Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social Europe's leading association for International Studies. Home of #PEC2026 | #EWIS2026 | EJIR | Voices in IR
Dariusz Galasiński @dgalasinski.bsky.social Immigrant. Professor (Uni Wroclaw), linguist. Research on masculinity, suicide, illness, and communication about wine. Here often comments on wine and wine communication.
https://dariuszgalasinski.com
IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl
CADAAD Network @cadaad.bsky.social Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
An open community of researchers who critically engaged with discourse and society
Laura Filardo-Llamas @laurafilardollamas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics @Uva.es Interested in Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2644-975X
Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Official account of the Text and Language Lab led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, part of @dhssfau.bsky.social
at @fau.de.
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
Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
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
Restraint Reduction Network @restraintreductionnetwork.org The Restraint Reduction Network is a registered charity (1187984) working to reduce restrictive practices.
Contact us at rrn@bild.org.uk
restraintreductionnetwork.org 
Survivors against PD #StopSIM @survivorsnotpd.bsky.social Trauma survivors & allies against the label 'personality disorder'| Against pathologising survival | Blaming us for our own distress| #traumanotpd 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Professor John Read @profjohnread.bsky.social Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of East London
(views are my own)
Chair, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
www.iipdw.org
Author, with Pete Sanders, “A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems”
CADAAD 2026 @cadaad2026.bsky.social The latest CADAAD conference has taken place in Valladolid (Spain).
Dates: July 8th-10th 2026.
Location: Universidad de Valladolid.
🔗 official site: https://www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detail/cadaad-2026.html
🔗 other links: https://linktr.ee/CADAAD2026
Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Researchers in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University
https://mcrl.mmu.ac.uk/
Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social History of OCD, clinical psychology, concepts, methods, evidence.
Archive manager 4 @eshhs.bsky.social, Editor in Chief
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Nora Ramsey @nrammy.bsky.social Web archivist in London | Digital heritage & metadata | Musicology 🎶 | Challenging epistemicide in archives | Views Personal
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/
Christiana Gregoriou @cgregoriou.bsky.social Professor of Stylistics and Author @ Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction; English Literary Stylistics; Language, Ideology & Identity in Serial Killer Narratives; Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media
Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social Professor in Corpus linguistics, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
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
George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
🌵 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
Dr Ally Louks @drallylouks.bsky.social ✍🏻 Author 📚Literary Scholar 👩🏻🏫 Public Academic👃🏻Smell Expert 📖 UNDER YOUR NOSE: Spring 2027
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Senso.cloud @senso-cloud.bsky.social Focused on student safety, we strive to lead in student safety by combining human expertise, AI-driven threat analysis, and advanced linguistic techniques.
UKRI Funding Opportunities @funding.ukri.org HI! This is an autopost account from @ukri.org. We don't monitor mentions or replies. 
Prof Alexandra Pitman @alexandrapitman.bsky.social Professor of Psychiatry in the UCL Division of Psychiatry & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the North London NHS Foundation Trust; research on #suicide, #selfharm, #loneliness; Patron of the Support After Suicide Partnership.
Jonathan Culpeper @jculpeper.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University
Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social Green MP for Bristol Central.
Former Co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Engineer. Bi 🏳🌈. She/Her.
Need to get in touch?
📧 carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/carladenyer
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
碗lian @wanlian.bsky.social 
Wenzhan @wenzhan.bsky.social 文栈君
Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Rebecca M. Townsend @rmtownsend.bsky.social Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. Aromanian. Views here are personal & do not represent my employer #WMASS @TownModerator.bsky.social
CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Based at Lancaster University.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Trauma Research Foundation @traumaresearch.bsky.social Our Mission & Vision: To support and grow a community of clinicians, researchers, educators, and people whose lives are affected by trauma.
BAAL Health & Science SIG @baal-health-sig.bsky.social A British Association for Applied Linguistics special interest group (SIG), Health and Science Communication (HSC) provide a specialist forum for the development of research at the intersection of applied linguistics and health/science communication. 
Beth Malory @bethmalory.bsky.social Lecturer in English Linguistics at UCL. Researcher of reproductive health communication @uclenglishusage.bsky.social.
Dr Eloise Parr (she/her) @eloisebparr.bsky.social Insight and Impact Officer at CV Life. PhD linguistics at Uni of Birmingham. Metaphor enthusiast. Neurodivergent.
Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social Corpus linguist, CL methodologist, and rock climber. Strong believer in the importance of healthy work-life balance. Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University.
Dr Nicci MacLeod @drniccimacleod.bsky.social Reader in Forensic Linguistics & Deputy Director, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics aifl.bsky.social, Co-host, Writing Wrongs podcast https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensic-linguistics/writing-wrongs
Neus Alberich @neusalberich.bsky.social PhD researcher at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. Investigating normalisations of sexual violence against women online and misogynistic discourse • Committed to protecting animals • she/her
#ForensicLinguistics #LanguageAndLaw #manosphere
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
时差Podcast @shichapodcast.bsky.social a Mandarin Chinese podcast ft. early(ish) career researchers.
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/%E6%97%B6%E5%B7%AE-in-betweenness/id1519667412
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Y0GxhvuhPeQ2uRwSBOGsi
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies @durhamchina.bsky.social we are a multi-disciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of contemporary China and the wider East Asian region, based at Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/contemporary-chinese-studies/
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com The Made in China Journal is an independent #openaccess publication that seeks to facilitate critical discussion about Chinese politics and society. Visit us at https://madeinchinajournal.com.
A Global China Lab initiative (https://globalchinalab.com).
Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social Professor of Discourse Analysis @Uni of Birmingham researching trust, business communication, AI. He/him. Views my own.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
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
LIP Research Group @liprg.bsky.social Language, Ideology and Power Research Group, based at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, Lancaster University. We hold regular CDS research talks during term time.
Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social Psychologist at University of Oxford | Adolescence + mental health
Linktr.ee/lucyfoulkes
MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill @mantrap.bsky.social A group of researchers at various UK universities investigating the language of the manosphere
👤 @jessaiston.bsky.social
👤 @veronikakoller.bsky.social
👤 @alexiconartist.bsky.social
👤 @markmcglashan.com
🌐 https://www.markmcglashan.com/projects/mantrap
Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
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
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/
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
Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social Professor of Organisational Communication at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈
Odense (Denmark)
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️ @chenchenzhang.net migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. neurodiversity-affirming parenting. she/her. 不必等待炬火.
https://chenchenzhang.net/book
Zizi Papacharissi @zizip.bsky.social UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication + Poli Sci, Head of COMM@UIC Books: After Democracy; Affective Publics; A Private Sphere; A Networked Self series
Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social Professor of Digital Literature and Methods - FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 @cl2025.co.uk International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 #CL2025
30th June - 3rd July 2025 • Birmingham, UK
Aston University • Birmingham City University • University of Birmingham
https://www.cl2025.co.uk/
Sally Hunt @sallyhuntsa.bsky.social Linguist. Discourse analysis. Corpus linguistics. Gender. Children's literature. Rhodes University. Reading University. Open University. Rhodes University (again!). Gardener and creator of unfinished craft projects.
LAGB @lagbling.bsky.social Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
https://www.lagb.org.uk/
Peter Stockwell @stockwell.bsky.social Professor of Literary Linguistics
At: University of Nottingham
In: Sheffield
Of: the Boro
Jessica Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social Linguistics postdoc at Queen Mary University of London, working on 'Autism in Affinity Spaces'.
My research covers critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, digital communication, autism & specific interests, misogyny/antifeminism
Geordie. she/her
Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social Researcher | Assistant Editor
Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
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
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
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
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.
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.
Poppy Plumb @poppyplumb.bsky.social 
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
Help us fight misinformation https://factcheck.afp.com/contact
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
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
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
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/
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
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.
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/
WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social 🇨🇦 We post memes, comics, wholesome stuff & anything we like. We sell original shirts http://wholesomememes.com. 
Linguistics and English Language @ Lancaster University @lancslinguistics.bsky.social 
Jesse Egbert @jesse-egbert.bsky.social Text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics, language and law
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/
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Linguistics @ Man Met Uni, UK. I teach & research: corpora, gender, sexuality, videogames & online misogyny. Own views only. Usually in the gym 🏳️🌈 he/they
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
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
Steve Flusberg @sflusberg.bsky.social Cognitive Scientist @ Vassar College. Interested in language, metaphor, and thought, amongst other things