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Justin Canty

@justbc.bsky.social
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Nerding out on social work, social interaction, EMCA, academia, miscellanies, and nexus of research, teaching, and prof practice. Posh profile here: discover.utas.edu.au/justin.canty

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Dr Virginia Calabria (she•her•lei•idda) @calvirgi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Finishing this #icca2026 with a thought-provoking panel on the borders of #emca Thanks organisers: @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social @avgustis.bsky.social @briandue.bsky.social #decoloniseresearch #decenternormativity
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So good to be part of this incredible panel on #emca and #socialwork at #icca2026, including slipping in some of my fave teaching graphics into this presentation on doing listening 😁
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Dr Virginia Calabria (she•her•lei•idda) @calvirgi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Doing listening through paraphrasing shown like this from @justbc.bsky.social
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/01/2026
man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes? 89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Good to have a final reminder that these laws are only about preventing people criticism Israel for committing genocide and have nothing really to do with hate (other than ensuring Zionists can continue to practice it) live.thepoint.com.au
Major parties vote down LGBTIQ amendments

Attempts from David Pocock, Jacqui Lambie, Tammy Tyrrell and Fatima Payman to have the laws at least extend protections to marginalised groups, including the LGTBIQ communities have been voted down by Labor and the Liberals.

This was their amendment:

(1)     Schedule 1, item 10, page 8 (line 12), omit “distinguished by race, or national or ethnic origin”, substitute “distinguished by race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, disability, nationality, or national or ethnic origin, or because of the target person or target group’s personal association (whether as a relative or otherwise) with a person who is distinguished by any of those attributes”.
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Please enjoy a view from one of my back windows this evening #AuroraAustralis #RiverOfLight
Aurora Australis display, bright green and purple lights in the night sky above a suburban location with buildings and street lights.
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ROLSI would not prosper as it does without the unselfish collegiality of those who give up their time to review submissions. We would like to record our thanks to all in the list below, who provided reviews in the period 1st August 2024 – 31st July 2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
List of those who reviewed submissions for ROLSI in the period 1 August 2024 to 31st of July 2025
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Volume 58 Issue 4 of Research on Language and Social Interaction now out online Hospital hand-overs Troubles talk Newborn announcements Hebrew "yes?" www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c...
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Latest articles from Research on Language and Social Interaction
Browse the latest articles and research from Research on Language and Social Interaction
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Hard this. The amount of time wasting shit that has been produced vastly outweighs the benefits they promised to rationalise intensifying burning down the planet.
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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This is a really important public facing work by Dr Tamika Worrell who works in my centre. Read the work that Tamika has been doing for people who are thinking about cultural appropriation. In our same centre, we have Dr Innez Haua and Distinguished Prof Bronwyn Carlson all writing across this!
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Might there be something in the sports coaching or similar realm? I want to say I've read something about dancing (can't remember if partner/ballroom or ballet), possibly some of @edward-reynolds.bsky.social's on weight lifting?
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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
‘University appears to prioritise commercial over community interests in its core functions’. Tasmanian parliamentary report criticises corporatisation in operation and governance of the University of Tasmania. graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/t... #HigherEducation #universities
Tasmanian parliamentary review defends university's core functions against corporatisation:  https://graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/tasmanian-parliamentary-review-defends-universitys-core-functions-against-corporatisation/
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So @matspike.bsky.social's answer to this question provides the best (short) explanation I have ever seen of what LLMs do and why it makes no sense to use them to explore human understanding of language
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Elizabeth Peel (she/they) @lizpeel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.
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PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on ...
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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Using #data critically can reduce the risks posed by EdTech platforms. @lucipangrazio.bsky.social writes for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/te...
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Data about children is being collected at schools, but teachers can take control - ABC Education
Digital data has become integral to schools today. While this data can be used to enhance learning, it also raises concerns over privacy and data misuse in education.
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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · 16/01/2025
Okay, a quick heads-up because I'm seeing people worrying/panicking about this: the UK press headline about a trans teenager being non-fatally stabbed is about something that originally happened in *February 2024* - it's in the news now because the court case is happening now.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/01/2025
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
To an LLM, the only difference between "did" and "did not" is the statistical frequency of the word "not". *They don't have any knowledge*. Just strings of words.
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DOTE and DOTEbase @dote.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
and we are live with 360mash - find the download link at www.dote.aau.dk/downloads or visit our github repo: github.com/BigSoftVideo...
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DOTE & DOTEbase - Software to support Transcription and Qualitative Analysis of Social Conduct and Multimodal Interaction
DOTE and DOTEbase are software tools to support transcription and qualitative analysis of audio-visual data. Our motto is make qualitative analysis fun again!😜
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R. D. Kent 🍉 @rdk96.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I'm returning to Wittig for inspiration on the issue of scientism in the anti-trans movement and wishing that more people read "The Straight Mind" (1979). It's one of those short but remarkably powerful essays that offers insights far beyond its notional subject matter
Excerpt from Monique Wittig's "The Straight Mind," originally delivered as a keynote at a conference on feminist philosophy at Barnard College in April 1979.
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Today's #ResearcherRenew task is for anyone who's feeling overwhelmed or overworked and knows their physical health is being neglected. It's a bit more sensitive than previous tasks, so go gently. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #gradschool #HigherEd theresearchcompanion.com/wellbeing-in...
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Prioritise your health - The Research Companion
A gentle invitation to check your physical and mental health and prioritise essential appointments, investigations and treatments this year.
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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis: "Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
NDIS and ministers talk big game on fraud & rorting but biggest budget savings booked under new legislation come from kicking (mostly) kids off scheme, cutting plans under cover of 'integrity'. Half a BILLION a year just on eligibility revocations alone. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
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Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown
Despite claims the government’s reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is focused on fraud, a third of the savings will come from pushing children off the scheme.
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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
My first paper with my amazing collaborator Dr. Emma Tennent. Come with us and unravel (in frankly masochistic detail) the sequential and categorial reasoning that organises transmisogynistic talk. If you do not have access but would to read it, let me know and I can share a copy. #EMCA 🌈🎓
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Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony
Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how ...
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Woo-hoo back! There's still a heap of freely available stuff on the #DulwichCentre website, including courses. Modestly hoping to add to what's out there in due course 😊 Hope you're safe from the fires - we're seeing footage in Australia eerily similar to bushfires here 😔
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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
What is the Children's Internet? Professor Michael Dezuanni explains for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/a-... You can read about Principles for a Better Children's Internet here: digitalchild.org.au/research/pub... #medialiteracy @abcnewsbot.bsky.social #childrensinternet
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A brilliant augmentation to an already awesome suite of data handling tech tools for #EMCA and related observational methods. Will be keen to see and play when it's released 🤩
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Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You don’t need to approach everything in Hard Mode. There are often useful things you can contribute that are not the best, most complete version of the thing you are working on...#TeamNoBurnout
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Rhys Jones 🇵🇸 @rgjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What’s black and white and red all over? Te Whanganui-a-Tara today. #ToitūTeTiriti ✊🏽
A black, white and red tino rangatiratanga flag.
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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Tusiata on Hana, in which one queen honours another tusiata.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
And today, Hana-Rawhiti rose –

more than stood – she rose

like Nafanua, goddess of war

like Hine-nui-te-po, goddess of death

like the wahine toa who is exactly like herself

She rose from that place full of insects

and she tore that white bill –

white as the whites of her eyes

staring down the hulking enemy on the battlefield

She tore that white bill right through the backbone

tore it into two and she held it

one in each fist

like the two flags of war

like the twin battle-clubs only the war goddess holds

and she shook them in the faces of those

enemies with hearts as empty as their faces –
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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Came down for a visit to say loudly what I think as tangata Tiriti. Simply: Toi tū Te Tiriti ⚫️⚪️🔴
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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Few more pictures from a truly historic day. So glad I made the drive down to join the hīkoi. The mood was phenomenal, the movement cannot be stopped. Toitū te Tiriti
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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“The rights we’re fighting to hold on to were fought for and guaranteed to us by our tīpuna who signed Te Tiriti on our behalf, almost 200 years ago. We know our job is to protect those rights for our mokopuna, for the next 200 years.” — Herewini Ammunson.
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'They dishonour all our ancestors' | E-Tangata
“The rights we’re fighting to hold on to were fought for and guaranteed to us by our tīpuna who signed Te Tiriti on our behalf, almost 200 years ago. We know our job is to protect those rights for…
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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyangelic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I know so many of my lovely #EMCA colleagues are great and supportive but I'd really love to see more of our bigger names and (though I gate to call them this) "CA spokespeople" do and say more actively and openly to oppose transphobia in our academic community.
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Much appreciate the added insights, and disappointment in fairly equal measures :/
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/11/2024
Shahan is a PhD student and a teaching assistant in my Calling Bullshit course. He's a great follow if you care about our information ecosystem. I am blown away by the level of introspection that Shahan exhibits with respect to lecturing in our course. I wish I'd been so thoughtful 30 year ago. 🧵
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
🗃️From the archive for all the newcomers to Bluesky: Building an alternative to academic twitter relies on centring the experiences of lurkers 👩‍💻Gina Sipley #AcademicSky wp.me/p4m9em-ctS
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Building an alternative to academic twitter relies on centring the experiences of lurkers
As Twitter, now ‘X’, the preferred social media platform for academics, undergoes a period of change, Gina Sipley argues that part of what made the platform and may make new social media platforms …
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
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rosie @rosiemck.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
the hīkoi today was incredible. so grateful. and yes, the vibes were immaculate. #ToitūTeTiriti #TāmakiMakaurau #Kikorangi
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Some of us here, and growing 😁
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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Ahh yes, the prequel to Gyn/ecology ... Helps make sense of the Catholic backstory.
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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Hello #EMCA Bluesky! We are looking to appoint a Research Associate for our project on using Conversation Analysis for #conversationalAI in #healthcare communication. 0.6 FTE for 8 months. Please share with potentially interested parties: jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
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Research Associate (Applied Linguistics)
Research Associate (Applied Linguistics)
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James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Research is a team sport, even if you're a loner (me here!), or never meet the other members of the team, or never even know who they may be. It all stands on and contributes to the work of others in ways citation metrics or network maps don't measure...a class, a conversation, a memorable insight.
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Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Some more amazing quali accounts have been added to the pack if you want to take a look go.bsky.app/7YAhtdD
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Liz Beddoe @lizbeddoe.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
I wrote an editorial based on a keynote speech in London in June academic.oup.com/bjsw/article...
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Social Work Education: Holding the Line and Pushing Forward for Social Justice
At a time when we are beset with crises at local, national, regional, and global levels, it can be overwhelming to be a social work educator. We face chall
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 24/10/2024
LawyermanTM (@lawyerman_ktk) on twitter: "Mass transit systems are a SERVICE. they don't "lose" money, they cost money. These are services, not poorly run business. Framing public services as profit making entities is the worst form propaganda. No one says the military "loses" $8.8 billion/year. Same here"
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