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Pentti Haddington @penttihad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

⁉️ Why do some interactions make sense only if you know what happened before? Our (Arnulf Deppermann and myself) new ROLSI special issue on interactional histories explores how shared experiences across time shape social action, activity, recipient design, etc.. www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/5...

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Research on Language and Social Interaction

Interactional Histories. Volume 59, Issue 3 of Research on Language and Social Interaction

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026

Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...

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LANSI @lansi2024.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Your #lansi2026 🥳🍜☎️ proposals are due in just 1 month! Your journey to New York City this Fall🍁🍃🍂 begins now 📝tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen… @iscaupdates.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @lingsocam.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Those 8 children in Shreveport aren't a natural disaster.They're the consequence of choices—legal, political, cultural—that can be made differently. The only reason it feels otherwise is that we keep pretending the alternative is impossible. It isn’t. We just haven’t been willing to want it enough"

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 20/04/2026

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

It's the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue-
"Homer, I don't want you to do that."
"Then I won't do it."Then the next day, when I get up, the script's been written.
It's lousy, but it's a script. The hard part is done. It's like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I've taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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ISCA @iscaupdates.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📣 Our #20 newsletter is out: The contributions to this special issue show how CA continues to be shaped by advances in technology and how conversation analysts are adapting their investigations to new and emerging technologies. Technology becomes a co-interactant worthy of analytical attention.🧵1/8

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Jakub Mlynář @jakubmlynar.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

We're hiring two Postdoctoral Researchers (80%) and a Research Assistant (50%) for a four-year #EMCA research project on the integration of AI in medical education in practice. Apply by 4 January 2026. www.hevs.ch/fr/recruitee... www.hevs.ch/fr/recruitee...

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Assistantes ou assistants postdoc (... | HES-SO Valais-Wallis

L’institut Informatique de la HES-SO Valais-Wallis met au concours deux postes de :Assistantes ou assistants postdoc (80%) Le groupe de recherche

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IIEMCA2027 @iiemca27.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

📢Meet the IIEMCA27 Keynote Speakers. Read about their work on the conference website: www.iiemca27.org/about #EMCA #MCA

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About | iiemca27

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Giovanni Rossi @gio-rossi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

1/ 📘 Book alert! 🚨 After a long gestation, extensive rewriting, a complex production process, and life getting in the way, it’s finally out* ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

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Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian

Abstract. This book is about social action as it is carried out in everyday life. To some readers, the phrase social action may evoke the idea of people ta

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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Statement re Michael Burawoy obit

Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We @kevinawhitehead.bsky.social @raymond-sociology.bsky.social are very happy to announce a new book and a new paper, both on conversation analysis and membership categorization, published rn in Jan 2025! 📕📄 🧵 1/4 "Categories in Social Interaction" is out now from Routledge #AcademicSky #EMCA

a cardboard box with three copies of the same book entitled Categories in Social Interaction - two with red covers and pale yellow and blue illustrated speech bubbles and one plain blue hardcover - cover by Paul Blow

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Jacob Davidsen @jdavidsen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We are very proud to release 360mash - a light weight and completely free software for doing anonymisation.

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🎉 Exciting news! The 2025 YorCCA will take place on July 18th and 19th, 2025 at the University of York. Invited speakers: Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada 🗓️ Save the date and stay tuned for more details! 🌐 For more information, visit: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... #FeelTheYorCCA

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#YorCCA

YorCCA 2025 will take place on the 18th and 19th of July 2025

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m not quite entirely persuaded by this essay but goddam it is very good and bracing. Really worth a read. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of...

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A Disease of Affluence

Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.

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Phil Hutchinson @philhutchinson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Made a thread of this, so it's easier to read I moved from philosophy to psychology in 2018. In philosophy these kinds of arguments & debates are what you're trained for & do. It was a culture shock when I arrived in a psych dept. Critique, debate & argument were depicted as rude & undermining. 1/

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"'How are you?' These are the three most useless words in the world of communication." This compelling (but wrong/daft) assertion is based on #communication myth rather than how we actually talk 🧐 And asking "how are you" can even save lives... 🧵 1/15 [Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]

Screenshot of the US version of The Office accompanying the headline "Stop asking 'how are you'? Harvard researchers say this is what people do when making small talk"

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