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Richard Ogden
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University of York, UK, Linguist, Phonetician, Conversation Analyst Occasional other stuff. Own views.

#EMCA #ConversationAnalysis #phonetics #linguistics
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wimpouw.bsky.social
Our paper @sarabogels.bsky.social covering our pre-registered multi-year research is now finally out in Cognition. We show that in conversations people reduce their multimodal signals non-linearly; the steeper this non-linear drop-off the more communicative success.

www.wimpouw.com/files/Bogels...
A busy figure showing how reduction of different types of multimodal signals reduces over experimental rounds (with a comparison of how a non-linear signal following a power law can be transformed to a linear slope using a log-transformation).
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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christianilbury.bsky.social
Since January 2022, we (me, 93% Club & SS) have been working a project that tackles accent bias in Higher Education, focusing on the 'elite' institution where we're based. Today, we're launching the project website which brings together all our work:

accentbias.ed.ac.uk
Accent bias logo. Four speech bubbles in four different coloured squares.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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leedscitylanguages.bsky.social
Michael Slavinsky is the founder of Languages For All, a charity which exists increase the number of modern language students at A-level and degree level from state schools. He will talk about how school collaborations! Free but booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/webin...
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
This kind of precision timing is pragmatically strange. Not 5 to 2, not 2pm. Does arriving at 1359 count as late, and I will be denied boarding? This is exactly the sort of point Harvey Sacks made in his Lectures. People don't aimlessly use numbers like this in real life!
Text from Eurostar telling me to arrive at departures at 1358.
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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iira.bsky.social
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
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
richardogden.bsky.social
In Aix en Provence today for the PhD exam of Kübra Bodur, whose PhD is all about phonetic reduction. Excellent work all round! Afterwards, there was a table of wonderful home-made Turkish food that she and her family had made.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
How much precious academic and professional support time and energy goes into making applications, whose success rate is essentially that of a lottery -- not to mention evaluating them. It's hard to see how this is properly 'strategic' or beneficial.
anavaldi.bsky.social ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · Oct 22
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:

- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Good thing then that this week's White Paper fails to recognise modern languages as a key skill for young people.
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
richardogden.bsky.social
"Languages" appears twice. Here's one: "language students could have conversations with artificial intelligence, building
confidence and breadth". Bit naive. Conversations about what? What did you think of the film? What's the best pastry you sell? Can you help me find a good place to eat nearby?
willtullett.bsky.social Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · Oct 20
What’s quite funny here is even in the overview description it basically says lots of things about work, skills, employment and then hastily adds at the end ‘oh and also some stuff about higher education too’.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Oct 20
Now back to the IB cuts with concerns about loss of language study. And transport barriers. But here's the link to the document itself. Read it. 10/x (yes, there are two 8/xs--long day!)
October 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
Congratulations to Katariina Harjunpää and Beatrice Szczepek Reed on this lovely collection of papers on interspecies interaction, for which Leelo Keevallik and I wrote a commentary.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Language & Communication | Sound Patterns in Interspecies Interaction | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
The sounds that humans and animals make play a central role in the enactment of the human-nonhuman relationship. For example, humans produce a range of vocalizations when they play with dogs, train ho...
www.sciencedirect.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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scoretta.bsky.social
🎉 - 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
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
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!
October 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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adambrandt.bsky.social
#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
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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aidanhorner.bsky.social
It's that time of year when many start thinking about applying for PhDs. If you're applying for a UK PhD position, here is a blog post I wrote a while back that might be helpful

#cognition #psychscisky #neuroskyence #psychjobs
How to get PhD funding in the UK
It is that time of year again. The leaves are turning golden, red, and orange (or just brown), the nights are drawing in, and there is a chi...
aidanhorner.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
Banned as particularly vulnerable: languages and linguistics, which is what my department is all about.
britishacademy.bsky.social The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Oct 6
In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities.

In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.
Key finding 1: Cold spots have emerged in the North, South West and East of England, as well as parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Key finding 1: Cold spots have emerged in the North, South West and East of England, as well as parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Key finding 2: The biggest loss of provision is at lower-tariff levels. This is concerning given strong links between attainment and socioeconomic disadvantage. Key finding 3: Languages, Linguistics, Anthropology, Classics and Theology are among the hardest hit. If trends continue, English, History, Drama and Celtic studies – including Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh – could follow. As we await the post-16 White Paper, we’re calling for: - An urgent review of higher education funding - Regulators to monitor provision with an ‘at-risk’ regional register and subject premium - Government to help universities collaborate effectively with clearer guidance about competition law
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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rcquaker.bsky.social
New powers to further restrict protest are unnecessary, undermine our rights to freedom of expression and ability to practice our religion freely.
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
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.... who, I am sure, are excited about its successor, ";".
October 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
richardogden.bsky.social
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
September 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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phkraemer.bsky.social
Since today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, let's not forget that you are not required to keep your languages separate, pure, intact or in any way feel inadequate about your way of using your own language/s.
And don't let anyone take away your co-ownership of the languages you have.
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
richardogden.bsky.social
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.
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
Our paper with @marinanc.bsky.social and Jürgen Trouvain on Phonetic features in the management of laughter has just come out in Interactional Linguistics #phonetics #EMCA doi.org/10.1075/il.2...
Phonetic features in the interactional management of laughter | John Benjamins
Abstract This paper investigates the phonetic and social organisation of laughter in spoken conversation. Building on conversation analytic research that highlights laughter as a complex interactional...
doi.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
A very thoughtful thread for those in the UK universities on the REF pause
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 5
Some (no doubt annoyingly) glass-half-full reflections on REF2029 pause, for academic and PS staff involved in HEI submission(s).

If, like me, you're having to deal with the hiatus in the known unknowns, what's a viable approach to take? Some very preliminary thoughts. 1/7
On the left, a wine glass half full (or is it half empty) with a red liquid; on the right, a bottle half full/half empty with the same red liquid. Because let's be frank, REF2029 is driving some to drink.
September 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
richardogden.bsky.social
From a visit to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh last week: a great little Gaelic glossary for English speakers, compiled by schoolchildren. Each entry shows a picture from the gallery and some key words for it. Brilliant!
Front cover of a booklet from the Scottish national Gallery, "Gaelic in the Gallery". Small icons representing pictures in the gallery (they look like postage stamps), and the word Glossary at the top. On the left: text explaining that the booklet was prepared by school children. Each glossary entry is in English, Gaelic and then there are some pronunciation hints. Above each glossary entry is a picture from the gallery. On the right: a picture called Saint Bride by John Duncan. The words given are colourful, warm, sunset, calm, angelic and sea.
August 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
richardogden.bsky.social
Here's an article by our Head of Department at York arguing for languages on the curriculum in the UK. As a polyglot I usually take it for granted that I can operate (with varying degrees of competence!) in several languages; I experience that as real wealth.

www.ciol.org.uk/languages-uk...
| CIOL (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
By Professor Monika S Schmid A recent YouGov poll suggested that over 70% of adults in the UK support languages as an obligatory subject in schools, and many regret not having studied them more themse...
www.ciol.org.uk
August 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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galinabolden.bsky.social
Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social
jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)
The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...
jobs.rutgers.edu
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM