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Alexa Hepburn is professor of communication at Rutgers University, and honorary professor in conversation analysis in the Social Sciences… more

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Psychology 45%
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Charles Antaki

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⚠️NEW "Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations"

Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social
Screenshot of Patient Education and Counseling article titled: Communicating anaphylaxis risk in pediatric allergy consultations: A conversation analytic study. Available here in text form: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2025.109284
October 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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laalaajenkins.bsky.social
🚨NEW SPECIAL SECTION
Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective

- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social
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October 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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📣 Our #19 newsletter is out: this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our community it is the beginning of a new academic year in the Northern Hemisphere or the start of a new term in the South, this season marks a fresh chapter for many in our #ILEMCA community.✨ 🧵1/7
September 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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by Alexa Hepburn

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Whatever their faults, universities need to be defended in the current anti-intellectual environment. @thetimes.com
timeshighered.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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by Jonathan Potter — Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, John Drury, Lupicínio Íñiguez-Rueda , and 2 more

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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...
profjonathanpotter.bsky.social Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · Apr 28
Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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galinabolden.bsky.social
Reposting: Please join us at Rutgers Communication dept - open rank position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Comm! Apply by Sept 25; contact me with any Qs #emca jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/258...
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)
The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...
jobs.rutgers.edu
September 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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by Alexa Hepburn

alexahepburn.bsky.social
Congratulations Dr Hee Chung Chun for brilliantly defending her dissertation on how teachers scaffold talk for adult novice learners in Korean language classes! A careful, insightful CA study. With co-chair @galinabolden.bsky.social & committee @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social & Hansun Waring🥂 #emca
September 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Elizabeth Stokoe

glerner.bsky.social
This olde exchange concerning the place of ‘social-structural’ considerations in descriptions of the organizations of talk-in-interaction was recently brought to mind. (Perhaps the ‘obscurity’ involved was there to shield the suggestion from promiscuous application!) #EMCA
September 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

lansi2024.bsky.social
new paper on because-prefaced utterances (BPUs) in child interaction: utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social #lansibunch #emca
September 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Elizabeth Stokoe

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A reminder from @marinanc.bsky.social that there is an #EMCA group on LinkedIn as well that would be nice to reactivate: www.linkedin.com/groups/2276942
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August 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles Antaki , and 1 more

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🚨 new #emca paper klaxon 🚨

on-duty police regularly have to deal with recording bystanders. if they decide to open interaction, how do they do so? Uwe and I investigate 🕵🏻 in Language in Society

🔓 OA: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, John Drury

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Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Identifying, communicating, and de-escalating risk in high-stakes settings: How conversation analysis research can underpin communication training
Communicating risk in high-stakes settings can prevent avoidable deaths. Communicating, assessing and managing risk is a critical part of many healthc…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Elwys De Stefani

dingemansemark.bsky.social
Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology

Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#emca #linguistics #sts
View of Radboud Campus in Nijmegen, brutalist Erasmus building hosting the Faculty of Arts & the Futures of Language project in the foreground
August 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles Antaki , and 2 more

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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...
Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Position in Language, Interaction, and Interpersonal Communication (Open Rank)
The Department of Communication at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information seeks a full-time faculty member in language, interaction, and interpersonal communication. The search i...
jobs.rutgers.edu
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Elizabeth Stokoe, Nick Clarke

ericlaurier.bsky.social
The delicate dance of revealing more or less of who we are for one another, as it happens at the café counter. Co-authored with Sylvaine Tuncer. #EMCA #geosky
Acknowledging, recognising and responding to one another: ordinary hospitality in the café. Authors: Eric Laurier & Sylvaine Tuncer. Geoforum, Vol 165
August 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

lansi2024.bsky.social
🥳#lansi2025 program is now live 👏tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen…

pre-register now and see you in 🍁in the Big Apple 🍎 tc.columbia.edu/lansi/conferen… @iscaupdates.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Edmund Heery

samwetherell.bsky.social
Welcome new followers. My book, Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain, is out February next year. Here are the book's epigraphs, one by the great Liverpool historian Tony Lane, another by the wonderful contemporary poet @joriegraham.bsky.social. Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/liverpo...
November 14, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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by Alexa Hepburn

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Here you go: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mlc4k...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

dingemansemark.bsky.social
Whether you are pondering applying for one of the above positions or just looking for some good reads, I think you will enjoy these summer reads markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#SummerReads #linguistics #emca #sts #hci #FuturesOfLanguage
Covers of 4 books: Bridle, James. 2022. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Franklin, Ursula M. 1999. The Real World of Technology. Revised edition. CBC Massey Lectures. Toronto: Anansi. Illich, Ivan. 1973. Tools for Conviviality. Open Forum. London: Calder and Boyars. Le Guin, Ursula K. 2019. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. London: Ignota.
July 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Éric Laurier

laalaajenkins.bsky.social
📢 Lboro CA Day 2025

A fantastic day of #EMCA presentations & networking.

📍 Lboro/hybrid
📅 15 Dec

Register now!
Call for abstracts open!

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

@darg-sessions.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @lborocrcc.bsky.social
CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) – DARG
darg.lboro.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🎯 What’s on at the main conference on 18 July?

✔️ PhD Presentations in CA
✔️ Talks from:
🔬 Paul – Applications of CA to Medical Interactions
🧩 Lorenza – Multimodal Conversation Analysis
✔️ Peer Networking

🌍 Join us: store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...
July 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani , and 1 more

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💡 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...
June 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Charles Antaki, Éric Laurier

rolsi-journal.bsky.social
A snippet from the new rolsi.net blog by
@profsalwiggins.bsky.social
on the initial meeting of the EatSiN network of #EMCA food & interaction researchers.

rolsi.net
An image taken from the ROLSi.net blog about research done on eating in interaction
June 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

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🚨Save the date!🚨
🗣️Spread the word! 🗣️

The next ICOP-L2 conference will be held at Newcastle University on 🗓️24-26 August 2026🗓️
icopl2.org

More details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for abstracts, and more, coming soon!

#EMCA #L2interaction
June 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

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We're pleased that the Special Section on "The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis" is attracting interest.

Topics include: "legacy" data; ethics boards; curated repositories; open science; cultural norms...

Online here:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/5...
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Special Section: The Ethics of Collecting, Curating and Sharing Data in Conversation Analysis. Volume 58, Issue 2 of Research on Language and Social Interaction
www.tandfonline.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

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We are advertising an Online Workshop in Conversation Analysis and Healthcare Interactions (Loughborough University). Details: darg.lboro.ac.uk/news/new-wor...
New workshop advertised – DARG
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June 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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by Alexa Hepburn — Reposted by Elwys De Stefani

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Does CA’s unique approach to language and social interaction come across correctly in the AI-generated podcast? Really excellent and thought provoking @rolsi-journal.bsky.social blog by Bogdana Huma with some useful ideas for assignments @bogdanahuma.bsky.social #emca
rolsi-journal.bsky.social ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · May 30
Can you use AI in teaching Conversation Analysis?

@bogdanahuma.bsky.social reports using a remarkably real-sounding AI-generated podcast, ostensibly discussing a CA paper. Will students spot its mistakes, trivial and profound?

The new ROLSI.net blog here:
rolsi.net/2025/05/30/g...
An image generated by ChatGPT to the prompt "Produce a realistic image of a male and female podcast duo, discussing a topic in conversation analysis"
June 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Charles Antaki

rolsi-journal.bsky.social
Can you use AI in teaching Conversation Analysis?

@bogdanahuma.bsky.social reports using a remarkably real-sounding AI-generated podcast, ostensibly discussing a CA paper. Will students spot its mistakes, trivial and profound?

The new ROLSI.net blog here:
rolsi.net/2025/05/30/g...
An image generated by ChatGPT to the prompt "Produce a realistic image of a male and female podcast duo, discussing a topic in conversation analysis"
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn, Charles Antaki

rolsi-journal.bsky.social
The Editors hope that this Special Section on collecting CA data will speak to calls for greater transparency in recording personal and institutional interactions.

We are grateful to the contributors for insightful and thought-provoking essays.

#EMCA

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The abstract from the editors' introduction to the special section on curating CA data.
May 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Reposted by Alexa Hepburn

iiemca27.bsky.social
As chilly winter temperatures set in, we look at Wits University -host of IIEMCA27- which will be 105 years old in 2027.
Wits is a multi-campus university that spans 400 hectares in Braamfontein and Parktown (Johannesburg). There is so much to experience at Wits...
May 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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