I was served my dish at a pizzeria with the appropriate "buon appetito", and instead of the "grazie" I thought I already had in the chamber, what came out was the most Aldo Raine ass "buOnGioRno" imaginable. Avoiding eye contact with the waitress now as I eat my pizza in shame.

I'm fairly pissed at Past Me for planning such a stressful spring / early summer for Present and Future Me, but at least Present Me had a paper accepted for publication today so that helps a bit! It's also unusually warm for April in Oulu, which is nice but also quite scary.

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

As a student, I used to work in a science centre which had its own cinema, and learned how to operate this 1970s 8/70mm OmniFilms IMAX projector. A 40min film weighed 40kg, was laid on a vertical spinning plate, and had to be ran through several pins through the projector and anto another plate.

Some good news to end the year with: On Jan 1st, I'll start in a new position at @oulu.fi as an Assistant Professor of Language use and comprehensive security (Tenure track) in the SafeEarth research programme. 🥳 More info later on, but in the meanwhile, check out the programme webpage!

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

Going old-school today teaching sequence organization in the #CA class! The students also seemed to be having fun putting these seemingly random lines in an order that would make sense as a conversation. Does anyone recognize what classic data this is from? 🤓 Extra points for the correct order!

Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä. Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.

Eilen inboxiini tipahti tieto, että minulle on myönnetty (Suomen ensimmäinen...? 👀) Asiantuntijaviestinnän dosentuuri Tampereen yliopistossa! Sähköpostin allekirjoitus ja CV (tässä järjestyksessä, obvs) päivitetty. 💪 Iso kiitos @niinalilja.bsky.social järkkäilyistä, kiva päästä tekemään yhteistyötä!

At our 4yo goddaughter's bday party: GD: "Pretend to sleep!" Me: "OK" *fake sleeps* GD: jumps on sofa, blasts hellish tunes with harmonica, yells "SATANNNNN!!!" All us adults: 😳😳

Been in the #acwri game for 11 years now and today got my very first desk-rejection for a manuscript. Does- does this mean I'm a real scholar now...?

The announcements at the Stockholm-Arlanda airport have no chill: "With the RISK OF DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY, please do not leave your bag unattended." Okay okay I won't, Jesus. 😳

I spy with my little eye something that is missing: Editors and publishers: please consider adding @bsky.app to options for sharing publications

Vaikka aikanaan olikin kova kiire kotipitäjästä maailmalle (no, Ouluun, mutta tässä tapauksessa lasketaan), niin ei siitä mihinkään pääse että hyvä siellä oli kasvaa ja lapsena nuohota peltoja ja pusikoita ja polokia pyörällä kylänraittia. Kylä kasvaa mutta fiilis ilmeisesti säilyy!

I don't love the fact that the printed out memes on my office pinboard that were meant to be ironic turn out to be prophetic instead. That's the wrong ic, pinboard meme! Yes post this IS about current global politics.

Me: That was a nice winter break, and now this is the week I'm getting All The Work™ done! Snot in my sinuses: hehe Me: 😵‍💫😩🤕 Snot: hehehe 🗜️🎳

Today's pretty rough news-wise (urghh), so to interrupt your doomscrolling here's a picture of a willow catlin I spotted on a walk on Saturday.

For those still learning about the nuances in the concept of personal space in Finland, know that I consider both of these scenarios equally unacceptable.

I much love our neighbourhood library's commitment to A) this being the definitive and forever recognisable image of a mobile phone, and B) avoid advertising any brands by censoring the logos, thus rendering the make and model of this phone completely unrecognisable.

Totuus lasten suusta. Yliopisto-lehden 1/2025 kainalojutussa 9-luokkalainen TET-harjoittelija kuvaa Suomen talouden kehityksen ja ydinhaasteet oivaltavammin kuin 99 % suomalaisista ekonomisteista. www.lukusali.fi?p=Yliopisto-...

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Almost the last thing before Christmas holiday, my new article on the ways of participating in a colleague’s project was published in Language & Communication! Open access, available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is this a thing also elsewhere? We have this self-service Christmas tree sale in our neighborhood, where you just pick a tree, use an app to pay the price indicated by a colored ribbon, & use the provided saw to shorten it, if needed. I guess no-one just grabs one and walks without paying, cool! 🎄

She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, kid. I made a lot of special modifications myself.* *(My wife did, mostly, but I was a big help!)

To complement all of these classics (and to acknowledge some of the contributions outside of the anglosphere), here are a couple of excellent recent edited collections:

Went to see this documentary today about a Finnish actor's search for information on his granpa, who was an intelligence officer in WW2. More than anything, this turned out to be an exploration of generational trauma. As another grandson of a war veteran, I felt this really unlocked something. Huh.

Our friendly neighbourhood hydroelectric plant this evening, giving off some nice, calming, dystopian scifi vibes.

Our new #EMCA paper studies interaction in the UN military observer course and focuses on moments during a car-patrolling exercise where a team member asks a question that doesn’t receive any response from the recipient. 🧵 1/17 @unioulu.bsky.social

Our (@iira.bsky.social & I) new article is out today! What happens when direct questions receive no response during a UN military observer car-patrolling exercise? A 🧵 will appear at some point, but for those of you who just CAN'T WAIT, here's the full thing: tidsskrift.dk/socialintera...

Forgot to pack my laptop so rocking it oldschool at work today! Maybe this has been the reason all along for printing out all those articles (just to end up using the PDFs anyway).

I've said many times that, for me, the best parts of being a researcher are getting to meet awesome people and finding new things about how the world works. My least favourite part: Writing articles about those new things. Anyway, here's a line from an email from yesterday. 🤓

On yesterday's #CA course, the students presented clips at a data session on turn taking. I just had to point out the *absolute hilarity* of them having to SELECT THE (correct) SPEAKER from the audio settings while connecting their laptops. Just blank stares all round. Forever the cool kid. ✊🙃🤓

Got beamed up! 🙌 Now trying to find everyone I followed in the other place...