“Video calls should have a height indicator so that people are more prepared for the three dimensional version of what they see on screen” - Sashi Perera 😂

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Surgery booked in for March next year. Given my job, I wonder if it would be tax deductible 😅

Rounding out the year with a publication in Applied Clinical Informatics with a paper led by PhD student Kanesha Ward www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

We're offering our 10-week course on how to analyse conversation first thing in the new year. This asynchronous course takes you through how to do Conversation Analysis, from theoretical foundations through ethics and data collection to analysis and sharing your findings. Enrol today!

As the current course on Analysing Conversation is wrapping up, we're pleased to announce the next course will be available from 5 January 2026.

Re-introducing myself…

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA! (Seriously, read it. It's important) doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Wonderful to see @racgp.bsky.social sharing our paper on consultation length in a newsGP article. www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/profe... Upfront agenda setting is an interesting conversational tool and can be awkward to do. Keep an eye out on the Bedside Manners blog for a post about it soon.

Call for articles! We are still welcoming submissions for these two special issues throughout 2025: ⭐ Integrating Social Care & Primary Care ⭐ Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care Find out more: Social Care: bjgpopen.org/page/so... AI: bjgpopen.org/page/ar...

The impact of undervaluing communication training and support can result in significant harm. From my 2024 International Conference on Communication in Healthcare Plenary. Find the full video here: youtu.be/U8O7JO5YnFs

Buy a silly shirt from me - on sale at the moment! www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Co...

Lorenza has a new project on "Timed Bodies": www.lorenzamondada.net/timedbodies Some other things come to mind - of course it depends on what approach one takes: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.... link.springer.com/article/10.1... journals.ltn.lodz.pl/Przeglad-Soc...

Have to share this amazing thread in response to my random shout out for #emca writing on cognitive processing!

There’s so little on patient experience of intrauterine adhesions (shout out to @amandarosswhite.bsky.social for finding what was there). I’ve been researching how people describe pain and was curious to how this particular condition is described by those experiencing it… 🦗🦗🦗

Trying to find the latest on what CA folk are writing about "processing time" but struggling to find recent references. Has someone written about it recently? Maybe @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social? #emca

being offered casual work in academia at a level A having been a level C for a decade is just rude. and also probably wage theft.

Holter monitor on. Baggy dress, shorts with pockets. I’ve done this before. A rare second coffee to see if it does anything (my own experiment to prove coffee is ok 😅).

On Instagram and keen on some hot takes and info about communication? Check out some of my account: www.instagram.com/reel/DRLbWn9...

Waiting for a specialist who is running late… will he apologise? 🤔😅 Trying to be normal… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Was using the search function to find a photo of my computer monitor to show the time HR gave me the standing desk option of a keyboard on a stack of paper boxes with the monitor on a shelf above. Instead I found this happy guy.

We only ever really know what's going on in consultations by examining real conversations between doctors and patients. Why is there a mismatch between allocated and actual consultation time? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/28355245.2025.2583750

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

If communication in healthcare is truly a priority, it is essential that universities, professional colleges, and health care services provide ongoing evidence-based training and feedback opportunities. Or read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 3/3

Check out our online modules and get your CPD done! bedsidemanners.com.au

A former student, now doctor, messaged me about our online modules. Be like Michael! www.bedsidemanners.com.au/communicatio...

There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled” Disability is dynamic Some disabilities are invisible. Some change day to day You won’t always know a person is disabled unless they tell you It’s a minority group you can join at any time, not a moral failing.

When you see your doctor after a procedure and the first thing they ask is “do you want to see the pictures?” Love it when a doctor gets me 😅

Being a woman in your 40s: is it perimenopause? unexpected pregnancy? or a secret third* thing? It's a secret third thing. 🙃 And because it's women's health, there is not a lot of research.

Just realised it was a dream (nightmare?) that someone signed up for my online intro module because they had to and told me as such in their sign up and was super mad 🥴 was scouring my emails to find the comment so I could reply to it encouragingly!

Reminded me to set this public youtu.be/hfFFwLo1PZ4?...

Revisiting some of these AIEMCA videos by Edward Reynolds today. Here's me as a baby academic: youtu.be/_jXdKajyGAY?...

In the recent newsletter from Bedside Manners, we recommended the “conversational action test” paper by @saulalbert.bsky.social et al. If you’re interested in AI and conversation, you should listen to this podcast that came out today! #emca podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s...

Trying to find info on Asherman’s Syndrome and there’s some but not enough. Interested in how it might relate (or not) to other conditions. @drjengunter.bsky.social do you have some recommendations?

I really interpreted “you should be able to drive after 4 days” as meaning I would be 100% well after 4 days.

🗓️ Pre-conference workshop schedule is out! Check out our website. With so many interesting workshops, hmm... not an easy choice 🤔 Register soon to secure your spot in your favourite workshops!

Our 10-week online course on Conversation Analysis starts today. Each week a new module with video lectures, readings, and activities is released. You can enrol for another two weeks (and catch up on the earlier weeks) and you'll still get personalised feedback on your activities from me!

"What about body language?" #EMCA

Tbh I think I underestimated recovery time I’d need post surgery. 🥴

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Finally my Year 12 comparative studies on Blade Runner (and Brave New World) are directly relevant to my work! 😅 @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social

If you're interested in learning how to do conversation analysis, my company, Bedside Manners, is running a course. Starts in a week!

📣 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

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… #kpdh #emca

Recording day today!