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Charles Antaki
@charlesantaki.bsky.social
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Ex-prof, but still in with a shout on language, interaction etcetera

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1h
Speedy recovery, Sue!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 3d
Well that was quite a surprise - thanks for sharing, Kári

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 3d
BBC weatherman in Rab C Nesbitt homage
Image of BBC weatherman wearing what seems to be a vest underneath his suit jacket

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 3d
Good stuff, John!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d
Well done Alex!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d
This week's parsing puzzle from my local paper
Headline from local online newspaper reads "NUH £35.5 million worse than plan as board papers rule out break–even this year"

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre

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DirkvL @dirkvl.bsky.social · 5d
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...
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London
The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction
www.kcl.ac.uk

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d
I used to read Searchlight back in the day – what an eye-opener it was

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Charles Antaki

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 5d
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...
An Open Letter to the BMJ Editorial Board
to: Editor in chief, Kamran Abbasi , [email protected]      Executive editor, Theodora Bloom , [email protected]      Head of research, Elizab...
deevybee.blogspot.com

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 6d
It truly beggars belief that anybody would do this.

What could they possibly gain, apart from a huge N and as many variables as they can think of, more or less guaranteeing some "finding" or other which they can publish somewhere - oh...

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 7d
Best of luck with the surgery, Sue!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 8d
Ah yes - thank you @seanjones.org

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 8d
LLB (Oxon), BCL (Cantab), QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Police Board.
Image of Sir Keir Starmer, with the caption "Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law"

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 8d
Kevin De Bruyne watches Roy Keane lose patience with a much-aged Gary Lineker, while someone from the FA looks on in bemusement

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 9d
Lovely! My very best to you and the family. May 2026 be healthy and happy for us all.

(Tip: if they’re doing a son et lumière around the great pyramid, that’s definitely worth watching)

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 9d
Oh wow, Liz, are you there?

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 11d
Ditto, John. The very best to you.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 11d
Same to you Kári.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 11d
Upmarket language trivia game for (not all) the family.

Would Ludwig have approved?
Image of a language trivia game advertised by a quote from Wittgenstein

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 20d
Lovely photo, Barbara! Best wishes of the season to you.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 21d
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.

Reposted by Charles Antaki

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 21d
Resisting eating during a family mealtime: The moral and identity work of food refusal

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Recent developments within social influence research have demonstrated how resistance is temporally and sequentially accomplished within social interaction. The everyday morality of trying to get ano....
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani , and 2 more

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 21d
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.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22d
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani , and 4 more

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22d
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
First column: Ask AI to summarize a book or article in your field. Use this as a starting point for critical engagement Next column: Yes. Next Column: Acceptable without explicit citation.

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani

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OrenH @langpoljer.bsky.social · 24d
Happy World Arabic Language Day to all those who use and appreciate Arabic!
أطيب التهاني بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للغة العربية
#Arabic #Langsky
December 18: World Arabic Language Day

Reposted by Charles Antaki

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Natàlia Server Benetó @nserverb.bsky.social · 25d
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! 🍰

Reposted by Jonathan Potter, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles Antaki , and 1 more

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 27d
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

Reposted by Jonathan Potter, Charles Antaki, Éric Laurier , and 1 more

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 27d
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...
In conversation, a true conference | BPS
Our editor Jon Sutton reports from 'CADay2025', hosted by Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group.
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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 27d
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

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 27d
#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