Ana Cristina Ostermann (@ana-ostermann.bsky.social) is giving her invited talk, “Where there’s life, there is hope: Calibrating hope in the face of impending death,” today at #YorCCA2026. 🐋

Join us at #YorCCA2026! Richard Ogden (University of York) leads a postgraduate workshop on the phonetics of talk-in-interaction, Saturday 18 July. Register: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

Join us at #YorCCA2026! Ana Cristina Ostermann (UFRGS, Brazil) leads a postgraduate workshop on collections and actions in health interactions, Saturday 18 July. Register: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

A new article I co-authored with Paul Drew has just been published in @rolsi-journal.bsky.social: "Addressee points in conflictual interactions: A reductionist analysis of action". Free-access link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IXCAG... More below.

Addressee points in conflictual interactions: A reductionist analysis of action

Pointing gestures are ubiquitous in human social interactions. Among pointing gestures are those in which a speaker points at the person being addressed: addressee points. Research has shown that a...

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New University of York style guide. This is an abomination.

📢 YorCCA 2026 — Weekly Reminder Abstract submission is still open for YorCCA 2026! 🎓 Open to current MA/PhD researchers and recent PhD graduates (2023+) 🗓 Deadline: Friday 10 April 2026 🔗 Full details & submission: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y... Please share and submit soon!

I've developed a simple app to help with transcription: Ript. It solves three problems: finding symbols, numbering lines, and styling multimodal transcripts. App: ript-editor.vercel.app Guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Spread the word! The next York Conference on Conversation Analysis will be held 17-18 July. Encourage your MA/PhD students to submit an abstract. Deadline: 10 April. In addition to presenting their research, Ana Cristina Ostermann and Richard Ogden will also deliver post-conference workshops!

YorCCA@yorcca.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 YorCCA 2026 — Call for Abstracts YorCCA 2026 is now accepting abstract submissions. 🗓 Submission deadline: Friday 10 April 2026 🎓 Eligible: current MA/PhD researchers & recent PhD graduates (2023+) 🔗 Full details & submission: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

After lunch break now and @luyang-zhou.bsky.social is presenting on Children’s Self-Selection in Pediatric Consultations in China #CAday2025

Great to see this write-up of @luyang-zhou.bsky.social’s PhD research. It promises to make an important and novel contribution to the study of turn-taking and overlap management, as well as paediatric medical interactions in China.

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In conversation, a true conference… I report from today’s #CADay2025, hosted by @darg-sessions.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

We’re lucky to have Richard at YorCCA 2026! In addition to his talk, he’ll also offer a post-conference workshop. Stay tuned for details! Find out more about YorCCA: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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YorCCA 2026 YorCCA 2026 will take place on the 17th-18th of July 2026 at the University of York Main Conference: 17th July 2026 Workshops: 18th July 2026

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YorCCA@yorcca.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are excited to have Professor Richard Ogden (@richardogden.bsky.social) as an invited speaker at #YorCCA2026! His research combines phonetics and CA to explore how phonetic detail shapes social action. His work deepens understanding of turn-taking, stance, and non-lexical vocalisations in talk.

I’m very excited for the next YorCCA! Spread the word to your MA and PhD students.

YorCCA@yorcca.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are excited to have Professor Ana Cristina Ostermann as an invited speaker at #YorCCA2026! Her research explores social interaction in institutional contexts, with particular attention to gender, health communication, and embodiment.

We have a CA pathway in our MA Applied Linguistics at York. Includes dedicated modules on CA, multimodality, and institutional interaction (taught by Merran Toerien). Applications open for 26-27. Find out more www.york.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Well that didn't take long. Gemini 3 Pro and Claude 4.5 Opus can both recognize underlined text and re-transcribe CA transcripts from screenshots. Gemini is more accurate but still makes some mistakes. I gave them a transcript from Clayman (2013) with lots of complex overlap as a test.

Kobin Kendrick@kobinkendrick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

TIL: AI models can't see underlined text. ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro all struggle to recognize which letters are underlined. This is my new test for AGI.

We've now entered the era of AI-generated infographics. I asked Gemini to analyse a screenshot of a data extract from Clayman (2013) and to create an infographic. This is what it came up with.

🎉 Great news! YorCCA 2026 will take place on 17–18 July 2026 at the University of York. 📅Key Dates • Main Conference: 17 July 2026 • Workshops: 18 July 2026 🌐Further details will be available on our official channels shortly. Mark your calendars! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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What is YorCCA? The York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) is a CA conference organised by PhD researchers at the University of York and affiliated with the Centre for Advanced Studies in L...

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TIL: AI models can't see underlined text. ChatGPT 5.1 Thinking, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro all struggle to recognize which letters are underlined. This is my new test for AGI.

I gave Claude Sonnet 4.5 a transcript I use for teaching CA and asked it to develop a research proposal based on an observation about the data. Its observation was original, insightful, and analytically significant. This is wild. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Post-decline requesting and the reversal of refusals A research proposal

Post-decline requesting and the reversal of refusals: A research proposal Claude Sonnet 4.5 with Kobin H. Kendrick Introduction This report presents a research proposal grounded in an empirical observ...

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Whenever a new AI model is released, I ask it to propose a PhD project in CA. Today Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, and its proposal is my favourite so far. If anyone, human or machine, would like to do this project, I'd gladly supervise it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Projecting the Next Move: Embodied Action Projection in Collaborative Physical Tasks (Sonnet 4.5).md

Projecting the Next Move: Embodied Action Projection in Collaborative Physical Tasks Claude Sonnet 4.5 Core Research Question How do participants use embodied conduct (gaze, gesture, body orientation,...

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The YorCCA 2025 Report is out in the latest ISCA newsletter! www.conversationanalysis.org/yorcca-2025-... A huge thank you to all presenters & participants. We look forward to seeing you at YorCCA 2026!

Very excited to announce this faculty search at Rutgers! Looking for a wonderful new colleague to join us in Communication #EMCA #LSI @ica-lsi.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...

I asked ChatGPT o3 to replicate the findings of Pomerantz (1984). I gave it a summary and a set of 10 transcripts (NB). Results were mixed: the evidence it presented was clear in some cases, but less so in others, and some observations were superficial. drive.google.com/file/d/1l4rM...

Gene Lerner@glerner.bsky.social · last yr.

I would be curious to see the results of another kind of instruction to AI: Reproduce the investigation that resulted in a published CA report and compare/contrast the new results with that of the original/target published report.

I gave ChatGPT o3 and Claude Opus transcripts from the NB corpus (publicly available on TalkBank) and asked them to "find a something", i.e., to identify a phenomenon in the data to study. The results are less impressive than the conceptual acrobatics in their PhD proposals. 🧵👇

Gene Lerner@glerner.bsky.social · last yr.

“I asked five AIs to draft PhD proposals in conversation analysis.” I wonder what would happen if you directed them to (as Sacks did to Pomerantz) “Find a something,” instead of starting by requiring a proposal.”

#YorCCA's off to a great start! Check out the programme here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

#YorCCA - Programme

On this page you will find details on the conference speakers and their presentation titles, as well as a schedule of events for YorCCA 2025.

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Rosario Neyra@neyrar.bsky.social · last yr.

Today's the day! #YorCCA

I asked five AIs to draft PhD proposals in conversation analysis. On one level, this is a simple thought experiment: what might an AI do if it went to grad school? On another, it gives us a glimpse of a near-future in which AI guides human inquiry. 🧵👇

🚀 The programme for the York Conference on Conversation Analysis is now live! 📅 Join us in York on 18-19 July for two days of insightful sessions. Check out the full programme and register now 👉 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/y...

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Registration is now open!

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The first article from my PhD, "How students get help: Institutional identities as a resource for recruitment," has now been published! Co-authored with @kobinkendrick.bsky.social and Merran Toerien. Access it free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lJZg1L-nh... Here is what we did and what we found:

Registration is now open for the York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA). The conference is on Fri 18 July (in-person or online) with Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada as invited speakers. Workshops by Paul and Lorenza for PhD students (in-person) on Sat 19 July.

YorCCA@yorcca.bsky.social · last yr.

💡 York Conference on Conversation Analysis — Registration is OPEN! 18 July — Main Conference (PhD presentations + invited speakers Paul & Lorenza) 19 July — CA Workshop with Paul & Lorenza £20 conference | £35 conf + workshop | £10 online ⏳ Register: store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

#EMCA Our recent paper examines the details of professedly simultaneous phenomena (e.g., choral actions). We argue that simultaneity is a gloss for describing temporal relations, and “sequentiality is the organizational principle securing their actual accomplishment”. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions

The topic of simultaneity has recently been debated within multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA), interrogating the intricate temporal relations betwe…

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New book by Steve Levinson on social interaction, human communication, cross-cultural universals, and the evolution of language. It's open-access, so go grab the PDF now! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

The Interaction Engine

Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine

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