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ROLSI journal
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A journal for interaction researchers.

Posts by Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social
Editors Charles Antaki, Leelo Keevallik and Elwys De Stefani.
Editorial Officer: Bogdana Huma @bogdanahuma.bsky.social

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 3d
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

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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...
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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:

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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.

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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

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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 26d
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

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Emma Richardson @emma-richardson.bsky.social · 26d
Another fantastic CA Day closes and what a year! We had some seriously good talks, great company and of course excellent CA-ke.

This year my Mum baked in the style of a CA staple, Audacity! Can't wait to do it all again in 2026. But now, rest.

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Elwys De Stefani, Sally Wiggins

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 27d
In conversation, a true conference… I report from today’s #CADay2025, hosted by @darg-sessions.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.
www.bps.org.uk

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Dec 11
Calls: Sociolinguistics and AI
Calls: Sociolinguistics and AI
Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event. As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, ‘AI’ seems to be every­where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno­tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis­courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju­dic
dlvr.it

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · Dec 10
We have a CA pathway in our MA Applied Linguistics at York. Includes dedicated modules on CA, multimodality, and institutional interaction (taught by Merran Toerien). Applications open for 26-27.

Find out more
www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Dec 8
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...
Emma Richardson and a CA -themed cake for Loughborough's CA day

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Dec 4
The baleful influence of Hans Eysenck is dwindling, but his research misdeeds still need to be recorded and publicised.
michelnivard.bsky.social Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · Dec 4
Its notable that some (in this case @mendelrandom.bsky.social (George Davey-Smith)) were on to him while he was alive, video a young GDS confronting Eysenk in a Q&A in 1994 for his data being inconsistent: youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · Dec 4
Its notable that some (in this case @mendelrandom.bsky.social (George Davey-Smith)) were on to him while he was alive, video a young GDS confronting Eysenk in a Q&A in 1994 for his data being inconsistent: youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Dec 3
A fascinating ROLSI blog post by @philhutchinson.bsky.social on the long running ethnomethodology/CA reading group, originally based at Manchester University.

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A paragraph from the ROLSI.net guest blog by Phil Hutchinson on the Manchester UK echo/CA reading group

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Dec 2
Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams

One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week's chosen reading. Some reading groups and data sessions come and go, and some have an admirably…
Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams
One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week's chosen reading. Some reading groups and data sessions come and go, and some have an admirably long and unbroken history. One of the latter is the Ethnomethodology Reading Group originally based at Manchester University. Here, …
rolsi.net

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Nov 21
Citation counts used to be useful; now AI-fuelled paper mills and review mills make them unreliable and potentially damaging.

Another clear and well-sourced analysis by @deevybee.bsky.social .
A paragraph from Dorothy Bishop's blog, describing the nefarious effects of review mills and paper millls on citation counts

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Nov 18
Independent scholar Wayne Martin Mellinger uses Steve Clayman's decades of studying US new interviews, debates (etc) to:
"argue for an activist research agenda that deploys conversation-analytic insights for democratic defense rather than mere description of democratic collapse."
lizstokoe.bsky.social Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Nov 18
Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."

Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇

doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"
Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...
doingmodernity.blogspot.com

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InterAct Research Group @interactemca.bsky.social · Nov 17
We have an incredible opportunity to learn about #EMCA early next year.

Join us for an in-person introductory workshop on Conversation Analysis with Visiting Prof Tom Koole.

26th and 27th January 2026

Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Nov 9
It's nearly time for CA day!

I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.

Here's the registration link and terrific programme:

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
conference programme: Time Title Presenter 09:30 – 9:55 Registration, tea and coffee 09:55 – 10:00 Welcome to CA Day 10:00 -10:30 Does Silence Speak Volumes? Accounting for Silences during GPs’ Background Tasks in Telephone Consultations Gilian Noord | Alison Pilnick | Elizabeth Stokoe | Tony Avery | University of Nottingham | Manchester Metropolitan University | London School of Economics and Political Science | University of Nottingham 10:30 -11:00 Whose choice is it? (Shared) decision-making in conversations between social workers and people with learning disabilities. Virginia Calabria | Joe Webb | Brett Smith | Durham University | University of Bristol | Durham University 11.00 – 11:45 Keynote 1: Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder 11:45-12:15 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 12:15- 12:45 Are Family Mealtimes Insitutional? Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities 12:45 – 13:15 On the three-partedness of lists Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat d’Alacant 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB) or bring you own! 14:30– 15:00 When Children Take the Floor: Children’s Self-Selection and Doctors’ Recipiency in Pediatric Consultations in China Luyang Zhou | University of York 15:00- 15:30 Lessons learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction Ole Pütz | Bielefeld University 15:30 – 16:00 A conversation analytic study of culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients Sanaa Hyder | University of Manchester 16:00 – 16:30 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 16:30-17:00 Managing Emotion Displays in Early Childhood Kathryn Jordin | Loughborough University 17:00 – 17:45 Invited talk 2 Deborah Chinn | King’s College London

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · Nov 7
The cover has arrived! Emotionography!
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
@alexahepburn.bsky.social
Book cover Emotionography. Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice. Authors Jonathan Potter and Alexa Hepburn. Publisher APA. Abstract graphic motif; clean typographic layout.

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Nov 7
Another troubling exposé of fraud in science publishing: organised groups of reviewers (here, in the medical sciences) conspiring to push authors to cite the reviewers' own work.

Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Gaming the peer review system: a sophisticated review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity
Background A review mill is a network of researchers who game the peer review system to apparently boost their citations. Members write generic review reports containing suggestions for citations to t...
www.medrxiv.org

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Nov 6
Was Erving Goffman really the utterly original "loner", indifferent to others' views?

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz has searched the archives to map the relation between Goffman and the academic big beasts of the time, with some surprising results.

A new guest blog on rolsi.net
A clip from a new ROLSI guest blog by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz on her new book about Erving Goffman

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Nov 5
Guest Blog: A new book on Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman's legacy is everywhere visible in the social sciences, and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz's new book shines light on the "invisible college" of his contemporaries among his close circle and further afield. The result is a fascinating account of the…
Guest Blog: A new book on Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman's legacy is everywhere visible in the social sciences, and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz's new book shines light on the "invisible college" of his contemporaries among his close circle and further afield. The result is a fascinating account of the intellectual climate of the 1960s-1980s, and a throughly engaging read for all whose work has felt the influence of Goffman down the ages.
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Oct 30
Oulu, Finland is a welcoming place to work, with a large, friendly and highly expert group of #EMCA researchers

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Iira Rautiainen @iira.bsky.social · Oct 30
A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities
We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature (English unit) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is located in the research proje
oulunyliopisto.varbi.com

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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · Oct 24
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!
Building Bridges
Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction
warwick.ac.uk

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Oct 22
Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?

Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.

Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.

Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.

More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...

#EMCA
CA for Beginners January 2026 - emcawiki
emcawiki.net

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Stefano Coretta @scoretta.bsky.social · Oct 16
🎉 - Pleased to announce a new journal

📔 - Registered Reports in Linguistics (RRLing) journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index

The first linguistic journal dedicated to Registered Reports. We accept submissions from all areas in linguistics and language research.
Registered Reports in Linguistics
journals.ed.ac.uk

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Oct 13
Multiple thumbs-up for this one - sign up if you can. @richardogden.bsky.social is the doyen of the CA/phonetics connection and a highly engaging communicator.
richardogden.bsky.social Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · Oct 13
I'm really pleased to be running a workshop on the phonetics of talk in interaction at ICCA in Edmonton next year.
icca2026.bsky.social International Conference on Conversation Analysis @icca2026.bsky.social · Oct 13
🗓️ Pre-conference workshop schedule is out! Check out our website. With so many interesting workshops, hmm... not an easy choice 🤔 Register soon to secure your spot in your favourite workshops!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · Oct 13
What a fantastic lineup of pre-conference workshops – go to any selection out of that lot and you'd come out glowing with CA skill & savvy
icca2026.bsky.social International Conference on Conversation Analysis @icca2026.bsky.social · Oct 13
🗓️ Pre-conference workshop schedule is out! Check out our website. With so many interesting workshops, hmm... not an easy choice 🤔 Register soon to secure your spot in your favourite workshops!