Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
@nesle454.bsky.social @nesle454.bsky.social 
Amy Plackowski @linguistihawk.bsky.social High school ELA & linguistics teacher. A justice-centered, culturally responsive pedagogy must include the study of linguistics. hslinguistics.com. LSA, NEATE, NCTE. Venmo: @AmyPlackowski
Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social Linguistician. Syntactician. All-round awesome person. 
Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. {Neuro/psycho}linguistics, syntax, and South Asian languages. He/him 🏳️🌈.
Sometimes: Horror movies, video games, cats.
www.lingdustin.net
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
Language Science Station at Planet Word @langscistation.bsky.social We do language science research and engagement with the public! Find us at the Planet Word museum in Washington D.C., and here: https://go.umd.edu/LanguageScienceStationAtPlanetWord 
Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social & @fritinancy.bsky.social
Anna Belew @nabelew.bsky.social Linguist (revitalization, documentation, sociolinguistics) but also not a professional account so I’m gonna say cuss words 🤷♀️ she/her
Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living in California. Author of "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" from Oxford University Press, published in January 2025.
Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.
Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social Linguist, nature appreciator, big fan of sambal & soursop. All things Austronesian & NW New Guinea. Swarthmore/Philly. She/sie/lei/dia/andi.
Stan Carey @stancarey.bsky.social Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in Ireland
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
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/
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
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
Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social linguist
a less cruel world is possible
neurosomething (autistic)
all posts reflect private opinions
Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath.bsky.social comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Slips of the tongue, uh & um (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: An anthology, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
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
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.
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
Glossa Psycholinguistics @glossapsycholx.bsky.social Glossa Psycholinguistics is an #openaccess journal of #psycholinguistics published by @eScholarship.
https://escholarship.org/uc/glossapsycholinguistics
Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social Speech perception & brain nerd, University of Connecticut. Opinions my own, not my employer's.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
sigh @wulatum.bsky.social Phonetician / 他, wù / pro-international student
Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social Linguist at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴
#SignLanguages, #Linguistics, #RStats & #DataViz
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
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
savithry @savithry.bsky.social conference live-poster moonlighting as linguist (she/her/ആ ബഹളി)
Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
(he/him)
www.michaelpleyer.com
@symbolicstorage@scholar.social
@symbolicstorage
Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social Postdoc at Høgskulen på Vestlandet 🇳🇴. Hearing. Thinking about attitudes, multimodal language contact, iconicity, typology, Creoles, and how to do good linguistics (!)
Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.
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
Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net Language, interaction, tech • papers https://markdingemanse.net • blog https://ideophone.org • more colourful on fedi https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/ • POSSE: Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere
bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social Official account for the Bergelson Lab at Harvard, sporadically maintained by the PI:).
Just a lab, trying to figure out how babies learn language, somehow caught in the crosshairs of gov't admin battles.
Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He.
Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo.
https://linktr.ee/garicgymro
Lisa Davidson @lisabdavidson.bsky.social Phonetics, Language Acquisition, CogSci | co-editor Laboratory Phonology | ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
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
Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social Professor at San Diego State University; sign languages, neuroscience, reading, gesture, all things linguistic
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Carrie Gillon @carrieg.bsky.social linguist, cat lover, nerd
Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social Chicana. Child language development expert. 🧪 Forever a Scientist👩🏽🔬First Gen. Linguist. Writer. Podcaster. she/her. The Vocal Fries 🍟 co-host. Tucson, AZ
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
The Allusionist @allusionistshow.bsky.social Podcast of adventures in language with @helenzaltzman. theallusionist.org patreon.com/allusionist
The Vocal Fries @vocalfriespod.bsky.social a podcast about linguistic discrimination.
“compelling and never preachy” - NYT
Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social /'dʑowɪn/
• taalkundige | linguist
• schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord' | author
• all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk
• Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk
• photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (UNE) lawandlanguage.org
Incoming CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent) @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
James Grama @dalaigrama.bsky.social Sociophonetician in the Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Interested in language variation and change, phonetics, dialect (typology), ethnolects, life-span change, Hawaiʻi, creoles, and prehistoric fauna. Proud papa. he/him
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
Heddwen Newton - English & Dutch @heddwen.bsky.social I write the monthly newsletter English and the Dutch, about all the ways English and Dutch interact: https://englishandthedutch.substack.com/
English teacher at Bielefeld University (EAL & ELA)
Dutch English
World Englishes
AI English
Lexicography
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
Catherine Laliberté 🍂 @catlaliberte.bsky.social Dr. 🎓 LMU Munich 👩🏫 Sociolinguistics, (post) colonial varieties of English 🌎 stylistics, historical fiction 📺 Québécoise ⚜ she/her
Martin Konvička @teapotlinguist.bsky.social Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 💚
Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @dclberlin.bsky.social
Vocabaret @vocabaret.bsky.social New York City's home for wordplay comedy since 2019! Catch us the second Friday of every month at Caveat, or streaming/VOD from anywhere. https://vocabaret.start.page
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
May Helena Plumb @mayhplumb.bsky.social needlecrafter, dancer, baker, Mainer, she/her
PhD in Linguistics, now doing non-ac qual research
Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social Asst prof linguistics @ Michigan state. I like cats, fiber arts, people. I’ll finish the rest of this later.
Marcie Sundaram @alliterative.bsky.social Interdisciplinarian, historical linguist, philologist, medievalist; I make videos & podcasts about words, history, and literature. Married to @AvenSarah. She/her
a nguyễn @scientifical.bsky.social psycholinguist, semanticist, pragmaticist || việt, asian american || californian || she / they / chị / em || asst prof interested in the Internet & language || and cycling
aghnguyen.github.io
Rachel Burdin @rsburdin.bsky.social Ling prof in NH; intonation, lg. variation, lg. and identity, Jewish languages. Occasional runner, knitter, garment maker. she/her.
Rikker Dockum @rikker.bsky.social Linguist ‘n’ stuff. I was @thai101 on the other place. I’ll probably still talk about Thai too much.
You can read stuff I wrote here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FeZWg9QAAAAJ&hl=en
Sylvia Sierra 🏔️ @sociolinguista.bsky.social Interactional sociolinguist. Author of Millennials Talking Media. Interested in language, culture, identity, media, music, art, literature, history.
sylviasierra.com
Onondaga land
Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social Sociophonetician & Associate Prof @ Georgetown. Linguistics, cats, DC, science, quips. She/her.
Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social Philologist and historical linguist. Formerly UCPH, MPI-SHH, and Cambridge. Mostly Ancient Greek, comparative Indo-European, and nonsense. (ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟⲟⲩ)
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1782-5223
https://brill.com/display/title/57781
https://iecor.clld.org/
Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social Linguistics. Cognitive Science. Academia. Baseball. Music. Cats. Naps. University of Chicago. Opinions (all mine).
Dr Maggie Glass @mglass.bsky.social (Socio)linguist at TU-Dortmund: military-adjacent linguistic landscapes in the KMC, Germany
Virtual breathing spaces for minority languages
Language Policy | Ethics
Jewish and nonzionist. Maxim flouter. Full of boundless enthusiasm. She/Her
Jeff Holliday @jeffholliday.bsky.social Linguist @ University of Kansas. Interested in phonetics, acquisition, sociolinguistics, and Korean. He.
https://jjholliday.github.io/
Roman Feiman @romanfeiman.bsky.social Language, development, and language development. Assistant Prof at Brown. PI of the Brown Language and Thought (BLT) Lab.
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
Hadas Kotek 🦄 @hadaskotek.bsky.social Linguist in tech | Responsible AI, NLP, data science | AltAc advocate | mentor | cat lover | feminist | currently: Apple/MIT
she/her | grayspec | 🏳️⚧️ ally | BLM | powered by coffee & spite | 📍 Cambridge MA
שַׁלַּח לַחְמְךָ עַל פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם כִּי בְרֹב הַיָּמִים תִּמְצָאֶנּוּ
Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social Sociolinguist. Spinner, weaver, knitter. Parent. Queer. Chronically ill. she/her
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
kevin b mcgowan @kbmcgowan.bsky.social phonetician, linguist, associate professor, musician, gen x nerd, he/him
Jadin @jadincmoore.bsky.social Socialist & sort of linguist
/‘d͡ʒeɪ.dɪn/ they/them
Allison Shapp, PhD @schwadevivre.bsky.social sociolinguist, crossword-puzzler, folkie
Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. Opinions etc etc my own. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)
Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social Sociolinguist at Virginia Tech | Academic mama | Studies New Orleans Language & Culture | she/her
Author of ‘Language and Place’, available open access 👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/language-and-place/E95116DA21FDDFCDF4DFE5375765514C
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
🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green psycholinguist by training, now working in public health. L1: American English (~Philly). any pronouns, they/she if that's too hard.
i do not post as my worksona. posts are mine and not my employer's.
https://linktr.ee/colorlessgrey
Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com 🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language
📰 Sign up for the newsletter at LinguisticDiscovery.Substack.com or LinguisticDiscovery.com!
Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social 📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Ty @tyanna.bsky.social linguistic anthropologist, she/her
Montreal Benesch 🍉 @montreallx.bsky.social they/them 🏳️⚧️
linguist; educator; grad student in the Trans Research in Linguistics Lab at UCSB
http://montrealbenes.ch
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.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
Sidney Wong @sidneygjwong.bsky.social 黃吉贊 (he/any) | Queer Cantonese 🏳️🌈 researcher working on responsible computational social science using language data. Te Pūnaha Matatini / Fulbright Scholar (US 24/25), Aotearoa NZ.
Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
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
Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
Dr Monika Pleyer @linguisticisms.bsky.social PhD in linguistics. Researching Impoliteness in children's fiction, and metaphors in virtual health discourses (esp. on dementia). 🩷💜💙 they/she
Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social academic (derogatory); psycholinguistics/cogsci; disability; generative flexible syntax+phonetics; R & stats & dataviz; art & craft & textile & nature; reluctant immigrant to normal island; nj; she|they; not funny (earnest); ai apologists go away; דאיקייט
Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social Linguist, reader, knitter, video gamer, Canadian (in no particular order). Thinks a lot about auxiliaries and pronouns, Stardew Valley, and books with magic and/or spaceships and/or kissing in them. Experimenting with context collapse. (she/her)
Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social Soaking in the magic of languages, pushing back boba liberalism, thinking about the legacies we leave on this planet.
Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.