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Eric Laurier

@ericlaurier.bsky.social
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Writes in too much detail about ordinary practices & reasoning. Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis. Professor of Geography & Interaction, University of Edinburgh. He/him.

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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All the.folks paying tribute to academic kindness and Chris Philo - a rare thing indeed! 🙏
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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'"
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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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...
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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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Satwat Rehman @satwatr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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...
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The delightful collective that came to MobSIN 26 in Edinburgh. 3 days of stimulating studies of rights to, and in, mobility. #EMCA
Rob, Jakob, Eric, Hanna, Virgi, Carolina, Damian, Mathias, Antti, Iira, Maria, Annerose, Laura, Matea, Christian, Jen, Guilaume, Shan Shan, Brian
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Rob Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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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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Sally Wiggins Young @profsalwiggins.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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
A group of researchers grouped around a tableA picture of TimTam chocolate bars
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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
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Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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.
The RATP app’s explanation of its e-tickets. ‘A Navigo Card is a dematerialized transport ticket medium’
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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...
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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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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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
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Jakub Mlynář @jakubmlynar.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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...
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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.
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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...
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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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Spencer Hazel @spencerhazel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What do you get if you cross Conversation Analysis with Dramatic Performance? (Social Interaction)² www.bloomsbury.com/uk/social-in...
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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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Adam Brandt @adambrandt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New book for #EMCA folk (and others) to enjoy
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Phil Hutchinson @philhutchinson.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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...
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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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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 30/11/2025
🔴 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...
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Phil Hutchinson @philhutchinson.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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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Rob Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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/...
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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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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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.
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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/...
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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 ...
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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.”
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher #chi2026
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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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!
Photo looking up at the Liver Building, which is massive, clad in almost sandy coloured stone, with its famous clock tower in shot, and the Liver Bird standing at the top. The sky is pale and cloudy.
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😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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...
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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…
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𝚈𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚇𝚒𝚎 謝雅戎 @xyarong.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I’m voting ‘yes’ & ‘yes’ again because after 6 months Edinburgh management haven’t yet come to the table. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social
Envelope posted into red letter box.
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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#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...
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
HUUUGE turnout this morning to demand protection for our jobs and our students' learning conditions. There is no deficit!!!
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𝚈𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚇𝚒𝚎 謝雅戎 @xyarong.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Dr Sue Widdicombe and I are inviting submissions for a Special Issue on "Making Others Misconduct Matter In The Public Sphere". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... For questions, feel free to get in touch with us. Looking forward to your contributions! ✨
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Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It's worth noting that these are not merely stupid questions, but have the function - as does much of the professional and academic ethics industry - of taking up up space for serious discussion of politics and value with speculative, sci-fi bollocks. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Come and work with brilliant @lselibrary.bsky.social colleagues @rosiehigman.bsky.social @helskrw.bsky.social @niamhtumelty.bsky.social and me (in my #impact role) as our Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion! Closing 17th Aug 2025 #OpenResearch jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Laura Jenkins @laalaajenkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
📢 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
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CA Day 2025, Monday 15th December (hybrid) – DARG
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Delayed by a late flight, Sandra Laugier and Richard Rechtman discuss their thoughts on public space, crowds, democracy and Cavell. Those who waited were delighted. @mediaautomatiek.bsky.social @ifecosse.bsky.social
Sandra Laugier and Richard Rechtman on stage at the Institut Francais, Edinburgh
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ROLSI journal @rolsi-journal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/06/2025
Incredible support for our staff at @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social on picket lines today in their fight against management's plans to slash budgets and jobs ✊
Large number of UCU members at Edinburgh rally
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Rally in the sun 😎 @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social hearing speakers on why £140m cuts unnecessary and demanding uni senior management rule out comp redundancies. We don't want to, but we'll be back out on strike in Sept unless @edinburghuni.bsky.social management see sense #StopTheCuts
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Dr Virginia Calabria (she•her•lei•idda) @calvirgi.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📽️🎙️💛I feel honored I get to be part of this… I need to explain over and over why recordings, why cameras, why I ask the people themselves to help me set up the recording devices, why I leave the room when they start talking… But I’d do this over and over again if at the end we’ll be able to show… 4/5
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Phil Hutchinson @philhutchinson.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Today I posted the 31st & final entry in a thread commemorating the work of Jeff Coulter, following his death in April. While not an exhaustive list, I hope it offers a sense of Jeff’s distinctive contribution, combining Rylean OLP with EMCA. The complete thread is here: bsky.app/hashtag/Jeff...
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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please show your solidarity for Disability Studies colleagues at Liverpool Hope, who've recently been informed of plans to cut their team by half. Open letter to sign: docs.google.com/document/d/1... [docs.google.com]
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An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University
An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We, members of the international Disab...
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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Last day to add your name to this report to DCMS on the social, psychological, and economic #impact of comics in all forms 📝 @fatbadger442.bsky.social @ericlaurier.bsky.social @stokoecartoons.bsky.social @fasttrackimpact.bsky.social
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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Scottish Government could easily make their SFC money conditional on university salaries being public (like in Canada). Promotes fairness, reduces gender pay gap.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 09/04/2025
At @cardiffuniversity.bsky.social leadership are slashing jobs while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan @drjogrady.bsky.social tells the Education Select Committee what universities are spending on while making staff redundant #StopTheCuts
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I’ve voted ‘yes’ & ‘yes’ so we can stop the cuts at Edinburgh. And with Chris Hoy support too. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #ucueballot
Ballot paper posted into gold post box (Chris Hoy)
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I've been running informal Redundancy Buddy groups over the last 6 months with UK uni staff at risk of dismissal. There are several key things people are shocked by which I'm sharing here so others who're precarious feel less alone and recognise what to prepare for. Please add your ideas. A thread 🧵
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