People interested in metaphor
This is for anybody interested in how metaphor is used in language, science, science communication, culture, cognition, policy, literature, anything....
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@bnerlich.bsky.social
@tomdyr1.bsky.social
🧠 cognitive linguist 🖐️ gesture researcher 👨🏫 English teacher 🛤️ metaphor scholar 🎓 PhD in Linguistics
@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
@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
@markstaffbrandl.bsky.social
Artist, art historian, art/metaphor philosopher, loves animals, comics, progressive politics, physics too. https://www.drgreatart.ch/
@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
@sflusberg.bsky.social
Cognitive Scientist @ Vassar College. Interested in language, metaphor, and thought, amongst other things
@alicedeignan.bsky.social
Corpora, metaphor, young people's language, the language of school
@annahenschel.bsky.social
Redakteurin bei wissenschaftskommunikation.de | PhD @ University of Glasgow | she/her
@eltorosolo.bsky.social
Read Philosophy, write Philosophy, swear. (senior lecturer at u of exeter; phil. of medicine, politics, ethics & metaethics, philosophical methodology. Irish, sports bore, hobbyist guitar pedal-builder)
@heddwen.bsky.social
I write the monthly (ish) newsletter English in Progress. Slang, neologisms, fresh articles on language https://englishinprogress.substack.com/ English teacher at Bielefeld University (EAL & ELA) Dutch English World Englishes AI English Lexicography
@raammetaphor.bsky.social
Welcome to RaAM • The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor Official profile • #metaphor #research #linguistics Our next event is RaAM17: https://sites.google.com/view/raam17 https://www.raam.org.uk/
@carolinegf.bsky.social
PhD in Psycholinguistics (UFRGS) Communications Officer at @raammetaphor.bsky.social
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@fuchsflrn.bsky.social
literature, media, phil at Princeton German / projects: theory films . pre-Grimm folklore . early modern personal devices / books: “Civic Storytelling“ ZoneBooks . “Hans Blumenberg Reader” CornellUP . “Affordances of Short Forms” CG / fuchsflorian.com
@carolynporco.bsky.social
Voyager & Cassini! AAS Carl Sagan Medal 2010. Asteroid Porco 7231. Inaugural NatGeo Eliza Scidmore Award. Living my best life. If you like what you see here, signup for my newsletter on Substack! https://carolynporco.substack.com/
@polavieja.bsky.social
Scientist at Champalimaud Foundation (polaviejalab.org) and co-founder of Algebraic AI (algebraic.ai). #Maths4AI #AI4Science, #BehaviorAI #NeuroAI #CognitionAI #CollectiveBehavior
@christophj.bsky.social
Linguist FKA The Name Inspector. Author of Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little. Analytical Linguist @ Twitter fired by Musk. Working on a new book. He/him. Header: My son boxing in a sizzler, or us all fighting for the USA.
@dtitone.bsky.social
language & cognitive scientist at @mcgill.ca; co-founder of @wicscanada.bsky.social; Editor of @cjep.bsky.social; she/her
@glennhadikin.bsky.social
Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter. Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
@bilyanat.bsky.social
Linguist and nature lover. Editor-in-Chief of Ezikov svyat/Orbis Linguarum https://ezikovsvyat.swu.bg/index.php/en/
@evakrockow.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Psychology at University of Leicester; research on health decision making & risk communication, e.g. about antibiotic resistance; writer; yoga enthusiast; mother of two
@esranureo.bsky.social
Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Co-founder & co-convener @discore.bsky.social corpus-assisted discourse studies youth language, metaphor, crisis discourses 🪄 https://linktr.ee/esranureo
@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
@paulapsobrino.bsky.social
Cognitive linguist @unirioja. Interested in #metaphor #multimodality #methods // @accion_icon // www.paulapsobrino.com
@george-lakoff.com
Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
@agdorst.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Translation and Human-Centred AI @LeidenHumanities (NL). Loves metaphor, stylistics and (machine) translation. PI of NWO-Vidi project "Metaphors in Machine Translation: Reactions, Responses, Repercussions" (2025-2030).
@kensycoop.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, writer, podcaster. Interested in the diversity of communication & cognition. Language, gesture, concepts, time, space, metaphor. Host of Many Minds (@manymindspod.bsky.social) www.kensycooperrider.com
@rmtownsend.bsky.social
Deliberation, democracy & public engagement scholar #TeamRhetoric #Commsky politics in US & #CEE #transportation, public memory, Town Meeting. Lifter. #WMASS Aromanian @TownModerator.bsky.social
@stephenlucek.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Head of Linguistics at UCD. Main research interests include: Sociolinguistics, Language Regard, Irish English, Mediatised Representations, Multilingualism and many more! Brewer of "drinkable" beers.
@fransplains.bsky.social
Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic. "Needlessly polemical" https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish
@stancarey.bsky.social
Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in the west of Ireland Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com 🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey 🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
@andrewcrines.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in British Politics & Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Chair of the Board of Examiners & Incoming Assessment Lead | Views Own https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/ Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
@holkoniemi.bsky.social
University lecturer @unioulu.bsky.social | PI of the @percola.bsky.social | eye movements | visual cognition | reading | figurative language >> https://olkoniemi.com
@organicbotanic.bsky.social
Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI, public health, education, climate, UCU, films N Ireland 🇪🇺 Avoid🦠Covid. Photographs mine unless credited X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23
@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
@mdporto.bsky.social
Senior lecturer at @UAH. Metaphors, Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality…
@stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
A blog that aims to share appreciation for the width & depth of microbial activities. Posts by Christoph, not necessarily the opinion of all team members of Small Things Considered (STC) https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/
@ejsmdubois.bsky.social
Sociologist of science, CNRS Senior Researcher, Director @gemass-socio.bsky.social Co-director @rfs-revue.bsky.social #Sociology #Epigenetics #Researchintegrity, see https://www.gemass.fr/member/dubois-michel
@markmcglashan.com
Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics, University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social 🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
@rwjdingwall.bsky.social
Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.
@velocitygravity.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling. Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real. Associate Editor: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. It/ve/vem👾
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@lorenaph.bsky.social
Lingüista Cognitiva en #unirioja #GRISSU y #GA_ICON t.ly/BtyUn Consultora Lingüística para Lexicon Branding, Co. Colaboradora en Naukas. Escribo sobre el lenguaje en Principia, The Conversation y JotDown.
@niamhaod.bsky.social
Linguist (Ph.D) at Uni of Oslo | my research focuses on metaphor, creativity, and environmental communication
@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
@adelegoldberg.bsky.social
linguist, experimental work on meaning (lexical semantics), language use, representation, learning, constructionist usage-based approach, Princeton U https://adele.scholar.princeton.edu/publications/topic
@friederikelupke.bsky.social
Linguist. Multilingualism researcher. Africanist. Learner of Finnish. Professor of African Studies at the University of Helsinki and chair of AfriStadi.
@symbolicstorage.bsky.social
nerd. cognitive/evolutionary linguist. Assistant Prof at Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland (he/him) www.michaelpleyer.com @symbolicstorage@scholar.social @symbolicstorage
@matthewcobb.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus (Manchester), writes on history of science & French Resistance. Finishing a biography of Francis Crick, out in October 2025. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
@elenasemino.bsky.social
Professor in Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University; ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Metaphor, narrative | corpora | cancer, pain, Covid, vaccines https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/elena-semino
@salzacharias.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at School of Education, University of Glasgow. Educational linguistics. TESOL, EAL, CLIL
@stephenmcgann.uk
Doctor Thingy in Whatsitsname. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
@schrisomalis.bsky.social
Linguistic anthropologist, Wayne State University. Numbers, cognition, writing and literacy, mathematics. Left, 🇨🇦, he/him. https://glossographia.com/ https://phrontistery.info
@vdlorenzo.bsky.social
Synthetic Biology with a Southern European flavour for a new partnership with the Living World https://vdl-lab.com/ http://seva-plasmids.com/
@veronikakoller.bsky.social
Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Mother, singer, Quaker 🌈 Stroud/Lancaster (UK)
@tonythorne007.bsky.social
Slang, new language, etymology, cultural history. Language Consultant at King's College London.
@stockwell.bsky.social
Professor of Literary Linguistics At: University of Nottingham In: Sheffield Of: the Boro
@philipcball.bsky.social
Science writer and author of books including Bright Earth, The Music Instinct, Beyond Weird, How Life Works.
@lukeccollins.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science | Corpus linguistics | Health communication | Digital communication
@bnerlich.bsky.social
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