Mick Smith

On September 28th at 18:30 the French language premiere of the documentary "Can dogs talk?" will air on @iciradiocanada.bsky.social Découverte series
@cclabucsd.bsky.social work on soundboard trained dogs is a central piece of this documentary. English versions will air on NOVA and CBC in early 2026

"if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law."

This is the AI policy I'm going with this semester

Hey! Glad you liked it!

Robin Lakoff, Expert on Language and Gender, Is Dead at 82

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into word....

Another lovely Labov obit by @betsysneller.bsky.social @laurelmack.bsky.social and Meredith Tamminga. This one takes a birds eye view of how Labov has contributed to where the field is going, which is a nice forward-looking complement to Eckert's obit onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

Fantastic news!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
My wife and sweetest heart, Dr. Sirry Alang @profalang.bsky.social, earned a promotion to 🌟FULL PROFESSOR🌟 of Health and Human Development at The University of Pittsburgh!!This is the highest tenured academic rank! Please help me congratulate our rock star!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️❤️

You could not find a more gifted researcher on the planet to write this book. Sure to be a banger!

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

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RIP Sly

Wattup Space Nerds! Last LSSI space seminar of the season with Alicja Ostrowska of Chalmers in Sweden talking about Life and AI at NASA. DM me for Zoom link

As a reminder, this is a permanent resident, in the US since she was seven, high school valedictorian
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

New on Early View: “Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes” by Robin James Smith https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1246 #sssi #socioloy #categorization #MCA #EMCA #ethnomethodology #Sacks #policing

We have just published "Categorizational Asymmetries in…

New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...

Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it

#academicsky

One of the most influential voices in applied #linguistics: Ingrid Piller will be awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin on 5 May! ✨

#AvHProfessor
@languageonthemove.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de

🎬 Full portrait on her research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Ik...

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

I’m planning on running a 10 week course on doing conversation analysis - learner time commitment will be a few hours per week. It’ll be online, asynchronous, & with direct feedback from me. It will be available worldwide. Join the mailing list to find out more! www.bedsidemanners.com.au/contact

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

Linguistics.

I’m very excited to have been a part of this! Thank you for a great collaboration🤩

Pareidolic sequence?

Hey #EMCA, what are we calling twitterjacency pairs here?

A fully funded PhD Studentship on multimodal analysis of caregiver/patient interaction in my lab #LLL at #Universitéd'Orléans !
🎓🎥🏥

#EMCA #Multimodality #Healthcare #CommunicativeDisability #MedicalResuscitation

The film gave me existential anxiety when I was a child. I don’t know if I could handle the book

Mmh, also a thing at my Swedish university.

Fully funded 4-year PhD with me at VU Amsterdam #emca workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

i'm developing an appreciation for imagining and feeling threads that connect seemingly discrete movements that feel connected. like when i run my finger along a roll of tape, i can't see the seam, but i can obviously feel it. my inability to see it doesn't make me say "well it must not be there".

Designed ambiguity. Flirtation, dog whistles, and many social actions are intended to be defeasible, deniable, transformable. In this case, and in all such cases, it's what happens next that is the tell. "My heart goes out to you" offers an interpretative framing that renders the gesture deniable.