Have you used conversation analytic insights to train or engage with professionals in healthcare, industry, education, safety, crisis response, etc? Why not share your experiences about?

Are you a researcher studying the interactional details of childrens eating/meals in early childhood settings? Please consider submitting an abstract to a panel (hosted by Amanda Bateman and myself) at IPrA2027 in Helsinki #EMCA, DP, Interactional linguistics, and language socialisation research

At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton

Our interaction group at @liu.se is delighted to be hosting ICCA in 2030. Thank you to @iscaupdates.bsky.social for your support and to my brilliant colleagues who announced it with style 🤩🫶🇸🇪 To all the #EMCA folk, we'll get fika ready for you in 2030...

ISCA@iscaupdates.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And the next ICCA2030 will be in Linköping University!!!

MurrayBlackburnMackenzie has provided an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision last week to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its position on sex & self-declared gender. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/13/a...

Amnesty International UK: Rights and Wrongs - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie

Introduction This post provides an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its po...

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Feel free to post a link. In the meantime, he's The Guardian's apology to her

Exactly. When advocating for evidence based treatments for minors gets you on the blacklist of Amnesty, you know it's upside down world.

An absolutely astonishing defence of Amnesty. They should be able to libel and destroy others with impunity. An absolutely genius response from Dr Jane Clare Jones.

Re @amnestyuk.bsky.social 'Many of the participants in this “anti-rights movement” are organisations dedicated to protecting and advancing women’s rights as a distinct sex class. As such, Amnesty appears to have concluded that feminism is an “anti-rights movement”.' www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Illiberal Amnesty thinks a woman’s place is at back of the queue

Branding groups such as the JK Rowling-backed Beira’s Place ‘anti-rights’ is sadly typical for an organisation that has strayed far from its original purpose

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Hard agree And not lost on me is the irony that some of those organisations and the women involved in them are campaigning for better evidence based support and care for trans identifying and for detransitioning people.

Gudule Martens@gudulemartens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here is a list of the organisations Amnesty has branded as dangerous and "anti-rights". In fact it's a list of mostly grassroots organisations advocating for women's rights. By calling them "anti-rights" Amnesty now makes it clear that they believe women deserve no rights of their own.

Tough read re science in Trump’s USA: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky

New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts

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The politicians proposing the Conversion Practises Bill ought to be made aware of the effects of gender reassignment on the body, which are irreversible. There is no ethical justification for mutilating a perfectly healthy body because you think it's the wrong sort.

Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem

“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” Elaine Miller One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment conce…

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Margaret Nelson 🌦@flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Conversion Practises Bill provides unlimited opportunities for vexatious litigation against anyone who doesn't believe in transgenderism. It certainly doesn't protect children who are already protected by existing law. Seems like enforced religion to me.

Another consideration on the subject of having surgical alterations to healthy bodies for gender reasons: The NHS does not circumcise men for religious reasons, despite pressure to do so, but has to repair the damage caused by bodged jobs done by non-medical people. It's all a cost to the NHS.

Margaret Nelson 🌦@flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The politicians proposing the Conversion Practises Bill ought to be made aware of the effects of gender reassignment on the body, which are irreversible. There is no ethical justification for mutilating a perfectly healthy body because you think it's the wrong sort.

Some people get upset by "misgendering" posts on social media. The exact same people post stuff like this.

'Back to Amnesty, who have just produced a report ... which attempts to reinforce the “actually, I think you’ll find it’s the feminists and LGB activists who are like Trump” argument. In its utter disregard for law and logic, it is – ironically enough – Trumpian.' substack.com/@glosswitch/...

Is feminism 'anti-rights'?

On the Trumpian anti-feminism of Amnesty

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Yesterday, we learned that @amnestyuk.bsky.social is in financial trouble. The good news is that this probably soon will be over because of the law suits they will be facing based on the report they published and retracted, in one day.

'Strategies used to target our paper, including misrepresentation of the law, attempted censorship, a workplace investigation, and the dismissal of sex-based protections as fundamentally wrong ... '. Excellent piece. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/09/p...

Putting violent men in women’s prisons: where was Scottish civil society? - Murray Blackburn Mackenzie

Introduction This blog details our first attempt, via an academic article, to alert Scottish civil society to the Scottish Prison Service’s policy of placing some male prisoners in female prisons. We ...

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would be very interested to hear from anyone planning an application to this call My expertise is in language and social interaction, sensitive conversations, and how we build mutual understandings. Also systematic reviews. scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Karleen Gribble (@DrKarleenG) on X

The UK NIHR has a call out for grant applications for research on communication in women's health. Is anyone aware of researchers who are making an application and are interested in looking at sexed a...

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Now out online: Special Issue on "Action Categorization", guest edited by Arnulf Deppermann, Alexandra Gubina and Barbara Fox www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/5...

Research on Language and Social Interaction

Action Categorization. Volume 59, Issue 1 of Research on Language and Social Interaction

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"AI services gave voters misinformation to 34% of the questions it posed" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date

theguardian.com

Half of UK welfare is pensions, 1 in 3 people on Universal Credit are in work, disabled people are disabled, more of them since Covid hit, but the welfare bill as % of GDP is stable (lower than most developed countries) and is forecast to stay stable and below OECD average for the next 5 years.

In Manchester “the state has been used to facilitate private accumulation by dispossession.” Turned over to capital market investors that now own much of the city, charging outlandish rents and where a one bedroom flat can now cost up to £1000/ month to rent www.newstatesman.com/politics/eco...

Manchesterism is not socialism

Andy Burnham's city is a neoliberal metropolis

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My recent publication on referee decision making in football. Have fun reading it while watching the World Cup 2026. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We are advertising an Online Workshop in Conversation Analysis and Healthcare Interactions (Loughborough University). Details: darg.lboro.ac.uk/news/new-wor...

Delighted to have been your mentor.

Hi Marco, I think I’m fairly experienced in analysing “ interactions where death is relevant”. You did not invite me to participate. could you tell me why not?

Marco Pino@marcopino.bsky.social · 2y ago

Kristen Pecanac and I are organising a panel submission for the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA2026), title "Social interactions where death is relevant: Across settings and around the world" Please contact me if you would like to make a contribution: m.pino@lboro.ac.uk

spot on

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Even the BBC haven't ignored this one

Dozens of children put at risk after gender care failures at GP clinic, inquiry finds

A safety inquiry into the WellBN clinic in Brighton found 78 children were potentially harmed after being given gender medication without proper checks.

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