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@mck.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Culture & Society, Linköping University/EMCA/(he/him)

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Mick Smith @mck.bsky.social · 14d
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.

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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · Sep 27
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

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Canadian Hammer 🍁🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · Aug 22
“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty”

… or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾

www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.
www.digitaljournal.com

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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · Aug 21
This is the AI policy I'm going with this semester
AI Policy – Væl Space
A version of my AI course policy.
jofrhwld.github.io

Mick Smith @mck.bsky.social · Aug 19
Hey! Glad you liked it!

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · Aug 17
A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82
www.nytimes.com

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Katie Carmichael @drkatcarm.bsky.social · Aug 8
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/...
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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social · Jul 31
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!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️

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Ethnomethodology and Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis @ethno-inquiries.bsky.social · Jul 9
ETA 3 months today

www.routledge.com/Harvey-Sacks...
Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology: The Prospect of an Alternate and Adequate Sociology
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences. Although commonly run together under the title of EMCA, what their relationshi...
www.routledge.com

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Jul 7
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
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

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jul 4
letters@nytimes.com, alternatively

Letters to the Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jun 9
RIP Sly

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Graham Minenor-Matheson @spaceguyliu.bsky.social · Jun 4
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

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

🧵 1/26
drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
nazi germany & physics Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle APS April Meeting, January 2017 Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 14
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...

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Apr 28
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
Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism – The Ideophone
ideophone.org

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Humboldt-Stiftung @humboldt-foundation.de · Apr 28
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...

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SSSI & SI Journal @sijournal.bsky.social · Apr 28
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 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 Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes" by Robin James Smith on Early View of Symbolic Interaction. Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30), please click HERE.
sijournal.wordpress.com

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · Apr 26
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · Apr 9
I’m planning on running a 10 week course on doing conversation analysis - learner time commitment will be a few hours per week. It’ll be online, asynchronous, & with direct feedback from me. It will be available worldwide. Join the mailing list to find out more! www.bedsidemanners.com.au/contact
Contact Bedside Manners | Communication Training, Coaching, & Research — Bedside Manners
Get in touch with Bedside Manners for expert communication training, coaching, & research. CPD-accredited for healthcare professionals with upcoming courses in clinical communication skills. Contact u...
www.bedsidemanners.com.au

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Apr 7
I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739
Job opening: Two PhD positions for the neurocognition of the grammar of visual narratives (22739)
tiu.nu

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Mar 24
An unusual item has come into my collection, Mister Black’s Secret by Catherine Barr. At first it seems like an early example of ‘I can has cheezburger” speech but it was actually written in a shortlived teaching alphabet called ITA.
Page from a children’s book. There is an illustration of a black cat peeling around a piece of wood. Text reads “Mister black, the cat, peered around the corner. On the porch a stranger was eating the food put there for mister black by his family.” but the spellings are sometimes phonetic and use strange characters other than those of the standard Latin alphabet.

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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · Feb 21
New in the latest issue of ROLSI.
(1/5)

"Manual Interventions" by Lillja et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New in the latest issue of ROLSI. "Manual Interventions" by Lillja et al.

Mick Smith @mck.bsky.social · Feb 21
Pareidolic sequence?

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Randall Blademaker @rblademaker.bsky.social · Feb 20
Two different people lining up in the algorithm perfectly.

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Jan 30
Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Université d'Orléans: Description:

Call for applications : Doctoral fellowship (3 years)

Multimodal analysis of caregiver/patient interaction in the intensive care unit
Abstract
Through a real-life observational study, the project aims to explain the…
Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Université d'Orléans
Description: Call for applications : Doctoral fellowship (3 years) Multimodal analysis of caregiver/patient interaction in the intensive care unit Abstract Through a real-life observational study, the project aims to explain the conditions for handling…
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Mick Smith @mck.bsky.social · Feb 4
The film gave me existential anxiety when I was a child. I don’t know if I could handle the book
Mick Smith @mck.bsky.social · Jan 31
Mmh, also a thing at my Swedish university.

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Elliott Hoey @elliotthoey.bsky.social · Jan 28
Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
Vacancy — PhD position: Recording in social interaction
Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of communication? Do you have a background in conversation analysis, interactional-, or sociolinguistics? Are you fascinated by the impact of smartphone...
workingat.vu.nl

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Jan 26
i'm developing an appreciation for imagining and feeling threads that connect seemingly discrete movements that feel connected. like when i run my finger along a roll of tape, i can't see the seam, but i can obviously feel it. my inability to see it doesn't make me say "well it must not be there".