Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social Assistant professor @UVMvermont | Developmental psychologist studying adversity, 🧠 development, & mental health | she/her | fernlab-uvm.com | views are my own
Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬
Multimodality, iconicity, metaphor, gesture, data science 🤏 🔢
#rstats #python #openscience 💻 🔓
https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x
Alice Deignan @alicedeignan.bsky.social Corpora, metaphor, young people's language, the language of school
Florian Fuchs @fuchsflrn.bsky.social literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: socionarratology . theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” . “Affordances of Short Forms” / fuchsflorian.com
Eva Krockow @evakrockow.bsky.social Associate Prof of Psychology at University of Leicester; research on health decision making & risk communication, e.g. about antibiotic resistance; writer; yoga enthusiast; mother of two 
Paula P Sobrino @paulapsobrino.bsky.social Cognitive linguist @unirioja. Interested in #metaphor #multimodality #methods // @accion_icon // www.paulapsobrino.com
🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social assistant professor of English Language
at the University of British Columbia. cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, gesture studies. she/her, singular they is as old as Chaucer.
http://elisestickles.com
Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social Researcher | Assistant Editor
Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social ° Visiting Scientist, The University of Göttingen
° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ
° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency
° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology
° Former science & technology journalist
Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social Science, not Science Fiction.
Associate Professor of Marketing. STAR editor at Psychological Science- A Andy Vonasch @andyvonasch.bsky.social Senior lecturer in social psychology at the University of Canterbury. I study moral judgment and decisions
- A Azim Shariff @azimshariff.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia.
ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social assc prof of psychology at brooklyn college & psych & phil at cuny grad center; interested in moral psych—how people judge what is right and wrong, and what they do with those judgments; anagantman.com; https://anagantman.substack.com/p/introducing-psyop
Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Reading (UK) working on new wave ordinary language philosophy, experimental semantics and pragmatics, and some aesthetics. I'm building playable simulations of historical philosophical scenes at ux-phi.com.
Rodrigo Díaz @rodrigodiazxphi.bsky.social https://rodrigodiaz946.wixsite.com/philosophy
Kathryn Francis @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social Senior Researcher. Moral psychology & xphi. Interested in understanding moral conflict in human-animal/nature relations 🐷🍃 and bioethics 💊. Exploring innovative methods like VR.
neele engelmann @neeleengelmann.bsky.social cognitive scientist. postdoc at center for humans and machines, MPI for human development, Berlin. Interested in moral psychology, human-AI interaction, (experimental) philosophy and other things.
neeleengelmann.com
Samuel Schindler @samkschi.bsky.social Philosopher of science. AoS: Sci method, theory choice, prediction & explanation. History of science. XPhi & metaphilosophy. Assoc Prof. Dad of 2 little ones.
Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social Writes about cognitive science and philosophy. Professes psychology at Princeton University. Devours chocolate and fiction. www.tanialombrozo.com
Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic. Cat guy, Jeopardy champ. New Englander and curmudgeon. Speaker info: https://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/tnichols
Eleanor Holton @eleanor-holton.bsky.social Postdoc @ Princeton Neuroscience Institute
https://eleanorholton.github.io/
Metaphors and Beyond @metaphorsandbeyond.bsky.social Devoted to discovering, identifying, and using uncommonly high quality non-literal comparisons (metaphors, metonymies, similes, analogies, etc.). Send 'em my way! For much, much more go to metaphorsandbeyond dot com.
Anna Tsvetkov @annatsv.bsky.social Postdoc @ Princeton AI
Natural and Artificial Minds
Prev: Philosophy PhD @ Brown, MIT FutureTech
Website: https://annatsv.github.io/
Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social Linguist trying to understand logic, emotion, identity and human cognition.
Semantics, pragmatics, syntax; Cognitive Grammar; English history and sociolinguistics.
Berkeley -> San Diego -> Leipzig -> Silver Spring, Maryland 
Tommaso Lamarra @tomlamarra.bsky.social PhD student at University of Bologna @abstractionerc.bsky.social
Research: how linguistic system enhances conceptualization in the abstraction process
Phil/CogSci/Linguist
Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social "philosopher"
Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Aston University 🧠 ; UKRN Local Network Lead 📊; AE of #RegisteredReports for PCI & Addiction Research & Theory 👩🔬. Author of: "A Student's Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology".
Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. Author of ABSENT MINDS out now 📘. She/her 🌻
Mauricio Suárez @msuarez.bsky.social Professor UCMadrid, educated Edinburgh & LSE, now often @Cambridge. Author of Inference and Representation (Chicago 24): https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo207912978.html
More about me: https://sites.google.com/ucm.es/mauriciosuarez
Monica Franco @mfsm.bsky.social Researcher and educator, Reader at Cranfield University UK. Interested in how governance structures influence behaviour and well-being. Currently focused on quantification, commensuration, complexity, and the all-present AI. Trained in quants, loving quals
Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com I am an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics
More info in the pinned post.
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Florida
Big Team Science | Computational and Quantitative Methods | AI Race Spectator
Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social Philosopher of perception and mind at the University of Nottingham. Interested in all things perceptual.
Webpage: https://gmphilosophy.wixsite.com/giuliamartina
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social focuses on #logic & #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky #HPS
Vassar @vassar.bsky.social Fearlessly consequential liberal arts school in the Hudson Valley with inspiring students and alums.
www.vassar.edu | linkin.bio/vassarcollege
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Listen to "Raising Hell" on CursedMedia.Net
Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA Co-Host
https://jacklaroche.com
jacklaroche.19 on Signal
Linnéa Gyllingberg @gyllingberg.bsky.social Fulbright scholar and Wallenberg Postdoctoral fellow @uclamath | PhD in applied math from @uppsalauni | Interested in mathematical biology, collective behaviour and complex systems | linneagyllingberg.github.io
Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social Assoc/prof in linguistics in Tampere • interested in digital language and new communicative environments, persuasion • owner of a malamute •
Editor-in-Chief for Pragmatics & Society
RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social Award winning and, somehow, bestselling fantasy author. Gad about, small tree grower and procrastinationist to the stars. Truly, RJ Barker in all departments.
"their worlds are completely and entirely original." BFS
Agent: @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social
Awais @linguistawais.bsky.social ▪︎MA English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Sally Zacharias @salzacharias.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at School of Education, University of Glasgow. Educational linguistics. TESOL, EAL, CLIL. Interested in metaphor and multilingualism.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
The Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod.bsky.social The Night Science Podcast explores the creative scientific process, with your hosts Itai Yanai (@itaiyanai.bsky.social) and Martin Lercher.
https://nightscience.buzzsprout.com/
http://youtube.com/@NightSciencePodcast
Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
Christian Kliesch @enactedmind.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam.
Interested in cognition and what it means to be human. So far. I identified potential culprits: Bodies in development, minds enacting, babies being clever but mostly useless at doing things.
Jovana Maksić @jomaksic.bsky.social PhD📍University of Zurich
🔍 hominin cognition & behavior
🧠 neuroscience of Paleo crafts @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social Graduate in philosophy, fascinated by neuroscience. Old dog trying to learn new tricks. Also a climber
«Come, you who are blessed by my Father, for I was hungry and you gave me food, thirsty and you gave me drink, stranger and you welcomed me»
Mt 25:34-35
Ata Karagoz @atabk.bsky.social Postdoc at UChicago in Bakkour lab. PhD from WUSTL. Interested in how we build models of the world, naturalistic neuroimaging, and reinforcement learning.
Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social Writer & editor, past lives in science policy, sci-comm etc. Retirement pastimes include managing climate anxieties. New writing at UKjazznews.com and @theartsdesk.bsky.social
jonturney.wordpress.com
See also https://bristoljazzlive.co.uk
Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social Comics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social Professor of Psychology; Rider of Bicycles; Seeker of Justice. Applied cognitive psychologist, studying attention & memory, some disinfo too. (He/him; 1st gen college student). With maybe some pictures of Cookie the bernedoodle. 
Damián Blasi @damianblasi.bsky.social I research linguistic diversity over the last 12,000 years, seeking explanations in the minds, behaviors, and cultures of humans, and its practical consequences for our species 
The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social The Ramsey philosophy of biology lab at KU Leuven, Belgium.
https://www.theramseylab.org • #HPbio #philsci #philsky #evosky #paleosky #cogsci #AI
Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.
Subscribe to the Falling Tree podcast to listen to audio docs and radio features from our three decades of radio-making - https://podfollow.com/6812121787
www.fallingtree.co.uk
Laura Baiocco @laurabaiocco.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Psychology at @uarizona
Investigating all things metaphor 👩💻
https://sites.google.com/view/laurabaiocco/home
Bethany Ranes @bethanyranes.bsky.social Cognitive Neuroscientist | Translational Researcher | Founder of Interocept Labs | Creator of Firing & Wiring | Turning cool neuroscience into even cooler real-world applications.
Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social Vision scientist in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Enthusiastic dabbler in the arts and crafts. British-Australian.
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com Computational cognitive neuroscience. And also: memory and cognitive architecture. But also: biking & stargazing & horror movies. Opinions are my own, but I do sometimes share them. http://andreastocco.com/
Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social How do we move? I study brains and machines at York University (Assistant Professor). Full-time human.
Neural Control & Computation Lab
www.ncclab.ca
Metaphor in L2 Acquisition, Learning and Teaching @l2earnuex.bsky.social 📆 2-3 July 2026
📍 Badajoz, Spain
📨 Abstract submission deadline: 27 February
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Valentina Bambini @valentinabambini.bsky.social Psycho/Neurolinguist at #NEPLab @IussPavia studying Experimental Pragmatics & Pragmatic Language Disorder. In love with metaphors. PI of #ERCCoG PROMENADE
maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social Hegel, cybernetics, Buffalo Bills
Quentin Ruyant @qruy.eurosky.social Researcher in Philosophy of Science
Universidad de Sevilla
Working on: representation and models in science, conceptions of scientific theories, scientific realism, modal epistemology, the interpretation of quantum mechanics. #philsci
Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others. Signal: emc.7243623.
Get my newsletter about the forces that shape how research is done, shared, believed, and acted upon: www.reviewertoo.com
Kevin Riggs @profriggsy.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, cognitive science, drumming, beer.
Esteban Montenegro-Montenegro @m-square.net I'm a faculty at CSU Stan, I'm interested in #rstats #healthyAging #quartoPub #python #statistics. I might share content related to quantitative methods from a diverse number of fields. 
Lalo Salmerón @lsalmeron.bsky.social Catedrático Psicología Educación / Prof. Educational Psychology / @uv.es
Antiguo / Former @FulbrightPrgrm at @cuboulder
Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social Developmental Scientist 👶🏽🧠
Associate Professor at Columbia University
PI of @britobabylab.bsky.social
Board Chair - Social Creatures
Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social Postdoc at Yale University. I study high-level vision👀 and motor action👋
daweibai.com
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Seth Frey @enfascination.com Democracy is not a kind of process, it’s a kind of person. It’s a project of human development.
Prof in computational commons, collective action, and social emergence. Internet as a governance lab. Science towards nescience
enfascination.com/research
@sherimadigan @sherimadigan.bsky.social Clinical Psych Prof @UCalgary, Tier I Canada Research Chair studying mental health, screens, adversity & resilience | firstgen | settler | mum
www.madiganlab.org | www.ACEsHub.org | www.copewithtrauma.org
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
https://linktr.ee/aidanwalker1
Substack: How To Do Things With Memes, @aidanetcetera TikTok, Insta, YouTubey
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
George Webster @georgewebster.bsky.social Lecturer in Philosophy at Worcester College, University of Oxford.
Thinking about science, the world, and the history of our ideas about those things.
Also in charge of Learning Development.
www.georgewebsterphilosophy.com
Dr Gemma Hughes @gemhughes.bsky.social Social scientist. Co-Director Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy & Management, University of Leicester School of Business. Editor-in-Chief Journal of Health Services Research & Policy https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HSR
SAPPHIRE research group, University of Leicester @socscihealth.bsky.social Our #socialscience #research uses #qualitative & #quantitative methods to study #healthcare #improvement.
Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social Social psychologist, relationships enthusiast, Associate Prof at Western University. socialmeasureslab.com
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin. Uses neuroimaging to study 🧠 development. Increasingly teaching, thinking, & advocating on the climate & ecological crisis 🌍
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Ben Deen @bmhdeen.bsky.social Asst Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at Tulane, interested in how we understand other people. Rockefeller / MIT / Yale alum. New Yorker 🗽 in NOLA ⚜️
Nora Bradford @norabradford.bsky.social teaching faculty @ UPenn
Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from UC Irvine w/Megan Peters
science writer (words in Scientific American, Science News, Nat Geo and other outlets)
studied phil + neuro + psych @ UChicago - she/they
norabradford.com
Tim Taylor @drtimt.bsky.social Scientist, historian, author & coder of Artificial Life & Open-Ended Evolution. Board Member of International Society for Artificial Life / Senior Research Contractor at Monash Uni / Independent Researcher. Live in Edinburgh, Scotland 🌈
https://timt.co
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
@lediakazazi.bsky.social @lediakazazi.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cognitive Linguistics and Discourse Analysis | Metaphor | Political Discourse | CDA
Marta Martín-Gilete @mmartingilete.bsky.social Lecturer at Universidad de Extremadura.
Doctor in English Linguistics.
Applied Cognitive Linguistics and L2 instruction ✨
🔍 Metaphor researcher with the @l2earnuex.bsky.social team.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6065-8304
The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social Welcome to RaAM!
The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor is the biggest international community of metaphor researchers.
Our next event will be the 18th RaAM Conference, hosted in Pamplona (Spain) in 2027 🇪🇸
https://www.raam.org.uk/
Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social Philosopher of cognitive science & technology @ Purdue
brettkarlan.com
Urte Laukaityte @laukas.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher: synthetic philosophy, the mind and life sciences, history of medicine, psychiatry
Producer @manymindspod.bsky.social;
Contributing editor @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/urte-laukaityte
Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social Advanced postdoc at University of Bern.
Also sometimes @bennettoxford.bsky.social.
Metascience stuff.
Creator and developer of RegCheck (https://regcheck.app). STAR Editor at Psych Science.
@error.reviews
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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives. A project of @divintelligence.bsky.social, @kensycoop.bsky.social, @laukas.bsky.social
www.disi.org/manyminds/
Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social Cognitive scientist at UCSD, personally & scientifically interested in collaboration | science sketcher | thinking in non-English 🇵🇷