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Beverly @bevbeverly.bsky.social Cricket lover, educator and counsellor in the UK. Progressing with research and writing. Passionate about learning and communication.
Now doing my MSc (Autism) and relaxing on BlueSky.
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Raksangob Wijitsopon @raksawijit.bsky.social Associate Professor in English language and linguistics at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand ❤ Corpus linguistics ❤ Stylistics ❤ Discourse analysis ❤ Desserts
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
@aaah87.bsky.social @aaah87.bsky.social
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
Sarah Frances Gordon @sarahfgordon.bsky.social PhD in Psychology. Diamond OA Journal editor. Psychology teacher & researcher in Mexico. All things open access. #ResearchIntegrity #ScholarlyPublishing #Researchethics #idiomas #QualitativeResearch #Multilingualism Views are my own. She/her/ella 🇿🇦🇲🇽
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, IE, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
Dora Psoma @dorapsoma.bsky.social PhDc | Linguist | Educator
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.
Hayley @hayley-b.bsky.social ECF Lead • ITT Tutor • Teacher Educator • Instructional Coach • Visiting Lecturer •
Former Head of English/ English teacher
NPQML • NPQLTD • MA English
Allison Owens @allisonowens.bsky.social Operations Assistant | Sometime Linguist | she/they
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
Rebecca Connor-Evans @rlconnorevans.bsky.social PhD candidate & Teaching Associate at Sheffield Hallam University. Cognitive stylistician. Children's Lit & YA Fiction for mental & emotional health. Fandom discourses.
PALA @palapoeticsling.bsky.social Poetics and Linguistics Association
Timofei Protasov @timprotasov.bsky.social PhD-alike
TESOL, studying linguistics, sci-fi & deixis
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
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Alex Bove @abovepdx.bsky.social If fingers were xylophones then I could play a tune on your fingers.
(Writer on film and 19th C lit, prof of literature).
Wordy Witterings @chennighan.bsky.social Avid reader, book blogger, English teacher, reviewer 📚 📚 📚 ... panda admirer. Find me at wordywitterings.com
Daniela Schneevogt @danielaschnee.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher in Forensic Linguistics at aifl.bsky.social | she/her
Naomi Adam @naomiadam.bsky.social - M María Fanlo Piniés @mariafanpin.bsky.social
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Midlands Innovation @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social A world-class university research partnership, pooling the collective excellence of universities in the Midlands.
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.
Dr Rachael Drewery (RN/HV) @rachaeldrewery.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at University of Oxford, Dept of Primary Care. Nurse/SCPHN(HV). Interests: Communication in healthcare esp. nursing/HV | application of EMCA in h/c training | behaviour change | increasing research opportunities for nurses/HVs
Simon Statham @simonstatham.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English, QUB.
UCL Qualitative Health Research Network @ucl-qhrn.bsky.social We are a transdisciplinary initiative to support the use and development of qualitative research in health, illness and care based @ucl.ac.uk, but events open to all.
Follow for events, seminars & discussion relating to all things qualitative and health!
QUAiL @quailproject.bsky.social Updates from a research project exploring the use of AI in qualitative data analysis
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-in-qualitative-research/home
Katie Ellis @drkatieellis.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Researching and advocating for children in care and care leavers.
Wayne Ferrebee @hieronymo.bsky.social Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and toymaker
Nikos Bozatzis @nikosbozatzis.bsky.social Associate professor in social psychology -qualitative approaches; National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Interested in discursive practices and cultural politics.
Dr Thanos Vostanis @thanosgr.bsky.social Lecturer in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 🇬🇧, PhD, QTS, UKBA(cert) & BCBA-D.
Researching Precision Teaching and Instructional Design. ⛹🏼♂️🏀.
Editor-in-Chief of Tizard Learning Disability Review. https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/tldr
Early Career Qualitative Health Reasercher Network @echqrn.bsky.social We are a UK-based, inclusive and accessible network of early career qualitative health researchers, aiming to help each other navigate academia. Find/join us here: https://sites.google.com/view/ecqhrn
Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social Independent researcher, author, teacher, speaker. For hire worldwide. https://linktr.ee/helenkara She/her. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic
Hilary Causer @drhilarycauser.bsky.social Research Fellow | Suicidologist | Qualitative methods
Revisioning distress and suicidality in women nurses @nurse-suicide.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
www.nursesuicidestudy.com
Feminist. Ally. She/her.
Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social Industry-based sociologist and adjunct professor. Future of work. Innovation. Strategic Foresight. Enterprise Software. Ethnography and qual methods. A few books. https://www.samladner.com/
Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social Associate Professor & THIS Institute Fellow at University of Oxford, Dept of Primary Health Care | Somerville College | Communication in Healthcare | Health Behaviours | Qualitative Research | Own Views | 🤿🪴🐈🧶
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/charlotte-albury
Qualitative Health Research Group @QHRGroup @qhrgroup.bsky.social Community of researchers supported by NIHR to raise awareness of value & impact of qualitative methods in health & care research, promote innovation & support careers.
Dr. Isha Mangurkar @ishamangurkar.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Social Psychology, PPLS, University of Edinburgh
Interested in:
Qualitative Methods | Social Media Analysis | Interactional Analysis | Human-Computer Interaction | Discursive Psychology | Social Categorisation Practices
Prof Rhonda Wilson RN CMHN PhD @rhondawilsonmhn.bsky.social Professor Mental Health Nursing #RMIT University | President #ACMHN | #MentalHealthNurse | #MHNurse | #DigitalHealth | #FirstNations | #Menopause | Wiradjuri yinaa on Darkinjung Land, Central Coast, Australia | Spain, Europe | https://drrhondawilson.com/
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social Researcher, phenomenologist, parent to various creatures, some sort of musician, baker, reader, breaker of stuff, liker of seas and hills, sufferer of Boro.
https://collaborativeresearch.co.uk/
Ali Kay @genomics-ali.bsky.social Health experiences researcher at University of Oxford and Centre for Personalised Medicine, Oxford. Volunteer for Muscular Dystrophy UK.
Reading, running or hiking.
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
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
Khiem Tran (Mr. Kim) @alextran91.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/
AI Film @aifilm.bsky.social AI Enhanced UK Film and Research Company
ML AI R&D
FX, Graphics, Storyboard, Logistics, Editing Film Production
Save Me From My Shelf Podcast @smfmspodcast.bsky.social A literature comedy podcast by two friends and academics. We take classic texts off their pedestal by making fun of them. Hosted by
@DrAbigailBoucher and @dcjenkin-smith
No DMs
savemefrommyshelf.com
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Robbie Love @robbielove.org Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Communication and Culture
Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University
https://robbielove.org/
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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Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
Matt Elgin @melgin.bsky.social English Teacher.
Luc Boutsen @lucboutsen.bsky.social Cognitive psychologist, interested in vision, attention, faces, objects, M/EEG, eyetracking, neuropsychology.
Tasos Kitsos @tasoskitsos.bsky.social Associate Professor at Aston University
#resilience #entrepreneurship #innovation #urban #creative and #digital economies and others.
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.
Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social Language Linguistics Religion Education Aston University Birmingham Community Organising Running Immigration Veganism bit.ly/m/SPihlaja
Serendipity1 @majorterry.bsky.social I stand for Leadership and Command, , with a career defined by dedication, resilience, and a deep commitment to serving my country 🇺🇸
Please no Dms. only friends, No Maga, No investment,No Cryptos.
Dr. Valerie Hobbs is on strike 🍉 @drvaleriehobbs.bsky.social linguist, #religiouslanguage specialist, author, #slowacademic, #FreePalestine
Also here: https://t.co/B6JnGOmMJ4 & decreasingly on Twitter as @vhobbs5
Team HERMES @hermes.cx Creators of the Eudoramail app for Windows: https://hermes.cx. Also make a PHP tool for automating BlueSky and a library for people writing text editors. One of us (our social media manager) makes BeamNG mods too. We proudly support Ukraine.
Journal of Languages, Texts and Society @ltsjournal.bsky.social The Journal of Languages, Texts and Society is a PGR-led academic journal with a focus on how communication, languages, & texts are shaped by and shape society.
Read our latest issue: tinyurl.com/ltsissue7
Virginie Iché @virginieiche.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Linguistics (Univ. Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France). Currently working on failed repair in mockumentary sitcoms & cringe humor.
Research interests: pragmatics, stylistics, multimodality, miscommunication & humor
Dr Alison Eardley @alisonfe.bsky.social Psychologist turned Museum Studies researcher. passionate about museums, access & inclusion. Co-I on @SensationalMuseum. PI on W-ICAD. Co-editor of The Museum Accessibility Spectrum. Fulbright-Smithsonian scholar. She/her.
Hannah Thompson @blindspothannah.bsky.social Partially blind academic (Royal Holloway); PI on AHRC Sensational Museum project; researcher in creative audio description, blindness gain; French literature and culture; trustee at Donmar Warehouse.
Dr Kate Noakes @katenoakes.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Critic
Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022)
www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com
Lives in Bristol
No book promoters or god bothers thanks
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.
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
Alice Haines @alicehaines.bsky.social Stylistician
Derek Bousfield @derekbousfield.bsky.social Father, Husband, Cat Slave, Linguist. Academic. Researcher. Author. Raconteur.
Reader in Pragmatics and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social Linguist (Semantics, Cognition, Computation)
PI of ABSTRACTION (ERC-2021-STG-101039777)
https://linktr.ee/mariannabolognesi- S Sara Whiteley @sarawhiteley.bsky.social Stylistician at University of Sheffield.
Joanna Gavins @joannagavins.bsky.social 🪴 gardener • professor 📚
Researching and teaching cognitive linguistics and ecolinguistics @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Mainly posting about language and ecology. Occasional music and plants. Writing a book about Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
Dr Kimberley Pager-McClymont @kpager1.bsky.social Academic English Skills Coordinator and Research in Linguistics - University of Aberdeen's ISC.
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
Chloe Harrison @chloeharrison.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Stylistics.
Researcher in stylistics, reader response, contemporary fiction. Reading & re-reading.
Views my own.
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
Яруу @urfeelings.bsky.social Writer | Astrologer | Nature lover | Reader | Overthinker
•She/her and her thoughts 🌸
Ella Wydrzynska @ellawyd96.bsky.social Educational Developer at University of Nottingham | Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University | PhD in stylistics, children's literature & metafiction 📚
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
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.
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.
Dr Lynsey McCulloch @drmisslynsey.bsky.social writer | researcher | early modernist.
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
@outsideworld.bsky.social @outsideworld.bsky.social
Esra Efeoğlu @esranureo.bsky.social Former Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Co-founder & co-convener @discore.bsky.social
corpus-assisted discourse studies
youth language, metaphor, crisis discourses
🪄 https://linktr.ee/esranureo
Jess Norledge @jessnorledge.bsky.social Stylistician @ Uni. Nottingham.
Literary Linguistics. Language & Feminism. Contemporary Lit. Dystopia.
Sara Bartl @sbartl.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Birmingham
researching metaphor and cognitive semantics through computational models of language
@onlinereader24.bsky.social @onlinereader24.bsky.social Former Prof of English and New Media. Now mainly tbf reading, playing pickleball and eating out