If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

📢 Call for Papers @suewiddicombe.bsky.social and I are inviting papers on how third parties - e.g., social media users, news reporters, spokespersons - dispute, judge, or excuse others’ misconduct. 🗓️ Submit by 23 Jan 2026 🔗 More info onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Please share and repost!

Another facial expression not covered by Ekman's typology - studied vacancy with a hint of insouciance.

I had a look at a press release about job cuts from a nearby large university . I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes. So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.

Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis I am running a series of short qualitative methods workshop, all online My next 2 1/2 hour workshop is on: Monday, 1st December at 10 till 12:30 am (UK time) On the topic of Interpretive Qualitative Data Analysis 15 places available. £25 plus Eventbrite’s fee

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. People fly or dial in from all over the world. Still great fun. #EMCA

Another troubling exposé of fraud in science publishing: organised groups of reviewers (here, in the medical sciences) conspiring to push authors to cite the reviewers' own work. Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Was Erving Goffman really the utterly original "loner", indifferent to others' views? Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz has searched the archives to map the relation between Goffman and the academic big beasts of the time, with some surprising results. A new guest blog on rolsi.net

Thanks @marcscully.bsky.social for sharing. Independent scholar Thomas Kelly has some disturbing revelations from the archives of Festinger et al's "When Prophecy Fails". The supposed foundation of "cognitive dissonance" now very shaky, ethically and empirically. doi.org/10.1002/jhbs...

Guest Blog: A new book on Erving Goffman Erving Goffman's legacy is everywhere visible in the social sciences, and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz's new book shines light on the "invisible college" of his contemporaries among his close circle and further afield. The result is a fascinating account of the…

Well, now, look what arrived in the post... Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published. Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

University of Oulu is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities

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...

Another notable headline/photo combination in my local paper

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

For anyone interested in #psychology, #research assessment and evaluation, how the expert panel rated research submitted to #REF2021 - and especially the fate of #qualitative research - our article in Cogent Psychology is #OpenAccess (link in next post). 1/2

In spite of this terrible AI generated image which illustrates it, I've signed a petition against the current Reform county Council in Nottingham spending £75,000 putting up flags all over the county. c.org/PCk7kTbRWb

Another curious football stadium find while looking for something else:- SK Petrin Plzen's pitch surely unique in being surrounded by a velodrome?

Proud to be cited by world statesman ... or nearly

Tried to look something up on the US National Library of Medicine site. The Trump administration's shut-down (delicately put as "a lapse in government funding") means nothing has been added to the library for months. Hundreds of scientists silenced.

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more? Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026. Talks, group work & data sessions with experts. Registration (£45 or £90) is now open. More information here emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin... #EMCA

CCTV image of the day. Bravo westbridgfordwire.com/shoplifter-w...

Autumn in the neighbourhood

🎉 - Pleased to announce a new journal 📔 - Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index The first linguistic journal dedicated to Registered Reports. We accept submissions from all areas in linguistics and language research.

📣 📣📣 EACH Nursing SIG - tomorrow, Oct. 16th, 11am BST) @becca-voicestudy.bsky.social will present on "The VOICE studies: evidence-based training resources for improving healthcare professionals' communication with people living with dementia." Sign-up each.international/organisation...

Multiple thumbs-up for this one - sign up if you can. @richardogden.bsky.social is the doyen of the CA/phonetics connection and a highly engaging communicator.

What a fantastic lineup of pre-conference workshops – go to any selection out of that lot and you'd come out glowing with CA skill & savvy

⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations" Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers. doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social

#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...

Hats off to the climate scientists who are rebuilding their website after it was taken down by the Trump administration.

📢Call for Papers! We’re editing a Special Issue for the International Journal of Research & Method in Education: Research Methods & Theoretical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education 🗓️ Abstracts (500 words) 31 Dec 2025 📄 Full papers 30 Sept 2026 Details👉 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Dear Colleagues, We are advertising this funded PhD collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/inclusive-be... Please bring it to the attention of your students and any other possible candidates. (Only candidates eligible for UK fees can apply.) Happy to answer questions about the project and PhD.

🚨PhD opportunity! Examining inclusive bereavement support in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland using conversation analysis collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/inclusive-be... With @marcopino.bsky.social @lizpeel.bsky.social and @darg-sessions.bsky.social Deadline: 30 Nov 2025 Start date: April 2026

This month we spoke to Professor Steven Bloch, expert in speech & language therapy and conversation analysis at @uclpals.bsky.social. We find out more about how he got into this fascinating field of research. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Depressing to see my ex-employers kowtowing to an arms dealer. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

At last: in the wild - an official IT recommendation to turn it off and turn it on again

A (now-defunct) AI bot makes calls to restaurants etc. It was apparently pretty successful at call openings, second summonses, uh(m)s that precede a reason for the call, and other-initiated self-repair. Authors: test actions, not intelligence. #EMCA journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social Rein Ove Sikveland ☀️☀️☀️☀️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Papers! The Conference on Conversation Studies takes place at Tampere University, 29–30 Jan 2026. Proposals are warmly welcome in Finnish, Swedish, or English. Theme: Time and Space in Interaction Submission deadline: 30 Oct 2025 More info: events.tuni.fi/keskustelunt...

People working on #Italian and focusing on #multimodality #digitalcommunication #intercultural pragmatics, Language in professional contexts, this position at our faculty may interest you!

Looking something else up, I came across the mascot of the Estonian football club Paide Linnameeskond. Not one of the cuddly type. #gunnersaurus

📆CA Day is approaching, Monday 15th of December! We have two fantatsic invited speakers: Chase Wesley Raymond, University of Colorado Boulder Deborah Chinn, King’s College London 🚨Deadline to submit an abstract is Friday 3rd of October! darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

It's the 25th Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung / Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis in Mannheim, 25-27 March 2026. I'll be running a phonetically-oriented workshop -- details to be confirmed! www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

Our paper on how phonetic resources help to coordinate laughter draws on cases of joint laughter from conversations in English, Spanish and Finnish. Here's a summary of some of our findings (which rely heavily on Chafe, 2007), along with acoustic records of a laughter bout in Spanish.

I still get uni emails. Today another about monitoring students' AI usage: 2 pages' worth of guidance, and 4 additional docs attached. Truly impressed by the level of thought and compassion in colleagues' concern to find ways for staff & students to cope. But what an extra burden on their time.

Forensic CA meeting: Last paper (by mark Visona and Jennifer Plumb is on “swatting” calls where police are falsely alerted to a serious crime in progress

Soren Sandager Sorensen on how police & suspects do in arriving at an agreed understanding of important terms such as “rape”, “hurt”,etc

Fabio takes us though the editing work which editorialises & dramatises the action - captions, music, etc. especially useful for accounting for lapses in the coverage.

Examples of videos put out on Brazilian police YouTube channels - chases, family “dramas”…