PhD course: April 7-9, 2026 Conversation analysis and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts, USN Norway Application deadline: March 1, 2026. www.usn.no/activities/p...

Out shortly with APA books: Emotionography: Theory, Research, and Practice (Potter & Hepburn). @alexahepburn.bsky.social www.apa.org/pubs/books/e...

New post: First Pair Prompt: report from a possible first of three EM/CA ‘promptathons’ https://www.conversationanalysis.org/first-pair-prompt-report-from-a-possible-first-of-three-em-ca-promptathons/# EMCA

Spread the word! The next York Conference on Conversation Analysis will be held 17-18 July. Encourage your MA/PhD students to submit an abstract. Deadline: 10 April. In addition to presenting their research, Ana Cristina Ostermann and Richard Ogden will also deliver post-conference workshops!

We're hiring two Postdoctoral Researchers (80%) and a Research Assistant (50%) for a four-year #EMCA research project on the integration of AI in medical education in practice. Apply by 4 January 2026. www.hevs.ch/fr/recruitee... www.hevs.ch/fr/recruitee...

Apply to @TeachersCollege and take classes in conversation analysis, discourse analysis, sociolinguistcs and more with leading expert Professor Hansun Zhang Waring! #WhyColumbiaALTESOL #altesolfaculty #TESOL #TESL #ColumbiaUniversity #linguistics www.tc.columbia.edu/arts-and-hum...

Many thanks to @jonsutton.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social and honorary @darg-sessions.bsky.social CA day member for a lovely - & extremely rapid - summary of #LboroCAday2025 #EMCA 🥳🎄 @charlesantaki.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

CA Day: great fun, cake, lovely people, fascinating presentations, expertly organised by @saulalbert.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social &various @darg-sessions.bsky.social peeps + @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @charlesantaki.bsky.social @laalaajenkins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social #emca

Raymond: how do institutions require/allow use of this or that language/language variant? Officially they permit, but in fact? Shows the work speaker has to do in US with Spanish #LboroCADAY2025

Final talk to end on a high note this wonderful #caday2025 is the 2nd plenary talk of the day by Deborah Chinn “Conversation Analysis Research and with People with Intellectual Disabilities: a call to Action” #emca

Hello CA day 2025! A day of Conversation Analysis, good company, and cake. #emca #CADay2025 @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborocrcc.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social

Proofs are corrected - its is off to the printers! Emotionography brings emotion back into social life, by revealing how our most intimate expressions are shared, structured, and interactionally achieved. Published soon www.apa.org/pubs/books/emotionography @alexahepburn.bsky.social

And for anyone fancying a little summer European tour, you can then hop over to Newcastle for ICOP-L2, 24-26 August: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icop-l2-26/ Among other delights, @spencerhazel.bsky.social and I will be leading a workshop on #EMCA and Conversational AI

So proud to share this latest publication by #lansibunch Lal Horan (also our game master) 😊 tandfonline.com/eprint/YGUBA83… It’s a new day fo#emcaca an#aslsl instruction @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @lingsocam.bsky.social

If you would like to explore some of Jeff's work, having read this short piece by Bo & me in The Psychologist, you could start with some of the items on this thread I put together in May this year: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff... #EMCA #EM/CA

Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power." Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇 doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...

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...