Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/ Note: DMs unavailable as in UK
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social UK independent scholar. Critical University Studies. Fascinated by US politics. Tweets mostly about Higher Ed issues. Open Water swimmer. Blog https://academicirregularities.wordpress.com/
Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social The UK's first national LGBTQ+ museum.
Registered charity. Let's make history!
2 Granary Sq, Kings Cross, N1C 4BH.
Open Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm.
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social An ‘award-winning’ (per one philosophy conference) ‘academic’ (per Daily Mail) (they gave me a free book; not an academic) ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Chiswick RNLI @chiswickrnli.bsky.social One of the busiest RNLI stations in the UK & Ireland, based in West London on the Thames
If you, or anyone are in trouble on the water, call 999 and ask for the coastguard
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Emma Kennedy @emmakeddev.bsky.social She/her. SFHEA. Educational development, higher education, UCU. Swears and views my own. 
Hannah Yelin @hannahyelin.bsky.social Academic and Author. Reader in Media & Culture, Oxford Brookes. Chair, Creative Industries Research & Innovation Network. Director, Cultures of Digital Hate. Host, Celebrity Culture Club.
Laura Clancy @lauraclancy.bsky.social She/her | Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University | Author of 'Running the Family Firm' (2021) & ‘What is the Monarchy For?’ (April 2025) | Interested in inequalities, elites, digital hate
https://laura-clancy.com
https://culturesdigitalhate.wordpress.com
Corpus Linguistics 2027 @cl2027.info The 14th International Corpus Linguistics conference
12-16 July 2027 | Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
🌐 www.CL2027.info | 🔗 linktr.ee/CL2027 | #️⃣ #CL2027
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Alan 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 @bows4crows.bsky.social ☠️ Future skeleton 🌘 Neurodivergent 💃 Fashion history 🧘♂️ Yoga teacher 🧪 Neuroscientist 🌱 Vegetarian 🦤 they/them 🕹️ FGC
Meditation podcast
https://rss.com/podcasts/meditation-with-alan
General meditation stuff
https://www.patreon.com/cw/MeditationwithAlan
Astrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social “commsy wonk”
she/her 🏳️⚧️
rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social assistant professor @ Arizona State University, studying histories of feminist, queer, trans, and disability activism, proud co-parent of four cats and a spaniel
Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Prof Claire Hardaker @drclaireh.bsky.social Forensic linguist | corpus linguist | @factor-lu.bsky.social director | @en-clair.bsky.social podcaster-at-large | supervillain
Tiffany Tsz-Yin Pang @tiffanypang.bsky.social 
Costas Gabrielatos @cgabrielatos.bsky.social linguist@EdgeHill, drummer@home, cynic@large #corpuslinguistics #lexicogrammar #lxgr #conditionals #modality #discourseanalysis #coffee
@andreaswagnr.bsky.social @andreaswagnr.bsky.social PhD Student researching on Future narratives on water - water extremes in climate fiction.
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.
Tianxin Li @tianxin.bsky.social PhD student in Linguistics at Lancaster University
CDS & CADS | Multimodal Discourse Analysis | Systemic Functional Linguistics
Social Media, Identity & Ideology
Running on coffee ☕️ and questionable optimism
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
Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social Professor in Corpus linguistics, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social Assistant Professor at WU Vienna. Research interests: corpus-assisted methods, business discourse, deception and (im)politeness.🗣️💻
Dario Del Fante @fabrichunter.bsky.social #PhD in Linguistics. Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Ferrara (Italy). Interested in what is weird and out of context. Founder of TiQ Festival.
Irene Elmerot @elmerot.northsky.social PhD in Czech corpus linguistics (CADS), postdoc at Språkbanken Text.
I post more often on my Mastodon account, polyglot.city/elmerot
The project I'm currently working on the most (SV & EN): https://spraakbanken.gu.se/projekt/de-forslavades-roster
Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Official account of the Text and Language Lab led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, part of @dhssfau.bsky.social
at @fau.de.
Yingnian Tao @yingniantao.bsky.social Senior RA, Wellcome-funded project on sustainability, ethics and inclusion. Linguistics PhD at Lancaster University. #sustainability discourse #greenwashing #Greenlash #corpus linguistics #pragmatics #ethics #responsible AI.🏃🏻♀️ in training
Janno Reincke @jannoreincke.bsky.social PhD researcher in Digital Humanities @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de
Researching Video Games, Multimodality, Narrative and Environmental Discourse
Brian King @bwking1971.bsky.social University of Hong Kong, Deputy Director of the Centre for Humanities and Medicine
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Alice Milner @alicemmilner.bsky.social Associate Professor, Royal Holloway University of London, UK | Interested in #peatlands, #wetwoodlands, #swamps, #carbon and #science-policy | http://www.wetwoodlands.com | She/her
Quest LGBT+ Catholics @questlgbti.bsky.social Bearing witness to the reality of LGBT+ lives since 1973. UK based fellowship for LGBT+ Catholics.
Linktr.ee/questlgbti
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social 🧬 Biomed experts mobilizing scientists to fight transphobia through education 🏳️⚧️
🌐 beyondxandy.org
✉️ info@beyondxandy.org
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
Anastasí(y)a (K)han @anastasiakhan.bsky.social (she/her)
PhD in progress: corpus-assisted research into gender, sexuality, and other discourses in games of Dungeons & Dragons.
University of Bologna
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
https://www.transsolidarityalliance.org.uk/
https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-7132
Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social Northern, working class, queer, cis feminist academic. Lifts heavy things for fun. Personal account. Views mine.
🏳️⚧️ The only true feminism is intersectional 💜🤍💚
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, scams & fraud, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
21 Group @21group.bsky.social A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social Trans news stories daily as they break. Founder Transexual Menace and GenderPAC. Author "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens" & "BAD INK: How the NYTimes sold out transgender teens."
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics @uoncral.bsky.social Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. University of Nottingham. World-class research. 🌏
https://linktr.ee/aecral
Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social Feminist, Europeanist, political sociologist. Associate Professor at University of Birmingham.
#transrightsarehumanrights
Languaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social Research project focusing on diachronic perspectives on public communication during three pandemics.
Funded by Research Council of Finland.
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
@salonidesouza.bsky.social @salonidesouza.bsky.social Professional flossofer, expert napper, absurdity magnet, bluesky lurker. They/them; she/her; doctor/duck.
Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social I take my cats on walks, work on housing, social inequalities and queering social policy, take action where I can, and knit socks.
📍Edinburgh
Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social Here for what matters 💥 Discover a research-intensive University proud of its distinctive history and driven by social purpose.
Trans Unity Quilt Project @transunityquilt.bsky.social A giant patchwork quilt made by and for trans people across the UK. A tangible symbol of our strength, our diversity and our unbreakable solidarity.
https://goodlawproject.org/campaign/the-trans-unity-quilt/
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Sci.
PhD Sci., Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Exp. in Tech; Magic; Knowledge, Values, Beliefs
He/Him
Unless explicitly stated, not speaking for my employer
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
King of the Road @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social THINK!
Stop, Look, Listen, Live
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social Quantitative Methods Lecturer & researcher in survey representation of LGBTI+ populations
https://kenglish95.github.io
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Peter @peter.polari.com Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). 🏳️🌈☮️🏳️⚧️🍉
polari.com
Alex Roman @alexepisteme.bsky.social doctoral researcher
organised transphobia, bio/necropolitics, and reactionary politics
(they/them)
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social I research topics that make everyone feel very comfortable like periods, transphobia and abortion
co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social (she/her)
Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau @nzawadzka.bsky.social Associate Professor at Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Corpus linguistics, migrations, queer linguistics, metaphor, language of film and TV, audiovisual translation, political discourse. 🍉
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality. 
Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
@marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social 
Rachel Burdin @rsburdin.bsky.social Ling prof in NH; intonation, lg. variation, lg. and identity, Jewish languages. Occasional runner, knitter, garment maker. she/her.
Calliss Clan @callissclan.bsky.social Jo (a keeper, bibliophile, biophiliac & cynophilist) Beren Banana (Anatolian Shepherd), Wally (Blue Heeler), Cricket, Vanilla, Finn, June, Minnie, et al (Wiltipoll) & ladies of the Calliss Chook Chateau (Australorp, Leghorn)
RIP Abla the bloody legend
DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com Computational linguist teaching computers to use their words. Queer. Catholic. Immigrant. they/them
Languages: en, de, fr, sv
Also available at https://mastodon.social/@_dmh
BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG @corpus-sig.bsky.social Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com Understand the LGBTQIA+ world and support queer creatives to change the media with our free weekly newsletter 🏳️🌈
📧 4.8/5⭐ newsletter
🎙️ QueerAF podcast
🏳️⚧️ @transhistoryweek.com
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
Sam Hope (they/them) @samrhope.bsky.social Writer, trainer, nerd, gobby, neurodivergent, trans, vaguely hippy, too old and disabled to be patient with both sidesers, appeasers and moderates. 
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
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
@amymariemason.bsky.social @amymariemason.bsky.social 
San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, performer, curator. Latest story in beestung. Nominated Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. www.blissfultimes.ca
No DMs; locked out.
(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)
Oxford Social Media Observatory @oxsocmedobs.bsky.social We use computational methods + big data to investigate the role of social platforms + technology in politics, in partnership with key stakeholders + policymakers. Hosted @politicsoxford.bsky.social + @oii.ox.ac.uk.
Xinyue Long @xylong.bsky.social PhDing @nottingham
Former research fellow in intercultural communication @unnc
Queer linguistics, (sub)culture, (digital) spacetime
they/she
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/
Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @uoncsva.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Emmanuel Valax @evalax.bsky.social PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics 💧 unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance 🌍 while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries 💭 (views my own)
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Dr Tacey "dumb blonde" O'Neil @densitypoint.bsky.social A non-binary trans femme (she/they) who's a ukulele-playing, analysis-crazed mathematician. ADHD.
Engaged 💍 21/7/24
https://www.tiktok.com/@densitypoint
https://www.instagram.com/density_point
David En-Griffiths @homodavien.bsky.social Teach social science. Research interests: homosexuality, class, kinship and contemporary intimacies. He/they. Same @ on twitter, if you're wondering how I found you. My posts are SFW but my likes might have naked men in them, so be warned.
Dr Anna Bull @annabull.bsky.social Senior lecturer at University of York, researching sexual misconduct in HE and CCIs and inequalities in music education. Founder and co-director of The 1752 Group. Cats. www.1752group.com
Discourse and Corpus Research Group @discore.bsky.social DISCORE brings together researchers interested in issues at the intersection of discourse, interaction and corpus research
GIRES UK @giresuk.bsky.social UK charity Gender Identity Research & Education Society has been improving the lives of trans & gender diverse people since 1997.
We provide support, research, EDI resources, training and policy advice to individuals and organisations.
www.gires.org.uk
Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
Corrie MacMillan @corriemacmillan.bsky.social Lecturer @ University of Taipei
PhD student @ NTNU
Corpus linguistics | Discourse analysis | Health communication
Jo @moonjiboi.bsky.social sx workers'/queer/trans care and activist networks • Fellow @lseanthropology • FHEA • teamcat @_almaarii_ @mithratrust • Always up to something ✨
Victor Max Smith @victormaxsmith.bsky.social Doing and researching activism.
they/them
victormaxsmith.com
@juliakrasselt.bsky.social @juliakrasselt.bsky.social professor for methods of language data analysis at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences 
Isabelle Suremann @isabellesuremann.bsky.social Translator & PhD Student in Linguistics at University of Zurich and Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Ralph Morton @ralphmortonlang.bsky.social Research Associate at Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics