham. World-class research. 🌏
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Naomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social 
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Bennie Kara @benniekara.bsky.social Former UK English teacher and senior leader, now training, speaking and consulting on all things DEI, curriculum, literacy and leadership. Co-Founder of Diverse Educators.
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
The History of European Theatre Podcast @thoetp.bsky.social A podcast tracing the development of theatre since the Ancient Greeks in more or less chronological order.
www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com
Ian Leslie @ianleslie.bsky.social Author. Latest book: 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'. Available now: https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/introducing-john-and-paul-a-love
Verity Harding @verityharding.bsky.social Director, AI & Geopolitics, Uni of Cambridge | Founder, Formation Advisory | TIME100 AI | Former DeepMind, Google, UK govt | King’s Trust | Author of “AI Needs You: how we can change AI’s future and save our own” https://tinyurl.com/y4v26spa
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
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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.
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality. 
Dr Kimberley Pager-McClymont @kpager1.bsky.social Academic English Skills Coordinator and Research in Linguistics - University of Aberdeen's ISC. 
Journal of Language and Discrimination @jlangdiscrim.bsky.social The Journal of Language and Discrimination is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal addressing the relationship between language and discrimination.
https://utppublishing.com/toc/jld/current#sec_d4858e75
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Dr Paula Ghintuiala @paulaghintuiala.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in English @ Aston 🌈 PhD in Telecinematic Stylistics 🎥 Adores film studies, art, anime & manga, and really strange books // she/her
PALA 2026 Uppsala @pala2026.bsky.social Official account of the 2026 Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference, 19-22 August (Summer School 17-18 August), Uppsala University, Sweden.
Christiana Gregoriou @cgregoriou.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics and Author @ Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction; English Literary Stylistics; Language, Ideology & Identity in Serial Killer Narratives; Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
engteacherabro2 @engteacherabro2.bsky.social Head of IB. Teacher of Eng. International teacher. Likes food, books, theatre and the simple things in life. Opinions are my own.- L languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social I am Ted Gibson, and I study human language in MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences. My lab is sometimes called the Language Lab or Tedlab. I edit Open Mind, MIT Press's Diamond Open Access cognitive science journal.
Scott Storm @scottstorm.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Literacy in a School of Education | Former English teacher who designed and sustained public high schools | Social Justice Pedagogies | Adolescent Literacies | Critical Aesthetics | Machine Learning | Nerd | (he/him) 🏳️🌈
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social Assistant professor at Yale Linguistics. Studying computational linguistics, cognitive science, and AI. He/him.
Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social PGCE Tutor and former history teacher with an American West obsession. All views my own…I think. #UKTeaching #historyteacher #PGCE
Benjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com systems | cybernetics | complexity
public | service | transformation
business evolutionary | avid learner
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skeeting personally
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social https://www.aera.net/SIG137/Writing-and-Literacies-SIG-137
Clara Abbott @clarabbott.bsky.social she/her | literacy studies phd @PennGSE
playful writing, participatory methods, critical childhoods, arts-based research
AdamWTeach @adamwteach.bsky.social Science Teacher of Autistic students, ex tech engineering exec, into latest cognitive science - Active inference predictive coding and how the mind really stores and retrieves memory. Geeky about data and assessment. Blog: predictablycorrect.com
AQA @aqaeducation.bsky.social Keeping teachers up to date with the latest news, events and resources.
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Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Women's writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee
Reviewer for Feminist Modernist Studies
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Marcello Giovanelli @mmgiovanelli.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics at Aston University, UK. I research and teach cognitive stylistics, empirical literary studies, poetry, applied English. 34
Steve the vagabond @stevevagabond.bsky.social I love #language and #linguistics. Check out our magazine at sillylinguistics.com. Follow us at @sillylinguistics.com
L A U R A 🌍 @missgeog92.bsky.social Book addict📚 BA, PGCE, MEd. 2iC Geography🌍. NPQLTD 22-23. Geography and Politics teacher. PGCE/ECT mentor #geographyteacher
Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social Focusing on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Read more at https://bloggingwoolf.org/
DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social Dr Megan Dixon: (retired) teacher, leader and researcher. PhD, Psychology. All things education and research - literacy, English, research into practice, curriculum, SEND.
MTNBC Stage4. Still here.
https://meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/02/pivoting/
Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social A research-based approach to AI feedback, writing pedagogy, and linguistic justice.
peripeteia press @neilbowen3.bsky.social Independent publisher of high quality critical guides for English students and teachers.
The peripeteia project aims to connect study of English Literature at KS5 with University English, creating a community of literary enthusiasts: peripeteia.co.uk
Karis Jones Ph.D. @karismjones.bsky.social Educator acafan activist & Assistant Prof of ELA Education || Baylor University || Exec @writinglit #literacies 💫📚💻|| ttrpg & gaming || karisjonesphd.com
National Association for the Teaching of English @natecommunity.bsky.social Empowering English teachers to inspire young people. A not-for-profit charitable organisation, established in 1963.
www.nate.org.uk
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social Poetics and Linguistics Association
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
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Jemma Sherwood @jemmaths.bsky.social Director of curriculum for a MAT, MA Council, PhD student, writing for teachers and pupils. Also: music and language.
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Chris Jordan @chrisjordanhk.bsky.social English teacher and podcast person
Podcasting at: https://open.spotify.com/show/76S9LAfFOiKOtsAL8UkNw5?si=a2290eb5651c40da
Blogging at: https://www.leadinglanguageandliteraturepodcast.com/balanceblog
Paying for coffee via: https://buymeacoffee.com/leadingl
Jim Al-Khalili @jimalkhalili.bsky.social Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS. Academic, author, broadcaster. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Physics @UniofSurrey,
https://jimal-khalili.com
https://www.youtube.com/@UnbaffledScience
Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
Andy Tharby @atharby.bsky.social Leader of English. Education writer. Spurs fan.
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher. (PFP illustrated by Farimah Khavari)
Dr James Mannion @rethinkingjames.bsky.social Keynote speaker, government advisor and teacher trainer specialising in change management, learner effectiveness, practitioner inquiry and oracy.
I spend 80% of my time thinking about education reform, and 20% looking for biscuits.
Daisy Dixon @daisydixon.bsky.social Philosopher of Aesthetics at Cardiff University
Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social Lead Literacy Learner. Collector of words. Lover of all modes and genres of reading and writing. #PoetryasPractice #Freadom #WriteBesideThem #WritingWorkshop #WriteforYourLife
Pip Sanderson @pipsanderson.bsky.social Past life of Advertising Exec, English teacher, Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning, Research Lead, School Improvement Lead and now Director of Teacher Development at the National Institute of Teaching in England. https://niot.org.uk/ #UKTeaching
JB English @jbenglishteach.bsky.social • Teaching & Learning Advisor • English Teacher & Lead • English Advisor • School Improvement and CPD • Midlands based • Primary • Secondary • A-Level
🖤 Poetry always 🖤
Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social Former head, now a leadership development consultant, education writer & commentator. Interested in all things education! Now also writing fiction. See https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B01JSM9UXI
@aurorareid.bsky.social @aurorareid.bsky.social 
Ahern O’Ahern @ahernahern.bsky.social Teaching writing and reading to kids who can already read and write
Educake @educake.bsky.social We are a friendly team focused on giving teachers space to think with online formative assessment, serving KS2 to KS5
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The Etymology Nerd | Adam Aleksic | Substack [Unofficial] @etymology.substack.com.web.brid.gy ruminations on modern language and communication. Click to read The Etymology Nerd, by Adam Aleksic, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of […]
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Katrin Rohrbacher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social Uses machine learning to study narratives. Postdoc at
the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Previously PhD at McGill. https://katrin-rohrbacher.github.io/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
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Luke Pearce @lpearcelearning.bsky.social English teacher and writer.
Formerly @engliciousucl.bsky.social
From Sheffield, now in South London.
linktr.ee/lpearcelearning
lpearcelearning.com
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Deborah Meaden @deborahmeaden.bsky.social Investor, TV Dragon, Planet Hugger and admirer of many things.
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Scott Jarvie @scottjarvie.bsky.social Assistant professor at San Jose State studying the ambiguities: English ed, curriculum, affect, teacher experience.
Read my work here: https://sjsu.academia.edu/ScottJarvie & here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott-Jarvie
Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social Scientist || Immigrant || Senior Fellow @HarvardChanSPH || Fmr: White House #CancerMoonshot, @CornellBME, @TEDFellow || 🇿🇦 + 🇺🇸.
Still fighting the good fight on X: @DrCatharineY
Lucy Gambier @lucygambier.bsky.social CELT Director of Secondary Education. Exceptional staff, creating exceptional opportunities for our exceptional young people.
UCL Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment @cpaucl.bsky.social UCL IOE's Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment @ioe.bsky.social, ranked no. 1 in the world for #Education since 2014.
#WeAreIOE #WeAreCPA
Paul Flanagan @drpaulflanagan.bsky.social Lecturer & linguist. Loves films, TV, indie music, animals and LFC. Husband, whippet-dad and cat-servant. Editor-in-chief: Journal of Language and Pop Culture (https://shorturl.at/cB9QR). Co-creator: www.learnoldenglish.com
Bodil Isaksen @bodiluk.bsky.social CEO at Dr Frost Learning. Helping more teachers help more kids learn more maths.
Formerly Unlocked Grads, Michaela, Teach First. Closet economist.
Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social I’m just here so I won’t get fined — Marshawn Lynch
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Carly Waterman @carlywaterman.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Painter. Thinker. Listener. Bad dancer.
Interests: education, history, philosophy, trance, musicals, politics, activism, food.
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Rob Nelson @ailogblog.bsky.social writes at 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠 https://www.ailog.blog
teaches at Penn
speaks at technology and education conferences
Dr. Kathryn Taylor EdD @culture-insights.bsky.social Secondary teacher, EdD, professional mentor and coach, NPQ and ECF facilitator.
Passionate about the relationships between organisational cultures and professional learning and implementation science.
Chris Cook @chriscook.news FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social HS English teacher clinging to what the legendary Gwendolyn Brooks wrote: "we are each other's / harvest:" (yes, that line break feels heavier than ever these days)
Also: I share writings, resources + thoughts on education at thebrokencopier.substack.com!
Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social www.annie-abrams.com
Brendan Lee @learnwithmrlee.bsky.social Committed to bridging the gap between research & practice. Host of the Knowledge for Teachers Podcast.
*Thoughts are my own
Durrington Research School @durringresearch.bsky.social Research School based on the south coast in Worthing. Supporting and Exemplifying evidence-informed practice
Learn More: https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/ 
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
Mark McCormack @markmccormack.bsky.social Sociologist. Professor. Focus on sexualities, transgressive leisure and society. Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Posts are in a personal capacity. I volunteer with The Loop, read and play badminton.
Felicity Deamer @felicitydeamer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics, Aston University
Dr Nicci MacLeod @drniccimacleod.bsky.social Reader in Forensic Linguistics & Deputy Director, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics aifl.bsky.social, Co-host, Writing Wrongs podcast https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs