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

Upcoming workshops These mini workshops are all led by me, are informal opportunities to focus on a specific aspect of qualitative research methods, and last just 2 1/2 hours. If you're interested please message me with any queries or just sign up! I look forward to seeing you. Qualitative…

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

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...