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📻 Tune in! Want to hear more about how talking about waterfalls, sitting down and 'some' and 'any' can make a difference in communication in health care? Listen to @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social and myself explore 🩺 How Doctors Talk🩺 @deakinuniversity.bsky.social www.sbs.com.au/audio/podcas...

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#emca folks - how would you transcribe a flapped /r/ sound (e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0IY...) in Jeffersonian? It's marked in its usage, so want to include it.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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If you've ever fed Vegemite to someone from overseas, I salute you. It's our national duty to do so.

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Check out me and @drmarydahm.bsky.social on the latest episode of How Humans Talk! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...

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#emca

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Last 10 days to go... #ICCA2026 Call for paper: 30 June - no extension! No worries about any odd number of papers on your panel, or that you're not on a panel. Just submit first. Upon review, we will match and adjust. See you in Edmonton!

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One of our Organising Committee members Xiaoyun Wang captured this in Elk Island National Park, Edmonton in MAY some years back. No guarantee... but worth a try 😉 Deadline for abstract submission: one month to go #ICCA2026

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It absolutely boggles my mind that universities keep cutting humanities and the arts when the top 5 skills for employees are consistently from humanities and the arts. #highered #auspol @jasonclaremp.bsky.social

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Dropping my kids off at school today. There were a few teachers at the gate. They said hello but I didn’t hear my youngest reply, so I said “are you going to say hello?” Unfortunately the teacher with his back turned thought I was talking to him and quickly spun around and apologised to me! 😂

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? English has somewhere between 10 and 20 vowels. Yes, I mean phonetic vowels not written vowels. The idea that a, e, i, o, u are the vowels of English is highly arbitrary.

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Is it a bit cheeky going to a medical appointment in my bedside manners merch?

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I assume it’s hard to track, but having updates on call back times from a doctor from health direct would be good. Estimated 90 mins ended up being 7 hours.

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I tagged along with a friend who was a theatre reviewer and at the party after loudly commented about a woman’s lovely shoes. Those shoes were on the feet of Cate Blanchett. She glanced at me and I ran away.

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Last year I gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare #ICCH2024 last year. I've now posted it on YouTube along with the Q&A (edited to anonymise those asking questions). You can find them here: youtu.be/U8O7JO5YnFs and youtu.be/S9sQODEyFAs

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Imagine text ending in lol as evidence in a courtroom… “So you thought it was funny?” This is why linguists are needed as expert witnesses! lol

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

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We used to play a game of opening the street directory at a random page and then looking at the route once before driving there unassisted. Great times!

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Do I make this into a t-shirt?

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Yesterday I contributed as a Subject Matter Expert on communication at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. It was great to see how the standards draw on a wide range of expertise. Here's a thread with some of the comments and papers that I raised in the discussions:

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Q for my australian academic friends: how normal is it to do external HDR supervision unpaid?

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Very proud to share this work with @jennypaananen.bsky.social (University of Turku). The article is about some delicate communication work that relatives of people living with dementia and nursing home care staff do when discussing illness progression. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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It’s amazing how many times videos I’ve recorded for teaching have been used after I’ve left a university… 👀

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Ok so I feel like I need more attention grabbing merch. How about a shirt that says “be awkward” or something. I need ideas! Help!

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One time I went to a presentation skills training course and they said almost all these things and also said that these would help in everyday conversations. Yes, I did offer some corrections 😅 A reminder: presentation skills ≠ conversation skills

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