Upmarket language trivia game for (not all) the family. Would Ludwig have approved?

Categories in Social Interaction by Kevin Whitehead, Elizabeth Stokoe, and Geoffrey Raymond investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege. Read more here: www.routledge.com/Categories-i...

Excellent article by @profsalwiggins.bsky.social and @bogdanahuma.bsky.social on the interactional and discursive accomplishment of resisting requests (and more) to eat. And it's OpenAccess too.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

Happy World Arabic Language Day to all those who use and appreciate Arabic! أطيب التهاني بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للغة العربية #Arabic #Langsky

Had a great time at @lborouniversity.bsky.social for #CAday2025 on Monday 🙇🏻‍♀️ Fantastic conversations about conversation, very interesting insights from my colleagues, and rather useful feedback for my own research. The #CAkeoff was a great addition! 🍰

Many thanks to @jonsutton.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social and honorary @darg-sessions.bsky.social CA day member for a lovely - & extremely rapid - summary of #LboroCAday2025 #EMCA 🥳🎄 @charlesantaki.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

CA Day: great fun, cake, lovely people, fascinating presentations, expertly organised by @saulalbert.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social &various @darg-sessions.bsky.social peeps + @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @charlesantaki.bsky.social @laalaajenkins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social #emca

Comprehensive overview by Deborah Chinn of CA studies of interactions involving people with intellectual disabilities. Terific synthesis- but shows it’s hard to find direct path to policy, & research is slowing But need remains

We’ve had an excellent virtual entry to the #CAday2025 from colleagues at Tampere University (apologies for the blurry photo - really not doing the magnificent filmmaking justice!)

#LboroCADAY2025 - I’ve finally worked out why speakers are putting up QR codes on slides - totally foxed me. Turns out it gives a link to their transcripts … By some tech magic … Yes I know I should keep up

Alexa Hepburn takes the floor to ask “Are family mealtimes institutional?” #LboroCADAY2025

CAke- off at Loughborough CADay entrants

Raymond: how do institutions require/allow use of this or that language/language variant? Officially they permit, but in fact? Shows the work speaker has to do in US with Spanish #LboroCADAY2025

Chase Wesleyan Raymond timing Saul Albert as he sets up the tech #LboroCADAY2025

The giving out of the handouts. Essential part of any keynote: Chase Wesley Raymond coming up. #LboroCADAY2025

(Rather crumpled) morning programme #CADAY2025

Kickoff for #CADAY2025

Truth Social

Symbolic Interaction, Vol.48 No4 is out - it's a special issue on "The (Re)Production and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action" co-edited by Catherine L. Tam @cathtam.bsky.social & Robin James Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social congratulations, both co-editors and authors #sssi #emca #interaction

YorCCA's website: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

CA Day at Loughborough - 15th December - apparently a couple of tickets have become available. Get there if you can for great presentations, great chat and of course the chance to compete in the CAke-off #CAkeOff2025 darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

Lord. How many of us are sitting through the circus of the World Cup draw, with the sound off, boggling at the glitz, the blather, the sycophancy. Over an hour and, out of 48 teams, we have done exactly 3. And one FIFA Peace Prize awarded.

The baleful influence of Hans Eysenck is dwindling, but his research misdeeds still need to be recorded and publicised.

What do you get if you cross Conversation Analysis with Dramatic Performance? (Social Interaction)² www.bloomsbury.com/uk/social-in...

A fascinating ROLSI blog post by @philhutchinson.bsky.social on the long running ethnomethodology/CA reading group, originally based at Manchester University. rolsi.net

Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week's chosen reading. Some reading groups and data sessions come and go, and some have an admirably…

Polite suggestion - how about: "Build a party the voters will love"?

"Miles Hewstone no longer holds the honorific title of Emeritus Fellow at New College, which is part of Oxford. He has resigned as a fellow of the British Academy, a respected body that promotes humanities and social sciences." archive.is/2025.11.28-1...

"Optimising healthcare communication" as the important aim of a one day 🇧🇪 colloquium with researchers and practitioners. It gave me the chance to present (part of) this joint work with @charlesantaki.bsky.social on troubles-telling by diabetes forum-users. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Probably true of many universities

This looks like a comprehensive survey, with questions that do require some careful thinking. If the government really will be consulting it, it's certainly worth responding to

Citation counts used to be useful; now AI-fuelled paper mills and review mills make them unreliable and potentially damaging. Another clear and well-sourced analysis by @deevybee.bsky.social .

Social psychology scandals tend to come in two varieties: 1. One of the major canonical studies in our field is deeply flawed. 2. One of the big names in our field is a serial sexual harasser. Today, unfortunately, is one of the latter days. Solidarity with all of Miles Hewstone's victims.

Miles Hewstone - once a respected and influential social psychologist (and editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology). www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Please note extended deadline: The International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference at the University Jyväskylä, 11–13 May, 2026. Theme: “Dialogic Matters: Exploring Materiality in Language, Communication, and Culture”. Deadline for abstracts 24 Nov 2025. www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...

Independent scholar Wayne Martin Mellinger uses Steve Clayman's decades of studying US new interviews, debates (etc) to: "argue for an activist research agenda that deploys conversation-analytic insights for democratic defense rather than mere description of democratic collapse."

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...