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Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Applications for the ESRC WGSSS postdoctoral Fellowship are now open. If you have recently completed a PhD in the U.K. and are interested in coming to Cardiff to work with me and the small, but lively and lovely, CEEIT research group, do get in touch.
wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/

#EMCA
#Ethnography

Fantastic place. If you ever go, check out the this place next door:

clui.org/about-center

📣Very proud that @brettsmithprof.bsky.social ‘s and my paper on Advancing Conversation Analysis in Sport and Exercise Sciences is out for ‘Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health’!!! ⭐️

lnkd.in/eBhsc5ZW

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A group of researchers grouped around a table

A picture of TimTam chocolate bars

The inaugural EatSiN (eating in social interaction network) conference was held last week at VU Amsterdam with great success. One of the few conferences where eating the snacks is part of the research.
@ericlaurier.bsky.social @armajlesi.bsky.social
@bogdanahuma.bsky.social @cynhicban.bsky.social

A white logo of BlueSky above the logo of Secuenciando, in a textured paper background in cyan.

Secuenciando just got its own BlueSky account!

Now, on this page, we will continue sharing updates on our study group — one devoted to learning, developing, and promoting conversation analysis locally in Peru 🇵🇪 and South America 🌎.

#EMCA

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studying linguistics equips you with the tools necessary to succeed in the real world.

the tools

I never ever want to hear one more word about how linguists who don’t worship this man are somehow inferior scholars. I always knew he was anti-black because of the way he talked about sociolinguistics; he’s consistently argued that considering what actual human beings do is a waste of time.

Doctoral Researcher, English, Languages and Literature, Faculty of Humanities We are now looking for a Doctoral Researcher to join us in the research unit of Languages and Literature (English) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is part of the SafeEarth research program

Hiring! 📢 We have a three-year position open at the University of Oulu for a Doctoral Researcher in English. Not only will you get to study social interaction in an interesting setting, you'll also get to work with the nicest* people in the business. See announcement below.

*biased statement

Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI) - Disinformation Summer Institute Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area?

Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more.

disinfoinstitute.org

Congrats Marina!!!!

The Mikey legend was actually pop rocks and regular coke. Adding to the list there was also the ghost on Three Men and a Baby.

On September 28th at 18:30 the French language premiere of the documentary "Can dogs talk?" will air on @iciradiocanada.bsky.social Découverte series
@cclabucsd.bsky.social work on soundboard trained dogs is a central piece of this documentary. English versions will air on NOVA and CBC in early 2026

"if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law."

This is the AI policy I'm going with this semester

Hey! Glad you liked it!

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....

Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

Fantastic news!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
My wife and sweetest heart, Dr. Sirry Alang @profalang.bsky.social, earned a promotion to 🌟FULL PROFESSOR🌟 of Health and Human Development at The University of Pittsburgh!!This is the highest tenured academic rank! Please help me congratulate our rock star!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️

You could not find a more gifted researcher on the planet to write this book. Sure to be a banger!

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

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RIP Sly

Wattup Space Nerds! Last LSSI space seminar of the season with Alicja Ostrowska of Chalmers in Sweden talking about Life and AI at NASA. DM me for Zoom link

As a reminder, this is a permanent resident, in the US since she was seven, high school valedictorian
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

New on Early View: “Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes” by Robin James Smith https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1246 #sssi #socioloy #categorization #MCA #EMCA #ethnomethodology #Sacks #policing

We have just published "Categorizational Asymmetries in…

New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...

Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it

#academicsky

One of the most influential voices in applied #linguistics: Ingrid Piller will be awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin on 5 May! ✨

#AvHProfessor
@languageonthemove.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de

🎬 Full portrait on her research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Ik...