Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
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
Tom Buchanan @tombuchanan99.bsky.social Professor of Psychology, University of Westminster, UK.
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/buchanan-tom
Public Discourses of Dementia @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social Research project at Lancaster University using linguistic analysis to identify and challenge dementia stigma.
Website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-discourses-of-dementia/ 
Dr Zsófia Demjén @zsofiademjen.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics (she).
Language & illness: vaccination, psychosis, cancer, depression | humor, metaphor, (im)politeness, pronouns, negation, narrative, corpus linguistics
Lara Warmelink @larawarmelink.bsky.social Psychologist at Lancaster University. Working on deception.
Dawn Knight @dawnknightcl.bsky.social Professor of Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University. Part time fitness (hockey) freak, full time Corpus geek
Collaborator on @corcencc.bsky.social @freetxt.bsky.social @gdc-wdg.bsky.social
Philip Seargeant @philipseargeant.bsky.social Language / Politics / Dystopian narratives
Professor of Language & Communication, Open University
Recent books:
The Future of Language
Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape
The Art of Political Storytelling
Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social Applied Linguist at Lancaster University | Senior Research Associate on the Public Discourses of Dementia project.
Especially interested in health and environmental discourses, multimodality, critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, metaphor, etc.
HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed academic journal of cutting-edge misinformation research. Follow for updates on articles & engagement with the #misinformationresearch community.
Rachelle Vessey 🇨🇦 @rachellevessey.bsky.social linguistics, corpus/discourse analysis, canadiana, media studies, language, politics, academia, education, language ideologies, language and gender, military discourse, French, English (& other things)
https://carleton.ca/slals/cu-people/vessey-rachelle/
Corpus in Focus @focuscorpus.bsky.social 🔍 Corpus in Focus: Exploring the world of Corpus Linguistics! Unlocking insights into language patterns, empowering research & enriching public knowledge. @FocusCorpus
Adrian Leemann @adrianleemann.bsky.social https://www.adrianleemann.com
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #phonetics #swissgerman #dialectology #forensicphonetics
Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social Assistant Professor at WU Vienna. Research interests: corpus-assisted methods, business discourse, deception and (im)politeness.🗣️💻
UCREL NLP Research Centre @ucrelnlp.bsky.social Research centre for the study of corpus linguistics and corpus-based natural language processing at Lancaster University
T: +44 1524 510357
E: ucrel@lancaster.ac.uk
W: https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/
Y: https://www.youtube.com/@ucrelcrs8222
Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
Linguistics and English Language @ Lancaster University @lancslinguistics.bsky.social 
Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social Associate professor of linguistics at University of Bologna, editor-in-chief JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social, research in #corpuslinguistics, #discourse, #journalism, #nostalgia. Website: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/anna.marchi/en
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Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social Professor in #Linguistics #Usyd #CorpusLinguistics #MediaLinguistics #SocioLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis #Stance #Affect #Emotion #DigitalHumanities
Founding director sydneycorpuslab.com
monikabednarek.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-5424
Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Media Matters, focusing on social media misinformation, disinformation, & online extremism. Statements are mine, not employer's. Send tips to akaplan@mediamatters.org.
Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social Disability advocate | Journalist | Author | Public speaker | Community organiser | Rep'd by Curtis Brown | My first book, THE VIEW FROM DOWN HERE, a very personal memoir of ableism and sexism, is out now 👩🦼🏳️🌈
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/
@danagablas.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Passionate about use of corpora for L2 learning, teaching & testing. Creator of CorpusForSchools.
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Helen Innes @softpaws50.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow interested in digital methods of influence. Cat person. WWFC.
Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Research: political communication, cognition, multimodality. Hobbies: hill/fell walking. Views my own.- K Karin Tusting @karinpt.bsky.social
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
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
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
Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social Professor of Discourse Analysis @Uni of Birmingham researching trust, business communication, AI. He/him. Views my own.
Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com Learning Programs Manager, Western Sydney University Library | PhD, Active Researcher | she/her | using this account to keep a record of what I read 📚
Research: mis/dis info, social media
www.oliviainwood.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-888X
Andrew Chadwick @andrewchadwick.com Prof, Media and Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been dubbed “that hybrid media guy.” More active on LinkedIn these days.
andrewchadwick.com
Occasional posts on music.
UK-OSINT @ukosint.bsky.social I've been using the internet as an investigative tool since the late 90’s & been training OSINT / i3 techniques since 2003
Website - https://www.uk-osint.net/
Linktree - https://linktr.ee/uk_osint
Founder Member - https://www.osint.uk/ 
@maxdemata.bsky.social @maxdemata.bsky.social 
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social I’m the master of my soul
PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
Matteo Di Cristofaro @matteodic.bsky.social Researcher in Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities @ UniMoRe. Corpus and Cognitive Linguist, Python & R user. Overall nerd (posts not representative of employers).
Website: https://infogrep.it
Online materials: https://catlism.github.io
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Don't hate the media - change the media. We're engaging with advertisers to make media hate unprofitable.
💌Let's make hate cost more: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-hate
Sharon Glaas @slglaas.bsky.social PhD | Linguist | political and media discourse | language of persuasion and evaluation | mis- & disinformation | narratives & framing | #corpuslinguistics #forensiclinguistics | Uni of Birmingham, UK
HoaxEye @hoaxeye.bsky.social Hoax fighter and fact finder. Main tools: reverse image search and coffee. Operated by Janne Ahlberg
Website: https://hoaxeye.wordpress.com
PolitiFact Rulings and Stories (unofficial) @politifactpatron.bsky.social A feed scraping rulings and stories from PolitiFact.com, created by a fan and donor until they join with an official account. Capped to post no more often than every 3 hours, up to 50 posts/month, until and unless I can pay for a Pro dlvr.it account.
AFP Fact Check @factcheck.afp.com Fact-checking by AFP News Agency.
Official account of the world's biggest news fact-checking network. Also on Instagram: @AFPFactCheck
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AFP Factuel @factuel.afp.com Fact-checking & investigation numérique.
Compte officiel.
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Lead Stories @leadstories.com Fact checking site looking at the most trending hoaxes on the Internet.
https://leadstories.com
Tasneem Solie @thespicybean.bsky.social Writing my PhD, send chocolate.
Discourse, Metaphor and Refugee studies📚
Immigrant
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Richard Holmes @richardholmes.bsky.social Multi-award winning Forensic Investigations Editor at The Telegraph
richard.holmes@telegraph.co.uk
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Taylor&Francis journal. We publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures and social change.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcds20
Full Fact @fullfact.org Full Fact is the UK's independent fact checking charity. We put reliable evidence at the heart of public debate so you can make sense of what matters.
www.fullfact.org
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Gianluca Stringhini @gianlucastringhini.com Associate Professor at BU. Cybersecurity and Cybersafety. Come for the memes, stay for the science. Skeets are my own
Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social Professor of Social Psychology in Society at the University of Cambridge and Author of FOOLPROOF: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023) + The Psychology of Misinformation (2024). Bad News Game.
www.sandervanderlinden.com
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Claire Wardle @cward1e.bsky.social Associate Professor, Dept of Communication, Cornell University. Bit partial to information ecosystems.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues 🏳️🌈🦜🏳️⚧️ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
they/them
Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk News about the world of news.
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Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social Reporting on conspiracy theorists and the far-right.
Substack: https://thedayofreckoning.substack.com
Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/muuf3tk
Go Bills.
Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Reporter lady @ms.now
Signal username: brandyzadrozny.53
Email from a non-work account: brandy.zadrozny@ms.now
BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social I am the founder of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies at Boston University
www.criticalinternet.org
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Olga Robinson @olgar.bsky.social Assistant Editor, BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring 
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
Maigh Eo
Ag atosú
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current human author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. Ally. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Slate @slate.com ~ ~ *brb visiting the 90s* ~ ~
You, you, you oUghTa KnOw: slate.com/party96
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
Poppy Plumb @poppyplumb.bsky.social 
FakeBelieve - Disinformation Research Blog @fakebelieveblog.bsky.social FakeBelieve is a blog about disinformation, ‘fake news’ and social media that publishes counter-disinformation case studies and resources. Admin: @williamdance.bsky.social
CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social Climate Action Against Disinformation
A global coalition of 120+ climate and anti-disinformation organisations.
https://caad.info/
Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social CEO & Founder of Center for Countering Digital Hate
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
EU DisinfoLab @disinfo.eu Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com International nonprofit protecting human rights online by tackling the spread of online harms. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Media: media@counterhate.com
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
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/
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xi’an JTU. All views are my own.
Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. Interested in corpus linguistics, language data science, AI, educational technology, and the world at large.
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
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
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Samuel Schmück @samschmueck.bsky.social 
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/
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207