Martin Haspelmath's Starter Pack
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@haspelmath.bsky.social
@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
@gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.bsky.social, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@rmcelreath.bsky.social
Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - organic modem converting poetry into code - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
@chrmanning.bsky.social
Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
@andyperfors.bsky.social
Prof at UniMelb. I'm a computational cognitive scientist studying human inference, learning, information systems, culture, and (mis/dis)info. Nerd & opinionated loudmouth in Oz, originally from America, citizen of both. Parent of two. 🏳️⚧️ perfors.net
@mcxfrank.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad. http://langcog.stanford.edu
@paulita.bsky.social
Sociologist, focus on gender, care, biopolitics / embodiment, family, popular culture, STS prof & chair LMU Munich Former president of German Sociological Association (DGS) Privately here 🥾 / ☕️ / 🥘/ 🍷/ 🪴 🌺 Trying to be a Mensh 🇦🇷 🌈 ✡️
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
@lingthusiasm.bsky.social
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcc.bsky.social and @superlinguo.bsky.social "Fascinating" -NYT "Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed lingthusiasm.com Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
@psmaldino.bsky.social
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Professor at UC Merced and the Santa Fe Institute. Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
@spiantado.bsky.social
computational cognitive science he/him http://colala.berkeley.edu/people/piantadosi/
@fernandaedi.bsky.social
Psycholinguist @UCDavis. Made in Portugal, raised in Canada, living in California. Author of "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" from Oxford University Press, coming out January 23, 2025.
@xphilosopher.bsky.social
An account for experimental philosophy - an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy and psychology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_philosophy#:~:text=Experimental%20philosophy%20is%20an%20emerging,inform%20research%20on%20phi
@rplevy.bsky.social
Director, MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Lab. President, Cognitive Science Society. Chair-Elect of the MIT Faculty. Open access & open science advocate. He. Lab webpage: http://cpl.mit.edu/ Personal webpage: https://www.mit.edu/~rplevy
@surgeonshall.bsky.social
Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world. Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
@evfedorenko.bsky.social
I study language using tools from cognitive science and neuroscience. I also like snuggles.
@asifamajid.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Oxford @oxexppsy.bsky.social
@neilcohn.bsky.social
Comics creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨 www.visuallanguagelab.com
@kmahowald.bsky.social
UT Austin linguist http://mahowak.github.io/. computational linguistics, cognition, psycholinguistics, NLP, crosswords. occasionally hockey?
@manybabies.org
A global consortium of developmental researchers. Join us! manybabies.org [posts by ExecDirector @hbaum.bsky.social]
@patrickesavage.bsky.social
Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social. Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland. Assoc. Prof. @Keio U. PI @manyvoices.bsky.social. Music, evolution, diversity. He/him. Tangata tiriti.
@dannybate.bsky.social
"That etymology guy". Linguist, broadcaster on Czech Radio, writer, researcher, language fanatic, recovering PhD student. Angličan v Praze. Host of the podcast 'A Language I Love Is...'. Personal website: https://dannybate.com/
@garicgymro.bsky.social
Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He. Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo. https://linktr.ee/garicgymro
@complingy.bsky.social
Computational Linguist and Professional Nerd at Georgetown University he/him pronouns, ALL the prepositions. http://nathan.cl
@acerbialberto.com
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy): cognitive anthropology / cultural evolution / digital media / cultural analytics More info in the pinned post.
@xkcd.com
@umasslinguistics.bsky.social
The University Of Massachusetts Boston Applied Linguistics Department. Account managed by @koutropoulos.bsky.social
@adamcschembri.bsky.social
https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK Born/raised on Dharug land 🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺 Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
@gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
Professor of psychology; University of St Andrews, UK; gender/sex, evolution, culture; she/her. 🌈 New edition: 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' (https://tinyurl.com/yfv2kc27) Lab: https://gillianbrown.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
@hugoreasoning.bsky.social
Evolutionary and cognitive psychologist. Author, Not Born Yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/yyh929ns), The Enigma of Reason (http://tinyurl.com/6hbpn84).
@lynneguist.bsky.social
US linguist in UK. University of Sussex. Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/30d0ffd3a48e/separated-by-a-common-newsletter Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
@celestekidd.bsky.social
Professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. Studies how people form beliefs, why the beliefs are sometimes flawed, & how new tech impacts those beliefs.
@yvanspijk.bsky.social
/'dʑowɪn/ • taalkundige | linguist • schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' | author • all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk • Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk • links: linktr.ee/yvanspijk • photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
@becauselanguage.com
A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd).
@elliescerri.bsky.social
Archaeologist, head of the Human Palaeosystems Group at the MPI-GEA, Reader at the University of Cologne, A/Prof at the University of Malta & NatGeo Explorer. Human evolution, niche expansion & the transition to human dominated landscapes.
@mattitiahu.bsky.social
Philologist and historical linguist at the University of Copenhagen. I mainly work on Ancient Greek dialects and Indo-European historical/comparative linguistics but I do other things too. (he/er/han/αυτός/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ)
@wzuidema.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Natural Language Processing & Explainable AI, University of Amsterdam, ILLC
@mgrill.bsky.social
Investigative & healthcare reporter for NDR/WDR. Previously editor-in-chief CORRECTIV, editor & reporter SPIEGEL and STERN magazine. Roots: Badische Zeitung. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/investigation/grill318.html Website: markusgrill.eu
@kilinguistics.bsky.social
linguist human rights for everyone (yes, including refugees, trans people, children, disabled people, Black people, etc.) neurosomething (autistic) all posts reflect private opinions
@lhlew.bsky.social
Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-housing, adoption-critical, Gàidhlig learner, BSL learner, musician, Trekkie, dysthymic, bleeding-heart cynic. She/her.
@davidadger.bsky.social
syntax and other stuff, mainly more linguistics and cogsci but occasional queerness, poetry, cats and @ans.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
@michaelerard.bsky.social
Writer, linguist. American abroad. End of life doula in training. New book: Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words. The Economist called it "strangely comforting." https://bit.ly/4kN0PKa More at www.michaelerard.com
@moppety.bsky.social
Parisienne Buffalonian linguist spoonie mom. http://bcopley.com "The line separating good and evil passes...right through every human heart." -Solzhenitsyn
@superlinguo.bsky.social
Linguist Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm Podcast: @lingthusiasm Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz Blog: superlinguo.com She/her(/they)
@haspelmath.bsky.social
comparative linguist, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig); https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath