Please join me on 12th November at my @universityofleeds.bsky.social professorial inaugural lecture on ‘Language Diversity and Social (In)justice’. More info here, including a link at the bottom to book a ticket (which is free but we need to track numbers): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/even...

short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?) #EMCA #CSCW (paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social) medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

Our paper on how phonetic resources help to coordinate laughter draws on cases of joint laughter from conversations in English, Spanish and Finnish. Here's a summary of some of our findings (which rely heavily on Chafe, 2007), along with acoustic records of a laughter bout in Spanish.

Our paper with @marinanc.bsky.social and Jürgen Trouvain on Phonetic features in the management of laughter has just come out in Interactional Linguistics #phonetics #EMCA doi.org/10.1075/il.2...

There is freedom and relief in going underground while taking time to recover and regroup. Ready for new beginnings, working part-time, following along instead of leading and producing, and taking the pressure off myself for 6 months. Time to find the way back to myself. See you around, Bsky.

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🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

Was having a bit of a grumpy day and decided to go for a walk in the small local woods (only 10 mins away on foot from home!) while videocalling my mum, and we got the very rare sighting of 5 deer. If I hadn't gasped and screamed in excitement I would've taken a picture, but I scared them away.

Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland. On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social‬

End-of-job rituals: The final payslip. The new autoreply. Email signature removal of an affiliation and position that once made me proud. The updating of websites and profiles. The forwarding address. The acquired wisdom that those who make the promises never have the power to make the decisions.

I've actually really enjoyed Destination X (far more than The Traitors) but they gave a big chunk of the game away on episode 1 and because I do know my airport codes (too many hours spent on Flight Radar 😅) I am positive I know what the final destination will be for the finale tomorrow 🫤.

OMG I've just found the videos my teacher used to play to us when I started learning English in Argentina. I was 8 or 9 (most of my classmates were a few years older). I know why we were never excited about the video sessions. I'm a bit shocked to watch it now. youtu.be/PGiNjI1j2P4?...

🌙 Want to help shine a light on safer cycling? On 22 Oct 2025, communities across the UK will join mass Glow Rides as part of #MyRideOurRight Host your own ride & be part of the movement for safer, visible cycling. 👉 cyclinguk.org/glow-rides

Bursaries available for D/deaf or disabled people who would like to attend the DARCI Conference but are facing financial difficulties. Please share within your networks. It would be a shame for the bursaries to go unused forms.gle/65nzWy2QyGD5...

It sounds wild that a book about Burnout (also called “Burnout”by @enagoski.bsky.social and her sister, Amelia Nagoski, would bring joy, but it did. They even used a term called “joyfully ever after.” And that tickled me.

Heidi Puputti and I just published a paper in Human Studies, where we show how an embodied formation functions as a resource in organising joint work and facilitates joint accomplishment of the activity. The paper is open access: rdcu.be/eBZjj #EMCA

Sad and puzzling to see some departments shrinking and overloading colleagues, others with colleagues under threat of compulsory redundancy, while a couple of departments in the same institution are hiring *permanent* lecturers and a campus is being opened abroad. The joys of UK HE these days.

Super excited for this workshop at #SLE2025 in Bordeaux on "From Linguistics to Animal Communication and Back"

Finally accepting it's actually nice that for the next few months I'll only wrap up existing projects. There's some relief in knowing I don't have the external or internal pressure to develop something new. Sounds like giving up, but tbh I've burned all my matches and can't run after stuff anymore.

Redundancies are brutal, but noticeable. What's less obvious are increasing zero hours contracts, hourly paid lectureships, 12 month contracts, working for free. What used to be available to fairly pay a speaker is now the entire departmental training budget - liable to be cut at any point.

Call-for-papers: The International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference at the University Jyväskylä, 11–13 May, 2026. Theme: “Dialogic Matters: Exploring Materiality in Language, Communication, and Culture”. Deadline for abstracts 17 Nov 2025- www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...

Reaching the stage where Shut Up And Write isn't cutting it. Asking my university if they'll run a few Hand Over Your Phone And Descend Into The Pit sessions instead.

It’s summer bank holiday and it’s actually sunny. Doesn’t feel right at all.

Handy fact file for #RoyalChilternsWay 📏 282km / 175 miles 🔄 Circular from Reading, 3 loops 🌳 Off-road trails & chalk ridgelines 🚆 Easy rail links from London 🏕️ Campsites, pubs & B&Bs 🚲 Gravel or MTB recommended Map + GPX 👉 cyclinguk.org/royal-chilterns-way

Back to school time comes around again, chaos resumes and old routines creak back into place. If you’re already feeling overwhelmed and like you’re never going to be able to write, I have some free support over on my blog for you. jovanevery.co.uk/spotlight-on...

#CurrentlyReading The title makes it look like a recipe book but it's a lot more complex than that.

Safety measures have become part of the job with migrant and refugee orgs temporarily closing offices or installing safe rooms to protect from the far-right. If you can, show your local migrant charity some solidarity and support right now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Order restored. Crisis averted. Coffee saves the day.

XFiles S1:E6: Scully pops open Praat and Mulder talks about the formants

I often forget I've spent most of my life lecturing in and doing research on my second language (one that btw no one in my family even speaks), incl. teaching L1 speakers about the features of their language or how to teach it. Yet another achievement to consider when I stupidly beat myself up.

🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨 on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society 🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

I'm still recovering from burnout as an academic and I left academia in 2002. People with burnout need is support. A lot of it. Especially financial support. That's also the hardest thing to get for most of us and that deprivation and the precarity that comes with it deepens the problem.

Shouldn't have checked emails on my holiday but was expecting paperwork so now I'm gutted and irritated again, esp as one gathers more information about things. But at least we got an exciting article accepted, so that's a nice wrap-up to 3 yrs of work and a high note to leave my current job from.

The week you complete (in a polite yet extremely angry tone) your exit interview curiously matches the week you get a few HR visits on your LinkedIn profile. Thought I'd got over the anger but then as an alumna of the institution that is now making me redundant I'm getting emailed to donate money

Job alert! Join us at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a postdoctoral fellow to work on your own research for three years. #sociology

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

Can we stop calling long meetings retreats, academia?

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #emca #linguistics #sts

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

The amount of free intellectual labour done for academic job interviews is wild (I've written c. 50 teaching plans or syllabi as well as data analysis tasks and reports, plus research presentations). You do trust people on the board will act ethically, but unfortunately that is not always the case.

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

"At least six unis at risk of going bust before 2025 freshers finish their degrees" Apart from worries about cost, this is another reason many students are putting off applying for uni right now. Why apply if your course may be discontinued? inews.co.uk/news/educati...

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

There's now a special interest group for Conversation Analysis within the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.

"I finally found my rhythm when I realized even the steps backward were part of the dance." - Melody Godfred "By claiming my authenticity over everything else, I now make decisions that are in alignment -- rather than fueled by my ego's need for accomplishment." fredandfar.com/blogs/ff-blo...

I'm watching the new game show Destination X and I find it absolutely fascinating. If I were a secondary school teacher I'd use it to teach Geography and Modern Languages. I hope it becomes a thing and offers motivation or at least spark interest for those who only ever look inland on this island.

If you are new but curious about #iconicity and #sound #symbolism, or you want to have an update on some new papers in this domain, or simply enjoy listening to some research published in #JASA, listen here! Thank you Kat Setzer, @asa-news.bsky.social and @acwiek.bsky.social !

Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom

The spirit of long distance cycling is audacious - chapeau to all whose adventures take them beyond the horizon. A calendar of events can be found here: www.audax.uk/choose-a-rid... #Cycling #Audax #Randonneur #AUK