Adjacency pair of the day (with thanks to @davidallengreen.bsky.social for the first pair part)

Yes, targeted, why not. Fairly easy to hit.

Very interesting new Swiss/Swedish project now offering PhD and postdoc positions docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Have you ever donated blood for research? ✨We want to talk to adults about their experience of giving blood for research purposes.✨ Interested? Questions? app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/blo...

This should be good: an intensive workshop on how what people say gets heard officially, and set into pre-existing categories. What in the patient's talk is coded as illness-relevant? How does the emergency call-taker get to press the "dispatch" button? darg.lboro.ac.uk/working-with...

Stationery browsing at the local John Lewis. Note kind inclusion of ten extra erasers, for when you burn through the first one.

The next big shindig for big-tent Pragmatics people (including lots of CA) will be in Helsinki - one of Europe's most beautiful cities.

call for reviewers for the Language and Social Interaction division of NCA! If you are an expert in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, or related fields, I'd be grateful (as program planner) if you could take a few minutes to sign up as a reviewer by March 25! www.natcom.org/call-for-rev...

British question of the day

I've been using Ecosia as a search engine for a while, to get away from Google's annoying AI default. Seems to do a decent job of straightforward searches. www.ecosia.org

oh hey, convenient. new paper out with some wonderful colleagues on exactly this! (thanks @lizstokoe.bsky.social, @charlesantaki.bsky.social, Leanne Chrisostomou, and @drsimonstewart.bsky.social for bringing me along for this 💗) psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Adjacency pair of the day

In my local store. Sounds a bit severe. (Paragraph 6: she used the bag to nick £30 worth of booze.)

omg

Preach, Allister!

😍 #Loughborough www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

The Next-Turn Forum: Emerging CA-SLA Research in Dialogue Kobe, Japan 8 August 2026 A supportive venue for graduate students to present work in progress in Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition. tim792.wixsite.com/can-asia/nex...

www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr... @darg-sessions.bsky.social

How cheap we are, and how easily seduced. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to see the terrific York team @richardogden.bsky.social and @marinanc.bsky.social land this exciting new grant with colleagues in Germany.

Call for Editor for Symbolic Interaction! The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) invites applications for Editor(s) of the journal Symbolic Interaction for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2027. More info: sssi.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Edi...

"Choice of language" - hmm. Often used. Of course it distracts attention from the substance, which remains nasty and objectionable. Implies that there is a better way of being racist.

New paper, expertly led by Matthew Ivory, on whether ChatGPT could pass a psychology degree. The answer was pretty much yes (albeit a low scoring pass). A lot to unpack in the paper but tldr is we really need to rethink how we assess our degrees and what we want students to get out of university.

Intriguing to see where in the BlueSky universe CA users sit, and pleasing that the journal is at the heart of the community. bluesky-map.theo.io

A fascinating new book on mental disorder (though here "madness" is indeed better) and the sea link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences? Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant! Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com lingcomm.org/grants/

Stumped by this one in the local paper

PhD course: April 7-9, 2026 Conversation analysis and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts, USN Norway Application deadline: March 1, 2026. www.usn.no/activities/p...

PubPeer contributors do an admirable job of trying to keep science honest. In her latest blogpost, @deevybee.bsky.social notes "58% of highly-cited papers that were annulled between 2021-2025 had prior PubPeer comments". deevybee.blogspot.com Publishers: a free alert to potential problems

Another of those teasing picture puzzle competitions in my local paper

The conversational action test: Detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My colleagues and I have been invited by Routledge to put together a book proposal for an edited collection on discourse and interactional perspectives on #humanAIinteraction. The call is quite broad, so the final proposal can be shaped by the contributions we receive #HCI #EMCA #conversationalAI

A really excellent example of a CA research-based applied workshop, tried and tested over many years of development.

Hiring! 📢 We have a three-year position open at the University of Oulu for a Doctoral Researcher in English. Not only will you get to study social interaction in an interesting setting, you'll also get to work with the nicest* people in the business. See announcement below. *biased statement

#EMCA #spanish #español Secuenciando acaba de inaugurar los Open Data Sessions, un espacio libre y casual para que personas del ámbito hispano, interesadas en el análisis de la conversación, puedan reunirse y hacer observaciones de datos interaccionales con otrxs ;)

📢 YorCCA 2026 — Call for Abstracts YorCCA 2026 is now accepting abstract submissions. 🗓 Submission deadline: Friday 10 April 2026 🎓 Eligible: current MA/PhD researchers & recent PhD graduates (2023+) 🔗 Full details & submission: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

Hello #EMCA community! There's been another Bluesky influx - to find #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology use these Starter Packs. Let me know if you'd like to be added (check you're not there first) and repost this! 1. go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX 2. go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ

Aston Stylistics Research Centre is launched!

BBC weatherman in Rab C Nesbitt homage

Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction - 04 June 2026 10:00 to 05 June 2026 16:30 - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a...

This week's parsing puzzle from my local paper

A paper in BMJ with important clinical implications for the treatment of heart disease – yet sleuths find troubling evidence of fabricated data. A new blog post by @deevybee.bsky.social reporting on the case, and the unsatisfactory response from the journal. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o...

LLB (Oxon), BCL (Cantab), QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Police Board.

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