A call out in the same area, just as we returned to base and were unloading the vehicles. Day turned into night.

Rob Smith@robinjsmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

A beautiful day for search and evac training in the Bannau Brycheiniog

A beautiful day for search and evac training in the Bannau Brycheiniog

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

Still time to submit an abstract to our panel on perception in high-stakes environments (with “high-stakes” being broadly defined - where noticings and “missings” are of consequence for ongoing action). #IIEMCA27 #EMCA

IIEMCA2027@iiemca27.bsky.social · 3w ago

➡️Futures-in-the-Making: Extending EMCA’s Temporal Horizons ➡️Perception in High-Stake Environments: Sensing Contextual Relevancies at Play To find out more about these and other panels and submit your abstract, go to www.iiemca27.org/calls

A new article on respecifying stigma - and Goffman’s “language of relationships” - using Sacks’ suicide prevention centre corpus. Can (should!) be read alongside @philhutchinson.bsky.social’s article, and others, in the forthcoming special issue. #EMCA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Respecifying Stigma and the Language of Relationships: Attributes and Categories as Contexturally‐Achieved Phenomena in the Search for Help

This article revisits Goffman's original formulations of stigma. In doing so, the discussion focuses, specifically, upon his emphasis that a “language of relationships, not attributes is needed.” The...

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This is such a sensible approach and usefully communicated model. I’d very much like universities to shift to a “justification of use” approach for AI/LLMs in research and, particularly teaching/learning. I won’t hold my breath though…

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 4w ago

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

This is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts. muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/07/j...

Just how much of Future Nottingham 2 was written by vastly overpaid consultants?

PA Consulting misled a government department, threatened the press, and over-charged the NHS up to £2,500 a day. So why is a PA consultant listed as the author of the Future Nottingham 2 business c…

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Join us for an online data session on Friday 9 October with Shan Shan Li, @robinjsmith.bsky.social and @greiffenhagen.bsky.social on negotiating rights to mobility. #EMCA Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/rYVyNa9dJ4

A great couple of days at the British Academy, hearing about a range of research on various aspects of justice system.

Charles Antaki@charlesantaki.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Voices of Justice about to kick off

Open paper and panel call deadline 23rd October. Tick tick. #EMCA

IIEMCA2027@iiemca27.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The call for presentations at #IIEMCA27 is open! Theme: New Horizons: Exploring the transformative possibilities of EMCA 🚀 Deadline: 23 October 2026 For more information, see our website: www.iiemca27.org/about www.iiemca27.org/calls #EMCA #MCA @interactemca.bsky.social

Interested in Psychology and #EMCA? Have a look at these #iiemca27 panels. ➡️ Mind, Brain and Conduct in EMCA ➡️ EMCA in and as Psychology: Respecification, Inquiry and Application www.iiemca27.org/calls @interactemca.bsky.social

Contributed to this piece on queues and mountains. Two of my favourite things (unless I’m actually on a mountain…). www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/opinion/queu...

Is queue-jumping on Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa ever acceptable? Well, yes. I'm a Mountain Rescue volunteer. This is how it's done.

In defence of queue-jumping on Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: insights from a Welsh Mountain Rescue volunteer & ultra-running professor of social order.

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I don't hear any of the AcAdeMIc FReEdOM bros screaming against this blatant - and really, blatant - intervention not only of the state but of a *foreign* state into sovereign matters of a university?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.

If you are working on practice and perception in high-stakes environments - where timely noticings (or, indeed, “missings”) of interactional and environmental significances are highly consequential - do consider submitting a paper to our panel! www.iiemca27.org/calls #iiemca27 #emca

Honoured that our article on the Chicago School received the 2026 Melvin Pollner Memorial Prize from the #ASA #EMCA Section. Many thanks to my co-authors @robinjsmith.bsky.social, Terry Au-Yeung, Erik Boström & @phdahlphd.bsky.social, and to colleagues who shared their insights with us. t.ly/9A-yH

Loving the Panel Lead/Co-Lead musical chairs on IIEMCA submission day…! Sounds like there are some fantastic panels being put together, so look out for calls down the line. And there’s the open paper call coming up in September. Hope to see lots of you in Jo’burg next year! #EMCA #IIEMCA27

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

The Crisis in Britain’s Universities

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

johnheathershaw.substack.com

Finally recovered from ICA Cape Town! Hosted an awesome pre-conference on discourses of racial inequality and presented my and @francescaorfw.bsky.social book about what @ica-lsi.bsky.social can bring to studies of race and communication! A link to the book!: www.peterlang.com/document/131...

My article "Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender" received the Outstanding Article Award from the SSSP Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division AND an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award from the ASA Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis Section! 🥳

What Reform have successfully done is to make the floor of open racism in England much higher than I have seen it in several years. I don’t know what their peak will be but they have normalised something that I haven’t seen here since the mid-1990s, and that is already dangerous enough.

This was a great event. Excellent papers and discussions in the most amazing setting. Another fine entry in the annual New Developments in Ethnomethodology series. Thanks to the organisers! To Joburg in 2027.

Jakub Mlynář@jakubmlynar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Honoured to have hosted the New Developments in Ethnomethodology 2026 conference with Philippe Sormani and Clemens Eisenmann on “Hybrid Studies”. Many thanks to the nearly 40 international participants for coming to Sierre and engaging in 3 days of lively discussions. More info: t.ly/vQMXS #EMCA

🎉 my employer in the news 🎉 1. narrative being peddled by the university mgmt - "do nothing" vs "do our cuts" - is a false choice that rests on (ahem) "unusual" modelling reverse engineered from surplus targets 2. they need better PR people ("DISAPPOINTED!" youtu.be/y6EDlD_fWn0?...)

Hercules - DISAPPOINTED! (High Quality)

YouTube video by OddTomato

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Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nottingham university staff strike over plans to cut jobs and programmes www.channel4.com/news/notting...

This really was great! So much to think about and so lovely to catch up with EM folk.

Jakub Mlynář@jakubmlynar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Honoured to have hosted the New Developments in Ethnomethodology 2026 conference with Philippe Sormani and Clemens Eisenmann on “Hybrid Studies”. Many thanks to the nearly 40 international participants for coming to Sierre and engaging in 3 days of lively discussions. More info: t.ly/vQMXS #EMCA

Easily the most intense rescue I’ve been involved in… Called to a Casualty hanging inverted from top of cliff after falling and left leg catching a tree root. Amazing teamwork from all Central Brecon MRT colleagues to secure, lower, treat, and evacuate. #EMCA #Fieldwork #MountainRescue

Just out! Very happy with this one. Combines Goffman and Collins to push interaction ritual theory forward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Between Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life - Anders Vassenden, Nicholas Hoynes, Taylor Price, Iddo Tavory, 2026

Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used...

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Ah - but the real magic happens when the post-it notes get stuck to a piece of A3, and five bits of be-post-it-noted A3 are blu-tacked to a whiteboard, and then people stick stars on them.

Emmet Ó Briain@emmet.quiddity.ie · 6mo ago

counterpoint: sitting groups of people at tables in a large room and asking them to write random thoughts on post-its is not a good use of anyone's time or money

we're just doing ELIZA again and again it makes the ACM decision to generate "podcasts for papers" look even more stupid

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

A paper on Simmel and Ethnomethodology as non-dualist approaches to foundational issues of subjectivity/objectivity, practice, and social order. With Chiara Bassetti, Erik Boström, Ken Liberman, @jakubmlynar.bsky.social and @dirkvl.bsky.social #EMCA #Sociology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Simmel and Ethnomethodology: Foundational Sociological Issues from a Nondualist Perspective - The American Sociologist

Georg Simmel, despite being a founding father of sociology, is often excluded from the list of the discipline’s principal founders. This neglect of Simmel’s work was perpetuated in ethnomethodology ev...

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Ah. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...