New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Why do Anthropic engineers talk to Claude as a witch-doctor to his potions? How is prompt engineering like spider divination? Can one reason without reasons? ft. Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman, Weizenbaum & many more ☺️

This is why I've started vaping in the classroom and am making sure all my exams are vapeable.

A @newcastleuni.bsky.social blog post on my and Spencer Hazel's collaborative research with Ufonia. We are using Conversation Analysis to inform the design of their automated clinical assistant, Dora. #conversationalAI #conversationdesign #digitalhealth #EMCA #HCI from.ncl.ac.uk/educating-do...

Update on ACM #genai: looks like they do act on requests to remove the dreadful ✨AI summary for individual papers: ours now says "AI generated summary not available". FWIW, I objected to "basic factual problems" & said it "makes our work (...) look mediocre, bland, and unprofessional"

Assistant/associate professor job at U of Warwick tinyurl.com/3ewmd7u9. A great opportunities for researchers who work on language and communication (including gesture) and on other areas of psychology.

This is going to save a lot of academics a lot of time when writing feedback for peer reviews and student essays.

📣 Our #20 newsletter is out: The contributions to this special issue show how CA continues to be shaped by advances in technology and how conversation analysts are adapting their investigations to new and emerging technologies. Technology becomes a co-interactant worthy of analytical attention.🧵1/8

Good to be part of this workshop @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social that gathered 40 EM/CA scholars to explore Generative AI, talk-in-interaction, synthetic sociality, chatbots and voice agents. Looking forward to the next event. Great write up by Saul Albert @iscaupdates.bsky.social

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

🚨Second Call for Papers🚨 The fifth ICOP-L2 Conference will be held at Newcastle University on 24-26 Aug 2026. Abstract submission is open, deadline 20 Feb 2026: forms.gle/rz7KruELWrzj... See our website for more info: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icop-l2-26/ #emca

Yet another in a great lineup of 2026 conferences relevant for the #EMCA folk looking at human-AI interaction:Sociolinguistics and AI, University of Copenhagen, 19-21 August: cip.ku.dk/english/proj...

New book for #EMCA folk (and others) to enjoy

1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals /2

Call for papers very relevant to #EMCA

Next Thursday, we will meet at this lovely room in One 🍓 Lane to explore together how our responses could help build a safe space for stories of racism. #ESRCFestival @newcastleuni.bsky.social @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social Book your free ticket on Eventbrite 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-turn-...

Interdisciplinary symposium on human-AI interaction taking place at University of Warwick next month: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... This will be relevant for the #EMCA and #conversationalAI communities. Attendance is online or in person. And free!

Anyone in the north-east area early next month may be interested in this workshop. Using #EMCA methods to explore with the public how to create safe spaces for stories of racist experiences to be hear.

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...

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....

#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...

The Journal of Interaction Research in Communication Disorders is now Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders! A great home for #EMCA research on what is often termed 'atypical interaction'. Find out more in this editorial: utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

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

A meme for the modern university...

#EMCA folks - if you're working on #chatbots or other conversational technologies and are in London on 16th July, this event looks fantastic! #Conversational #AI Meetup London, Weds 16th July, 18.00. Including a talk on LLM-Based conversational agents in hospital robots 🔗 lu.ma/5zzqtt33

🚨Save the date!🚨 🗣️Spread the word! 🗣️ The next ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University on 🗓️24-26 August 2026🗓️ icopl2.org More details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for abstracts, and more, coming soon! #EMCA #L2interaction

Super interesting (and useful) Special Section of ROLSI on all things ethics and data collection for #EMCA research. Well done (and thank you!) to all involved in putting this together.

Please read and kindly consider signing in support of academics at Newcastle University (including from our team in Applied Linguistics & Communication) who are facing the threat of redundancy this summer: www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

We are looking for CLAN and ELAN users interested in converting 1 or 2 transcripts to the DOTE format. We have tested a Python script the last couple of days - and it would be interesting to try with some "real" data. Please get in touch. #DOTE #ELAN #CLAN #transcription #EMCA #VIDEO

Please read and kindly consider signing in support of academics at Newcastle University (including from our team in Applied Linguistics & Communication) who are facing the threat of redundancy this summer: www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

This sounds fantastic!

A year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a... Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct

It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.

Better than nothing, hopefully a start: committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Our ‘Late Breaking Work’ submission for CHI2025 in Yokohama has sadly been rejected. Some positive comments from reviewers, but rejected on the grounds of not enough statistical data, lack of details about ethical approval, and lack of detail about #EMCA analytic process (is it thematic analysis?) 🤦🏻‍♂️

Aside from the obvious quality of observation and argument, I’m always impressed by the work of #LSE (and Liz!) in how they present their ideas in an engaging and interesting way, for all audiences. If only other institutions aspired to such standards of academic engagement.

What a brilliant new edition of the ISCA newsletter - a nice reminder that there are so many fantastic conferences and seminars covering many areas of #EMCA / #ILEMCA. Looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings our way! Direct link to the newsletter: www.conversationanalysis.org/members-foru...

Hats off to anyone in UK academia right now who is turning up for work, marking essays, meeting students, giving lectures, holding seminars, being there for colleagues and also facing the threat of redundancy, voluntary or compulsory. It’s a grim and surreal time #UKhigherEd

Another excellent-sounding conference, aiming to bring together language researchers and people from the tech industry. Abstract submission deadline tomorrow: sites.google.com/view/humans-...

I just stumbled across an old course handout. I thought I might share it here.

Michael Mair, Phil Brooker and Chris Elsey are running a two-day, in-person foundational introduction to ethnomethodology and ethnomethodological conversation analysis on the 3rd and 4th March this year. Further details and registration here: emcawiki.net/EMCA_PGR_Tra... #emca #sociology

Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics (MIND) Research Group's data session programme is now out! Please get in touch with us if you want to attend our hybrid data sessions: mindresearchgroup.org/contact/ #CA #conversationanalysis #interaction #discourse #teaching #learning #education

We are very proud to release 360mash - a light weight and completely free software for doing anonymisation.

Seeking proposals for the 8th CAN-Asia Symposium on L2 Interaction, to be held in Busan, South Korea in May, 2025. Deadline for submissions is 10 February, 2025. tim792.wixsite.com/can-asia

Brilliant new #EMCA paper on leaning in social interaction, by Kristian Mortensen and Spencer Hazel. It's a really nice example of the examination of a specific bodily practice across a range of social and institutional contexts. tidsskrift.dk/socialintera...

🎉 Exciting news! The 2025 YorCCA will take place on July 18th and 19th, 2025 at the University of York. Invited speakers: Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada 🗓️ Save the date and stay tuned for more details! 🌐 For more information, visit: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... #FeelTheYorCCA

Great to see more #EMCA and #AppliedLinguistics research on #conversationalAI. Here’s the DOI in case anyone else has problems with the Wiley link: doi.org/10.1002/tesq...