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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 10h

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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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

Speedy recovery, Kári!

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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

☀️☀️☀️☀️

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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...

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 3d

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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ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · 3d

Online Course

Starting 13 Oct: an online, asynchronous 10-week course for learning how to do conversation analysis.,https://bedsidemanners.thinkific.com/products/courses/conversation-analysis

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Teija Ahopelto @teijah.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

📣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

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

📆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 · 10d

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

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Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 14d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

We now have two Owls for broadcasting.

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

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 21d

Loughborough’s Forensic CA meeting: Keynote is Jan Svennevig on presenting evidence to suspects

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