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Kristin Whittlesey @kawhittlesey.bsky.social Nashville's grammar cartoonist. When in doubt, trust Merriam-Webster. I like live music, baking cookies, and armadillos. And pretty much anything sparkly. 
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.
Wes Cowley @wes.wordsbywes.ink Academic, technical, and nonfiction editor, specializing in computer science, ML, AI (policy, legal, and technical), economics, finance, math, statistics, and related fields.
Member EFA, ACES
Home: www.wordsbywes.ink
Email: wes@wordsbywes.ink
The National Museum of Language @languagemuseum.org The National Museum of Language honors and supports language acquisition, utilization and preservation, along with linguistic and cultural diversity. #language #languagemuseum
Check out our articles & exhibits here: https://languagemuseum.org/
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
Scripps National Spelling Bee @scrippsbee.bsky.social By inspiring the exploration of words, the Bee illuminates pathways to lifelong curiosity, celebrates academic achievement, and enriches communities. Learn more at www.spellingbee.com. #spellingbee
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Encyclopedia Briannica @e-briannica.bsky.social technical editor, historical linguist, 2D cartoon person
http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/
https://bit.ly/briannica
Shakespearean Insult Bot @shakespeareinsults.bsky.social classics straight from the Bard & remixed bangers, every 6 hours.
made by @aliensunset.bsky.social
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https://alien-sunset.neocities.org/bots/Bots
The Wolf Law Library @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social The Wolf Law Library 🐺⚖️📚 at the William & Mary Law School, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Serving our students, faculty, and community with access to the law and law-related resources in print, and online: https://law.wm.edu/library/
Congregational Library & Archives @congrelib.bsky.social Founded in 1853. An independent research library and archive preserving and sharing the 400+ year Congregational story.
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@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
John Quincy Adams @jqadams-mhs.bsky.social The line-a-day diary entries of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his first annual presidential address to Congress, delivered on December 6, 1825.
https://www.primarysourcecoop.org/jqa/
A project of the Massachusetts Historical Society | www.masshist.org
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social NCPH advances the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging historians' engagement with the public.
American Association for State and Local History @aaslh.org AASLH provides leadership and resources to help the history community thrive and make history more meaningful to all people. Join us at aaslh.org.
Matthew Davis @matthewjdavis.bsky.social Writer whose newest book is about Mount Rushmore. Father and husband. Lover of books.
Matthew Davis @medievalmatt.bsky.social I'm just this guy, you know? I'm also terrible at self-promotion. Medieval drama, manuscripts, and digital humanities. Sometimes in that order. When I can I edit the Minor Works of John Lydgate virtual archive (http://www.minorworksoflydgate.net/).
Dennis Baron @drgrammar.bsky.social I write about language and … language and law (free speech and regulation); gender (pronouns!); tech (how tech affects readers and writers); language reform; and language policing. All from a historical perspective.
Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
Forthcoming book:
"By Definition: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary"
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347589/bydefinition/
WearYourDictionary @wearyourdictionary.bsky.social We're an open-source project focused on aggregating and popularizing wearable dictionary entries.
Julia L Miller @juliamiller.bsky.social Retired academic.
Writer, reader and dictionary lover.
My humorous Jane Austen pastiche, Crime and Prejudice, has just been released.
https://julialmiller.net
Dictionary.com @dictionary-dot-com.bsky.social The official feed for Dictionary.com, the world's leading digital dictionary. Home to #WordOfTheDay. Good at words, bad at Bluesky.
Urban Dictionary @mm-urbandictionary.bsky.social A random word a day from urbandictionary.com (sometimes NSFW)
Bot mantained by @marcomaroni.it
LookUp: English Dictionary @lookup-app.bsky.social Learn a new word every day with LookUp!
Made by Mudit Bhargava and Vidit Bhargava (@viditb.bsky.social)
Download here: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/lookup-english-dictionary/id872564448
Wendalyn Nichols @wendalynnichols.bsky.social The Dictionary Lady
Beth Young @bethyoung.bsky.social Inveterate reader and book-recommender, PI of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online project, mom of three, opinions my own, also on 🧵
Jane Solomon @janesolomon.bsky.social 👁 Typeface Designer at Lettermatic.com 👁 Word Panelist at Scripps National Spelling Bee 👁 Ex-Lexicographer 👁 Lapsed Emoji Expert 👁 Author of The Dictionary of Difficult Words 👁
Radical Left Lemmasmith @k8bowers.bsky.social Archivist at Harvard, librarian, contributing editor (Dictionary of Archives Terminology), Oxford comma enthusiast, grumpable knowmudgeon
#archives #records #metadata #saawords #cataloging #bornDigital Mount Holyoke ‘86
she/her
Matías Vernengo @nakedkeynes.bsky.social Econ Prof, Bucknell U, director of BIPP, & editor in chief New Palgrave Dictionary. Founding editor (emeritus) Review of Keynesian Economics
Amanda Laugesen @alaugesen.bsky.social Historian, lexicographer, and chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary. Latest book 'Australia in 100 Words' out now with NewSouth Publishing.
Katherine Connor Martin @kconnormartin.bsky.social I work in academic publishing innovation at the Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford University Press. Personal account.
Rachel A. Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
B. @godzilla.bsky.social Film librarian, curator at Urban Dictionary.
John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social Middle-school English teacher. Former dictionary editor and spokesperson. I write about etymology at mashedradish.com.
Dictionary.com @dictionarycom.bsky.social The official feed for Dictionary.com, the world's leading digital dictionary. Home to Word of the Day. Good at words, bad at Bluesky.
Haggard Hawks @haggardhawks.bsky.social The bird with the words. // Obscure words, etymology & language facts // New book A WINTER DICTIONARY, a collection of obscure words for the festive season, is OUT NOW! // New look website haggardhawks.com launching soon...
Mededitor @mededitor.bsky.social As a medical editor, language - usage - lexicography - culture - memes - all meet someplace. And that place appears to be my desk.
Susa Kabatnik @susakabatnik.bsky.social JProf. of digital Lexicography @ Uni Trier / Board of ALP / #German applied linguistics / #EMCA / corpora / text linguistics / pragmatics / linguistic #psychotherapy research
Grant Barrett @grantbarrett.com Linguist, lexicographer, broadcaster, editor, writer. Co-host of fun coast-to-coast US radio language show/podcast "A Way with Words." @waywordradio.org. +1 646 286 2260 grant@grantbarrett.com #linguistics #lexicography #etymology #podcasting #writing
EURALEX @euralex.bsky.social European Association for Lexicography. Leading professional #association for people working in #lexicography and related fields. euralex.org
UMass Amherst Libraries @umasslibraries.bsky.social The official account for the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
That Word Chat @thatwordchat.bsky.social That Word Chat is an online chat show featuring people and things lexical, hosted by @editormark.bsky.social.
Website: thatwordchat.com
YouTube: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo
PequodPod @pequodpod.bsky.social Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. Find us wherever you enjoy podcasts!
We're currently reading Moby-Dick and talking about each chapter. We also enjoy and discuss Melville's other works.
https://linktr.ee/pequodpod
Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social Historian, ex-Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation
Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for Book https://www.massbook.org/
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz
neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics.
PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social A legacy of discovery. A future of innovation.
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social Professor studying contentious climate debates, climate urgency, 'Climateflation', and society-environment relations (and all things Canada 🇨🇦). Co-Host http://EcopoliticsPodcast.ca Views are my own (not my employer's)!
Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
Giovanni Battista Piranesi @gbpiranesi.bsky.social Fan account of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons".
1720-1778
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social A quarterly magazine and daily updated website about rare books and collecting
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Mirek Stolee @mirekstolee.bsky.social Curator of tabletop games and puzzles at The Strong National Museum of Play | Texts & Technology PhD candidate at University of Central Florida (he/they)
Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social Linguist (University of Zurich). Lady (in the Old English sense of the word).
dh+lib @dhandlib.bsky.social Where the digital humanities and libraries meet. dhandlib.org
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
HAM: Paintings (Bot) @hampaintings.bsky.social Sharing Paintings from Harvard Art Museums - Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums.
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
American Libraries magazine @amlibraries.bsky.social Magazine of the American Library Association.
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich and/or Bury Arc.
(Views mine, not representative of Waterstones)
ESSE @essenglish.bsky.social ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English) is a European federation of national higher educational associations for the study of English, with over 7,000 members from over 30 countries.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social A collaborative research community at @princeton.edu advancing computational & data-intensive humanities scholarship to create a more just future. Publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social.
Subscribe: cdh.princeton.edu/news/newsletter
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social A federal agency, National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, preservation, public programs, and education in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Digital Tolkien Project @digitaltolkien.com A scholarly project focused on Tolkien from a corpus linguistic and digital humanities perspective. Posts by James Tauber (@jtauber.com)
https://digitaltolkien.com/
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
Michael Everson @evertype.bsky.social Linguist, publisher, typographer, medievalist, immigrant. Into Le Guin, Wonderland, Hobbits, Unicode, minority languages. 🖖🏻🏴🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Barry Popik @barrypopik.bsky.social Author of an online dictionary (over 41,000 entries) investigating the origins of American words, names, quotations and phrases. King of Dad Jokes & Oneliners. BarryPopik.com
The Press Box @thepressbox.bsky.social The Ringer's media podcast—on steroids
Hosts: Bryan Curtis, David Shoemaker, Joel Anderson
Production magic: Isaiah Blakely
Reach us: pressboxringer @ gmail
Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
@neaarts.bsky.social @neaarts.bsky.social 
Grace Tierney @wordfoolery.bsky.social Word history - books, blog, LMFMRadio
Comedyfic - Channillo
Love to read, craft, garden in Ireland
My Books - wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my-books/
Weekly Word Blog - http://www.wordfoolery.wordpress.com/
Newsletter - subscribepage.io/wordfoolerywhispers
Jenny Bradshaw @jennywren129.bsky.social Librarian in love with language. Reader.
(she/her) 🌈📚🐈⬛🌲 queer, neurospicy, synesthesia
Cataloging/Metadata, critlib, controlled vocabs
https://linktr.ee/JennyWren129
NEH Office of Digital Humanities @neh-odh.bsky.social Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding experimentation with technology in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
Erin McKean @emckean.bsky.social Wording at Wordnik until the words stop. 
Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social Writer of dictionaries and books about nerd fights at the dictionary factory (WORD BY WORD [2017]; TRUE COLOR [2026]; more TK). niila myaamia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2106554/kory-stamper/
Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com Lexicographer. The F-Word (new edition Nov. ’24!), sfdictionary.com, ex-OED, coder (mainly Perl and Python), Threesome Tollbooth #cocktail bar manager, adjunct @ Columbia. "Appealingly obsessive" — NYT
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
Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social Grammar Girl. Podcaster. Author of seven books about language. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. she/her http://linktr.ee/grammargirl
#AmWriting The 9/8 GG podcast
#AmReading When We Were Real (Gregory)
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
A Way with Words @waywordradio.org Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
Jan Freeman @janfreeman.bsky.social Mostly retired editor/writer/Boston Globe language columnist; author of centenary edition of Ambrose Bierce's "Write It Right" (Walker, 2009), whose subtitle is too long for this space. Not the Massachusetts poet who shares my name. 
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
Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
UCL Survey of English Usage @uclenglishusage.bsky.social The Survey of English Usage carries out research in English Linguistics. Posts by @englishgrammar.bsky.social and @bethmalory.bsky.social
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/
Also follow us on @engliciousucl.bsky.social