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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 10h

Hats off to the climate scientists who are rebuilding their website after it was taken down by the Trump administration.

Climate.us @climate.us · 10h

Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us.

Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we...
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Climate.us

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

Climate.us

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Climate.us @climate.us · 10h

Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us.

Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we...
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Climate.us

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

Climate.us

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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · 15h

#EMCA alert!
The 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis is taking place 25-27 March 2026 in Mannheim, Germany.

The theme is Technology Use and Social Interaction, and it has a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers and workshop leads!
www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

AGF 2026 | IDS

www.ids-mannheim.de

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Tilly Flint @tillyflint.bsky.social · 19h

📢Call for Papers!
We’re editing a Special Issue for the International Journal of Research & Method in Education:
Research Methods & Theoretical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education
🗓️ Abstracts (500 words) 31 Dec 2025
📄 Full papers 30 Sept 2026
Details👉 think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Research Methods and Theoretical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education

Describe, examine, critically reflect on, and problematise, the research methods/approaches used to conduct research with young children – from birth to 5 yrs.

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Marco Pino @marcopino.bsky.social · 19h

Dear Colleagues,

We are advertising this funded PhD collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/inclusive-be...

Please bring it to the attention of your students and any other possible candidates. (Only candidates eligible for UK fees can apply.)

Happy to answer questions about the project and PhD.

Building an inclusive bereavement support ecosystem through improved communication in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland - Collaboratory Research Hub

Collaboratory 2026 PhD Project Download PDF Key Details Project Title: Building an inclusive bereavement support ecosystem through improved communication in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland Dead...

collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk

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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 1d

🚨PhD opportunity!

Examining inclusive bereavement support in Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland using conversation analysis
collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk/inclusive-be...

With @marcopino.bsky.social @lizpeel.bsky.social and @darg-sessions.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
Start date: April 2026

collaboratoryresearchhub.ac.uk

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

Depressing to see my ex-employers kowtowing to an arms dealer.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Part of a Guardian article about universities, including Loughborough University, cooperating with defence companies to monitor staff and students for possible protest actions.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

At last: in the wild - an official IT recommendation to turn it off and turn it on again

Clip of a message from an IT department recommending turning off the Wi-Fi and turning it on again

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 1d

This month we spoke to Professor Steven Bloch, expert in speech & language therapy and conversation analysis at @uclpals.bsky.social. We find out more about how he got into this fascinating field of research.
www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

A (now-defunct) AI bot makes calls to restaurants etc.

It was apparently pretty successful at call openings, second summonses, uh(m)s that precede a reason for the call, and other-initiated self-repair.

Authors: test actions, not intelligence. #EMCA

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Speedy recovery, Kári!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. Designing a protocol, planning access to respondents /participants, engaging professionally with them, getting a feel for sound & unsound data, curating the accumulating corpus, etc: all essential research skills.

Discovering your data is a lot more satisfying than downloading it.

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Wil Housley @wilhousley.bsky.social · 3d

@saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social
Rein Ove Sikveland

☀️☀️☀️☀️

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The conversational action test: Detecting the artificial sociality of artificial intelligence - Saul Albert, William Housley, Rein Ove Sikveland, Elizabeth Stokoe, 2025

Drawing on the “Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test”—a science fiction version of Turing’s famous thought experiment—we propose the Conversational Action Test (CAT): a ne...

journals.sagepub.com

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

To add another:

A spoof instruction to a ChatGPT type AI modeller, instructing it to write an editor's desk rejection of an obviously AI generated submission

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Teija Ahopelto @teijah.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Papers!

The Conference on Conversation Studies takes place at Tampere University, 29–30 Jan 2026.

Proposals are warmly welcome in Finnish, Swedish, or English.

Theme: Time and Space in Interaction
Submission deadline: 30 Oct 2025
More info: events.tuni.fi/keskustelunt...

Keskusteluntutkimuksen päivät 2026 | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö

events.tuni.fi

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 8d

People working on #Italian and focusing on #multimodality #digitalcommunication #intercultural pragmatics, Language in professional contexts, this position at our faculty may interest you!

Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 10d

📣My faculty hires for a tenure-track position in #Discourse and language practices in #Italian!

Deadline 12 Nov.

jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAca...

An academic in Discourse and Language Practices in Italian

jobs.uclouvain.be

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 8d

Looking something else up, I came across the mascot of the Estonian football club Paide Linnameeskond.

Not one of the cuddly type.
#gunnersaurus

The mascot of the Estonian football club Paide Linnameeskond, plus two fans

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 10d

Fluently done, but did it find the appropriate literature, e.g. Mondada, L. (2014). The temporal orders of multiactivity: Operating and demonstrating in the surgical theatre. In Multiactivity in social interaction: Beyond multitasking (pp. 33-76).
(etc)

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Emma Richardson @emma-richardson.bsky.social · 10d

📆CA Day is approaching, Monday 15th of December!

We have two fantatsic invited speakers:

Chase Wesley Raymond, University of Colorado Boulder
Deborah Chinn, King’s College London

🚨Deadline to submit an abstract is Friday 3rd of October!

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) – DARG

darg.lboro.ac.uk

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 11d

It's the 25th Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung / Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis in Mannheim, 25-27 March 2026. I'll be running a phonetically-oriented workshop -- details to be confirmed! www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

AGF 2026 | IDS

www.ids-mannheim.de

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 15d

Our paper on how phonetic resources help to coordinate laughter draws on cases of joint laughter from conversations in English, Spanish and Finnish. Here's a summary of some of our findings (which rely heavily on Chafe, 2007), along with acoustic records of a laughter bout in Spanish.

There are three main phases to laughter: the initiating pulse, the exhalation sequence, and a final inhalation (Chafe, 2007). Each phase has its own phonetic potential, with the exhalation sequence being the most complex.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 15d

I still get uni emails. Today another about monitoring students' AI usage: 2 pages' worth of guidance, and 4 additional docs attached.

Truly impressed by the level of thought and compassion in colleagues' concern to find ways for staff & students to cope.

But what an extra burden on their time.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

Forensic CA meeting: Last paper (by mark Visona and Jennifer Plumb is on “swatting” calls where police are falsely alerted to a serious crime in progress

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

Soren Sandager Sorensen on how police & suspects do in arriving at an agreed understanding of important terms such as “rape”, “hurt”,etc

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

Fabio takes us though the editing work which editorialises & dramatises the action - captions, music, etc. especially useful for accounting for lapses in the coverage.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

Examples of videos put out on Brazilian police YouTube channels - chases, family “dramas”…

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

Fabio Ferraz de Almeida listens While his co-author starts their talk (via video) on how Brazilian police use vlogs to present a version of their work

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

One resource open to the video-er is to require an account from the police which, if given, at least allows dialogue - or delays compliance

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

Stock plays some disturbing clips of police’s threatening witnesses taking video of their actions.

One result of the threat is to distract the video-er from recording the main action.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 22d

We now have two Owls for broadcasting.

Next: Jenny Stock from the VU in Amsterdam on »copwatching » encounters

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