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.

My new paper on how patients use epistemic markers like “I read” and “I heard” is out. I show that epistemic markers allow patients to assert their agency while acknowledging medical authority #EMCA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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:…

If you're going to be in Chicago tomorrow (August 6) come to the Voco hotel at 11am to catch my presentation, "Typical Expectations and the Moral Order: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel, and the Sticky Problem of Meaning" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction @sijournal.bsky.social!

A useful and enlightening survey of members of the EM/CA community, especially of those whose voices are less often heard.

Can you use AI in teaching Conversation Analysis? @bogdanahuma.bsky.social reports using a remarkably real-sounding AI-generated podcast, ostensibly discussing a CA paper. Will students spot its mistakes, trivial and profound? The new ROLSI.net blog here: rolsi.net/2025/05/30/g...

(via John Heritage) For those of you who cannot attend this event, a livestream will begin May 18th at 2:15 Pacific on: youtube.com/live/ldel0Ea... Please pass this on! @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca

This is too good to be true <3 "Many qualitative methodological approaches are already very vibey [...] In this article, I reflect on these approaches and outline some vibes-based methods. I discuss how vibes-based methods help us consider and work with the generative ambiguities of social life."

**Updated #EMCA Starter Pack** We're almost at the 150 max and therefore onto a second! Please repost to keep building our 🦋 community. If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below. go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX

Last RUCAL data session of this season. See everyone next year! @galinabolden.bsky.social @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social

Final keynote and it’s a good one! Sally Wiggins Young on co-eating as a boundaried field of analysis. A fun CA day 2024! @profsalwiggins.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social #emca #LboroCAday2024 @lborouniversity.bsky.social

It's wonderful to see this amazing resource now available online #EMCA doi.org/10.1017/9781...

"What my students paradoxically fail to realize, in their zeal to be responsible, is that describing things by certain characteristics rather than others merely because those characteristics are countable is a profoundly subjective decision."

Interested in conversation analysis but don't know where to start? The next "CA for beginners" online one day workshop may be for you. Thursday 16th January 2025 emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... Registration £40 at: store.lboro.ac.uk/product-cata...

"'How are you?' These are the three most useless words in the world of communication." This compelling (but wrong/daft) assertion is based on #communication myth rather than how we actually talk 🧐 And asking "how are you" can even save lives... 🧵 1/15 [Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]

Incredible up and coming scholars at the Language and Social Interaction sessions at NCA. #EMCA

RUCAL students at NCA 2024. Well done! @aleksandrshirokov.bsky.social

Nadja Tadic's presentation "Categorizing the Self to Stereotype the Other" at #NCA2024 #CA #EMCA

Kristella Montiegel's presentation "Invoking Time Limits for Managing Responses in US Senate Judiciary Committee Lower Court Nomination Hearings" at #NCA2024 #CA #EMCA

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

My new paper on how pediatricians and parents pursue symptom reports from children through calibrating question design is out. The paper is part of a cool EMCA special section edited by Jessica Nina Lester, Francesca Williamson, and Michelle O'Reilly