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@rue-burch.bsky.social

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Please don't follow unless you're an academic. Personal Views. Associate Professor at Nanzan University 南山大学-国際教養学部 Conversation Analysis, TBLT, Motivation & Engagement, Language Assessment, Music Enthusiast, Aging punk living in Mattersville

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Jan 9

Nothing personal, but if you follow me and I don’t recognize your name or see anything that somehow connects to me, I’m going to block you. Academia of some sort, language/linguistics/interaction, education in all forms, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, music... all good. Just random stuff that I can’t see a connection to me in, sorry.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 2d

This looks like it will be good, and something I'll need to share with my students.

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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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 5d

#EMCA
One of my 2nd year students mentioned in her homework about how she tried out a breaching experiment (in this case speaking in honorifics with her sister) and the reaction, and started diving deeper into the ideas.

I'm such a bad influence sometimes, but I love it.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 5d

When I finished my postdoc at Rice in 2019 and was on the job market, I must admit that at first the challenges I was facing getting a position in the US stung a bit. Now that I'm outside and have my tenure, I gotta say, I'm glad I'm not dealing w/ what American academics are dealing with right now.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 6d

This is not only a wonderful eulogy of one of the most important pioneers of science and conservation, but also a great explanation of the complexities of knowing and coming to know in science.
@hankgreen.bsky.social - you rock!

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Dr. Jane Goodall

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 16d

Sometimes it's not about finding new music. It's about re-exploring some of the stuff you've had forever but didn't dive into deeply yet.
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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 16d

Been listening to Fugazi's discography the last couple days, 1st time in a decade. Somehow it hits different than before. Amazing how things that either went over my head or didn't connect emotionally in a certain way back then is now. And of course discovering new things throughout.
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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 22d

all about those fucking clicks, not about trying to help the country do and be better.

Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 22d

there was a lynching on a college campus in Mississippi, but as of yet no major news outlet has picked up on the story because they are so far up a celebrity's ass that they can't recognize America's worst type of political violence that has been happening throughout the nation's history.

Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 24d

Another original - "Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning".
Been working on it for a few weeks, but unfortunately, it keeps being timely.
Probably the heaviest thing I've ever recorded (full on with death metal growls)

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Lambchop's Got Lead Poisoning

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · 25d

A new original song I'm calling "Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches".
It came to me over the last couple of days, not as a reaction to what happened, but as a reaction to the cliches that inevitably get trotted out in the wakes of tragedies.
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The Fabulous Soup Forks: Silly Cliches About Silly Cliches

YouTube video by Rue Burch

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Sep 3

Something #EMCA folks should appreciate ...

Frame 1 - Character 1: "Hey Bob! How are you doing?"
Frame 2 - Character 2: Not so good."
Frame 3 - Character 1: ...
Frame 4 - Character 1: "Please complete this report by EOD"
Character 2: Frustrated expression.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 30

This dude's constantly hittin' 'em outta the park. Modern day protest folk at its finest.

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The Ballad of Big Balls

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 29

I wasn't aware that Robin Lakoff had passed away. She opened up the field of linguistics to looking at gender, and thus has had a huge impact on everyone who looks at language through a critical lens in any way.

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In Memoriam of Linguistics Professor Emerita Robin Lakoff, a pioneer in gender and language | Letters & Science

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 21

Americans don't technically have a constitutionally enshrined right to vote for president. I knew we actually voted for electors, of course. But it turns out we don't technically even have a "right" to vote for them.

Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 21

Eye-opening (in a not-so-pleasant "well, shit, what I thought my reasonably well educated self actually 'knew' isn't true" sort of way).

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Who Has the Right to Vote in America? | Civics Made Easy

YouTube video by PBS

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 18

Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 15

Original instrumental song I've been working on for a few weeks. The drums were played with my Yamaha FGDP-50 finger drums, and I like how they help create a better groove than programmed drums.

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And Then There Were

YouTube video by Rue Burch

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 13

- it's a national holiday.
- i'm still recovering and rest would be a good thing.
... so why do i still feel like i have to justify taking a day off to myself? the mental gymnastics that i feel compelled to go through when it's completely ok to take a national holiday off.

Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 11

What the internet and social media has become:

Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 11

Using this rainy holiday Monday to catch up on some needed sleep. Just woke up from a dream in which I seemed to be an active participant in a M*A*S*H episode (Trapper and Col. Blake era).

Weird.

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Rue @rue-burch.bsky.social · Aug 5

80 years.