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Professor Ruth Parry

@cacenotes.bsky.social
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Scientific expert: communication on sensitive /distressing /embarrassing topics especially how experts do it. + getting the evidence into training and real life. @RealTalk_EoL #PalliativeCare: professional & personal expertise

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Pentti Haddington @penttihad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Have you used conversation analytic insights to train or engage with professionals in healthcare, industry, education, safety, crisis response, etc? Why not share your experiences about?
An image with a blurb for the panel. The text is the following: How can conversation analytic research insights shape how people interact in the real world?

This panel develops interactional awareness as a CA recasting of “situational awareness” — a familiar notion in crisis and other safety-critical settings, but one that typically leaves out the fine grain of interaction. Where situational awareness is a cognitive state within the individual, interactional awareness foregrounds the moment-by-moment organisation of talk and conduct through which it is displayed and made accountable. We invite contributions that examine how CA findings are translated into actionable insights, training, engagement, and societal impact across healthcare, industry, education, safety, and crisis response. Topics include:

What is interactional awareness (IA) from a CA perspective?
How does IA respecify situational awareness?
How can CA concepts and findings be communicated beyond academia?
How are CA-based interventions, training models, and resources developed?
How can the impact of CA-informed knowledge mobilization be demonstrated and evaluated?

Join us in discussing how CA can make a difference where interaction matters most. Submit your abstract here: https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP2027
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Sally Wiggins Young @profsalwiggins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Are you a researcher studying the interactional details of childrens eating/meals in early childhood settings? Please consider submitting an abstract to a panel (hosted by Amanda Bateman and myself) at IPrA2027 in Helsinki #EMCA, DP, Interactional linguistics, and language socialisation research
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IPC20 Helsinki 2027 - International Pragmatics Association
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Sally Wiggins Young @profsalwiggins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our interaction group at @liu.se is delighted to be hosting ICCA in 2030. Thank you to @iscaupdates.bsky.social for your support and to my brilliant colleagues who announced it with style 🤩🫶🇸🇪 To all the #EMCA folk, we'll get fika ready for you in 2030...
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Colin Lawson @colindlawson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
MurrayBlackburnMackenzie has provided an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision last week to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its position on sex & self-declared gender. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/13/a...
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Amnesty International UK: Rights and Wrongs - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Introduction This post provides an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its po...
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Rafferty @rafferty-bs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Feel free to post a link. In the meantime, he's The Guardian's apology to her
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K.Flynnx (St.) @kflynny369.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
An absolutely astonishing defence of Amnesty. They should be able to libel and destroy others with impunity. An absolutely genius response from Dr Jane Clare Jones.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Re @amnestyuk.bsky.social 'Many of the participants in this “anti-rights movement” are organisations dedicated to protecting and advancing women’s rights as a distinct sex class. As such, Amnesty appears to have concluded that feminism is an “anti-rights movement”.' www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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Illiberal Amnesty thinks a woman’s place is at back of the queue
Branding groups such as the JK Rowling-backed Beira’s Place ‘anti-rights’ is sadly typical for an organisation that has strayed far from its original purpose
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hard agree And not lost on me is the irony that some of those organisations and the women involved in them are campaigning for better evidence based support and care for trans identifying and for detransitioning people.
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Tough read re science in Trump’s USA: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky
New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The politicians proposing the Conversion Practises Bill ought to be made aware of the effects of gender reassignment on the body, which are irreversible. There is no ethical justification for mutilating a perfectly healthy body because you think it's the wrong sort.
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Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem
“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” Elaine Miller One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment conce…
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Another consideration on the subject of having surgical alterations to healthy bodies for gender reasons: The NHS does not circumcise men for religious reasons, despite pressure to do so, but has to repair the damage caused by bodged jobs done by non-medical people. It's all a cost to the NHS.
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Alexei @alexeigc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Some people get upset by "misgendering" posts on social media. The exact same people post stuff like this.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
'Back to Amnesty, who have just produced a report ... which attempts to reinforce the “actually, I think you’ll find it’s the feminists and LGB activists who are like Trump” argument. In its utter disregard for law and logic, it is – ironically enough – Trumpian.' substack.com/@glosswitch/...
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Is feminism 'anti-rights'?
On the Trumpian anti-feminism of Amnesty
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
'Strategies used to target our paper, including misrepresentation of the law, attempted censorship, a workplace investigation, and the dismissal of sex-based protections as fundamentally wrong ... '. Excellent piece. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/09/p...
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Putting violent men in women’s prisons: where was Scottish civil society? - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie
Introduction This blog details our first attempt, via an academic article, to alert Scottish civil society to the Scottish Prison Service’s policy of placing some male prisoners in female prisons. We ...
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
would be very interested to hear from anyone planning an application to this call My expertise is in language and social interaction, sensitive conversations, and how we build mutual understandings. Also systematic reviews. scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Karleen Gribble (@DrKarleenG) on X
The UK NIHR has a call out for grant applications for research on communication in women's health. Is anyone aware of researchers who are making an application and are interested in looking at sexed a...
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now out online: Special Issue on "Action Categorization", guest edited by Arnulf Deppermann, Alexandra Gubina and Barbara Fox www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/5...
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Research on Language and Social Interaction
Action Categorization. Volume 59, Issue 1 of Research on Language and Social Interaction
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds
Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date
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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Half of UK welfare is pensions, 1 in 3 people on Universal Credit are in work, disabled people are disabled, more of them since Covid hit, but the welfare bill as % of GDP is stable (lower than most developed countries) and is forecast to stay stable and below OECD average for the next 5 years.
Chart from the Resolution Foundation of Social security spending as a proportion of GDP by category, Great Britain. The chart from 2007-2008 shows social security spending falling since 2013 from a peak in 2008-2009, pensions rising to account for the biggest share, and disability and incapacity spending rising in the post-Covid years from 2023.
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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In Manchester “the state has been used to facilitate private accumulation by dispossession.” Turned over to capital market investors that now own much of the city, charging outlandish rents and where a one bedroom flat can now cost up to £1000/ month to rent www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...
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Manchesterism is not socialism
Andy Burnham's city is a neoliberal metropolis
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Marco Pino @marcopino.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
We are advertising an Online Workshop in Conversation Analysis and Healthcare Interactions (Loughborough University). Details: darg.lboro.ac.uk/news/new-wor...
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New workshop advertised – DARG
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Delighted to have been your mentor.
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Hi Marco, I think I’m fairly experienced in analysing “ interactions where death is relevant”. You did not invite me to participate. could you tell me why not?
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
spot on
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LS @vatskills.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Even the BBC haven't ignored this one
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Dozens of children put at risk after gender care failures at GP clinic, inquiry finds
A safety inquiry into the WellBN clinic in Brighton found 78 children were potentially harmed after being given gender medication without proper checks.
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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"If implemented, my recommendations should reduce the number of deaths, reduce the suffering and reduce the social and economic cost," she [Baroness Heather Hallett] said. I've got a feeling that that is a mighty big "If".
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Covid inquiry chair defends cost and length of process on final day
Baroness Heather Hallett said completing the hearings in under four years was an achievement but critics have questioned its cost.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 05/03/2026
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills
Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 17/11/2025
I’m trying to decide if I‘ve accidentally taken acid, or if it’s reality itself that’s breaking down.
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
One of my favourite Substackers... venusenvyxx.substack.com/p/when-the-w... open.substack.com/pub/venusenv...
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When the Words Don't Work
"Now the words don’t work, they just make things worse - but I know I’ll hear some sense again.” by "The Actual Nerve Of It"
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Professor Ruth Parry @cacenotes.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Really excellent essay
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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Brexit benefits keep on coming. #wato
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/05/2025
Labour promises cuts to migration – but without a plan, care homes, hospitals and families will suffer. By The Bear
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‘Who voted for this?’: Why the migration debate needs more honesty, and a plan
Labour promises cuts to migration – but without a plan, care homes, hospitals and families will suffer
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 15/05/2025
Today (Thursday 15th of May) is Global Accessibility Awareness day. A couple of things you can do on Bluesky to help accessibility is to us CamelBack hashtags, e.g. #MondayReads, where each word is capitalised. and use alt text on your images, this can be set in settings Both help screen readers
Image of Bluesky Accessibility Setting with the "Require alt text before posting" switch activated
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🔥 "The Reform company, sorry party, has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds."
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Ineligible, inept and unspeakable
Reform UK Ltd’s councillors, are already proving they are unfit or unwilling to serve
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Bosses of England hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise. Populist claptrap, not real analysis. NHS lacks capacity, staff. Discharging patients prematurely and subsequent readmission boosts treatment stats but is dangerous and achieves nothing. Fund the NHS.
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Bosses of hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise
Health secretary instigates ‘carrot and stick’ policy for England that will award bonuses for cutting waiting times
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 14/05/2025
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted
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TJM @tjmarsden.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's a squalid contribution that's doing incalculable damage to the quality of the debate and to people who have chosen to make their homes here.
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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
He still said immigration caused incalculable damage. Which is, to put it mildly, a surprising thing for a Labour leader, and leading human rights lawyer, to say.
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Vimes @ohmydays.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I've only been speaking English since 2004 or so, but "incalculable damage" and "squalid" are not positive words when referring to immigrants, right?
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