Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Pol Comm at UoLiverpool. Online Pol Comm / Elections / Gender. UCU Rep. Socialist. Feminist. She/her. Views mine
Andy Morse @andymorse.bsky.social Academic - developing health sector and humanitarian agency tailored climate forecasts mostly at seasonal scales. Avoiding communication hoopla & wack-a-doodle.
Ewan McGaughey @ewanmg.bsky.social 🎓Law Professor @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, CBR, Cambridge + @granthamlse.bsky.social
🌹Labour law, enterprise law, pensions, corporations, human rights
🌍Cares about stopping inequality, climate damage + war
🕸️ https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/ewan-mcgaughey
Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social Academic (literary & cultural disability studies/medical humanities), Green New Deal podcast https://www.gndmedia.co.uk Wellcome Trust Advisory Committee, North Manchester & Kreiz Breizh.
@neynox.bsky.social @neynox.bsky.social Socialist, trade unionist and feminist.
Views entirely my own.
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
21 Group @21group.bsky.social A staff group founded at Cambridge in 2023, supporting members facing institutional retaliation.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Tony Thorne @tonythorne007.bsky.social Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
Julia Snell @snelljulia.bsky.social Professor of Sociolinguists at the Uni. of Leeds, UK. Researching language, identity, education & inequality.
@clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social @clarefeeneyuk.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Lead /
English teacher. NE England.
MAT SP Literacy.
Associate Consultant: National Literacy Trust.
Sometimes blogs: Reading, Writing, Oracy.
https://clarefeeneyuk.com/
David McNally @redprof.bsky.social Social justice activist and writer. Most recent book: "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (2025)
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social A scholar of language, culture, education and social justice. A poet: https://sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-telling-of-gaza/
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social ♥️education ♥️unions ♥️democracy
Widening Participation @ Leeds Uni
UCU NEC, negotiator, Educ'n Comm Chair, Climate+Ecological Emergency Comm Co-chair
@leedsucu Branch Sec
vickyblakeucu.uk
Neurodivergent, LC
#EduSky #AbortionIsHealthcare #CleanTheAir
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Fi Salt A level English Tutor @saltysenglish.bsky.social Expert A level English literature and English language tutor and winner of The Benjamin Zephaniah poetry prize 2024. 26 years teaching experience, 7 as Head of A level English.
Love reading, writing, exercise and my dogs!
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social Interested in all things Race, Disability & Language
I write what I like, whenever I feel like it...
COFOUNDER ROUNDED
farahconsulting.my.canva.site
https://vizzy.com/@wardafarah
William Crosby @crosbywilliam.bsky.social ~ sounding kinships & muddy listening & sonic pedagogies ~
artist, musician, pedagogue, writer, agitator
Lecturer @ Anglia Ruskin University | PhD @ CRiSAP, LCC:UAL | UCU Rep @ both
(all views my own) 🇨🇾 🍉
Dan Green @seeinggreen.co.uk Lecturer and PhD Researcher @heriotwattuni.bsky.social
Vice President of @hwucu.bsky.social
Disabled Members' Standing Committee Member for @ucu.org.uk
🏳️🌈♿
Ross Gibson @rossgibson.bsky.social Social work and trade union stuff.
Personal account which certainly does not reflect the views of my employer.
Troublemakers at Work @troubl3makers.bsky.social A rank & file organisation for all those causing trouble at work.
https://linktr.ee/troublemakersatwork
Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social Feminist legal academic interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th
BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Juliette Rowsell @julietterowsell.bsky.social Reporter at @timeshighered.bsky.social covering employment issues, pensions and job cuts ✍️ juliette.rowsell@timeshighereducation.com ✉️
Peter Fenton @peterfenton.bsky.social IELTS and EAP teacher. Interested in extensive reading and more communicative approaches to language teaching such as TBLT and Dogme.
Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social Linguist, Senior Researcher at CNRS, Paris — Latest book📙ENDANGERED LANGUAGES, MIT press https://bit.ly/3WdDmra
Dr. Hannah M. King @hmking-linguist.bsky.social sociolinguist 🗣💬 (senior lecturer #English language; PhD applied linguistics): #multilingualism | transnational & multilingual identities | discourse | space & place | multilingual #picturebooks -> @multilinglibrary.bsky.social 💙📚
Marián Sloboda @mariansloboda.bsky.social Sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist at Charles University, Prague | language(s) in social interaction, language management, ethnomethodology, linguistic landscape, multilingualism, minorities, Slavic languages, Vietnamese
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
Louisa Semlyen @lousem.bsky.social Senior Publisher of English Language, Linguistics, Literature & Translation studies books @Routledge. Brighton based.
Kelly Webb-Davies @kelwebbdavies.bsky.social Cymraestralian. Immigrant 🇦🇺🏴. Linguist and educator doing AI in edu at Oxford (she/her/hi/ei)
Dr. JPB Gerald @drjpb.bsky.social Black/ADHD author and educator.
Race, neurodivergence, language, et al.
He/him
Buy recent book here: https://multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800419391
Website here: https://jpbgerald.com/
Substack here: https://pursuingmaglev.substack.com/
Intl. Association of Strikes & Social Conflicts @iassc.bsky.social Research network on the global history of strikes & social conflicts, backed by a consortium of leading research institutions. Find out more here: https://t.co/gGEth7Jrex
Strike Map @strikemap.org Putting struggle on the map across Britain and the Island of Ireland. Partnership with @gftu.org.uk. Submit a strike today #strikemap.
All our links: beacons.ai/strikemap
Jon Henner @jmhenner.bsky.social Deaf. Enduring Stage 4 Melanoma. | Professor | Disability Linguistics | I guess I do language stuff? And education stuff? | Skeets in own capacity | he/👉
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
Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics & Director of EDI for PPLS at University of Edinburgh.
he/him
LVC, digital (queer+youth+popular) cultures, 'MLE', & accent bias/linguistic discrimination - Edinburgh/London.
https://cilbury.wordpress.com/
Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social Workplace linguistic ethnographer | Socialist & unionist - current USyd NTEU branch committee member | EAP teacher. "Capire. Per meglio colpire" - Tronti. They/he
Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rlae20/about-this-journal
Bizzario @rbizzario.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Teacher & academic development; Applied linguistics; Education. Forest dweller 🌳🌱
Toitū te Tiriti. Free Palestine.
Views are mine & other disclaimers apply.
Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social glamourphonic electronic disco baby ❤️🏳️🌈
Neurodivergent queer trade unionist yarn fan gamer I guess!
✨♾️🌈✊🧶🎮
Community Garden Radio Wiki-lover
FionaLJP @fionaljp.bsky.social EAP practitioner in creative arts disciplines in UK HE
Blog: https://fionaljp800490415.wordpress.com/
Research: https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/pubid/LRE-22-1/
@ulivucu.bsky.social @ulivucu.bsky.social
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Education at the University of Manchester. Research focuses on international students and international higher education. “Research with International Students” book out now! www.researchintlstudents.com
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social Education consultant, writer of fiction & children's poetry; passionately committed to English as a subject, to education, and to the idea that learning is founded on dialogue. Poems on Dirigible Balloon & Northern Gravy.
Gise Tomé Lourido @gisetomelourido.bsky.social Associate Professor in Sociophonetics at the University of Leeds. Researching accent bias and related inequities. Promoting interdisciplinary language research as Director of Language@Leeds (she/her).
Dr Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social Austrian in London. Lecturer & Researcher @IOE UCL (@ucl.ac.uk) & @Vienna University
Sociolinguistics |Applied Linguistics |Language in education and business | Multilingualism | Discourse Studies | Ethnography | Language Policy
www.elisabethbarakos.com
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
LingComm @lingcomm.org Communicating linguistics with broader audiences (#LingComm25, 23, 21 conferences).
Posts by @becauselanguage.com
More info at lingcomm.org
Dr Tomasz John @tomaszjohn.bsky.social #TESOL #multilngualism #SocialJustice #internationalisation @StrathEdu Director of Global Engagement @BAALSJSIG + @lc_baalsig Comms @RefugEAP 🏴🏳️🌈🇵🇱|| views=mine
@natnovikava.bsky.social @natnovikava.bsky.social
Niamh Mullen (Ní Mhaoláin) @niamhmullen.bsky.social Associate Professor in EAP; University Belonging Academic Lead; University of Leeds; Own views
TEFL Workers' Union @teflunion.bsky.social We like our students. We like our jobs. We like our workmates. We don’t like struggling to pay the bills. We don’t like insecure employment. Join us!
Conor O'Reilly EdD @conororeilly.bsky.social Irishman - Former teacher - EdD on Irish HE - ADHDer - Back in Dublin after another 4 years in Korea - into poetry
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Trans lives matter 🏳️⚧️
Read me on substack: https://conororeilly.substack.com/
Andrea @teachbk.bsky.social public school educator. she/her
fan of art, coffee & liberation. nyc
فلسطين حرة
De Gruyter Brill Linguistics @dgb-linguistics.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Linguistics department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, including its imprint Mouton. Posts by our editors.
Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse @drrhianelinor.bsky.social Socialist feminist. HE worker (historian: gender based violence/medicine/psychiatry/🇬🇭/🇰🇪). Trade unionist: UCU NEC. Cat lady.
Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social Socialist, trade unionist, anti-fascist, archivist | UCU | rs21 | he/him
Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social Unite branch (LE127) for employees of the University and College Union. unite.le127@gmail.com | https://uniteucu.wordpress.com | https://union.place/@UniteUCU
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
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
Paul Breen @paulbreenauthor.bsky.social University lecturer, author & Ed Tech designer-somewhere between #LondonIrish writer & Irish writer in London-into #cycling #CAFC & #socialjustice too.
Laetitia Monbec @laetitiam.bsky.social Academic Literacy and EAP, Language in Higher Education, Multimodality and Colour Semiotics.
Director of Scholarship, Language Centre.
Co-director of the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching (CELT)
University of Leeds, UK.
Alex Ding @alexanderding.bsky.social Professor of English for Academic Purposes, University of Leeds
Dr. Mike Mena @mikemena.bsky.social Founder of "The Social Life of Language" on YouTube. Linguistic Anthropologist. Critical Race Theorist. Photographer. Videographer. Artist.
Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream @ OISE, University of Toronto / Mainly examining the intersections of language, race, and work within the context of education / he, him
https://www.vijay-ramjattan.com/
EAP for Social Justice @eap4sj.bsky.social A special interest group focused on Social Justice within the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) ✊ #eap4sj
🌐 Our website: eap4sj.weebly.com
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