They're here! Emotionography: Theory, Research and Practice is published today. A book Alexa Hepburn and I have been building toward for thirty years. Here's why we think it matters. 🧵 Available now from APA with links to Kindle and Vital Source - www.apa.org/pubs/books/e...

best book cover ever 🌈but wait till you see what’s inside🤗 @iscaupdates.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social

Emotionography is published in 1 month. www.apa.org/pubs/books/e... @apajournals.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #QualitativeResearch #CommunicationStudies #Psychology Central thesis:

Out shortly with APA books: Emotionography: Theory, Research, and Practice (Potter & Hepburn). @alexahepburn.bsky.social www.apa.org/pubs/books/e...

Great account of the day from @jonsutton.bsky.social (And so fast!)

Elizabeth Stokoe@lizstokoe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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...

CA Day: great fun, cake, lovely people, fascinating presentations, expertly organised by @saulalbert.bsky.social @emma-richardson.bsky.social &various @darg-sessions.bsky.social peeps + @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @charlesantaki.bsky.social @laalaajenkins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social #emca

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Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@profsalwiggins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @derekedwards.bsky.social @ericlaurier.bsky.social @galinabolden.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social @rucalteam.bsky.social @ica-lsi.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social B

Proofs are corrected - its is off to the printers! Emotionography brings emotion back into social life, by revealing how our most intimate expressions are shared, structured, and interactionally achieved. Published soon www.apa.org/pubs/books/emotionography @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts. People fly or dial in from all over the world. Still great fun. #EMCA

Elizabeth Stokoe@lizstokoe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's nearly time for CA day! I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it. Here's the registration link and terrific programme: darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...

The cover has arrived! Emotionography! Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used. @alexahepburn.bsky.social

And now decompressing after an excellent workshop (and a cheeky visit to Stockholm, of course). Love it that @profsalwiggins.bsky.social managed to sneak in! DP royalty! @alexahepburn.bsky.social

Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas. #discursivepsychology #EMCA

Off to Sweden (again!) with @alexahepburn.bsky.social to join Katerina Eriksson Barajas and colleagues in Linköping for two days teaching Discursive Psychology: data sessions, analysis, and lively discussion. Excited to reconnect with old friends and new ideas. #discursivepsychology #EMCA

Important, painful, and still timely!

Alexa Hepburn@alexahepburn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation? Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess

🚨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

⚠️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

Reposting as still relevant. And pondering May Mailman’s extraordinary attack on universities on behalf of Trump captured in the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

Opinion | The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Crackdown on Academia

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Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#1 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...

#1 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...

Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · last yr.

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. 🧵

“With deep roots in Western history, and blossoming in the 20th century, we find a widely shared belief in the ideal of what can be termed a unified self,” writes Kenneth Gergen. | https://bit.ly/4n5Rfm2 Gergen argues that the desire for self-unity is ultimately mistaken. #socsky #philsky

There is no unified self | Kenneth Gergen

Throughout history the West has promoted the unified self. Whether it is the Christian emphasis on inner purity or the rationalist focus on eliminating contradictions in thought and reason, we have lo...

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'Why do people riot?' New from me in @theconversation.com, summarizing our recent work funded by @ukri.org & @behaviourresuk.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-do-peopl...

Why do people riot?

An expert in crowd psychology explains why some peaceful protests turn violent, and why riots can spread.

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Aija Logren kicks off the Finnish Social Psychology conference. An exciting group! @alexahepburn.bsky.social

In lovely Kuopio getting ready for the Finnish Social Psychology Conference. Exciting! @alexahepburn.bsky.social @darg-sessions.bsky.social @rucalteam.bsky.social #emotionography

'Universities exist to foster and disseminate research, learning and critical analysis.' But this rarely comes across in recent media discussions of higher education says @eicathomefinn.bsky.social - a Vice President of @britishacademy.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

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There is an increasingly common and very lazy notion that universities are left biased. That needs countering as universities are under attack in the US but also elsewhere. I wrote a thread about it.

Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · last yr.

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. 🧵

Universities aren’t “biased” because they care about inequality or social justice. They’re biased toward evidence. Toward facts. Especially in the US, careless talk of “left-wing bias” invites real damage. Thoughts from US/UK experience here: 👇

Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · last yr.

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. 🧵

Delighted to be speaking at this event on 13 May! Do sign up

EUPHA@eupha.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Join us on 13 May for Stand Up for Global Public Health and Science—a #EUPHW event exploring the EU's role in global health. 🗓️ Tuesday 13 May ⏰ 15:00 - 17:00 CEST 📍 Online: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

"Technically, AI is a field of computer science that uses advanced methods of computing. Socially, AI is a set of extractive tools used to concentrate power and wealth."

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last yr.

New blog post from me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

"Scale isn't a substitute for scrutiny" resonates with Schegloff's (1993) "quantification is no substitute for analysis” (p. 114) in conversation analysis #EMCA

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · last yr.

The larger the dataset, the larger the false sense of confidence - if bias is baked in, size just makes a flawed measurement more convincing. Xiao-Li Meng has called it the big data paradox: 'The bigger the data, the surer we fool ourselves.' In other words, scale isn’t a substitute for scrutiny.

Universities aren't biased toward left-wing politics — they're biased toward knowledge. Thoughts here 👇

Jonathan Potter@profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · last yr.

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. 🧵

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. 🧵