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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Forget images from glamorous fieldwork, Chris took us on a detailed tour of his bookshelves. Including the rarely visited cardboard box under his desk. ‘Words upon words upon words’
Chris Philo stands beside a slide of his office bookshelves.
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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 · 16/07/2026
Signed. Thanks Satwat for bringing this to our attention.
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I changed my ‘usual’ 6 months ago after a 5 year run. Now that was an accountable request, they’d already started making it when I was trying to head them off. And now they still check every couple of weeks whether I’m having my unusual.
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Really sorry to hear this. Solidarity Sam.
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Aw! That’s the kind of friendship I was whittling away at again today in the material. Sneaks up on you.
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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 · 16/03/2026
More than a few years ago, I heard Chris and Marcus give talks at Gregynog. Both were brilliant.
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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 · 10/02/2026
Congratulations! So lovely to see this come out as a book.
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Interface has a satisfyingly home-made feel too. Thanks for the helpful video - I now realise why I was getting rough edges in the sub-clips. I’ll experiment with switching smart cut off and on.
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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 · 29/01/2026
Wishing you well Hugh.
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Apple Music won for us on certain obscure bands required by family member. A time warp for first few months as it drew on my iTunes listening habits from 10 years earlier.
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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
OneDrive. I feel your pain. Similar things have happened to me. Have you tried right-clicking the file in the Finder, then selecting version history and seeing if there is a version from before the over-write still there? This doesn’t always work but worth a look.
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Didn’t expect shallots as an ingredient.
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Ordered my copy last night. Currently 30% off in Bloomsbury academic book sale.
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Alec McHoul from his early ‘Telling How Texts Talk’ and onwards. Eric Livingston’s ‘An Anthropology of Reading’ (more poetry focused).
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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 · 13/11/2025
Wonderful news. Well done!
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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 · 04/11/2025
Usually puts me in the right mood for the rest of the day too.
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Great piece.
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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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Eric Laurier @ericlaurier.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Maybe not Substack though? Its a cool name but a not so great company. daringfireball.net/2025/08/the_...
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The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
Only with Substack does anyone perceive creator branding as being subservient to the platform — something that ought to be seen merely as an interchangeable CMS.
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