Starter pack of people doing LGBTQ+/queer linguistics (writ large)!

Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added :)

go.bsky.app/2mjmgqt

More #EMCA folks added today to the Starter Pack for conversation analysis, discursive psychology, membership categorization analysis, and ethnomethodology - let me know if you want to be added and please share to raise awareness and keep building our community on here 🦋 #AcademicSky

Merry Christmas everyone! I was voted the most for being the most likely to be comfortable in a nudist colony (they all unanimously changed it from un- to comfortable) 🤣

Crossing fingers ✨ maximising my faculty’s funding as much as possible #comet2025

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-length analysis of the experiences of queer Muslims in Ind...

Thrilled to share that my book is out in paperback today, 18 December! 🎉 Perfect as a Christmas gift—or a treat for yourself! 🎄📚

👉 www.routledge.com/Gender-Sexua...

This might be my first call out to #emca folk on this app! I want to expand my reading collection of #emca books - classics, new releases, emca-adjacent. What should be ok my list?

KAMI Survey paper on #SOGIECE (efforts to change #LGBT+ identities) in #Malaysia is out in T&F! We found: SOGIECE are prevalent and harmful to Malaysian LGBT+ persons' mental health. DM me for the paper or for more of KAMI's outputs!

Excellent EMCA thread for the funding panels!

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"

"'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...

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[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]

Screenshot of Liz Stokoe on BBC radio 4 website for The Life Scientific - link to programme http://bbc.in/37NsKpD

Screenshot of Liz Stokoe on BBC radio 4 website for Word of Mouth - link to programme http://bbc.in/3qUHoCZ

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We say "communication is key" ... right up to the moment where we study it scientifically 🧐

To understand conversation, study actual talk, in the wild, as it happens.

More #EMCA on BBC R4 Word of Mouth @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social & The Life Scientific @jimalkhalili.bsky.social

Brilliant thread from @lizstokoe.bsky.social on what conversation analysts do, and why studying talk systematically matters (spoiler it really really does). Can we make this a must read for funding panels please!

New, 3rd edition, of BPS award winning Cambridge University Press textbook 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Nice post! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚