All the.folks paying tribute to academic kindness and Chris Philo - a rare thing indeed! 🙏
Eric Laurier
@ericlaurier.bsky.social
Writes in too much detail about ordinary practices & reasoning. Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. Professor of Geography & Interaction, University of Edinburgh. He/him.
meaning is simply not the province of machines the "meaning" is worked on and worked up by people into a sufficiently adequate account that is category bound to circumstances - in this case - "treat machine as having intentions, and a will to 'do hacks'"
Just the latest version of two centuries of British concern over vertical drinking. 'Drink and go' drinking in Manchester and London concerned the Georgians and Victorians; similar arguments were made in Mexico and elsewhere #drinkmaps #drinkingplaces (1/8) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing
Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’
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Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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The delightful collective that came to MobSIN 26 in Edinburgh. 3 days of stimulating studies of rights to, and in, mobility. #EMCA
Out today! A great collection of studies of the organisation of the senses in interaction. Our chapter looks at visual and haptic aspect shifts in an orienteering race. Plenty of other settings and sensings to be found within! #emca #interactionism #sociology www.routledge.com/Sensing-Life...
Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction
This book showcases the critical contribution that scholarship in the field of social interaction can make to the study of the senses. Centred on an understanding of the senses as interactionally conf...
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The inaugural EatSiN (eating in social interaction network) conference was held last week at VU Amsterdam with great success. One of the few conferences where eating the snacks is part of the research. @ericlaurier.bsky.social @armajlesi.bsky.social @bogdanahuma.bsky.social @cynhicban.bsky.social
With The University of Edinburgh’s un-necessary cuts continuing, several hundred staff lost this year and more redundancies planned, I’m voting ‘yes’ and ‘yes’. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
Was buying an e-ticket for the Paris Metro and this box popped up. So lovely to have a city transport authority take the time to theorise about what I had just purchased.
For video researchers in #emca & elsewhere who still miss the neatness of cutting out sub-clips in classic QuickTime Pro. A MacOS app that does so, and preserves the data quality. github.com/mifi/lossles...
GitHub - mifi/lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing - mifi/lossless-cut
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Hello #EMCA community! There's been another Bluesky influx - to find #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology use these Starter Packs. Let me know if you'd like to be added (check you're not there first) and repost this! 1. go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX 2. go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ
The next iteration of the New Developments in Ethnomethodology meeting will take place at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in Sierre from 27 to 29 May 2026. You can still submit abstracts of approx. 300 words (+ references) to jakub.mlynar@hevs.ch by 12 January (AoE). Full abstract here: t.ly/d3FSP #EMCA
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
heraldscotland.com
Many thanks to @jonsutton.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social and honorary @darg-sessions.bsky.social CA day member for a lovely - & extremely rapid - summary of #LboroCAday2025 #EMCA 🥳🎄 @charlesantaki.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
In conversation, a true conference | BPS
Our editor Jon Sutton reports from 'CADay2025', hosted by Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group.
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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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New blog on the ROLSI website on The Ethnomethodology Reading Group, its history, disputes, challenges, and payoffs. Oh, and the spectre of the poker... If you want to join us, get in touch. New members are always welcome. #EMCA #EM/CA #Wittgenstein rolsi.net/2025/12/02/g...
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 se…
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🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role. Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
If you would like to explore some of Jeff's work, having read this short piece by Bo & me in The Psychologist, you could start with some of the items on this thread I put together in May this year: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff... #EMCA #EM/CA
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The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · 10mo agoJeff Coulter and the lived texture of psychological life… @philhutchinson.bsky.social and Bo Allesøe Christensen remember Jeff Coulter (1947-2025), a champion for conceptual investigations in Psychology. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
The introduction to our special issue on the (re)production of asymmetries-in-action. It’s been a pleasure working with @cathtam.bsky.social and our contributors in demonstrating EM/CA approaches to various “isms” and some of sociology’s “Big” concerns. #emca onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action: An Introduction to the Special Issue
This article reconsiders, and argues for, the contribution of ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research (EM/CA) to the understanding of social asymmetries in action. As well as highlight....
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Covid prevents me from being on the picket line but solidarity to everyone there. An isolated management, censured by its own academic senate, seeks to literally decimate its own staff. Oh, and it has the third largest uni endowment in the UK.
UCU Edinburgh@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 10mo agoPickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
Paper by Sylvaine Tuncer and me on what more there is to rapport in cafe service. How tensions between conviviality and instrumentality play out in small talk. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Customer Agency in Interactive Service: Small Talk and Rapport at the Cafe Counter - Sylvaine Tuncer, Eric Laurier, 2025
This article draws on fine-grained analyses of video recordings of service interactions at the cafe counter to revisit the notion of rapport and conceptions of ...
journals.sagepub.com
Phonecall from dentist today, now in my top 10 of AI transcription. “Hello, it's been like a message for Dr Lauria. It's um Elaine Crow from Bugsfield Dental. Just to let you know, your mouse curse is arriving today.”
if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher #chi2026
Daniel Buschek@dbuschek.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhile reviewing for #CHI2026, I've noticed four new writing issues in #HCI papers, likely due to an increased use of #LLMs / #AI. I describe them here - and how to fix them: dbuschek.medium.com/when-llms-wr...
The venue for today’s #USS JNC meeting - before the wind started up and the rain started just in time for us to leave this afternoon!
short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?) #EMCA #CSCW (paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social) medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...
Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration
It is now routine to talk about human-AI collaboration and the possibility of AI systems acting as co-workers or partners for us. It’s…
medium.com
Join us for a free workshop, exploring how our words shape conversations about racism. #ESRCFestival 👇Click for more info and sign up shorturl.at/Qyncp @calvirgi.bsky.social @neyrar.bsky.social
Your turn: Responding to Stories of Racism in Conversations
Let's come together to share our experiences and learn how to effectively respond to stories of racism in conversations.
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Newcastle University Faculty of Medical Sciences@medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social · 12mo agoExplore the power of conversations in creating a safe space for stories of racism to be told and heard. Thursday 6 November 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm One Strawberry Lane, Newcastle @xyarong.bsky.social
I’m voting ‘yes’ & ‘yes’ again because after 6 months Edinburgh management haven’t yet come to the table. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
