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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

Probably true of many universities

A clip from an email inbox, showing the title of a curtailed message reading "staff experience survey 2025 – a mess…"

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Bottom right photo is terrific, Sue!

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

This looks like a comprehensive survey, with questions that do require some careful thinking.
If the government really will be consulting it, it's certainly worth responding to

Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 5d

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Earned settlement

The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

www.gov.uk

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

That's a pretty impressive response from such a minimal prompt.
(Terrifying, of course, for those marking CA assignments.)

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d

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

Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 5d

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Earned settlement

The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

www.gov.uk

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d

Fascinating. What was the prompt, Kobin?

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 6d

My condolences, Timothy.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 6d

Social psychology scandals tend to come in two varieties:

1. One of the major canonical studies in our field is deeply flawed.
2. One of the big names in our field is a serial sexual harasser.

Today, unfortunately, is one of the latter days. Solidarity with all of Miles Hewstone's victims.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely. And hat tip @marcscully.bsky.social for the earlier sharing of @reimtime.bsky.social's original post.

The Tajfel lot at Bristol were bad enough, but Oxford gave (gives?) that extra layer of protection.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 6d

Miles Hewstone - once a respected and influential social psychologist (and editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology).

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Esa Lehtinen @esaleht.bsky.social · 8d

Please note extended deadline: The International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference at the University Jyväskylä, 11–13 May, 2026. Theme: “Dialogic Matters: Exploring Materiality in Language, Communication, and Culture”. Deadline for abstracts 24 Nov 2025. www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...

International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference 2026

IADA 2026

www.jyu.fi

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 8d

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."

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 8d

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

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 8d

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

Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · 12d

If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 12d

Terrific! Well done, Jack.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 13d

If those words are the only response from the APA, that is disgraceful.

"Pay up or xxxx off", effectively.

𝚈𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚇𝚒𝚎 謝雅戎 @xyarong.bsky.social · 14d

📢 Call for Papers
@suewiddicombe.bsky.social and I are inviting papers on how third parties - e.g., social media users, news reporters, spokespersons - dispute, judge, or excuse others’ misconduct.
🗓️ Submit by 23 Jan 2026
🔗 More info onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Please share and repost!

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology

The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 14d

That certainly beats a snatch of "Where's your caravan?" to the tune of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (by Middle of the Road, in case people have forgotten) directed at Paul Walsh (slightly long-haired winger), c. 1977

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 14d

Another facial expression not covered by Ekman's typology - studied vacancy with a hint of insouciance.

A picture of Wes Streeting, getting into a car, looking at the camera

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 14d

I had a look at a press release about job cuts from a nearby large university .

I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.

So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.

A doctored image of three paragraphs from a large university's press release, replacing platitudes with the words "we must cut jobs".

Karen O’Reilly @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social · 15d

Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis

I am running a series of short qualitative methods workshop, all online My next 2 1/2 hour workshop is on: Monday, 1st December at 10 till 12:30 am (UK time) On the topic of Interpretive Qualitative Data Analysis 15 places available. £25 plus Eventbrite’s fee

Workshop on Qualitative Data Analysis

I am running a series of short qualitative methods workshop, all online My next 2 1/2 hour workshop is on: Monday, 1st December at 10 till 12:30 am (UK time) On the topic of Interpretive Qualitative Data Analysis 15 places available. £25 plus Eventbrite’s fee

karenoreilly.co.uk

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 15d

Aye - seems arbitrary to stop there, south of Leicester ..... some technical reason.... extension cable limit maybe.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 15d

They look good - but sadly the line is not to be electrified

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dismay at government pause to Midland Mainline electrification

Councils say full electrification is essential as the government diverts funding elsewhere.

www.bbc.co.uk

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 16d

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

People fly or dial in from all over the world.

Still great fun.

#EMCA

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 16d

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

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 16d

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...

ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 19d

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

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 19d

Lamine Yamal, if that counts?

I mean, I knew what it was, but nevertheless ....

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 20d

hmm! Might be worth approaching Ruth directly....

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 20d

I'm sure you know of it already, Charlotte, but the Real Talk project on end-of-life communication has got a page devoted to evidence:
www.realtalktraining.co.uk/in-a-nutshell

Evidence base - Real Talk

We have developed user-friendly ‘In a Nutshell’ articles which summarise our peer-reviewed journal articles and evaluations of RealTalk’s effectiveness.

www.realtalktraining.co.uk

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