Eric Laurier

Ordered my copy last night. Currently 30% off in Bloomsbury academic book sale.

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…

What do you get if you cross Conversation Analysis with Dramatic Performance?

(Social Interaction)²
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New book for #EMCA folk (and others) to enjoy

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…

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

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Alec McHoul from his early ‘Telling How Texts Talk’ and onwards. Eric Livingston’s ‘An Anthropology of Reading’ (more poetry focused).

🔴 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

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....

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

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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.

Wonderful news. Well done!

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 ...

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/...

Usually puts me in the right mood for the rest of the day too.

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.”

The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.

if you're using LLMs to generate (aka "write") papers or reviews, you are undermining your own value as a researcher

#chi2026

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.

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!

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…

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)

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Great piece.

Join us for a free workshop, exploring how our words shape conversations about racism.

#ESRCFestival

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@calvirgi.bsky.social @neyrar.bsky.social

Envelope posted into red letter box.

I’m voting ‘yes’ & ‘yes’ again because after 6 months Edinburgh management haven’t yet come to the table. @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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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...

HUUUGE turnout this morning to demand protection for our jobs and our students' learning conditions. There is no deficit!!!

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.

Maybe not Substack though? Its a cool name but a not so great company. daringfireball.net/2025/08/the_...

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.

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! ✨

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

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.
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A small comic zone of Juliet Fall’s author meets critics session at RGS-IBG. Comic is balanced on the front basket of a bicycle in Edinburgh.

Yes, this one feels more independent. Thanks again Juliet.

True, it only hints of/at your commentary.

Yep. Perfect. Just need to adjust the printer margins to 0.0. Here’s my copy to take home.

Yep. Perfect! Thanks Juliet.