Eric Laurier

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

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

Congratulations! So lovely to see this come out as a book.

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.

The RATP app’s explanation of its e-tickets. ‘A Navigo Card is a dematerialized transport ticket medium’

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.

Wishing you well Hugh.

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

Didn’t expect shallots as an ingredient.

In conversation, a true conference | BPS Our editor Jon Sutton reports from 'CADay2025', hosted by Loughborough University’s Discourse and Rhetoric Group.

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

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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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