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Alonso Vásquez-Kanashiro @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social · Jul 31

We’re also merging reading and data sessions so that knowledge and observation go hand in hand. Each week, we’ll read a chapter on sequence organization and begin by discussing its key insights. Then, we’ll dive into some data to explore any sequentially organized phenomena we may come across!

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Alonso Vásquez-Kanashiro @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social · Jul 31

Naturally, we didn’t have time to get into the well-studied generic organizations of talk-in-interaction. That’s why we’re launching a second season! This time, we’ll focus on sequence organization, with special emphasis on adjacency pairs and expansions. Schegloff (2007), here we go!

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Alonso Vásquez-Kanashiro @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social · Jul 31

Dear #EMCA community,
Secuenciando’s first season, “Intro to CA,” has successfully come to an end! We read a variety of papers and book chapters covering the fundamentals of Conversation Analysis and had the chance to immerse ourselves in a couple of data sessions in Spanish.

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Oh and thanks to @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social + @bbasileg.bsky.social for their amazing work last season!! I’m really glad I get to work with you :)

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just now, we started a new season centering sequence organization. If you want to check it out I’ll let the link here: www.instagram.com/p/DMvXz4Xs9z...

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hi everyone! My name’s Belen and I’m a Linguistics Student at PUCP 📍🇵🇪 With some dear friends and colleagues, we created an interdisciplinary group in which we study #ConversationAnalysis (AC), called “Secuenciando”. We started last term and we’re really proud of the work we’ve done so far :)

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Burak Tekin @buraktekin.bsky.social · Jun 9

#EMCA

Our recent paper examines the details of professedly simultaneous phenomena (e.g., choral actions).

We argue that simultaneity is a gloss for describing temporal relations, and “sequentiality is the organizational principle securing their actual accomplishment”.

doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions

The topic of simultaneity has recently been debated within multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA), interrogating the intricate temporal relations betwe…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · Apr 29

The Trump administration abruptly announced that it is dismissing nearly 400 contributors and coauthors for the National Climate Assessment, an examination of the global climate crisis and its effects on several aspects of society that is required by law to be published by 2028.

Trump White House Tells Hundreds of National Climate Contributors They’ve Been “Released” From Their Duties

The National Climate Assessment is required by law to be published every four years.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 29

The White House is proposing to substantially cut NOAA’s budget —cutting critical science that tracks extreme weather, rising seas, and climate change impacts.
We need more climate science, not less.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

A graphic titled “NOAA CUTS” with a red banner. Text reads: “Proposed 25% cut to budget, ~1,800 personnel reductions.” A pie chart shows one-quarter shaded in red. Below are three icons: a tornado labeled “impaired weather forecasts,” a dead fish labeled “impede agriculture & fishing production,” and crossed-out binoculars labeled “reduced capacity to monitor hazards.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨

In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk.

Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)

A protest graphic titled “TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS” with bold red blocks reading “SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE.” Black paint drips from the top, and a grayscale crowd of protestors hold signs like “Save Science,” “Keep Your Hands Off Our Pipettes,” and “No Science, No Future.” A U.S. flag waves on the right.

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Apr 30

why just why.

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Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · Apr 29

I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated.

Please read and share!

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?

Anti-trans attitudes have existed for years, but organised disinformation campaigns are increasingly driving them

Disinformation exists across all parts of the political spectrum, but it goes far beyond simple lying when it comes to the campaign against the transgender community, says a University of Melbourne ex...

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Feb 25

Thank you for sharing!

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Feb 25

I’m very glad to work with @avasquezkana.bsky.social in this new project

Alonso Vásquez-Kanashiro @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social · Feb 25

Dear #EMCA community,
I'm very happy to announce the foundation of a small study group devoted to Conversation Analysis in Peru, composed primarily of undergraduate and graduate students eager to understand the technicalities of naturally occurring social interaction.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · Feb 18

“After they annex a whole ass sovereign country, they’ll definitely allocate electoral votes proportionally and run entirely fair elections”

This is not the fucking Onion.

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Feb 18

Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.

Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.

www.nytimes.com

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Keith Wooo-schmann Wilson 👻 @keithwilson.eu · Dec 24

This is what happens when you rely on international student fees to subsidise inadequate government funding for #HigherEducation, and then create a hostile environment for immigration.

Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · Dec 24

Latest UK universities to post deficits: St Andrews (-£13m), York (-£9m), Leicester (-£8.3m), Brunel (-£13m), Hull (-£17.3m), Surrey (-£17.9m). Plus King's (-£19m), Nottingham (-£17m), Open University (-£10.3m), UEA (-£7.6m) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/york-an... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

York and St Andrews latest to post multimillion-pound deficits

Leicester, Surrey, Brunel and Hull also report losses in financial accounts for 2023-24

www.timeshighereducation.com

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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · Dec 24

Four recent ethnographies that I thought were pretty good, gives me confidence in the future of anthropology

James Slotta Anarchy and the Art of listening

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · May 13

Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.

Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers

Mind-boggling mind research.

www.tomshardware.com

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Dec 4

Leslie Ungerleider (1946 - 2020) was an extraordinary, pioneering neuroscientist. The latest issue of @jocn.bsky.social honors her legacy with articles authored by former colleagues & trainees that highlight critical aspects of her work and its influence https://buff.ly/4156UKw #cogsci #neuroscience

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · Dec 9

Check out our latest, led by @marlietandoc.bsky.social!! We find that memory for individual features of objects is rapidly distorted by the objects' category structure. Plus simulations that provide an account of how the hippocampus may contribute to this effect.

Marlie Tandoc @marlietandoc.bsky.social · Dec 9

New paper out! Memory for object features is warped according to their role in a category, w/ features shared across category-mates misremembered as more similar. We explored the phenomenon in our NN model of the hipp. w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social & @codydong.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/opmi...

Object Feature Memory Is Distorted by Category Structure

Abstract. Memory systems constantly confront the challenge of capturing both the shared features that connect experiences together and the unique features that distinguish them. Across two experiments...

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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · Nov 16

If you're interested, for those that I don't know, here is a thread with some open access articles I've published on Navajo poets and poetry

The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem

journals.openedition.org/jsa/14602

The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem

The pun, or to use a more erudite, and perhaps more precise term – paronomasia, reigns over poetic art, and whether its rule is absolute or limited, poetry by definition is untranslatable.Roman Jak...

journals.openedition.org

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · Nov 28

it's too late, I've already written up a poorly fitting analogy that makes your position on the matter seem foolish

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kamarad evpok @handle.invalid · Nov 28

how do you say imbécile heureux in English

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Yael @yaelniv.bsky.social · Nov 27

Psychologists and neuroscientists are calling for international pressure towards immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine & Lebanon, respect for international humanitarian law, end of the occupation, and release of all hostages.

Read & join us by signing here: tinyurl.com/PsychLetter

Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East

We, psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, call the international community to urgently put pressure towards an immediate ceasefire in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, to demand that t...

tinyurl.com

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belén m. 🍉 @belvelvet.bsky.social · Nov 27