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Sarah J White

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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Local RSL still charging the card surcharge today…
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The workshop by Bedside Manners was particularly effective for a group of specialist doctors. The linguistic analysis of real communications was academically and generally engaging. It allowed the specialists to see subtleties of communication laid bare.
This is a really good solution to cut through the barriers that most folk have about critique of their communication. This workshop works really well.
Dr Peter Roberts OAM, MBBS FACEM
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Getting “period pain” post hysterectomy is so strange. Endometriosis is weird.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why AI is rubbish #3625790: Searching up some Dolly Parton videos and this automatic AI summary popped up.
A screen shot of a search on Instagram. The top is Dolly Parton’s account and the following AI summary says:
Dolly Parton is alive as of September 2026, despite a viral false death report circulating in late August. The 80-year-old singer posted a video on C: Instagram in early 2026 to address health rumors, stating she was "not ready to die yet" and was taking care of herself following a postponed Las Vegas residency ! She also shared an update in February 2026 about a children's hospital in East Tennessee being named in her honor ?.
The death claims stemmed from an Instagram reel by America Reports on August 25, 2026, which used a fake
"FOX NEWS ALERT" graphic to report she had died at 80
3 Dolly Parton has not passed away, and the video was quickly debunked by fans and media. She remains active in music and philanthropy, including her Ci Dollywood theme park and Broadway musical project "Hello, I'm Dolly" set for 20264
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#EMCA folks... I have no idea how fast I am as a transcriber. How long does it take you to transcribe 1 minute of two party conversation into Jeffersonian style (not counting for translation, just single language)?
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please help me grow Bedside Manners Pty Ltd on LinkedIn, Insta, Facebook, YouTube (wherever works for you) by liking and commenting on our posts! Sharing our posts and our website link bedsidemanners.com.au with the healthcare providers and teachers in your life will also help too!
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reposting this video as it is Dementia Action Week. Check out the blog post from Bedside Manners Pty Ltd on diagnostic conversation analysis here: www.bedsidemanners.com.au/blog/studyin...
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Almost always one of the only grown ups dancing 😅
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s been two years since I gave what has been the biggest talk of my career - a plenary at the international conference on communication in healthcare.
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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
3-day online Advanced CA workshop offered by Loughborough DARG staff 20th-22nd January 2027 More info here: emcawiki.net/Advanced_CA_...
Advanced CA Online Workshop 2027
Online workshop in Advanced Conversation Analysis:
Details:
This 3-day online workshop is for advanced postgraduate researchers, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty who have a strong working knowledge of conversation analysis (CA) and wish to consolidate their analytic skills.
Online workshop in Advanced Conversation Analysis Loughborough University 20th-22nd January 2027
This 3-day online workshop is for advanced postgraduate researchers, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty who have a strong working knowledge of conversation analysis (CA) and wish to consolidate their analytic skills.
What does this workshop promise?
The workshop will provide an overview of advanced topics, problems and prospects in CA research. The workshop aims to enhance participants' skills in CA methods of analysis and ability to produce original contributions to the field.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Stepping up the drama over on Instagram.
A close up photo of a cat’s face with a stern look. It has the words “you’ve never done training like this”
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Updating branding for my business - when you see the initials BM, what do you think of? Not seeing if you recognise my business but making sure it’s not something terrible.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
And I truly mean that. Here's a post I've used for teaching many times! It works particularly well as I have used coffee-based examples basically since I started teaching communication 15+ years ago.
Kirsty Webeck • (@KirstyWebeck)
7/11/19,1:00pm
Barista: *handing me my coffee*
Enjoy!
Me: You too. Oh no! You're not having one.
Barista: *holding up coffee*
Yeah, l am.
Me: Oh, see! Enjoy that then.
Barista: I will. Thanks.
Why can't I have an easy interaction?
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I always love Kirsty Webeck's observations on conversations. @kirstywebeck.bsky.social
A post with the following text: kirstywebeck 

Instead of learning Chemistry in school, I wish I'd been taught what to do when someone is talking to me and then another person comes up and wants to talk to me and I can see them in the periphery loitering but I don't know how to wrap the original person up or how to ask the new person to wait a moment.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finding out I had a bicornuate uterus has made me wonder if I simply wasn’t glued together properly.
A selfie of a woman with sunglasses on her head whether a red top and a silver necklace
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I said to my exercise physiologist yesterday that I felt good having done my exercise first thing early in the morning one of the days last week. He said “that’s great, that’s like an exercise high” so I had to correct him and said “no, I felt morally superior” 💅
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Assessment tools are always a narrow view into performance but when it comes to skills that are achieved in context-sensitive ways, like being an effective communicator, they can cause problems.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A friend and I were discussing post op experiences - why is it that you are shouted at to wake up post anesthesia?
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We need to make an announcement
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Is communication a soft skill? This is an idea that I have been challenging for years. Check out the Bedside Manners blog for more: www.bedsidemanners.com.au/blog/communi...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just the other day I popped on the movie Dumplin' on in the background while doing some life admin. I've seen it enough not to watch it. I'm going to re-watch it properly. It's got a Dolly Parton soundtrack and characters in it are fans. If you haven't watched it, you definitely should.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Imagine if more wealthy people understood that they could help people and STILL be wealthy. These people don’t experience shame, but her example *should* shame them. People far richer than she was.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine writing Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day and that's not the best thing you did in life.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A few months ago I had surgery and was provided with some conflicting discharge information. Naturally, I provided an analysis and recommendations to my surgeon at my follow up appointment.
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IIEMCA2027 @iiemca27.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Exciting news! There are 18 panels for IIEMCA27 covering a range of areas from 🤖 AI to 🩺health education to 🎷musicality and much more 🚀. See the website for more information: www.iiemca27.org/news Coming up soon...calls for presentations... #EMCA #MCA @interactemca.bsky.social
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News | iiemca27
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New Guest Blog on ROLSI.net: The inside story of a first-timer's experience of the biennial international Conference on Conversation Analysis, held this year in Edmonton, Canada. Thank you to @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social for a fresh and lively account. rolsi.net/2026/08/24/g...
"This year, ICC brought together around 400 people with a shared interest in conversation analysis. In line with its theme "Diversity, Language, Interaction", the conference offered a remarkable range of perspectives topics and areas of study. This was reflecting the diversity of workshops offered – ranging from turn taking and particles to shelter categories and evidence and claims – as well as in the broad range of panels theme sessions and Keynote presentations…"
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I came across this great article about conversational AI by Elizabeth Stokoe and Saul Albert soon after finishing the first episode of Marc Fennell's new podcast on AI. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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The ordinary inadequacy of ‘conversational AI' | BPS
Saul Albert and Elizabeth Stokoe with a story of how LLMs are ‘learning’ from conversation analysis, but not from interaction itself…
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The ordinary inadequacy of ‘conversational AI' Fascinating account of a LLM in a call to the emergency services, in @psychmag.bsky.social From Saul Albert and @lizstokoe.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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The ordinary inadequacy of ‘conversational AI' | BPS
Saul Albert and Elizabeth Stokoe with a story of how LLMs are ‘learning’ from conversation analysis, but not from interaction itself…
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Being silly on Insta All the #icca2026 interviews managed to do are up now on my @the_conversation_doctor page
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Over the years I’ve been asked to provide advice to or to make resources for patients numerous times. Yet, I’ve generally avoided it because it’s part of the professional role of a clinician to be an effective communicator. BUT…
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you're looking for a clear AI policy for students, I recommend Berkeley Law's. "Thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education).This policy seeks to ensure that our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default" www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/re...
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sometimes I get comments about why Bedside Manners, my training and research company, offers a module that's introductory since "we've learnt all this before". Chances are, you haven't.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Often policies and guidelines around communication are well-intentioned but don't offer practical strategies of how to implement within a conversation as it unfolds. This is one such example: www.bedsidemanners.com.au/blog/communi...
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A photo of a bookcase with the title “book week costumes inspired by my bookcase” overlayed.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.linkedin.com/posts/bedsid...
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Conversation Analysis | Bedside Manners Pty Ltd
Research real conversations with Bedside Manners Across the past 15 months, Bedside Manners has provided research services for groups at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, and the Univer...
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I decided to write a blog post to share with my child's high school as they were keen to know more after I let them know about the issues with claims about non-verbal communication. This blog mostly links to some resources about how conversations works. www.bedsidemanners.com.au/blog/introdu...
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Introducing how conversations work in the wild — Bedside Manners
Discover how conversations really work through Conversation Analysis research, with accessible books, talks, podcasts and other resources to explore conversation in the wild.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Have you attended one of my workshops or presentations, worked with me on research, taken a coaching session or an online module? Then please leave a review here: g.page/r/CfU0CYkKsV...
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One of my favourites #birdbot Other photos sometimes on @sarahvscamera on instagram
A photo of 5 cockatoos on top of overflowing wheelie bins. One bird is visibly squawking at another.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A cheeky ad for our course on conversation analysis. The course takes you through the lifecycle of a doing a CA project. Enrolments open now for a September start! bedsidemanners.thinkific.com/products/cou...
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Public health is delivered through conversations between healthcare providers and individuals. This requires a trusting relationship but also techniques for improving how to have these conversations. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The real reason child vaccination rates are falling
As child immunisation rates fall across the UK, one clinic in west Yorkshire is taking aggressive steps to boost immunisations
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Check out Jenny Paananen’s blog from #icca2026! sites.utu.fi/bself/en/icc...
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ICCA 2026 Edmonton | Borderlines of Self (BSelf)
Just before summer vacation, Jenny packed her suitcase for one more conference trip. This time she headed to ICCA, which is the largest international confer ...
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New strategy for selling my online modules on conversation?
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/07/2026
One thing i think we need to be clear on is that the “nine years” is almost entirely getting Drs to take us seriously. These tests need to be cheap and easily available enough that Drs are incentivised to use them very widely, or else the actual issue will continue.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's National Pain Week and as someone who has spent their whole adult life with pain, it always prompts me to reflect on my own experiences.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's National Pain Week and as someone who has spent their whole adult life with pain, it always prompts me to reflect on my own experiences.
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If you've completed an online module or course, attended a presentation, workshop, or talk, or received coaching from Bedside Manners, please leave a quick review to help others find us! g.page/r/CfU0CYkKsV...
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