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...

Are you studying “AI” at work and in interaction? Together with Dipanjan Saha, we invite you to submit an abstract for our panel “Outlasting ‘disruption’: Empirical perspectives on practical reasoning with AI” (P136) at #EASST2026 in Krakow, 8–11 September. #EMCA #STS #AI easst.net/conference/e...

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

New post: Hannah Pelikan and Saul Albert on AI https://www.conversationanalysis.org/hannah-pelikan-and-saul-albert-on-ai/# EMCA

A doctoral researcher position (English) in the project “Multiliteracy Expertise in Future Working Life: Interaction and Coexistence of Humans and Language-based AI Systems (MultiHAI)” open for applications in Oulu! oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Many thanks to @sgrosjean.bsky.social for her visit yesterday at the Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, and to everyone who participated! Sylvie gave a talk "From Daily Struggles to Digital Support: Co-Designing an AI-Powered Self-Care Technology with People with Parkinson's".

Looking forward to presenting our paper "Embodying driverless shuttles" at the NORDISCO conference (3-5 December), based on research conducted with my colleagues Benjamin Nanchen & Luisa Ehrenzeller! www.ntnu.edu/nordisco2025...

The new special issue of Narrative Inquiry is on "Life Storytelling across Media and Contexts". It also includes our paper on 'comparative work' in analysing oral history retellings written with J. Kocián, H. Maliukov and K. Roginer Hofmeister. Happy to share offprints -- just drop me a message...

#EMCA alert! The 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis is taking place 25-27 March 2026 in Mannheim, Germany. The theme is Technology Use and Social Interaction, and it has a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers and workshop leads! www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

#Callforpapers: From 25-27 March 26, the Conference on Discourse & Conversation Analysis (Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung) will take place at the IDS Mannheim. Theme: Technology use and social interaction: New interactive practices, new data and methods. 👩‍💻 www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

In June 2024, a special issue CFP on the Chicago School sparked a collaboration with @robinjsmith.bsky.social, Terry, Erik & Patrik. Inspired by Sacks' (1992:27) appreciative critique, we explored how CS ethnography may relate to the development of #EMCA. Our paper is now out #OpenAccess: t.ly/Has34

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...

Our new #EMCA paper, co-authored with Yeji Rieser, is out in #QualitativeResearch! We revisit a rich but often overlooked strand of conversation analysis, exploring how transcription practices deal with the wildness of talk's poeticity. Here as #OpenAccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Today I posted the 31st & final entry in a thread commemorating the work of Jeff Coulter, following his death in April. While not an exhaustive list, I hope it offers a sense of Jeff’s distinctive contribution, combining Rylean OLP with EMCA. The complete thread is here: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...

In commemoration of Jeff Coulter I will post an article or book by him each day this month. 1. Coulter (2008) 25 Theses Against Cognitivism. Theory, Culture and Society 25:2 doi: 10.1177/0263276407086789 #JeffCoulter #EMCA cspeech.ucd.ie/Fred/docs/25...

Coming soon, available in all good bookshops. It has been a long time in preparation but has been worth the wait! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Looking forward to this #EMCA workshop in Paris next Wednesday, organized by Yaël Kreplak, Philippe Sormani and @dirkvl.bsky.social cems.ehess.fr/evenement/jo...

Our #EMCA study published in the latest issue of Visual Studies, done in 2017 in Blue Factory (Fribourg, CH) illuminates the ubiquitous social phenomenon of “holding a place” by examining how people in co-working spaces use markers of presence to visually signal occupancy. t.ly/M_iyv

Here's an #EMCA #conversation analysis and #ethnomethodology #StarterPack #AcademicSky Please RT and QT and add more to grow our community on here! 🦋 go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX

Hello #EMCA Bluesky! We are looking to appoint a Research Associate for our project on using Conversation Analysis for #conversationalAI in #healthcare communication. 0.6 FTE for 8 months. Please share with potentially interested parties: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

New Research Associate opportunity! Join our project on using #EMCA to develop #conversationalAI for effective healthcare conversations🧑‍🦳💬🗨️🤖 0.6 FTE for 8 months, starting in January. More details here 👇 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Brilliant opportunity to do a fully-funded #PhD in #EMCA at KCL with @dirkvl.bsky.social Sylvaine Tuncer, Jon Hindmarsh, Paul Luff in their group kcl.ac.uk/research/wor...

Ever wondered how the location of hearers and recording devices impacts the analysis of social activities? Our study with Esther González-Martínez dives into this puzzle, examining how audibility changes with spatial dynamics in hospital corridors. #EMCA #Acoustics #Soundscapes t.ly/JQz5a

New paper out in Mobilities #EMCA “The intelligibility of mobile trajectories: walking in public space” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harvey Sacks' (1935–1975) birthday today. "We are trying not to arrange things conveniently but to find out how they are arranged." (HS in Sanches & Blount, eds., 1975, p. 66) #EMCA #ConversationAnalysis #Ethnomethodology #Sociology

Des places sont encore disponibles dans le cours "Les méthodes audiovisuelles en sciences sociales" avec Cornelia Hummel, Jenny Maggi, Philippe Sormani et moi. Délai d'inscription: 31.07.2024. Lieu: Crêt-Bérard, Puidoux, Suisse. www.cuso.ch/activity/?p=...

Many thanks to Hamed Alavi for inviting me to contribute a couple of thoughts to this paper/provocation on "Dangers of Designing with Data": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Our literature review written with Lynn De Rijk, Andreas Liesenfeld, Wyke Stommel & @saulalbert.bsky.social has just been published in AI & Society! It charts the scope of #EMCA approaches that treat #AI as a phenomenon emerging in and through the situated organization of social interaction.

Very sad news from John Heritage on the death of Emanuel Schegloff: “It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Manny Schegloff has died. He was an intellectual giant and a dear colleague who leaves an extraordinary legacy of scholarship.” #EMCA #AcademicSky

When we worked on Garfinkel's early studies of "AI", we knew the archival materials are special but not really how unique they are... And that they're the only known examples of conversations with the original ELIZA. Scans are out now: t.ly/sEEbY Our paper with Clemens, Jason and Anne: t.ly/PtmS7

📌 Postdoc opening: My collaborators and I are recruiting an #EMCA researcher to join our health equity project in pediatric specialty care (+ teaching opportunities). Please share with ethno/conversation analysis/discursive psych students finishing soon. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/23539

Our new #OpenAccess paper explores the educational potential of an AI-based medical imaging platform #QuantImage. We show how knowledge of #radiomics and knowledge of the specific platform intertwine in the details of situated collaborative work. #EMCA #AI #Radiology #Oncology tinyurl.com/47ns54ea