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...

I asked ChatGPT o3 to replicate the findings of Pomerantz (1984). I gave it a summary and a set of 10 transcripts (NB). Results were mixed: the evidence it presented was clear in some cases, but less so in others, and some observations were superficial. drive.google.com/file/d/1l4rM...

I gave ChatGPT o3 and Claude Opus transcripts from the NB corpus (publicly available on TalkBank) and asked them to "find a something", i.e., to identify a phenomenon in the data to study. The results are less impressive than the conceptual acrobatics in their PhD proposals. 🧵👇

#YorCCA's off to a great start! Check out the programme here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

I asked five AIs to draft PhD proposals in conversation analysis. On one level, this is a simple thought experiment: what might an AI do if it went to grad school? On another, it gives us a glimpse of a near-future in which AI guides human inquiry. 🧵👇

🚀 The programme for the York Conference on Conversation Analysis is now live! 📅 Join us in York on 18-19 July for two days of insightful sessions. Check out the full programme and register now 👉 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

The first article from my PhD, "How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment," has now been published! Co-authored with @kobinkendrick.bsky.social and Merran Toerien. Access it free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lJZg1L-nh... Here is what we did and what we found:

Registration is now open for the York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA). The conference is on Fri 18 July (in-person or online) with Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada as invited speakers. Workshops by Paul and Lorenza for PhD students (in-person) on Sat 19 July.

#EMCA Our recent paper examines the details of professedly simultaneous phenomena (e.g., choral actions). We argue that simultaneity is a gloss for describing temporal relations, and “sequentiality is the organizational principle securing their actual accomplishment”. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

New book by Steve Levinson on social interaction, human communication, cross-cultural universals, and the evolution of language. It's open-access, so go grab the PDF now! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

📢 Deadline Extended! Abstract submissions for the York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) are now open until Monday 28 April. 🗓️ We welcome abstracts from currently-enrolled PhD researchers for in-person presentations or online posters! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

Another excellent reason to attend the #YorCCA conference - Prof Mondada is that rare thing, a genuine world authority, in this case on the multi-modal analysis of behaviour & action (and I mean multi-modal, from touch to smell and everything in between). Not to be missed.

We are excited to have Professor Paul Drew as an invited speaker at #YorCCA2025! His research focuses on the practices of ordinary interaction and communicative practices in institutional settings like healthcare. His transformative contributions have advanced both basic and applied research in CA.

Join us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction. Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!

📣 Exciting opportunity for language researchers in 🇫🇮 and the University of Oulu (@unioulu.bsky.social). We are hiring a tenure track professor in "Language use and comprehensive security". Apply here: oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The new ChatGPT 4o image generation is transformative for multimodal conversation analysis. It creates anonymized illustrations in any style while preserving relevant details of embodied conduct—useful when you lack ethical approval to include frame grabs in publications.

⚠️ Final call! Abstract submissions close on 22 April. Don’t miss the chance to share your research at #YorCCA2025!

This paper combining corpus and experimental avatar studies from Paul’s PhD work is finally out, demonstrating systematic relations between verbal repair formats and eyebrow movements, as well an influence of addressees’ eyebrow furrows on speakers’ speech.

🚀 One month to go until the abstract submission deadline for @yorcca.bsky.social 2025! If you're curious about what the conference is like, check out this report by Yuhan Jing. www.conversationanalysis.org/report-on-yo...

Over the years, I’ve sometimes given grad students the list of reading - as I then recalled it - that Sacks gave me when we first met. Yesterday, I came across my original list, while rummaging through a file folder of my earliest lecture notes from grad school. Here is the actual list. Enjoy!

Update re pypi package envisionHGdetector! Our preprint "EnvisionHGdetector: A Computational Framework for Co-Speech Gesture Detection, Kinematic Analysis, and Interactive Visualization" is now out! osf.io/preprints/ps... @jamestrujillo.bsky.social @gdemelo.bsky.social @babajideowoyele.bsky.social

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Just back to the UK after two weeks at Ocean University of China and wanted to share this photo from Monday and Tuesday's workshop on multimodality. Grateful for the wonderful participants and their insightful contributions!

Does anyone have the full set of video clips from Sacks and Schegloff's (2002) home position article? The journal's website has Movies 1 to 7, but 8 to 16 are unavailable. It looks like the links are broken. benjamins.com/catalog/gest...

A fantastic few days so far at Ocean University of China, teaching Advanced Methods in Conversation Analysis with Paul Drew. Huge thanks to Guodong Yu and Yaxin Wu for organizing such a great event! 📸

A reminder that the call for papers for #YorCCA2025 is open!

I'm running an on-line course on the phonetics of talk-in-interaction in June with @marinanc.bsky.social. More information from this link: www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd...

I just came across another (apparent) handout: “Some Ways Conversation Analysts Interrogate Talk-in-Interaction” but cannot remember the venue at which it was circulated. Nonetheless, some might find it or bits of it useful… www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/poylj...

We are very proud to release 360mash - a light weight and completely free software for doing anonymisation.

I just stumbled across an old course handout. I thought I might share it here.

Creating a data outline is a very useful step in developing an analysis of an interactional phenomenon in CA. I learned this technique from Gene 🙏 and have taught it to many students over the years.

Because CA findings are necessarily tied to and grounded in and configured by reference to participants’ situated participation, I was wondering just how broad or general purpose CA findings could be (without becoming untethered). www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k4f6n...

Multimodal transcription is essential for representing visible action in CA transcripts. I’ve recorded a video series showing how I transcribe embodied action step by step. Links to the videos are in the thread below ⬇️

📢 Call for Papers: YorCCA 2025 📢 📅 18–19 July 2025 📍 University of York 🎓 Abstract submission deadline: 22nd April 2025 ✏️ Aimed at PhD researchers in conversation analysis. 🔗 Check the website for submission details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

We are seeking insights from the #EMCA community into how we provide future CA-based training about communication in medical and healthcare interactions. Help us tailor the changes to the course we have run for a number of years to your needs and interests: uni-york.formstack.com/forms/commun...

The second York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) has just been announced, with Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada as invited speakers. Save the date!

🎉 Exciting news! The 2025 YorCCA will take place on July 18th and 19th, 2025 at the University of York. Invited speakers: Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada 🗓️ Save the date and stay tuned for more details! 🌐 For more information, visit: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... #FeelTheYorCCA

@judithholler.bsky.social and I have written an entry on 'Conversation' for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science edited by Mike Frank and @asifamajid.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed to such a fantastic resource! oecs.mit.edu/pub/gx9ypm4x...

I've joined the exodus, but you'll still find me on the bad place as well.