ROLSI journal

Does anyone know any criticism of "open-ended questions" or discussions of their limitations (esp. in the context of police interviews)? #linguistics

The Next-Turn Forum:
Emerging CA-SLA Research in Dialogue

Kobe, Japan
8 August 2026

A supportive venue for graduate students to present work in progress in Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition.

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www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr... @darg-sessions.bsky.social

Q for #EMCA colleagues who recently collected video data of interaction in a room (not a dynamic or follow-along scene). Did you go for action cameras, phones, or camcorders and why?Any limitations regarding resolution, shape/angle or continuous footage time? Any tips pls message me. Thanks!

Great to see the terrific York team @richardogden.bsky.social and @marinanc.bsky.social land this exciting new grant with colleagues in Germany.

Call for Editor for Symbolic Interaction!

The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) invites applications for Editor(s) of the journal Symbolic Interaction for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2027.

More info: sssi.wildapricot.org/Call-for-Edi...

SSSI 2026 award nominations open:
-George Herbert Mead Award
-Charles Horton Cooley Book Award
-Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
-Helena Lopata Mentor Excellence Award
-The Kathy Charmaz Early-In-Career Award
Submission details available at symbolicinteraction.org/CallforAwards

Detail from a map of bluesky users, showing the CA community (with ROLSI's account in the centre) and its near neighbours, academic linguists and progressives

Intriguing to see where in the BlueSky universe CA users sit, and pleasing that the journal is at the heart of the community.

bluesky-map.theo.io

Grants 2026 LingComm Grants – Small Grants for Communicating Linguistics to Wider Audiences We want to see more linguistics in the world!  The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 (USD) to support lin…

Are you an early career researcher interested in communicating linguistics to broader audiences?

Consider applying for a @lingcomm.org grant!
Deadline April 30, via @lingthusiasm.com

lingcomm.org/grants/

PhD course: Conversation analysis (CA) and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge This course is aimed at PhD candidates who investigate interaction in various everyday- and institutional contexts.

PhD course: April 7-9, 2026

Conversation analysis and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts, USN Norway

Application deadline: March 1, 2026.

www.usn.no/activities/p...

A paragraph from Dorothy Bishop's blog post, recommending that publishers consult PubPeer to identify potential problems with papers they publish

PubPeer contributors do an admirable job of trying to keep science honest.

In her latest blogpost, @deevybee.bsky.social notes "58% of highly-cited papers that were annulled between 2021-2025 had prior PubPeer comments".

deevybee.blogspot.com

Publishers: a free alert to potential problems

A really excellent example of a CA research-based applied workshop, tried and tested over many years of development.

Doctoral Researcher, English, Languages and Literature, Faculty of Humanities We are now looking for a Doctoral Researcher to join us in the research unit of Languages and Literature (English) at the Faculty of Humanities. The position is part of the SafeEarth research program

Hiring! 📢 We have a three-year position open at the University of Oulu for a Doctoral Researcher in English. Not only will you get to study social interaction in an interesting setting, you'll also get to work with the nicest* people in the business. See announcement below.

*biased statement

Hello #EMCA community!

There's been another Bluesky influx - to find #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology use these Starter Packs.

Let me know if you'd like to be added (check you're not there first) and repost this!

1. go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX

2. go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ

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

Volume 58 Issue 4 of Research on Language and Social Interaction now out online

Hospital hand-overs
Troubles talk
Newborn announcements
Hebrew "yes?"

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List of those who reviewed submissions for ROLSI in the period 1 August 2024 to 31st of July 2025

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

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The next iteration of the New Developments in Ethnomethodology meeting will take place at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sierre from 27 to 29 May 2026.

You can still submit abstracts of approx. 300 words (+ references) to jakub.mlynar@hevs.ch by 12 January (AoE).

Full abstract here: t.ly/d3FSP

#EMCA

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

A paper in BMJ with important clinical implications for the treatment of heart disease – yet sleuths find troubling evidence of fabricated data.

A new blog post by @deevybee.bsky.social reporting on the case, and the unsatisfactory response from the journal.

deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o...

Categories in Social Interaction This book investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege. By examining the reciprocal relatio...

Categories in Social Interaction by Kevin Whitehead,
Elizabeth Stokoe, and Geoffrey Raymond investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege. Read more here: www.routledge.com/Categories-i...

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

December 18: World Arabic Language Day

Happy World Arabic Language Day to all those who use and appreciate Arabic!
أطيب التهاني بمناسبة اليوم العالمي للغة العربية
#Arabic #Langsky

Another fantastic CA Day closes and what a year! We had some seriously good talks, great company and of course excellent CA-ke.

This year my Mum baked in the style of a CA staple, Audacity! Can't wait to do it all again in 2026. But now, rest.

CA Day: great fun, cake, lovely people, fascinating presentations, expertly organised by @saulalbert.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social &various @darg-sessions.bsky.social peeps + @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @charlesantaki.bsky.social @laalaajenkins.bsky.social
@lizstokoe.bsky.social #emca

In conversation, a true conference | BPS Our editor Jon Sutton reports from 'CADay2025', hosted by Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group.

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

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Calls: Sociolinguistics and AI Call for Papers: We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference Sociolinguistics and AI which will take place at the University of Copenhagen between 19 and 21 August next year. The conference is an in-person event. As we write this, in November 2025, three years after ChatGPT was made available to the general public, ‘AI’ seems to be every­where. Strong in connotation, weak in deno­tation, and deeply entangled in contradictory dis­courses of desire and anxiety, profit and preju­dic

Calls: Sociolinguistics and AI

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...

Emma Richardson and a CA -themed cake for Loughborough's CA day

CA Day at Loughborough - 15th December - apparently a couple of tickets have become available.

Get there if you can for great presentations, great chat and of course the chance to compete in the CAke-off #CAkeOff2025

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

The baleful influence of Hans Eysenck is dwindling, but his research misdeeds still need to be recorded and publicised.