Finishing this #icca2026 with a thought-provoking panel on the borders of #emca Thanks organisers: @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social @avgustis.bsky.social @briandue.bsky.social #decoloniseresearch #decenternormativity

So good to be part of this incredible panel on #emca and #socialwork at #icca2026, including slipping in some of my fave teaching graphics into this presentation on doing listening 😁

Dr Virginia Calabria (she•her•lei•idda)@calvirgi.bsky.social · last mo.

Doing listening through paraphrasing shown like this from @justbc.bsky.social

Doing listening through paraphrasing shown like this from @justbc.bsky.social

man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes? 89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

#Nunavut ‘This is all our family’: Nunavummiut rally to support Greenland, as Inuit leaders also speak up Dozens of people participated in rally and walk in Iqaluit on Saturday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good to have a final reminder that these laws are only about preventing people criticism Israel for committing genocide and have nothing really to do with hate (other than ensuring Zionists can continue to practice it) live.thepoint.com.au

Please enjoy a view from one of my back windows this evening #AuroraAustralis #RiverOfLight

ROLSI would not prosper as it does without the unselfish collegiality of those who give up their time to review submissions. We would like to record our thanks to all in the list below, who provided reviews in the period 1st August 2024 – 31st July 2025 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Volume 58 Issue 4 of Research on Language and Social Interaction now out online Hospital hand-overs Troubles talk Newborn announcements Hebrew "yes?" www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/c...

Latest articles from Research on Language and Social Interaction

Browse the latest articles and research from Research on Language and Social Interaction

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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Hard this. The amount of time wasting shit that has been produced vastly outweighs the benefits they promised to rationalise intensifying burning down the planet.

Count Mysterioso@mysteriosox.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

This is a really important public facing work by Dr Tamika Worrell who works in my centre. Read the work that Tamika has been doing for people who are thinking about cultural appropriation. In our same centre, we have Dr Innez Haua and Distinguished Prof Bronwyn Carlson all writing across this!

Jane Doe 🐸✊🏽❤️@noticingclimate.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The alternative: say #NoAI, and yes to real First Nations voices: @letterscentral.bsky.social @firstnationscen.bsky.social @robertarnol.bsky.social @big-tony.bsky.social @drtracywesterman.bsky.social @sandyosullivan.bsky.social 🖤💛❤️

‘University appears to prioritise commercial over community interests in its core functions’. Tasmanian parliamentary report criticises corporatisation in operation and governance of the University of Tasmania. graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/t... #HigherEducation #universities

So @matspike.bsky.social's answer to this question provides the best (short) explanation I have ever seen of what LLMs do and why it makes no sense to use them to explore human understanding of language

Janel Le Belle@janellebelle.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is the cognitive science evidence that LLMs have any genuine understanding rather than mimicking understanding through their core design as language prediction models?

Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.

PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on ...

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Using #data critically can reduce the risks posed by EdTech platforms. @lucipangrazio.bsky.social writes for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/te...

Data about children is being collected at schools, but teachers can take control - ABC Education

Digital data has become integral to schools today. While this data can be used to enhance learning, it also raises concerns over privacy and data misuse in education.

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Okay, a quick heads-up because I'm seeing people worrying/panicking about this: the UK press headline about a trans teenager being non-fatally stabbed is about something that originally happened in *February 2024* - it's in the news now because the court case is happening now.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

To an LLM, the only difference between "did" and "did not" is the statistical frequency of the word "not". *They don't have any knowledge*. Just strings of words.

and we are live with 360mash - find the download link at www.dote.aau.dk/downloads or visit our github repo: github.com/BigSoftVideo...

I'm returning to Wittig for inspiration on the issue of scientism in the anti-trans movement and wishing that more people read "The Straight Mind" (1979). It's one of those short but remarkably powerful essays that offers insights far beyond its notional subject matter

Today's #ResearcherRenew task is for anyone who's feeling overwhelmed or overworked and knows their physical health is being neglected. It's a bit more sensitive than previous tasks, so go gently. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #gradschool #HigherEd theresearchcompanion.com/wellbeing-in...

Prioritise your health - The Research Companion

A gentle invitation to check your physical and mental health and prioritise essential appointments, investigations and treatments this year.

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I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis: "Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

NDIS and ministers talk big game on fraud & rorting but biggest budget savings booked under new legislation come from kicking (mostly) kids off scheme, cutting plans under cover of 'integrity'. Half a BILLION a year just on eligibility revocations alone. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown

Despite claims the government’s reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is focused on fraud, a third of the savings will come from pushing children off the scheme.

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My first paper with my amazing collaborator Dr. Emma Tennent. Come with us and unravel (in frankly masochistic detail) the sequential and categorial reasoning that organises transmisogynistic talk. If you do not have access but would to read it, let me know and I can share a copy. #EMCA 🌈🎓

Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony

Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how ...

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What is the Children's Internet? Professor Michael Dezuanni explains for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/a-... You can read about Principles for a Better Children's Internet here: digitalchild.org.au/research/pub... #medialiteracy @abcnewsbot.bsky.social #childrensinternet

A brilliant augmentation to an already awesome suite of data handling tech tools for #EMCA and related observational methods. Will be keen to see and play when it's released 🤩

DOTE and DOTEbase@dote.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are finalising our new software package 360mash to support basic video editing tasks needed for qualitative video research. 360mash is a free, cross-platform, lightweight tool for clipping, reframing and anonymising 2D, 180 and 360 videos and exporting the resulting video as fast as possible.

You don’t need to approach everything in Hard Mode. There are often useful things you can contribute that are not the best, most complete version of the thing you are working on...#TeamNoBurnout

What’s black and white and red all over? Te Whanganui-a-Tara today. #ToitūTeTiriti ✊🏽