Elizabeth Stokoe

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▫️ lost and found ▫️

a wall .. or .. a world

Week 9 of recording everything I lose and find in 2026.

As a sociologist, this extremely painful and angering. As a sociologist, we've been suggesting this might happen for awhile now. What discipline will be next?

#AcademicSky #Sociology #AcademicFreedom

Itä-Suomen luonnosta halutaan Venäjää vastaan vihreä muuri – laajoja suunnitelmia vireillä Itärajan seudun luonnon ennallistamista edistetään ensimmäistä kertaa ministeriötasolla.

A Finnish government study, to be published in May, will outline a plan to “build” a “Verdant Wall” along #Finland’s Eastern border by #rewilding and restoring natural habitats, especially marshlands, as barriers to invasion. Win win win!

#biodiversity #defence

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

Private Eye...

Spread the word! The next York Conference on Conversation Analysis will be held 17-18 July. Encourage your MA/PhD students to submit an abstract. Deadline: 10 April.

In addition to presenting their research, Ana Cristina Ostermann and Richard Ogden will also deliver post-conference workshops!

PhD course: Conversation analysis (CA) and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts - Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge This course is aimed at PhD candidates who investigate interaction in various everyday- and institutional contexts.

PhD course: April 7-9, 2026

Conversation analysis and the analysis of interaction in everyday and institutional contexts, USN Norway

Application deadline: March 1, 2026.

www.usn.no/activities/p...

#EMCA coming soon 😁

A quote from Potter & Hepburn Emotionography

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:

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

First cup of tea: and the clock struck tea.

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

A great read. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

I was introduced to this Anti-AI slop site by @kamkonek.bsky.social where your answers come from humans LARPing as AI and you in turn also pretend to be AI. youraislopbores.me

Early stroll. Birdsong meets treesilence. A shadow sits in the bus shelter. A glove on the betting shop windowsill. Someone stands in a doorway staring at a laptop screen. Walking as opera, footsteps as aria.

@giliannoord.bsky.social is writing up the papers but of course his PhD will soon be available in Nottingham University library.

Gilian stood on a field at Nottingham University with a rainbow in dark skies

Congratulations to ⭐️Dr⭐️ @giliannoord.bsky.social who successfully defended his #EMCA PhD on primary care telephone consultations on Wednesday. There was indeed gold at the end of this rainbow when we (& main supervisor Alison Pilnick) did the mock viva a couple of weeks ago. Brilliant, Gilian! 🌈🥳

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Early stroll. Drizzle gently baptises my face. The horizon’s hesitant smile. A gathering of plant pots by a side door. Number plates as lyrics, engine sounds as music. A man crosses the road at the speed of hi-vis light.

BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will vote for Labour’s immigration reforms “in the national interest” if Labour MPs try to vote them down

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

WHO says it has verified 13 attacks on health sites in Iran The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday that it ‌has verified 13 attacks on health infrastructure in Iran amid a U.S.-Israeli campaign and it was checking reports that four healthcare wor...

Add this to the attacks as well...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

University of South Wales cutting 200 jobs to reduce costs The university said compulsory redundancies would be avoided

'It said a voluntary redundancy process had now opened for staff in professional services and in some academic areas.' Plans to lose 200 staff do 'not include course or department closures, and could equate to savings of £11m.' Total staff count is currently 2,040.

“Oakeshott did not move to Dubai because she was persecuted in the United Kingdom, nor did she immigrate to flee censorship or imprisonment.

She moved, in her own words, for tax reasons, specifically VAT on private schooling - something that makes her, say it with me, an economic migrant.”

🎯

He’s talking about human beings

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

First cup of tea: the morning’s lightbulb has been changed.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health