I want to connect the three pillars (accountability, transparency, and hope) to a concept that may seem unrelated: the Russian concept vranyo (враньё) - the institutional lying practice. And, to explain why Russia has started failing and becoming a rouge state. open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

This morning, I had a conversation with my neighbor about her car accident. In German. Not fluently, of course. Somehow we managed to have a real, engaged conversation, with empathy, sympathy, and a few “Schade”s. So, if I can learn to speak German in my early 40s, you can learn anything.

Gesellschaftliches Engagement zu fördern, ist Teil der #WUvienna #ThirdMission: Wir freuen uns deshalb ganz besonders über den Einsatz von WU Lehrenden wie Mehmet Ali Icbay, der in seiner Bachelor-Lehrveranstaltung mit der Initiative "Intercultural Community Work" Studierende erfolgreich inspiriert.

My thoughts are with Kyiv, with Ukraine, and with every innocent person forced to live through another night of fear because of Russia’s aggression. bsky.app/profile/maks...

Democracy, Tyranny of the Indolent Majority, and Grinzing 38 Tram open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

Have you taught Ethnomethodology or Conversation Analysis before? If so, I would be very glad to hear from you for the interview phase of my project. Please contact me by email at [email protected], or simply reply to this post. Feel free to share this invitation with your networks. #EMCA

“I discovered that undergraduates were able to grasp the issues and methods [of EMCA] more quickly than the graduates, who were already beholden and felt restricted to disciplinary ways of theorizing and talking.”

Not going to lie. I’m a little jealous of my peeps at #ICCA. Not only are they catching up with old friends, meeting new EMCA colleagues, and listening to what I’m sure are fantastic papers, but they’re also enjoying Edmonton’s wonderfully mild weather. It’s a scorching 38°C here in Vienna. 🔥🥵

I believe that we now live in a post-industrial information age, and this age is transforming the foundations of education once again. maicbay.substack.com/p/education-...

Yesterday was a very consequential day for me. I think it was the first day I had real empirical evidence that I am slowly integrating into Austrian society. Let me explain. Please read it in the image attached here.

Today, I presented “Using Conversation Analysis in Psychiatry” at the Interdisziplinäre Hybrid-Tagung 2026: Transkulturelle Herausforderungen und Umgang mit Diversität im Gesundheitswesen, held at the Medical University of Vienna. I did my best to introduce CA to healthcare professionals.

My recent publication on referee decision making in football. Have fun reading it while watching the World Cup 2026. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Oregon Grape at Türkenschanzpark, Wien #NowFraming

#FIFA, don’t you also think there are too many major changes in this World Cup? A five-second countdown for throw-ins and restarts? And, out of the blue, what is this commercial—sorry, hydration—break in the middle of the game? One at a time, please!

Normally, if such a person were only a distant public figure, I would avoid Trump. I would refuse to watch him. However, the decisions made in Washington enter Vienna. They enter the emotional temperature of everyday life. maicbay.substack.com/p/trump-arch...

Dear EMCA scholars, And many thanks to everyone who has already contributed to my survey on teaching Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA). I am grateful for your time, generosity, and support.

I wonder if AI needs any pattern (algorithm) to make sense of huge amount of data as we, Homo sapiens, do it everyday, constantly, repeatedly. Or, AI handles data particularly, for each specific case, in situ, within particular circumstances, without any need for any patterns?

Anyone from #EMCA world, have you read the recent book by Graham Button (2026) “Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology: The Prospect of an Alternate and Adequate Sociology." I’m particularly curious about your ideas about the chapter on the multimodality criticism. Agree, disagree, like or enjoy it?

The individualism born of the Industrial Revolution, brought into family life, is not humane. My great-grandmother survived two world wars through extended family. She died peacefully under one roof, surrounded by kids and grandkids, while my mom trimmed her nails.

Have you taught Ethnomethodology or Conversation Analysis before? If so, please take part in the online survey on my project on teaching EMCA across diverse academic and institutional contexts worldwide. shorturl.at/81mRO

For my recent project on teaching EMCA, I have been trying to estimate how many researchers teach Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis in their institutions worldwide.

Have you taught Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis before? Then, please take part in the following survey on my project on teaching #EMCA across diverse academic and institutional contexts worldwide.

My frustration with organizational sciences shorturl.at/DPfyo

My paper on joint decision-making in Video Assistant Referee (football) is now published in Journal of Sport and Social Issues. And the best co-thinker I had? My 11-year-old son, Timur! His unexpected suggestions during analysis genuinely changed the paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We’re excited to announce this semester’s Data Sessions at the Institute for Intercultural Communication (WU Vienna)! 📍 Location: D2 Building, WU Campus Vienna For more information, feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Migration ist mehr als ein Problem, das kontrolliert werden muss www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Garfinkel’s respecification is a one-way door (a curse): familiar “topics” become analysts’ terms. After converting to ethnomethodology, you’re stuck (happily) with the hard task: finding the empirical evidence of members’ methods.

Wishing you all a happy new year! Hope 2026 may end the wars, the hunger, and the hate, and of course may bring us all health, happiness, joy, money and love! 💝

This short video captures an ordinary moment that unexpectedly illustrates a long-standing methodological problem in social research. fs.blabigo.org/s/cmvwaadJ

In this way, even something as ordinary as a sidewalk becomes a silent storyteller: revealing how cities, and the cultures that shape them, navigate order, diversity, and the unknown. maicbay.substack.com/p/culture-on...

Thank you for this warm and highly engaging book review, Mehmet Ali Icbay. 🧡 maicbay.substack.com/p/migrations...

The Cambridge report on academic publishing becomes the latest symptom of academic imperialism—an institutional realization that the traditional mechanisms of control are slipping. The old academic empires sense that they can no longer exploit intellectual labor. open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

The Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Decline of the Welfare State in Europe, and the Return of Global Titans open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

Have you taught (or currently teaching) Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, or related #EMCA courses at your institution? If so, I’d love to hear from you! Please share your experiences and insights in this survey! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/RhGB6qTGJV #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis

New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…

Our edited book is available to pre-order: Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaires, a really wonderful collection of work on women who shaped their care contexts. #women #healthcaremanagement www.routledge.com/Women-in-Hea...

I’m thrilled to share that my latest paper on the #EMCA community has just been published online in Symbolic Interaction! A big thank you to the participants, contributors, and anonymous reviewers for their insights, time, and support throughout the process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Delighted to announce our latest paper @mariecasey.bsky.social @maicbay.bsky.social . It’s about public health doctors in Ireland and their reflections on working through the pandemic and the work-related change that followed #DrRetention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Losing a Best Friend: Mehmet Serkan Arıkan open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

My latest entry on laughter, death and time. Easter Vacation III: Social boundaries in cultures open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

My latest entry on Substack on building trust. open.substack.com/pub/maicbay/...

"But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd [fascist] chariot hurrying near." - To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Fascism is rising again, similar to the period before WW2: Putin, Orban, Trump, and many more around the world. Scary, worrying times for good, hardworking, law abiding citizens.

Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end, by Mehmet Ali İçbay @maicbay.bsky.social (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye) doi.org/10.1080/1946... /5.

If I were to choose a single line to summarize my work in the social sciences, it would be this: "[...] and by paying to the most commonplace activities of daily life the attention usually accorded extraordinary events, seek to learn about them as phenomena in their own right” (Garfinkel, 1984: 1).

Haince katlettiler seni! 24 Ocak 1993, Ankara'da, evinin önünde! Ama fikirlerin, cesaretin, namusun hep bizimle! Bir avuç insan kalsak da hep fikrimizdesin! Ruhun şad olsun cesur kalem!

Winter brings her own beauty 🧣

#EMCA I read this brilliant article by @philipcball.bsky.social as a members' hic-et-nunc achievement: "The fuzziness in the mechanisms of gene regulation is reflected in an unforeseen casualness in the way many of the molecules involved interact with one another." nautil.us/how-life-rea...

Why do some reviewers choose to deliver feedback in an unnecessarily harsh manner? There are countless ways to express criticism constructively and respectfully.