Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Thank you very much to the committee members, @galinabolden.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social Lisa Mikesell, Jeff Robinson, and other @rucalteam.bsky.social members, for years of support and guidance.

Call for papers very relevant to #EMCA

Do you agree no religious clerics should get automatic seats in our legislature? Write to your MP and tell them it's time to abolish the bishops' bench 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/scrap-bishop...

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. People fly or dial in from all over the world. Still great fun. #EMCA

The cover has arrived! Emotionography! Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used. @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Oulu, Finland is a welcoming place to work, with a large, friendly and highly expert group of #EMCA researchers

Interdisciplinary symposium on human-AI interaction taking place at University of Warwick next month: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!

Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas. #discursivepsychology #EMCA

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more? Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026. Talks, group work & data sessions with experts. Registration (£45 or £90) is now open. More information here emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... #EMCA

How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation? Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess

🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective - 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties) - 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication - 1 expert clinical discussant doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations" Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers. doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7

Whatever their faults, universities need to be defended in the current anti-intellectual environment. @thetimes.com timeshighered.bsky.social

#1 Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵 👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...

Reposting: Please join us at Rutgers Communication dept - open rank position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Comm! Apply by Sept 25; contact me with any Qs #emca jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

Pre-registration ends in just 2 weeks!

Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca

new paper on because-prefaced utterances (BPUs) in child interaction: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social #lansibunch #emca

This olde exchange concerning the place of ‘social-structural’ considerations in descriptions of the organizations of talk-in-interaction was recently brought to mind. (Perhaps the ‘obscurity’ involved was there to shield the suggestion from promiscuous application!) #EMCA

Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 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...

A reminder from @marinanc.bsky.social that there is an #EMCA group on LinkedIn as well that would be nice to reactivate: www.linkedin.com/groups/2276942

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...

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

The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, as it happens at the café counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky

Whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage

🎯 What’s on at the main conference on 18 July? ✔️ PhD Presentations in CA ✔️ Talks from: 🔬 Paul – Applications of CA to Medical Interactions 🧩 Lorenza – Multimodal Conversation Analysis ✔️ Peer Networking 🌍 Join us: store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

📢 Lboro CA Day 2025 A fantastic day of #EMCA presentations & networking. 📍 Lboro/hybrid 📅 15 Dec Register now! Call for abstracts open! darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day... @darg-sessions.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @lborocrcc.bsky.social

A snippet from the new rolsi.net blog by @profsalwiggins.bsky.social on the initial meeting of the EatSiN network of #EMCA food & interaction researchers. rolsi.net

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.

Can #AI understand 'human distress'? And where might a conversation analytic answer to this question start? #LSE is publishing a new series of video shorts on the impact of AI technology and it's great to have #EMCA in it! youtu.be/rwBgZxmeCDM?... 🧵 1/3 @lsepbs.bsky.social

🚨Save the date!🚨 🗣️Spread the word! 🗣️ The next ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University on 🗓️24-26 August 2026🗓️ icopl2.org More details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for abstracts, and more, coming soon! #EMCA #L2interaction

We're pleased that the Special Section on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis" is attracting interest. Topics include: "legacy" data; ethics boards; curated repositories; open science; cultural norms... Online here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/5...

We are advertising an Online Workshop in Conversation Analysis and Healthcare Interactions (Loughborough University). Details: darg.lboro.ac.uk/news/new-wor...

Can you use AI in teaching Conversation Analysis? @bogdanahuma.bsky.social reports using a remarkably real-sounding AI-generated podcast, ostensibly discussing a CA paper. Will students spot its mistakes, trivial and profound? The new ROLSI.net blog here: rolsi.net/2025/05/30/g...

Does CA’s unique approach to language and social interaction come across correctly in the AI-generated podcast? Really excellent and thought provoking @rolsi-journal.bsky.social blog by Bogdana Huma with some useful ideas for assignments @bogdanahuma.bsky.social #emca

As chilly winter temperatures set in, we look at Wits University -host of IIEMCA27- which will be 105 years old in 2027. Wits is a multi-campus university that spans 400 hectares in Braamfontein and Parktown (Johannesburg). There is so much to experience at Wits...

We are excited to announce an interaction-based open science sandpit event! Insights from ongoing discourse analysis and experimental research Experimental researchers' experiences of the project. Open discussions on future funding opportunities for researchers. #EMCA #DiscursivePsychology

The Editors hope that this Special Section on collecting CA data will speak to calls for greater transparency in recording personal and institutional interactions. We are grateful to the contributors for insightful and thought-provoking essays. #EMCA www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't

A fascinating closely-observed account of the interplay between bystanders and police in a notorious case. It recalls Chuck and Candy Goodwin's work on the murder of Rodney King (not referenced) querying the official account. #EMCA www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Come and learn about conversation analysis and discursive psychology in my Discourse Analysis course at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh! Part of a Masters programme that develops advanced qualitative and quantitative research skills. #EMCA #DiscursivePsycholology www.hw.ac.uk/study/postgr...

#EMCA community: here is the recording of Manny Schegloff's memorial event. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzx-...

Aija Logren kicks off the Finnish Social Psychology conference. An exciting group! @alexahepburn.bsky.social

(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on: youtube.com/live/ldel0Ea... Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca

Throughout history, authoritarian movements have first undermined intellectuals and universities, branding them as biased. It’s chilling to see that strategy normalize in democratic societies ⬇️

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

"Scale isn't a substitute for scrutiny" resonates with Schegloff's (1993) "quantification is no substitute for analysis” (p. 114) in conversation analysis #EMCA

@robinjsmith.bsky.social ‘s brilliant addition to our Asymmetries in Action special issue is now available online. #EMCA @francescaorfw.bsky.social