Brigitte Nerlich
Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
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People interested in metaphor
This is for anybody interested in how metaphor is used in language, science, science communication, culture, cognition, policy, literature, anything....
@eve.gd
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
@ernestowg.bsky.social
🇨🇺 in 🇧🇪 Linguist, teacher (Université de Liège), translator. Cosas random y drama cotidiano. A veces comparto lo que leo. Posts in ES, EN & FR 📍 Liège, Belgique ⁂ : https://socialfolio.me/ernestowg
@theframelab.bsky.social
FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy. Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
@lshtmcepr.bsky.social
Bringing together global expertise, knowledge, research and teaching to help humanity adapt faster to outbreaks of disease.
@albinwagener.bsky.social
Discourse Analyst. Prof @ ESSLIL, Catholic University of Lille, France. Language, Design, Communication, Climate, Discrimination, Memes, Identity, Ecology, Society, Politics, Postdigitality, Corpus, Culture. Music: The Memory Of Snow
@nettwerkerin.bsky.social
KI-Professorin an der RPTU in Kaiserslautern. Leitet das Algorithm Accountability Lab und den Studiengang Sozioinformatik. Bestsellerautorin mit "Ein Algorithmus hat kein Taktgefühl" und "Die KI war's", beides im Heyne-Verlag.
@phyllida.bsky.social
Greek & Roman history, politics, art history, literature. Music: Mahler, DSCH, opera, chamber music. Have lived in Rome & Amsterdam. Love languages, theatre, museums in general, Shakespeare, London, the House of Commons, Rowson cartoons, in particular.😊
@nccomfort.bsky.social
Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. History of genetics, eugenics, molecular biology, genomics. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. They’ll cut my sarcasm from my cold dead throat!
@teapotlinguist.bsky.social
Linguist(ician) 🇪🇺🏳️🌈 Histor(y of linguistics|ical linguistics) @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Posts for: @hiphilangsci.bsky.social & @izeusberlin.bsky.social
@mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP): Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Project funded by EU CHANSE. https://mediaepidemics.com
@amahury.bsky.social
Exciting stuff on complexity, theoretical biology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuroscience and their intersections. #complexitycat https://amahury.github.io/
@stucap.bsky.social
Environmental social scientist | Climate-terrified | Haphazard activist | Recovering academic | World-weary melanchole
@schuylerlaparle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Communication and Cognition | Researching metaphor and gesture | Caring about prefigurative politics and emancipatory education | Wanting secretly to be a woodworker
@barbaradecock.bsky.social
Professor in Spanish linguistics at UCLouvain I'm interested in pragmatics and discourse analysis on politics, healthcare, and everyday life. Circle U. chair for democracy Avid reader who likes to go hiking
@handle.invalid
Exploring topics related to science, technology & environmental studies, political communication, intellectual history, public philosophy, and civic life. https://mattnisbet.substack.com/
@adeleguyton.bsky.social
PhD on astronomical knowledge in German and British popular magazines, 1890-WWII. Singer, reader of SF, sewist. She/her. I'm the person on the left in my profile pic.
@naikalema.bsky.social
Global Political Economy of Digital Transformation & AI | PhD student @IIPP_UCL | 24-25 Tech & Human Rights Fellow @CarrCenter @Harvard (she/her) (RT≠E) 📍🇬🇧
@fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
Maitre de Conférences en linguistique anglaise - Senior Lecturer in English linguistics, Université d'Artois | morphosyntaxe & pragmatique | Linguiste atterré @tract-linguistes.org | engagé handicap, autisme | 🚴 | ☘️ 🔗 https://linktr.ee/f_moncomble
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
The official account for the University of Nottingham. #WeAreUoN
@danlockton.com
Utrecht, Netherlands + Norwich, UK Director of the Institute for Sustainable Worlds, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Design—imagination—climate—futures ⦿ Imaginaries Lab http://imaginari.es ⦿ http://newmetaphors.com ⦿ he/him
@melhogan.bsky.social
Critical media scholar interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot 😷🏳️🌈 🎙️ The Data Fix thedatafix.net 📝 Heliotrope heliotropejournal.net
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton. Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 1 Vincent Square, SW1P 2PN.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Because Science is for everyone! 🧪🌎 Learn more ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/standupforscience2025 👯sister org: @sciforgood.bsky.social
@enroweb.bsky.social
Données de recherche et #dataESR à l'université de Bordeaux. Co-fondateur du Café des sciences et de Deuxième labo. Administrateur de l'association Traces. #OpenData #OpenScience Également sur Mastodon : @enroweb@qoto.org
@sciencewise.bsky.social
Working with policymakers and researchers to meaningfully involve the public in policymaking. We are a consortium with UKRI, British Science Association and the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Involvement. More here: www.sciencewise.org.uk
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@zsofiademjen.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics (she). Language & illness: psychosis, depression, cancer, vaccinations | humor, metaphor, (im)politeness, pronouns, negation, narrative, corpus linguistics
@thierryaaron.bsky.social
Graduate student at Cardiff University - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
@seasonalight.com
Symialosopher, ecologist, neologist, writer, #rivers She/her. PhD MMU #Fluminism as Lit. #symbioethics #ADHD MA Applied Ethics. www.seasonalight.com CEP: https://thinkingintheworld.com/members/ginny-battson/ Alt Txt: butterfly wing (vector design)
@sumner77.bsky.social
Has acquired on this platform the handle Twitter so cruelly denied me in 2013
@anaisauge.bsky.social
FNRS researcher UCLouvain Metaphor & Argumentation Discourse & Politics Climate & Social Justice Feminism https://www.routledge.com/Metaphor-and-Argumentation-in-Climate-Crisis-Discourse/Auge/p/book/9781032379791
@markstaffbrandl.bsky.social
Artist, art historian, art/metaphor philosopher, loves animals, comics, progressive politics, physics too. https://www.drgreatart.ch/
@liedra.net
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games Content co-lead #EMFCamp Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic https://liedra.net
@climatehuman.bsky.social
Climate scientist working at NASA/JPL and lover of truth. Arrested for defending Earth. Opinions mine.
@cambridgediary.bsky.social
Cambridge Photographer behind 'A Cambridge Diary' - 5,000 continuous daily pictures at www.cambridgediary.co.uk. New book 'Time & Space' available now at https://cambridgebooks.co.uk
@gregwoodin.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬 Multimodality, numbers, metaphor, iconicity, gesture 🤏 🔢 #rstats #python #datascience #openscience 💻 🔓 https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x
@weatherwest.bsky.social
Climate scientist-communicator focused on extreme events like floods, droughts, & wildfires on a warming planet. www.weatherwest.com
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
@masssimons.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Philosophy of Technology Maastricht University, fascinated by #synbio, #experimentation, #historicalepistemology, #HOPOS, #HOPOT, #sciencefiction and #conspiracytheory - he/him
@georgeradics.bsky.social
Sociologist/Law&Society Scholar. Interested in criminalization at the margins, focusing on race and sexuality. georgebradics.com
@visualplague.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) | Global War Against the Rat project, zoonoses, plague, medical anthropology, history of colonial medicine, animal studies & visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
@sflusberg.bsky.social
Cognitive Scientist @ Vassar College. Interested in language, metaphor, and thought, amongst other things
@smesoy.bsky.social
Ion channels and lipid membrane composition, with keen scicomm interest
@stephenjcave.bsky.social
Philosopher interested in the ethics of AI, life extension, im/mortality. Director of @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social at the University of Cambridge.
@wokestudies.bsky.social
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
@ruthmottram.bsky.social
Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general. Dipping a toe in yet another social media site. Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net