This has been many years in the making. We wanted to do it right—not simply get it done.
Our goal was to contribute, however modestly, to an academia that genuinely strives for inclusivity.
May the AWoP—small as the step may be—help move academia toward greater inclusion. 🤝🫂🌈🍉🏳️⚧️✊⚖️♿🦮🌐
Olivia @olivia.science hits it out of the park again with a post on cheating and why you shouldn't rob yourself of learning opportunities olivia.science/cheating/
🗺️ We're updating our interactive Global Medical Humanities Map, which plots the world’s medical & health humanities institutions, centres & networks.
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Isobel, a 49-year-old psychotherapist, shares her experience of suffering with debilitating menopause symptoms which forced her to step back from work.
We're pleased to announce the Summerschool 'Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups' (MDIG2026) at MindLabs, Tilburg, NL - 13-17 July 2026. You can register here for a 5-day in-person summer school at Tilburg University, Research Center for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, from July 13th-17th (monday to friday), with the theme Multiscale Social Dynamics in Individuals and Groups (MDIG2026). This summer school supported by EnvisionBox.org will feature hands-on tutorials on analysis pipelines from computer science and complexity science, including methods for motion tracking, kinematic and acoustic analysis, empirical mode decomposition, windowed multiscale synchrony analysis, and related approaches. Rather than focusing on a single modality, we will cover several aspects of multimodal communication, including visual, prosodic, and movement-based signals, and examine how these interact across multiple temporal and spatial scales. One dedicated day will focus on methods for data management, masking and anonymizing audiovisual data to ensure privacy protection and GDPR compliance. In addition, participants will work in groups on applied projects throughout the week, culminating in presentations of project progress at the end of the summer school. The goal of the summer school is twofold: first, to familiarize participants with state-of-the-art tools, open solutions, and datasets for multiscale social signal analysis, and second, to critically examine their limitations. By the end of the week, participants will have gained practical skills, new analytical tools, and a deeper understanding of how these methods can be improved to advance research in multimodal behavioral dynamics. Location The Netherlands, MindLabs Tilburg University Fee 125 euros person that includes a 5-day summer school featuring lectures and hands on tutorials and working groups with lunches, coffee breaks, and one social dinner provided (budget permitting). Travel grant …
Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!
There are still some places left for Tuesday's Insight Series session with Truzaar. For more details, and to register, visit the Eventbrite listing below 👇
Tell me you're a CA person without telling me you're a CA person 😂
Conversation Analysis for Social Justice. Nadja Tadic 👏
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Thanks, Charles, but I don't think it'll end up being more than just a few bullet points tbh, I don't think it'd justify a full blog post (and it'll mean a bit more work for me than I can afford to engage in at the moment). But I'll consider it in the future. Thanks and sorry.
Thanks to everyone who got in touch publicly or privately to share their preferred equipment and good/failed experiences, very useful for us! I'll collate and share the contributions somewhere.
So good to be able to choose equipment, not the case when I collected my interactional corpus 9 yrs ago!
Thank you! I wasn't aware of these cameras, they look good!
This is really useful, thank you!
Thanks to everyone who replied so far. Just to clarify I'm interested in hearing about your choice of camera equipment and your rationale for it: camcorders vs action cameras vs regular phones. Thanks!
Thanks, sounds exciting! My question is mostly about the equipment: were the cameras camcorders or action cameras, and why did you pick those over others? Thanks!
Number of academics working in the UK falls for first time www.timeshighereducation.com/news/number-...
This is very cool, thank you! It's now been 9 years since I recorded my own data with camcorders and lapel mics and for follow-along street data two years ago we used phones and a GoPro but I have lost track with what is now currently technically available and what people are using. Thanks again!
Thank you! Camcorders would've been my first (informed) hunch, too, it's good to know the files are easier to work with though (we've got the mic situation clear, I'm collecting wisdom on video). This is useful, thanks!
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!
🧵 New paper to appear in The Handbook of Linguistics and Multimodality: “Communicating from head to toe”, with @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social 🥰 We review evidence that language is fundamentally physical, shaped by anatomy and biomechanics from your skull to your soles. 🗣️🦵 [1/6]
Sign up for our workshop on Applying CA in Health & Social Care.
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The workshop is at Wits in May & will be facilitated by members of the Better Conversations Lab at UCL.
Register: forms.office.com/r/sc2eihHeKu
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Okay, I admit not everything can be related to sports, but boy, writing can, hear me out
There's a thing called chronic training load, and slowly increasing it, and maintaining a relatively high CTL, is a key way that human beings adapt to get better
Looking forward to chairing this talk on brass bands and Chilean social movements today at 3pm. Do join us if you can www.york.ac.uk/hrc/events/2...
Assistant/associate professor job at U of Warwick tinyurl.com/3ewmd7u9. A great opportunities for researchers who work on language and communication (including gesture) and on other areas of psychology.
Great to see the terrific York team @richardogden.bsky.social and @marinanc.bsky.social land this exciting new grant with colleagues in Germany.
How do sighs, gasps and laughter regulate the way we speak?
Prof Richard Ogden has received AHRC and DFG funding for a new project, 'Brevit'. The team will use respiratory technology to analyse breathing behaviour in conversation.
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#englang #linguistics needs Herriot Watt. Please take a minutes to read & sign LINCS' petition.
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...
One of my former Sociolinguistics students (now a PG student at St Andrews) is co-organizing a student conference on 'Voice'. Submission details below!
N.B. Student travel from Edinburgh to St Andrews will be reimbursed by the organisers!
How should UKRIO shape its strategy for the next five years?
We’ve launched a consultation and invite views from across the research community on opportunities, risks, emerging integrity challenges, and where support is most needed.
Survey open until 31 March 2026
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