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Elizabeth Stokoe is a British social scientist and conversation analyst. Since January 2023, she has been Professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously Professor of Social Interaction at Loughborough University (2002–2022) in the Discourse and Rhetoric Group, where she remains an Honorary Professor. She has been Professor II at University of South-Eastern Norway since 2016. .. more

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · Mar 2

**SECOND #EMCA Starter Pack!**

The 1st is full: go.bsky.app/DHMkXcX so the 2nd is linked below. If you're a #ConversationAnalysis #DiscursivePsychology #MCA #Ethnomethodology researcher and want to be added (or removed!), reply below.

Repost to keep building our community!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4h

The latest from Trump world in under 2 minutes.

youtu.be/CvwHfu0627w

5 things that have happened since Monday to undermine democracy in Trump's America

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 5h

Despite being "an offence" in their own words, #Leicestershire CC "rejected an MP's call for flags to be removed from lamp-posts."

Thank you for trying @jeevunsandher.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 17h

Need some rain? 🎧

Episode 128 - Persistent rain (51 mins) 🌧️

This is a long rainy, *sleep safe* episode. It's one of our most downloaded ever.

> bit.ly/LenRn128

rain on a window on a grey day. blurry through the drops is a concrete path and some bright coloured shapes which might be people walking.

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Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 23h

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 1d

2025 isn't over yet but it's unlikely that Twitter will see a resurgence of research discussions.

Year X/Twitter Research Mentions
2022 28,197,471
2023 24,446,548
2024 17,634,330
2025 9,375,463

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 1d

Who should I follow on here for mindfulness, art, funny stuff, calm stuff, interesting or beautiful things - you know, the stuff that makes you feel better?

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globalhlthtwit.bsky.social @globalhlthtwit.bsky.social · 1d

The next three posts on my free Substack about the first months of the Covid pandemic in the UK cover the culture and people behind the flawed strategy. Here is the first: open.substack.com/pub/thesocia...

7. The UK culture and strategy in January 2020

Plans for the wrong virus

open.substack.com

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Daryl O’Connor @daryloconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Season 80 of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind is back with a vengeance. I’ll be joining Claudia Hammond discussing trait environmental sensitivity & common mental health disorders, hoarding & much more. Today at 9:30am, tomorrow 21:30 & on demand

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 2d

"What about body language?"

#EMCA

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 2d

Something to put a spring in your step this Monday. 🎧

Episode 266 - On upland pastures (53 mins)
Springtime birdsong in a quiet place.
> bit.ly/Len266

close up of a cluster of white cow parsley flowers in spring

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I'm just here for "Chatfishing."

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely to build a whole fake persona …

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 4d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 5d

Misty October morning just before #sunrise at #Loughborough station 🍂

Pink and blue sky through hazy clouds over yellow lit train station platforms with glass pillared roofs

hazy clouds over yellow lit train station platforms with glass pillared roofs

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Sarah J White @drsarahjwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Finally my Year 12 comparative studies on Blade Runner (and Brave New World) are directly relevant to my work! 😅 @saulalbert.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social

A screenshot with the text: Introduction
In Ridley Scott's (1982) film Blade Runner, the
"Voight-Kampff Empathy Test" distinguishes androids from humans by monitoring the subject's biometric responses while the examiner describes a series of grotesque scenes. This interpretation of Alan Turing's
(1950) thought experiment, fictionalised by Phillip K. Dick, imagines a future of ubiquitous
"strong deception" in human-machine communication (Natale, 2023), in which it has become otherwise impossible to tell them apart. By 2019, the year in which the film's events are set, Google's conversational artificial intelligence (Al) agent Duplex (Leviathan and Matias, 2018) was able to mimic human callers well enough to make booking calls to real restaurants and salons, with the artificial agent apparently passing as human "in the wild" at its product launch ionstration. Duplex has since been
mithdrawn amid questions about the ethics

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 6d

another day in very normal times

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d

We found that the UK’s top scientific institutions, from the Met Office to the UK Health Security Agency, have inadequate institutional defences.

If an incoming government wanted to weaken the role of science and evidence in policy making, it could do so shockingly fast. 2/11

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 6d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”

New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 6d

How about approaching this from the other side- how do we incentivise employers to make the adjustments necessary to help people with disabilities into work. Rather than suggesting that if sick people just tried a bit harder they could not be sick, which is what this looks like

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 7d

the only good news all year #CelebrityTraitors

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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