Charles Antaki

@charlesantaki.bsky.social

380 followers 190 following 300 posts

Ex-prof, but still in with a shout on language, interaction etcetera

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 10h

Aye - seems arbitrary to stop there, south of Leicester ..... some technical reason.... extension cable limit maybe.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 12h

They look good - but sadly the line is not to be electrified

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dismay at government pause to Midland Mainline electrification

Councils say full electrification is essential as the government diverts funding elsewhere.

www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Alexa Hepburn

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 23h

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

People fly or dial in from all over the world.

Still great fun.

#EMCA

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d

It's nearly time for CA day!

I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.

Here's the registration link and terrific programme:

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

conference programme:
Time Title Presenter
09:30 – 9:55 Registration, tea and coffee
09:55 – 10:00 Welcome to CA Day
10:00 -10:30 Does Silence Speak Volumes? Accounting for Silences during GPs’ Background Tasks in Telephone Consultations Gilian Noord | Alison Pilnick | Elizabeth Stokoe | Tony Avery | University of Nottingham | Manchester Metropolitan University | London School of Economics and Political Science | University of Nottingham
10:30 -11:00 Whose choice is it? (Shared) decision-making in conversations between social workers and people with learning disabilities. Virginia Calabria | Joe Webb | Brett Smith | Durham University | University of Bristol | Durham University
11.00 – 11:45 Keynote 1: Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder
11:45-12:15 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025
12:15- 12:45 Are Family Mealtimes Insitutional? Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities
12:45 – 13:15 On the three-partedness of lists Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat d’Alacant
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB) or bring you own!
14:30– 15:00 When Children Take the Floor: Children’s Self-Selection and Doctors’ Recipiency in Pediatric Consultations in China Luyang Zhou | University of York
15:00- 15:30 Lessons learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction Ole Pütz | Bielefeld University
15:30 – 16:00 A conversation analytic study of culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients Sanaa Hyder | University of Manchester
16:00 – 16:30 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025
16:30-17:00 Managing Emotion Displays in Early Childhood Kathryn Jordin | Loughborough University
17:00 – 17:45 Invited talk 2 Deborah Chinn | King’s College London

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Charles Antaki

ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 3d

Another troubling exposé of fraud in science publishing: organised groups of reviewers (here, in the medical sciences) conspiring to push authors to cite the reviewers' own work.

Hats off to sleuths Oviedo-García, Aquarius, and @deevybee.bsky.social

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gaming the peer review system: a sophisticated review mill in medicine highlights the need to ensure reviewer integrity

Background A review mill is a network of researchers who game the peer review system to apparently boost their citations. Members write generic review reports containing suggestions for citations to t...

www.medrxiv.org

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

Lamine Yamal, if that counts?

I mean, I knew what it was, but nevertheless ....

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

hmm! Might be worth approaching Ruth directly....

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sure you know of it already, Charlotte, but the Real Talk project on end-of-life communication has got a page devoted to evidence:
www.realtalktraining.co.uk/in-a-nutshell

Evidence base - Real Talk

We have developed user-friendly ‘In a Nutshell’ articles which summarise our peer-reviewed journal articles and evaluations of RealTalk’s effectiveness.

www.realtalktraining.co.uk

Reposted by Elwys De Stefani

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

Was Erving Goffman really the utterly original "loner", indifferent to others' views?

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz has searched the archives to map the relation between Goffman and the academic big beasts of the time, with some surprising results.

A new guest blog on rolsi.net

A clip from a new ROLSI guest blog by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz on her new book about Erving Goffman

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks @marcscully.bsky.social for sharing.

Independent scholar Thomas Kelly has some disturbing revelations from the archives of Festinger et al's "When Prophecy Fails".

The supposed foundation of "cognitive dissonance" now very shaky, ethically and empirically.

doi.org/10.1002/jhbs...

A paragraph from Thomas Kelly's investigation into the origins of the pioneer book "When prophecy fails". Kelly reveals troubling ethical and empirical faults in the Festinger et al study of cognitive dissonance

Reposted by Charles Antaki

ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 5d

Guest Blog: A new book on Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman's legacy is everywhere visible in the social sciences, and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz's new book shines light on the "invisible college" of his contemporaries among his close circle and further afield. The result is a fascinating account of the…

Guest Blog: A new book on Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman's legacy is everywhere visible in the social sciences, and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz's new book shines light on the "invisible college" of his contemporaries among his close circle and further afield. The result is a fascinating account of the intellectual climate of the 1960s-1980s, and a throughly engaging read for all whose work has felt the influence of Goffman down the ages.

rolsi.net

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d

I always felt they were hopeless anyway because they posited an internal pressure/desire/motivation which could never be directly measured; and the proxies always had other explanations

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d

Good heavens - another totem falls...

Reposted by Lupicínio Íñiguez-Rueda, Charles Antaki, Michael Larkin

Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 5d

Well, now, look what arrived in the post...

Delighted to share that my new book on psychology and the culture wars has now been published.

Writing it was a long, at times depressing, but ultimately satisfying journey for me. I hope you like it

Deets here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Book in my hand, with title "PSYCHOLOGY’S QUIET CONSERVATISM: How a Supposedly Woke Science Promotes Capitalism and Protects Privilege" and author name "Brian M. Hughes" (me)

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 9d

Cracker of a photo, that, Liz.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 9d

Many happy returns (and laps!), Timothy.

Reposted by Charles Antaki

tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 9d

University of Oulu is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent choice!

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre

Iira Rautiainen @iira.bsky.social · 10d

A doctoral researcher position (English) in the project “Multiliteracy Expertise in Future Working Life: Interaction and Coexistence of Humans and Language-based AI Systems (MultiHAI)” open for applications in Oulu!

oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Doctoral Researcher, Languages and Literature, English, Faculty of Humanities

We are now looking for Doctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature, English, at the Faculty of Humanities. About the job The position is part of the Eudaimonia

oulunyliopisto.varbi.com

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 11d

Another notable headline/photo combination in my local paper

Photo illustrating a story headlined "man in picture sought after woman threatened with stabbing" shows the scene, but no people

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani, Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre

Iira Rautiainen @iira.bsky.social · 11d

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis, Faculty of Humanities

We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in the Research unit for Languages and Literature (English unit) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is located in the research proje

oulunyliopisto.varbi.com

Reposted by Mark Rubin, Matthew Inglis, Charles Antaki , and 1 more Mark Rubin, Matthew Inglis, Charles Antaki, Colin Foster

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 14d

For anyone interested in #psychology, #research assessment and evaluation, how the expert panel rated research submitted to #REF2021 - and especially the fate of #qualitative research - our article in Cogent Psychology is #OpenAccess (link in next post).

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Screenshot of article title, authors, and Abstract
Psychology and research assessment in the United Kingdom
Matthew Inglis,Colin Foster,Hugues Lortie-Forgues,Victoria Simms & Elizabeth Stokoe
Abstract
What can we learn about psychology research in the UK, and its perceived quality, from examining manuscripts submitted to the psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience subpanel of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021)? Using a latent Dirichlet allocation topic modelling approach, we identified 33 topics which collectively summarised the content of the journal articles returned to the subpanel. We found that the composition of submissions to the subpanel, in terms of these topics, explained a large proportion of the variance in the quality assessments they received from the expert peer review subpanel. Our model identified topics which were typically associated with receiving higher and lower unit-level quality assessments. In our discussion we pay particular attention to the fate of qualitative research, and discuss possible accounts for why units who returned a large amount of qualitative work tended to receive lower quality assessments than those who did not.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 15d

In spite of this terrible AI generated image which illustrates it, I've signed a petition against the current Reform county Council in Nottingham spending £75,000 putting up flags all over the county.

c.org/PCk7kTbRWb

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Stop Reform UK from installing costly flags in Nottinghamshire

c.org

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 15d

Another curious football stadium find while looking for something else:-

SK Petrin Plzen's pitch surely unique in being surrounded by a velodrome?

Image of the pitch at SK Petrin Plzen's ground, which is surrounded by a velodrome cycling track

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 17d

Proud to be cited by world statesman ... or nearly

A Google scholar citation which seems to be authored by Barack Obama, but his name is in fact the continuation of the article's title

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 18d

Tried to look something up on the US National Library of Medicine site.

The Trump administration's shut-down (delicately put as "a lapse in government funding") means nothing has been added to the library for months.

Hundreds of scientists silenced.

A notice on the US National library of medicine site, explaining that because of government withdrawal of funds, new material has not been uploaded.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you Minna!

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Elwys De Stefani, Alexa Hepburn , and 1 more Elizabeth Stokoe, Elwys De Stefani, Alexa Hepburn, Derek Edwards

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 19d

Come across Conversation Analysis and want to know more?

Loughborough University's annual online CA for Beginners workshop is on Jan. 15, 2026.

Talks, group work & data sessions with experts.

Registration (£45 or £90) is now open.

More information here
emcawiki.net/CA_for_Begin...

#EMCA

CA for Beginners January 2026 - emcawiki

emcawiki.net

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 20d

CCTV image of the day.

Bravo westbridgfordwire.com/shoplifter-w...

CCTV image of shoplifter grinning as he carries goods past a life-size cardboard cutout of a police officer

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 21d

Autumn in the neighbourhood

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