Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social i’m a linguist. he/him https://jofrhwld.github.io/
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Adrian Leemann @adrianleemann.bsky.social https://www.adrianleemann.com
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #phonetics #swissgerman #dialectology #forensicphonetics
David Willis @david1willis.bsky.social Jesus Professor of Celtic, Faculty of Linguistics, University of Oxford
Uri Horesh @urihoresh.bsky.social Queer sociolinguist and humanist. Based in St Andrews, Scotland until January 2027. Free Palestine and end the genocide.
IGALA 14 @igala14.bsky.social IGALA 14 | York St John University, UK | 21–23 July 2027 | Researching Language, Gender & Sexuality in Times of Political Challenge | https://igala14.com/ | Follow for updates 📢
Rianna Walcott @riannawalcott.bsky.social Researcher of social media, so I am contractually obliged to shitpost
Assistant prof @ UMD
Associate director of BCaT Lab
Black Brit abroad, Londoner for life 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇧🇧
MASSIVE hater
Emma Humphries (she/her) @emhumps.bsky.social Researcher working on prescriptivism in popular culture. Interested in language attitudes and language policy. And Cruising with Jane McDonald.
Melissa Yoong @melissayoong.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham Malaysia. President-elect, International Gender and Language Association. Researching language, gender & sexuality with a focus on work, family, social movements & resistance. All views mine
Lars Sörries-Vorberger @lasovo.bsky.social (he/him) Substitute professor of German linguistics at CAU Kiel (@uni-kiel.de) | Junior professor of German linguistics at the University of Hamburg (@uni-hamburg.de), with focus on (socio-)phonetics and queer linguistics.
Dr Shivonne Gates @drshivonne.bsky.social Researcher, evaluator, linguist. Head of Impact and Strategy at class13.org
Language and geography @tweetolectology.bsky.social Tweetolectology project at Oxford and Bern
Phonetics & Phonology Group @ Newcastle University @phonncl.bsky.social Phonetics & Phonology Research Group at Newcastle University. Researchers uniting around language and sound. For enquiries, please contact us at phoneticsphonology.ncl@gmail.com. Our website: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/phonphon/
Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
Josh Coombs @qwep210.bsky.social PhD researcher at University of York 📚
Language Variation and Change | Sociophonetics | Computational Dialectology
Dr Alexandra Krendel @alexiconartist.bsky.social Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton | CDA/CDS, corpus linguistics online discourse, (anti)feminism, hate speech- B BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) @baal-linguistics.bsky.social British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is a professional association and charity (264800), based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. Account managed @melevans.bsky.social
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social Researcher | Assistant Editor
Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
Lexis Podcast @lexispodcast.bsky.social A podcast about English Language and Linguistics aimed at students in the UK.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0EPs83hWYk0XX8cKkJplbT?si=FPrMfDI1RBG_VeWKB43Epg
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social PhD in Linguistics. English Teacher @unil.bsky.social. Research: language, gender & sexuality, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), health communication, corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, constructive grading practices
www.elviscoimbragomes.com
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.
Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Sebastián Córdoba @scordoban.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in (Queer) Psychology.
Gender, sexuality, language, and identity | Bogotá - LA - NYC - London | Research with queer Latin Americans in London | sebastian-cordoba.com | él/he
Journal of Sociolinguistics @jslx.bsky.social Publishes leading research on language and society. Follow us for info on new articles, theme issues, dialogues and more. EIC: Lauren Hall-Lew, Jaspal Naveel Singh, and Andrew Wong
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679841
Nikki Lane @thedoctorlane.bsky.social Black Queer Feminist Linguistic Anthropologist
Author: The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the (Anti) Politics of Respectability
I'm here to talk about Black 🏳️🌈. The 90s. Hip-hop. Black Feminism. Books. TV. Cocktails. SciFi. 🏀.
Matthew Hunt @mchlinguistics.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in Southampton, with special interests in perception, accent bias, socio-semantics, language and the police.
Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social The Linguistic Society of America supports the scientific study of language and shares interesting linguistic stories. Join the LSA today!
The Journal of Language and Pop Culture (JLPop) @jlpopculture.bsky.social Brand new journal on linguistic approaches to the language of pop culture. First issue 2025.
Editors-in-Chief: Valentin Werner, Mie Hiramoto, and Dr Paul Flanagan.
Webpage: https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/jlpop. 
Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of Linguistics at Berkeley. Language, identity & prosody, esp. in politics & human-computer interaction. Trivia person and marathoner. LA & the Bay. No one is illegal on stolen land. Views are my own.
https://nicolerholliday.wordpress.com
Emma Moore @scillym.bsky.social State school-educated Professor of Sociolinguistics, Sheffield, UK.
Linguistics, ethnography, style, socio-syntax, young people, neurodivergence, affect, old school regional dialectology.
(2023) Socio-syntax: Exploring the Social Meaning of Grammar.
Sam Hellmuth @samhellmuth.bsky.social languages & linguistics, mostly Arabic & mostly phonology, views my own, Prof @UniofYork [sæm ˈhɛlmʌθ] (she/her)
Paul Foulkes @paulfoulkesyork.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of York, UK
/pɔːl faʊks/ ~ [pʰɔːɫ faʊks]
https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/paulfoulkes/
Eleanor Chodroff @echodroff.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, linguist, phonetician at the University of Zurich Dept. of Computational Linguistics
Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com Sociolinguist at BYU. American English (Utah, Georgia, and Latter-day Saints), mostly vowels, some methods. Organist, bread maker, fan of succulents, beginning knitter.
joeystanley.com
Marc Barnard @marcbarnard.bsky.social Postdoc in Linguistics at Université Paris Cité. marcbarnard.co.uk
Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social University of York, UK, Linguist, Phonetician, Conversation Analyst Occasional other stuff. Own views.
#EMCA #ConversationAnalysis #phonetics #linguistics
Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social The official page of the Linguistics Department at Queen Mary University of London. Visit our website to find out more about the department!
www.linguistics.sllf.qmul.ac.uk
Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno
Dominic Watt @domwatt.bsky.social Senior Forensic Consultant, J P French International / Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of York, UK. Now based in Berlin. Rides bikes and runs a bit.
Lancaster University Phonetics Lab @phoneticslab.bsky.social Research group in phonetics and speech science at Lancaster University
Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social Lecturer/Assistant Prof at UoE — Research Methods, Statistics, Open Research, Non-dual monism — #neurodiverse #lgbtq #chronicillness
stefanocoretta.github.io
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
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality. 
Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social Professor in the academy working with communities within and beyond it in the fight for a more equitable world
Check out and subscribe to my blog:
https://substack.com/@educationallinguist?r=5hc96n&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=light
Catherine Laing @cathelaing.bsky.social Developmental linguist, outdoorsy type, PI for SENFM https://senfm.york.ac.uk/
Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social Asst prof linguistics @ Michigan state. I like cats, fiber arts, people. I’ll finish the rest of this later.
Tom 🐢 @tomjps.bsky.social Sociolinguistics PhD on dialect acquisition in the Black Country. Floating on the canal in London.
HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social Humanities Research Centre, University of York. Supporting research in the Arts and Humanities.
Rosario Neyra @neyrar.bsky.social PhD researcher at the University of York. Conversation analysis, multimodality, institutionality.
Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY @uoylangling.bsky.social Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York
#linguistics #languages
https://www.york.ac.uk/language/
RLadies+ @rladies.org Promoting diversity in the #RStats community via meetups, mentorship and global collaboration! 200+ groups worldwide.
#RLadies
Dr Victoria Noble @linguisvic.bsky.social 🖤 Semantics/Syntax interface
🖤 PhD: University of York
🖤 Views my own.
🖤 She/her/hers.
🤍 https://linktr.ee/linguisvic
LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.lagb.org.uk/
The York English Language Toolkit @yorktoolkit.bsky.social Case studies and materials for teachers of A level English Language from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK
http://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk
Ben Gibb-Reid @bgr-phon.bsky.social Lecturer in Phonetics at University of York - Researches in forensic phonetics, acoustics, sociophon, discourse-pragmatic variation. Is a fan of breakfast and other such events.
Website: https://bit.ly/Ben-Gibb-Reid
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
Sylvia Sierra 🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social Linguist who studies accents, slang, references, memes, cringe, and singing in conversation. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in language, culture, identity, media, music, art, literature, history.
sylviasierra.com
Onondaga land
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
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
Claire Nance @clrnance.bsky.social Professor of Phonetics at Lancaster University. Gàidhlig, Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Bilingualism, Articulation, Sociolinguistics. Otherwise in the mountains.
She/her
https://clairenance.github.io/
Justin Lo @justinjhlo.bsky.social Sociophonetician & forensic speech scientist @ Lancaster University. All about voice and identity.
I talk about trains a lot. You have been warned.
justinjhlo.github.io
Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language (@ University of Liverpool). Corpus/culinary/queer linguist. Runner, feminist, food enthusiast, coffee lover. Views are my own. she/her
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
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
Riannon Davies-Parsons @ridavies.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD student @ UoN • interested in LGBTQ+ youth identity in digital spaces…and lots of other things 🏳️🌈 she/her
Archie Crowley @archiecrowley.bsky.social Sociolinguistics & language ideologies & trans stuff & cats. Assistant prof at Elon University in North Carolina (they/them)
https://sites.google.com/site/elonaaup/
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor & Associate Dean of Education
@Stanfordeducation.Bsky.social. Af. Am. Studies & Linguistics by courtesy.
PI of the @StanfordBADLab.Bsky.social
Jan Barker Alexander Resident Fellow of Ujamaa House
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
Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com sociocultural linguist working in trans and queer linguistics and conversation analysis. posts about yiddish, cooking, adhd, cats, professor stuff. (they/זײ) [ˈɹæ.klɔ] מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן
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
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
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.
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person. 
Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Dr. Johanna Gerwin @johannagerwin.bsky.social Sociolinguistics. Kiel/Germany. London/UK.
London Talks project: https://londontalksresearch.co.uk/
Enregisterment - Metalinguistics Discourses - London English - Pop Culture
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
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/
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
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 🇮🇹.
Aimee Bailey @aimeebailey.bsky.social Discourse analyst at Uni of Birmingham • Language, gender and sexuality in (digital) media discourse
Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues 🏳️🌈🦜🏳️⚧️ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
they/them- L Lal Zimman @lalzimman.bsky.social
Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social Professor of Organisational Communication at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Odense (Denmark)
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
Louis Strange @louisstrange.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow (he/him)
Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh. Sociolinguist, Linguistic Anthropologist, Discourse Analyst. Language, GENDER, and Sexuality. Trying and failing to keep up with just about everything.
GENDER: Ambivalent masculine
Assigned male at birth
Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John @lsjysj.bsky.social Official Bsky account of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research @yorkstjohn.bsky.social. Follow for news, updates and events! https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/research/centre-for-language-and-social-justice-research/
Ryan Shaw-Hawkins @ryanshaw-hawkins.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD student at University of Glasgow. Specialised in Sociophonetics, Sex & Gender and Dialectology.
Also affiliated with Queen Margaret University and the university of Edinburgh.
they/them
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️
BAAL Language, Gender & Sexuality SIG @lgas-baal.bsky.social We are the Language, Gender and Sexuality (LGaS) special interest group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Find more info here: https://baalgensex.wordpress.com/
David Britain @davidbritain.bsky.social Sociolinguist. Dad, islomaniac, Kiwiphile, clubber, democrat, swimmer, dialectologist, Fenboy, East Anglian, European, immigrant.
Views are my own.
@lavlang.bsky.social @lavlang.bsky.social We're the only conference dedicated to queer & trans linguistics/language & sexuality.
#LavLang31 Manchester 20-22 August https://lavlang2025.wordpress.com/
Summer Institute Online details TBA
Helen Sauntson @helensauntson.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics at York St John University and Kylie superfan (she/her)