We’re also merging reading and data sessions so that knowledge and observation go hand in hand. Each week, we’ll read a chapter on sequence organization and begin by discussing its key insights. Then, we’ll dive into some data to explore any sequentially organized phenomena we may come across!

Naturally, we didn’t have time to get into the well-studied generic organizations of talk-in-interaction. That’s why we’re launching a second season! This time, we’ll focus on sequence organization, with special emphasis on adjacency pairs and expansions. Schegloff (2007), here we go!

Dear #EMCA community, Secuenciando’s first season, “Intro to CA,” has successfully come to an end! We read a variety of papers and book chapters covering the fundamentals of Conversation Analysis and had the chance to immerse ourselves in a couple of data sessions in Spanish.

Hi everyone! My name’s Belen and I’m a Linguistics Student at PUCP 📍🇵🇪 With some dear friends and colleagues, we created an interdisciplinary group in which we study #ConversationAnalysis (AC), called “Secuenciando”. We started last term and we’re really proud of the work we’ve done so far :)

#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...

The Trump administration abruptly announced that it is dismissing nearly 400 contributors and coauthors for the National Climate Assessment, an examination of the global climate crisis and its effects on several aspects of society that is required by law to be published by 2028.

The White House is proposing to substantially cut NOAA’s budget —cutting critical science that tracks extreme weather, rising seas, and climate change impacts. We need more climate science, not less. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨 In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk. Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)

I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated. Please read and share! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?

I’m very glad to work with @avasquezkana.bsky.social in this new project

“After they annex a whole ass sovereign country, they’ll definitely allocate electoral votes proportionally and run entirely fair elections” This is not the fucking Onion.

This is what happens when you rely on international student fees to subsidise inadequate government funding for #HigherEducation, and then create a hostile environment for immigration.

Four recent ethnographies that I thought were pretty good, gives me confidence in the future of anthropology

Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.

Leslie Ungerleider (1946 - 2020) was an extraordinary, pioneering neuroscientist. The latest issue of @jocn.bsky.social honors her legacy with articles authored by former colleagues & trainees that highlight critical aspects of her work and its influence https://buff.ly/4156UKw #cogsci #neuroscience

Check out our latest, led by @marlietandoc.bsky.social!! We find that memory for individual features of objects is rapidly distorted by the objects' category structure. Plus simulations that provide an account of how the hippocampus may contribute to this effect.

If you're interested, for those that I don't know, here is a thread with some open access articles I've published on Navajo poets and poetry The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem journals.openedition.org/jsa/14602

it's too late, I've already written up a poorly fitting analogy that makes your position on the matter seem foolish

how do you say imbécile heureux in English

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages. Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Very excited to share our brand new paper "Self-esteem modulates the similarity of the representation of the self in the brains of others." We show brain patterns for self are reflected brain-to-brain in those of our peers & are influenced by self-evaluative attitudes www.nature.com/articles/s44...

hey can someone share some introductory texts to quine? specially in his view of ontology?

being unable to focus in a paper ABOUT attentional mechanisms is the summary of my academic life

hoping elon will be visited by three spirits this christmas 🙏🏼

Just wanted to say--as I occasionally did on Twitter--that I hope everyone out there is doing okay. It's a brutal, cruel world, and things are going to get very bad over the next few years (and, ahem, decades/centuries, if only because of climate change), so please take care of yourselves. <3

Academic social media is surreal bc I'll post something like "Here comes the Big Sad, time to eat 7 burritos" and the official account of the Croatian Journal of Philosophy of Science will like it and comment ":/" or something

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

Happy to announce that our paper is now published in Science Advances! science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Credit to the.language.nerds IG

millions of ppl in the US will cry over a video of a dog being rescued in a flood but can’t understand why i care about a generation of Palestinian children growing up as amputees

This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

"Unfortunately, clinical psychology and psychiatry have devoted most of their resources to studying the diagnostic labels that summarize the complex mental health states of people, rather than how biopsychosocial processes give rise to mental health problems." 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Mis ensemble, les 54 pays de l'Afrique sont responsables d'à peine 4 % des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre. À lui seul, le Tchad de Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim est officiellement responsable de… 0,008 % des émissions de la planète. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/212...

oh wow I love this guy accidentally discovered a glossary in the back of an old bible, turns out to be the only written record of an extinct language which is then used to (partially) resurrect it 🤯

I spent days digging into the public statements of every single Trump Cabinet pick to see what they've said about climate change and it was a horrible process but I did it because Journalism Is Important and climate change is actually real so please click it I beg you heated.world/p/trumps-ent...

When I will respond to your email

Neuroscientists are flocking to Bluesky, but X still has ten times more users. My story on the migration, featuring @nicolecrust.bsky.social @russpoldrack.bsky.social @charan-neuro.bsky.social @therealdrdukes.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social + more! www.thetransmitter.org/community/hu...

I worry that in analytic philosophy we attain neither the epistemic benefits of scientific work or the aesthetic benefits of more literary work. So it seems like a sort of worst of all worlds. It's like we opted for taking Aristotle's aesthetics and Plato's rigour or something.

I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A colleague has asked if there's a good 5-10 minute video explaining how Large Language Models work, both technically and how they create material that feels like language, from the perspective of linguistics. I personally don't know anything, thought I'd put it out there in case you do!

what do you do when a fibromyalgia episode starts in the middle of a work shift … hurts so bad yet nothing makes it better 😔

Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition).

𝗜𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻? "Recurrent systems naturally implement many-to-many mappings between their units, leading to inherent plurifunctionality and many irreducible high-order mechanisms." doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

The Vocal Fries made it into the New York Times as one of the top 5 podcasts for word nerds! #linguistics

Bernie Sanders just spent ~5 minutes on the Senate floor listing horrors American doctors in Gaza saw, as he brings resolutions to block $20bil of weapons to Israel. Those testimonies were collected by a doctor named Feroze Sidhwa, who I interviewed last month: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...