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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe group I as the group of death, or death-adjacent: France, Senegal, Norway and (? Iraq).

But certainly the sheer number of games will dilute interest, in some groups to homeopathic levels.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Elephantiasis of spectacle, in direct negative correlation with interest, entertainment and informativeness.

Fun it isn't.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Lord. How many of us are sitting through the circus of the World Cup draw, with the sound off, boggling at the glitz, the blather, the sycophancy.

Over an hour and, out of 48 teams, we have done exactly 3.

And one FIFA Peace Prize awarded.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent news – well done, Antti.

ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 3d

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

Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 3d

Its notable that some (in this case @mendelrandom.bsky.social (George Davey-Smith)) were on to him while he was alive, video a young GDS confronting Eysenk in a Q&A in 1994 for his data being inconsistent: youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 3d

Very brave indeed of a young person – however good there argument – to confront and challenge such an established figure as Hans Eysenck. Bravo.
Sadly, it's not surprising that it took so many more years, and so much more effort, to dislodge him from his pedestal.

Spencer Hazel @spencerhazel.bsky.social · 4d

What do you get if you cross Conversation Analysis with Dramatic Performance?

(Social Interaction)²
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/social-in...

Social Interaction and Dramatic Performance

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works…

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 4d

A fascinating ROLSI blog post by @philhutchinson.bsky.social on the long running ethnomethodology/CA reading group, originally based at Manchester University.

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A paragraph from the ROLSI.net guest blog by Phil Hutchinson on the Manchester UK echo/CA reading group

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 5d

I'd give that the elbow

ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 5d

Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams

One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week's chosen reading. Some reading groups and data sessions come and go, and some have an admirably…

Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams

One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week's chosen reading. Some reading groups and data sessions come and go, and some have an admirably long and unbroken history. One of the latter is the Ethnomethodology Reading Group originally based at Manchester University. Here, …

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 7d

Super photo, and best wishes for the op, Sue.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 7d

Polite suggestion - how about:

"Build a party the voters will love"?

Image showing a banner for the new Your Party, with the slogan "build the party Starmer will hate"

Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 8d

"Miles Hewstone no longer holds the honorific title of Emeritus Fellow at New College, which is part of Oxford. He has resigned as a fellow of the British Academy, a respected body that promotes humanities and social sciences."

archive.is/2025.11.28-1...

Barbara De Cock @barbaradecock.bsky.social · 9d

"Optimising healthcare communication" as the important aim of a one day 🇧🇪 colloquium with researchers and practitioners.
It gave me the chance to present (part of) this joint work with @charlesantaki.bsky.social on troubles-telling by diabetes forum-users.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 10d

Well I think Dr No would have managed all of that

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 12d

Probably true of many universities

A clip from an email inbox, showing the title of a curtailed message reading "staff experience survey 2025 – a mess…"

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 14d

Bottom right photo is terrific, Sue!

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 16d

This looks like a comprehensive survey, with questions that do require some careful thinking.
If the government really will be consulting it, it's certainly worth responding to

Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 16d

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Earned settlement

The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

www.gov.uk

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 16d

That's a pretty impressive response from such a minimal prompt.
(Terrifying, of course, for those marking CA assignments.)

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 16d

Citation counts used to be useful; now AI-fuelled paper mills and review mills make them unreliable and potentially damaging.

Another clear and well-sourced analysis by @deevybee.bsky.social .

A paragraph from Dorothy Bishop's blog, describing the nefarious effects of review mills and paper millls on citation counts

Carter 🏳️‍🌈 @riayn.bsky.social · 16d

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Earned settlement

The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

www.gov.uk

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 16d

Fascinating. What was the prompt, Kobin?

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 17d

My condolences, Timothy.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 17d

Social psychology scandals tend to come in two varieties:

1. One of the major canonical studies in our field is deeply flawed.
2. One of the big names in our field is a serial sexual harasser.

Today, unfortunately, is one of the latter days. Solidarity with all of Miles Hewstone's victims.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 17d

Absolutely. And hat tip @marcscully.bsky.social for the earlier sharing of @reimtime.bsky.social's original post.

The Tajfel lot at Bristol were bad enough, but Oxford gave (gives?) that extra layer of protection.

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 17d

Miles Hewstone - once a respected and influential social psychologist (and editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology).

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Esa Lehtinen @esaleht.bsky.social · 19d

Please note extended deadline: The International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference at the University Jyväskylä, 11–13 May, 2026. Theme: “Dialogic Matters: Exploring Materiality in Language, Communication, and Culture”. Deadline for abstracts 24 Nov 2025. www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...

International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) Conference 2026

IADA 2026

www.jyu.fi

Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 19d

Independent scholar Wayne Martin Mellinger uses Steve Clayman's decades of studying US new interviews, debates (etc) to:
"argue for an activist research agenda that deploys conversation-analytic insights for democratic defense rather than mere description of democratic collapse."

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 19d

Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."

Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇

doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...

Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"

Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...

doingmodernity.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 19d

Democracy under threat via the "empirically observable breakdown in the interactional practices that constitute democratic accountability between media and state power."

Wayne Martin Mellinger on Steve Clayman's decades of #EMCA research 👇

doingmodernity.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...

Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman's Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore"

Democracy Under Threat: Steven Clayman’s Interactional Analysis and the Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. Abstr...

doingmodernity.blogspot.com

Charlotte Albury @charlottealbury.bsky.social · 23d

If you work in communication and primary care then please do consider submitting original research to BMC primary Care's “Communication in Primary Care” Collection. I’m delighted to guest edit this collection alongside Prof Russel Rothman, and we’ll be accepting submissions until 30th July 2026 👇

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