Beth Young
Inveterate reader and book-recommender, PI of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online project, mom of three, opinions my own, also on 🧵
@srsrensoc.bsky.social
SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥
@fierengraw.bsky.social
Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool. Currently working on early modern whales She/her https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content https://18thcparatext.wordpress
@rebeccaolds.bsky.social
Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher | UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk | cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
@cweiss-smith.bsky.social
professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
@mamday.bsky.social
Aspiring data librarian, public library part time. 40. Atheist. Married. Trans. PhD physics, 8 of 12 s. at Syracuse U. MSLIS mamday.github.io IG: mamday1 Tktk: maxamday PhD: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1054811 LdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamday
@antiprofessor.bsky.social
Crabby, dopey, fussy, grumpy, lazy, messy, nosy, pesky, queasy, rusty, sneezy, teasy, wheezy
@davemazella.bsky.social
so how does this thing work? eighteenth-century scholar hiding away in Heatdome, TX. aspiring flaneur. street parliamentarian
@diogeneslamp.bsky.social
Wit & one liners about science, pseudoscience & anti-science.
@complingy.bsky.social
Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions. http://nathan.cl
@mkevane.com
Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Interested in political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, and housing issues in San José, CA. I like engaging in university governance, too. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org
@atrubek.bsky.social
founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
@norahwoodsey.com
I’m a scifi author, former moderator, and fourth generation Brooklynite. she/her norahwoodsey.com ALT text for banner: a preschooler drawing of a bear, heart outside his body and face stoic, projected on an interior wall
@samthielman.com
Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen New Yorker, Slate, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | 741.5 (Comic books, strips, etc.) | cat subordinate | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE with Sean Howe forthcoming from HarperOne
@catsofyore.bsky.social
Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Fergus and Francie. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908. Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
@ibumichele.bsky.social
IT geek since the 1980s. Trailing spouse, art person, childless cat lady, Mandarin language student, writer, baker, quilter, and more. She/her. Back in the US again. Off to Taiwan next https://www.votefromabroad.org https://www.thecenzers.com
@misterslang.bsky.social
Slang Lexicographer. https://greensdictofslang.com https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com https://jonathongreen.substack.com
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • T-shirt magnate • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@alexpagliuca.bsky.social
Writer. Film lover. Horror evangelist. Anti-fascist. Night owl. Misfit toy. Pragmatic idealist, and skeptic at the same time. Autistic. AI is for suckers. If you’re interested in my pronouns, ask. Having a unisex name is useful in certain ways.
@skleinedler.bsky.social
Editor. Erstwhile lexicographer. Queer. Widowed. Lives with their cat. Programming Coordinator - Salem Horror Fest (Opinions are my own.) https://letterboxd.com/stevekl/
@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.
@joshuajfriedman.com
Freelance writer and editor. Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review. Copy chief at Columbia Magazine.
@melmac.bsky.social
Teacher, researcher, writer on Victorian literature, culture, and politics; hot takes my own
@stillots1.bsky.social
Prof. Emeritus at Dalhousie/King's in Halifax, NS. Canadian history (with sources), public finance, pix of woodland and coast. Slow to anger. Stage IV MBC https://ukings.ca/people/shirley-tillotson/
@davidniallwilson.com
Author, Publisher, some awards, USA Today bestseller. Wrangler of 12 cats & chinchilla, ex-Prez HWA, trivia not fact checked. Way left. Husband & father, I'm Crossroad Press! #startrek #stargate #WoD https://www.davidniallwilson.com
@jacklynch000.bsky.social
Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric. C18 British lit, dictionaries & lexicography, book history, political smartassery. https://jacklynch.net
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@drewmagary.bsky.social
Defector.com. SFGate.com. Six books. I'm just here for a good time.
@danelphick.bsky.social
Music Lecturer at RHUL, working on music history and analysis, and Slavic studies. Also a runner and TU organiser (Chair of @rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h https://danielelphick.co.uk
@kirbyconrod.bsky.social
assistant prof in linguistics at swarthmore; phd in linguistics from u washington; sociosyntax; they/them or ey/em.
@breathingagain.bsky.social
Freelance Editor, Dramatist, Medieval Studies. I want time to read, breathe, watch TCM, and walk on the beach. Trying to forget I used to work in all things DATA. > 120 days clean from MSM
@edyong209.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him 📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm Edyong.me
@lawzag.bsky.social
You’ll be hearing from my lawyer. Not to threaten litigation or anything. Just, you know, to commiserate with you about my behavior.
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I am a marine conservation biologist studying sharks and a science writer. Posts are about science and the environment, science communication, and more! He/him
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
Attorney, former AUSA, father, husband, former JBLC, long-time Knicks fan and occasional talking head https://mitchellepner.substack.com/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/mitchell-epner
@lizdye.bsky.social
Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com Make words do yoga Above the Law, Public Notice, Legal Eagle Charm City forever She/Her
@kmilne.bsky.social
Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱) working on DH, and medieval English lit and book history. Olim University of Ottawa 🇨🇦. She/her.
@petermgilliver.bsky.social
Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.
@rafletcher.bsky.social
Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
@djpoissant.bsky.social
Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
@petitdictionnaire.bsky.social
Divorce warrior, uncloseted romantic, language teacher, bookish mum of three boys. From 🇳🇱 living in 🇫🇷. Definitely not single. Studying 🇸🇪. Ally 🏳️🌈.
@a-ndictionary.bsky.social
The AND is an open-access digital platform at Aberystwyth University about Anglo-Norman, the type of French used in the British Isles throughout the medieval period.- visit https://anglo-norman.net.
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
@dictionarycom.bsky.social
The official feed for Dictionary.com, the world's leading digital dictionary. Home to Word of the Day. Good at words, bad at Bluesky.
@filthyelitist.bsky.social
@etymology.bsky.social
True but unserious facts about language history every day! unless it’s raining or I’m busy. Blame @coolhand