- B The BAWESS Project @bawess.bsky.social Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the BAWESS project at the University of Bath! Here you can find all the latest updates about this ground-breaking corpus linguistics project to promote disciplinary literacy at secondary school level.
Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Kieran O'Halloran @kieranohalloran.bsky.social Professor of Education, King's College London
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Matt Elgin @melgin.bsky.social English Teacher.
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
Aston University Press Office @astonpress.bsky.social The latest news, research and expert comment from the Aston University press office. Need an expert for your story? Email pr@aston.ac.uk or DM us.
Aston University Archives @astonunarchives.bsky.social Archives of Aston University in Birmingham, UK closely linked with the Aston University Archives Centre and the History programmes at Aston University.
Jennifer Webb @funkypedagogy.bsky.social Trust Director of English and Literacy at Carlton Academy Trust | Author | Speaker | CPD | Mum | Wife | ADHD | Founder: The Literacy Community | #EduSky | #UKTeaching | 🇬🇧 🇰🇳
www.funkypedagogy.com
Pink Floyd Hourly @pink-floyd.northsky.social 🤖 Bot by @numb.comfortab.ly
Posting one-liners from Pink Floyd lyrics every couple hours to help you get through the day.
Oh, by the way, which one is Pink?
The Beatles Photos @thebeatlespix.bsky.social Your Daily source of Beatles Pix
The Beatles Bible 🍏 @beatlesbible.com Not quite as popular as Jesus...
www.beatlesbible.com
Zara Fahim @zarafahim15.bsky.social AHRC Midlands4Cities-funded PhD linguistics (modern languages) @ uni of nottingham 🗣️🇦🇹🏔️• activities secretary @ LAGBPSC • linguist • language contact | MFL uptake & policy • she/her •🪴☕️🐹🌷🦍
https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/zara-fahim/
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
90s Football @90sfootball.com The 90s were brilliant, weren't they?
Enquiries ➡️ ninetiesfootball@gmail.com.
Daily Soundgarden @dsoungarden.bsky.social soundgarden and members
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Pearl Jam @pearljam.com The official Bluesky account of Pearl Jam. www.pearljam.com
@ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social 
Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast, President of the Dickens Society
https://michaelamahlberg.com/
Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social Associate Prof English and Literacy Education 
Dr Abigail Boucher @drabigailboucher.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
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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.
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.
Zoe Hope Bulaitis @zoebulaitis.bsky.social Associate Professor, EDACS, University of Birmingham, UK.
Program Lead, MA in Digital Media and Creative Industries
Editor-in-Chief, Public Humanities
OA Book: Value and the Humanities: http://tinyurl.com/3hhc4k28
Ian Cushing @iancushing.bsky.social Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools. Editor, Critical Studies in Education. Leverhulme Prize 2026-2029.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-ian-cushing
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
Sandra Jansen @sj2915.bsky.social Ich begleite Wissenschaftler*innen beim erfolgreichen Ausstieg aus der Wissenschaft. www.leavingacademia.de
Dr Fransina Stradling @fstradling.bsky.social PhD in Cognitive Stylistics (empathy with fictional characters)
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
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
Jack Grieve @jwgrieve.bsky.social Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change 
Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (Heritage and Creativity) at the University of Reading, and Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Claudia Roberta Combei @combei.bsky.social ~👩🏻💻Researcher in Linguistics @ University of Rome "Tor Vergata"🗣️~💚Passionate about Turtles🐢~🇮🇹Italo-Romanian🇷🇴~
Work website: https://directory.uniroma2.it/index.php/chart/dettagliDocente/23409
Alice Haines @alicehaines.bsky.social Stylistician
Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social Promoting Cognitive Science as a discipline and fostering scientific interchange among researchers in various areas.
🌐 https://cognitivesciencesociety.org
Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education #academicsky
Jess Norledge @jessnorledge.bsky.social Stylistician @ Uni. Nottingham.
Literary Linguistics. Language & Feminism. Contemporary Lit. Dystopia.
Laura Filardo-Llamas @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics @Uva.es Interested in Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-975X
Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social Professor in Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University; ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Metaphor, narrative | corpora | cancer, pain, Covid, vaccines
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino
Corpus in Focus @focuscorpus.bsky.social 🔍 Corpus in Focus: Exploring the world of Corpus Linguistics! Unlocking insights into language patterns, empowering research & enriching public knowledge. @FocusCorpus
Paweł Szudarski @pawelszudarski.bsky.social Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham
Expertise: vocabulary, corpus linguistics, TESOL, replication research, distance learning, international education
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/pawel.szudarski
Daniel McAuley @danielmcauley.bsky.social Lecturer in French at QUB
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
Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Former EiC of Cognitive Linguistics. Working with Out of our Minds to understand language and optimise language learning.
outofourminds.bham.ac.uk
Applied English (MA English) online @uonappliedenglish.bsky.social MA English from the University of Nottingham - flexible online higher education that works for you. 
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
Caroline Tagg @carotagg.bsky.social Applied linguist working at the Open University on mobile messaging conversations in context. 
Ben Knights @benknights.bsky.social Learning landscapes, landscapes of learning.
Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social 125 Anniversary Fellow & Associate Prof, University of Birmingham • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides
➡️ https://linktr.ee/niallrcurry
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
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/
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
Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social Education consultant, writer of fiction & children's poetry; passionately committed to English as a subject, to education, and to the idea that learning is founded on dialogue. Poems on Dirigible Balloon & Northern Gravy.
Timofei Protasov @timprotasov.bsky.social PhD-alike
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
Michelle Sheehan @mishee54.bsky.social Lover of the linguistic
Marc Alexander @mga.is Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.
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/
Patricia Canning Pask @patriciacanning.bsky.social Trees and bees, innit. And @fearghas_the_whippet
@billylinguist.bsky.social @billylinguist.bsky.social 
Mel Evans @melevans.bsky.social Lecturer, lover of language, early modern history, sociolinguistics and digital/tech. Trail runner and occasional duathlete. Vegan. Parent-in-training (7yrs and ongoing, needs work)
Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton. Researching gendered and inclusive language, media narratives of femicide, masculinities and fatherhood. Now focusing on examining Meloni's far-right anti-gendered politics. Born in the South of 🇮🇹.
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality. 
alicebellposts.bsky.social @alicebellposts.bsky.social Professor of English Language and Literature. I research digital fiction (AI, XR, apps, hypertext), cognitive poetics, narratology, empirical methods, preservation.
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person. 
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
Sven Strasen @svenstrasen.bsky.social apl. Prof. Cognitive Literary Studies; Dean of Studies Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; RWTH Aachen
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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Pete Harvey @peterharveydigital.bsky.social Literary linguist, exploring narrative, climate fiction and English teaching.
Digital producer, specialising in adult education and public engagement.
Worried human, trying to navigate the Climate Emergency.
University of Nottingham @uniofnottingham.bsky.social The official account for the University of Nottingham. #WeAreUoN
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University｜UKRI Future Leader Fellow｜Fulbright @ NAU｜Associate Editor of IJCL｜Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS｜FRSA
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Faye Griffiths @faye-griff81.bsky.social English teacher. Writer.MA Applied English, Nottingham U. Palestine will be free. 
Emma Stott @emmastott.bsky.social 
Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social Executive Publisher for Humanities journals at Routledge, Taylor & Francis
MASSOLIT @massolit.bsky.social Short video lectures from university professors for secondary schools |
“The best new resource we have used with students in the last 5 years.”
Carmen Bonasera @carmenbns.bsky.social Comparative Literature scholar working on narrative empathy, empirical literary studies, lyric theory, women’s studies.
https://sites.google.com/view/carmenbonasera
Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social corpus & applied linguistics, TESOL, discourse analysis, surveillance discourses
Coordinator MSc TESOL (Online) University of Stirling (@stirtesol.bsky.social)
Knitter
Personal account
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.
Jane Setter @janesetter.bsky.social Professor of Phonetics at the University of Reading, UK. NTF, SFHEA, FRSA. Rock singer. Accents & speech, language & prejudice, pronunciation, sci-fi, cats. She/her/hers
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
Sara Bartl @sbartl.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Birmingham
researching metaphor and cognitive semantics through computational models of language
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Polina Gavin @polinagavin.bsky.social Teaching Fellow | Research Associate | Senior Residence Adviser at Aston University 🎓PhD in Literary Linguistics
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
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.
Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social Forensic linguist - academic and practitioner.
Co-host Writing Wrongs podcast www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
@aifl.bsky.social
www.aston.ac.uk/aifl
Personal: timgrantforensiclinguist.com/home/
Dr Malgorzata Drewniok @vampirelinguist.bsky.social Linguist, EAP and international students expert, HE Third Space professional. Fellow of AHEP.
TV geek, consumer of popular culture, fan of vampire texts, bookworm.