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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI presents serious challenges for education, but the creation of new forms of instructional media is one of the greatest opportunities. While a video like this won't replace a lecture, it can supplement one, and for some students, it will make a difference.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As an experiment, I transformed one of my lectures into a programmatic video using AI. It introduces the conventions for multimodal transcription developed by Lorenza Mondada. youtu.be/OiGJiGU5m7g

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CA methods: Multimodal transcription

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI presents serious challenges for education, but the creation of new forms of instrucitonal media is one of the greatest opportunities. While a video like this won't replace a lecture, it can supplement one, and for some students, it will make a difference.

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ana Cristina Ostermann (@ana-ostermann.bsky.social) is giving her invited talk, “Where there’s life, there is hope: Calibrating hope in the face of impending death,” today at #YorCCA2026. 🐋

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Join us at #YorCCA2026! Richard Ogden (University of York) leads a postgraduate workshop on the phonetics of talk-in-interaction, Saturday 18 July. Register: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Join us at #YorCCA2026! Ana Cristina Ostermann (UFRGS, Brazil) leads a postgraduate workshop on collections and actions in health interactions, Saturday 18 July. Register: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In the article, we call into question the use of stipulated action categories (accusation, threat, prohibition) and argue for a different analytic route: to observe and describe the precise configurations of social conduct, their uses and effects that constitute the basis for action ascription.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We also found that the tenseness of articulation varies meaningfully. Addressee points produced with rapid, sudden movements occur in extreme conflicts whereas those with lax, fluid movements appear in sequences of ironic or mock conflict in which speakers employ practices of deescalation.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We further discovered a distinction between close and far addressee points. In extreme conflicts, speakers produce points that encroach into the addressee’s personal space, especially the face, visually projecting possible contact. Close points are associated with projections of violence.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We identified a recurrent use of addressee points: they occur as and in escalations of conflict before speakers disengage from and terminate the sequence. We call these terminal escalations.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We found that in environments of disaffiliation, addressee points work with other multimodal practices to attribute a transgression to the addressee, upgrade the perceptual intensity of the speaker’s conduct, and escalate an argument or conflict.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New University of York style guide. This is an abomination.

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📢 YorCCA 2026 — Weekly Reminder Abstract submission is still open for YorCCA 2026! 🎓 Open to current MA/PhD researchers and recent PhD graduates (2023+) 🗓 Deadline: Friday 10 April 2026 🔗 Full details & submission: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... Please share and submit soon!

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I'll add more features over time, like better line type classification, customizable styles, and a downloadable version that runs locally. What features would you most like to see?

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I developed it with Claude and didn't write a single line of code. I just described the features the app should have and Claude worked his magic. This is just one example of how AI can support CA research. #AIforCA

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I've developed a simple app to help with transcription: Ript. It solves three problems: finding symbols, numbering lines, and styling multimodal transcripts. App: ript-editor.vercel.app Guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is an excellent app (with an ugly icon). I made a short video on how to use it: youtu.be/_iVbBpAqRa8?...

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CA methods: Making video clips with LosslessCut

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Spread the word! The next York Conference on Conversation Analysis will be held 17-18 July. Encourage your MA/PhD students to submit an abstract. Deadline: 10 April. In addition to presenting their research, Ana Cristina Ostermann and Richard Ogden will also deliver post-conference workshops!

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Tilly Flint @tillyflint.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

After lunch break now and @luyang-zhou.bsky.social is presenting on Children’s Self-Selection in Pediatric Consultations in China #CAday2025

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Great to see this write-up of @luyang-zhou.bsky.social’s PhD research. It promises to make an important and novel contribution to the study of turn-taking and overlap management, as well as paediatric medical interactions in China.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We’re lucky to have Richard at YorCCA 2026! In addition to his talk, he’ll also offer a post-conference workshop. Stay tuned for details! Find out more about YorCCA: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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#YorCCA

YorCCA 2026 YorCCA 2026 will take place on the 17th-18th of July 2026 at the University of York Main Conference: 17th July 2026 Workshops: 18th July 2026

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I’m very excited for the next YorCCA! Spread the word to your MA and PhD students.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

We have a CA pathway in our MA Applied Linguistics at York. Includes dedicated modules on CA, multimodality, and institutional interaction (taught by Merran Toerien). Applications open for 26-27. Find out more www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Well that didn't take long. Gemini 3 Pro and Claude 4.5 Opus can both recognize underlined text and re-transcribe CA transcripts from screenshots. Gemini is more accurate but still makes some mistakes. I gave them a transcript from Clayman (2013) with lots of complex overlap as a test.

Claude 4.5 Opus's re-transcription as text

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The prompt was pretty basic: “Could you please create an annotated infographic, using the attached screenshot of a transcript from a news interview? The infographic should present details from a conversation-analytic study of the interview based on research by Steve Clayman and John Heritage.”

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

We've now entered the era of AI-generated infographics. I asked Gemini to analyse a screenshot of a data extract from Clayman (2013) and to create an infographic. This is what it came up with.

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

🎉 Great news! YorCCA 2026 will take place on 17–18 July 2026 at the University of York. 📅Key Dates • Main Conference: 17 July 2026 • Workshops: 18 July 2026 🌐Further details will be available on our official channels shortly. Mark your calendars! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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#YorCCA

What is YorCCA? The York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) is a CA conference organised by PhD researchers at the University of York and affiliated with the Centre for Advanced Studies in L...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

TIL: AI models can't see underlined text. ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro all struggle to recognize which letters are underlined. This is my new test for AGI.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What we’re not drowning in is money. It’d be great to hire students and post-docs for projects, but in the absence of that, I’ll gladly use tools that allow me to do more with less. I don’t see this as unethical.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

There are interactional phenomena that are relatively rare or elusive yet analytically significant. Gene Lerner’s approach is to build collections of these over years or decades as one comes across specimens. An AI that can watch and listen might find hundreds of these in days or weeks.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I’d say we’re well on our way to artificial general intelligence (AGI), systems that are as intelligent as humans across all domains, including CA. The real breakthrough will be when AIs can analyze video data directly and help us build and analyze collections.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I gave Claude Sonnet 4.5 a transcript I use for teaching CA and asked it to develop a research proposal based on an observation about the data. Its observation was original, insightful, and analytically significant. This is wild. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Post-decline requesting and the reversal of refusals A research proposal

Post-decline requesting and the reversal of refusals: A research proposal Claude Sonnet 4.5 with Kobin H. Kendrick Introduction This report presents a research proposal grounded in an empirical observ...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

AI models are good at literature reviews. What I like about this test is that coming up with a good idea for a project, or even a good place to start, is a harder task.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Whenever a new AI model is released, I ask it to propose a PhD project in CA. Today Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, and its proposal is my favourite so far. If anyone, human or machine, would like to do this project, I'd gladly supervise it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Projecting the Next Move: Embodied Action Projection in Collaborative Physical Tasks (Sonnet 4.5).md

Projecting the Next Move: Embodied Action Projection in Collaborative Physical Tasks Claude Sonnet 4.5 Core Research Question How do participants use embodied conduct (gaze, gesture, body orientation,...

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YorCCA @yorcca.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The YorCCA 2025 Report is out in the latest ISCA newsletter! www.conversationanalysis.org/yorcca-2025-... A huge thank you to all presenters & participants. We look forward to seeing you at YorCCA 2026!

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I asked ChatGPT o3 to replicate the findings of Pomerantz (1984). I gave it a summary and a set of 10 transcripts (NB). Results were mixed: the evidence it presented was clear in some cases, but less so in others, and some observations were superficial. drive.google.com/file/d/1l4rM...

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Replication of Pomerantz (1984) by o3.pdf

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

As a lecturer, I tend to size up AIs by academic level, from undergrad to PhD candidate. Where would you place these AIs on that scale?

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

These observations are not entirely dissimilar from some early-stage CA projects: spotting a "media disclaimer" in the data could very well serve as a point of departure for further analysis. It's not an uninteresting observation.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The phenomena the models found (e.g. “weather talk”) lack the fine-grained specificity CA generally demands, but they did identify multiple instances of "a something". Questions about and assessments of the weather are indeed recurrent in the NB calls, for example.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Projected co-presence work by Claude Opus 4 Opus identified “projected co-presence work” as a phenomenon in which callers negotiate future face-to-face meetings and manage relational and practical dimensions of reunion. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Projected co-presence (Opus)

Projected co-presence work Claude Opus Introduction This report identifies a previously undocumented interactional phenomenon in telephone conversation: projected co-presence work. This refers to the...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Media distancing disclaimers by ChatGPT o3 o3 identified “media-distancing disclaimers” as a recurrent move: speakers emphatically refuse to watch distressing TV coverage to project moral self-care, recruit affiliation, and pivot out of sequences of shared lament. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Media distancing disclaimers (o3)

Media distancing disclaimers ChatGPT o3 Introduction Recent re‑examination of the NB telephone corpus reveals a recurrent practice in which speakers profess a categorical refusal to watch television...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Weather talk by ChatGPT o3 o3 identified “weather talk” as a systematic practice: immediately after greetings, callers offer stance-laden weather assessments (e.g. “beautiful,” “lousy”) to secure affiliation and signal the shift into substantive conversation. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Weather talk (o3)

Weather talk ChatGPT o3 The nine telephone calls from the NB collection display a striking regularity: the first fully‑fledged topic after the canonical opening sequence is almost always an assessm...

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I gave ChatGPT o3 and Claude Opus transcripts from the NB corpus (publicly available on TalkBank) and asked them to "find a something", i.e., to identify a phenomenon in the data to study. The results are less impressive than the conceptual acrobatics in their PhD proposals. 🧵👇

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Yes, I'd steer my AI students away from those terms as well, but I can see where they've picked them up (e.g., onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...., www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...). Collecting data will be tricky, but once they can use computers, they'll be able to access online corpora.

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This reminds me of what happens when two Claudes talk to each other for an extended period of time. www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-claude...

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The Claude Bliss Attractor

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

What do you think of these AI-generated PhD proposals? Would you supervise an AI if it wanted to do one of these projects? What about a human guided by an AI?

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Kobin Kendrick @kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

The quality of the proposals varies by AI: some show signs of insight and creativity, while others miss the mark. Keep in mind that this is as bad as AI will ever be. Future models will only become smarter and more capable.

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