Just seen an email from my old department trying to repurpose give-away hoodies with old branding - apparently they make excellent clothes for decorating/cleaning cars/doing an oil change. Good to see the recycling - & a reminder that in university publicity, as anywhere else, all flesh is grass.

A fascinating experiment by @kobinkendrick.bsky.social, using AI to transform into video his lecture on the advanced and comparatively complex Mondada multimodal conventions. Obviously the input was already highly accomplished, but the AI seems to have made a good job of presenting it.

Kobin Kendrick@kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 19h ago

As an experiment, I transformed one of my lectures into a programmatic video using AI. It introduces the conventions for multimodal transcription developed by Lorenza Mondada. youtu.be/OiGJiGU5m7g

Guest Blog: From Hype to Hip and Hybrid! Probing Ethnomethodology’s Prospects A new guest blog on ROLSI.net: what ethnomethodologists get up to when they meet up in the very agreeable surroundings of the Swiss Alps (chemistry demonstration included) rolsi.net/2026/09/07/g...

Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138

[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

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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

Hmm. Awful of course, but tricky to criticise if one's university has a campus, or offers courses, in e.g. China. Nevertheless - actually training police officers and the military is a step beyond. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officials

In move that could generate millions, Exeter academics to deliver MA at National Defense University in Riyadh

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A(nother) troubling development in the landscape of UK University provision: selling out degree-conferring powers to an international for-profit corporation hat-tip @brynleyheaven.bsky.social and @plashingvole.bsky.social

Brynley Heaven@brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 2w ago

In local News, an announcement that reads as satire but is absolutely where we are at

Applications now open for our Leverhulme *funded PhD studentship* on Rethinking Epidemic Models: Integrating Human Behaviour and Psychology Based at @sussex.ac.uk & working with colleagues at Northeastern University London Utrecht University/RIVM Please share! www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

I keep hearing social scientists refer to 'social contagion' and the like. How exactly does that work? tl;dr: It doesn't. Read Brian Parkinson's paper on the critique and the alternatives.

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 3w ago

Emotion convergence happens in groups and crowds, but there is little empirical support for the role of mimicry-based contagion in this. Instead, a combination of group-based social appraisal and orientational calibration is the most likely explanation. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New Guest Blog on ROLSI.net: The inside story of a first-timer's experience of the biennial international Conference on Conversation Analysis, held this year in Edmonton, Canada. Thank you to @avasquezkanashiro.bsky.social for a fresh and lively account. rolsi.net/2026/08/24/g...

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?

This is a really useful deep dive into authorship and AI use policy of major academic publishers... from Janet Salmons janetsalmons.substack.com/p/what-do-ac...

What do academic publishers say about using gen AI?

Review current guidelines and implications for your research.

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This should be of interest to conversation analysts and others interested in communication at the (very) sharp end: - police work with witnesses and suspects - probation interviews - court proceedings - etc ... www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Voices of Justice: transforming communication in policing and criminal justice settings

Voices of Justice is a two-day hybrid conference exploring how communication can improve trust, governance, and inclusion across policing and the criminal justice system. Bringing together global rese...

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In the new ROLSI.net guest blog - can you gamify CA teaching? Watch this clip and guess which CA phenomenon it illustrates drive.google.com/file/d/1sCaK... 1 = Preference organisation 2 = The putative preference for offers over requests 3 = Turn-taking norms

Research on Language and Social Interaction - Blog

A site for the journal and its community

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New GuestBlog on ROLSI.net : a lively account of using a children's memory game to get students to think about CA phenomena. Includes a version you can try out online yourself! rolsi.net/2026/08/17/g...

Worrying developments in AI mimicry, reported by @deevybee.bsky.social. She recommends a number of ways to be vigilant as a reviewer, but warns that they are going to take extra effort. Sadly, "The first rule is to assume that what you are reading might be fraudulent".

Dorothy Bishop@deevybee.bsky.social · 4w ago

New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreview

Breughel-inspired illustration in the local paper

The constituency officers are televising the Clacton count. (Looks like hard work, with a scroll-like ballot paper.) Potter's wheel vibe for bedtime-preparing wind-down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvkz...

🔶In the special section: "The Softness of Hard Data: Discursive Psychology, Conversation Analysis, and Psychological Science" by @lizstokoe.bsky.social et al. "DP/CA methods pose interesting questions for the psychological bedrocks of reliability and validity" psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

This is rare thing in the UK currently, but Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a full-time and permanent lecturer specialising in critical discourse studies. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Jobs at Lancaster University

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Just heard a presenter (not a guest) on a Radio 4 programme use the term "social construct" in a meaningful way; first time I think that I've come across it broadcast. If so then it's taken 60 years since Berger & Luckman. Much slower uptake than e.g. Festinger's "cognitive dissonance".

A corollary, of some kind, to the Arday affair.

Karen Graubart@kbgraubart.bsky.social · last mo.

Cambridge prof committed plagiarism, accused of sexual assault, still on the job and the press has barely noticed.

Yes! Terrific capsule comparison by @profsalwiggins.bsky.social of "discourse" analyses, showing the very clear boundaries between them. There are some others (IPA, narrative analysis …) which have their own norms.

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · last mo.

Re-visiting @profsalwiggins.bsky.social's really useful book (2017) for this helpful table comparing different forms of discourse analysis.

"Discursive Psychology and Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology" - Intro article to the special issue by Cristian Tileaga, @lizstokoe.bsky.social, & @profsalwiggins.bsky.social - They "review & contextualize DP's background & relationship to qualitative psychology" psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

This should be really good! Wiggins has a talent for clear, sharp and entertaining writing, and is probably the world's authority on social interaction around meal times and other occasions when people eat together.

Sally Wiggins Young@profsalwiggins.bsky.social · last mo.

Upcoming book on 'Researching children's mealtimes' due out in October and aimed at researchers across the social sciences interested in interactional analyses of children's eating in everyday settings. Perfect for #EMCA, DP, & language socialisation research. www.routledge.com/Researching-...

Lovely - finally - to get my hands on this

A series of 5 posts of the Abstracts of the papers in the current issue of ROLSI, now out www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c... 5. Jakonen and Laaksonen

A series of 5 posts of the Abstracts of the papers in the current issue of ROLSI, now out www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c... 4. Wiggins

A series of 5 posts of the Abstracts of the papers in the current issue of ROLSI, now out www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c... 3. Arita