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Charles Antaki
@charlesantaki.bsky.social
Ex-prof, but still in with a shout on language, interaction etcetera
A fascinating ROLSI blog post by @philhutchinson.bsky.social on the long running ethnomethodology/CA reading group, originally based at Manchester University.

rolsi.net
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Polite suggestion - how about:

"Build a party the voters will love"?
November 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Probably true of many universities
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Citation counts used to be useful; now AI-fuelled paper mills and review mills make them unreliable and potentially damaging.

Another clear and well-sourced analysis by @deevybee.bsky.social .
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Miles Hewstone - once a respected and influential social psychologist (and editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology).

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Another facial expression not covered by Ekman's typology - studied vacancy with a hint of insouciance.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I had a look at a press release about job cuts from a nearby large university .

I was struck by how each paragraph started off positively but then lapsed into treacly platitudes.

So I thought I'd help them out with their argument structure.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Was Erving Goffman really the utterly original "loner", indifferent to others' views?

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz has searched the archives to map the relation between Goffman and the academic big beasts of the time, with some surprising results.

A new guest blog on rolsi.net
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Thanks @marcscully.bsky.social for sharing.

Independent scholar Thomas Kelly has some disturbing revelations from the archives of Festinger et al's "When Prophecy Fails".

The supposed foundation of "cognitive dissonance" now very shaky, ethically and empirically.

doi.org/10.1002/jhbs...
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Another notable headline/photo combination in my local paper
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Another curious football stadium find while looking for something else:-

SK Petrin Plzen's pitch surely unique in being surrounded by a velodrome?
October 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Proud to be cited by world statesman ... or nearly
October 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Tried to look something up on the US National Library of Medicine site.

The Trump administration's shut-down (delicately put as "a lapse in government funding") means nothing has been added to the library for months.

Hundreds of scientists silenced.
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
CCTV image of the day.

Bravo westbridgfordwire.com/shoplifter-w...
October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Autumn in the neighbourhood
October 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Depressing to see my ex-employers kowtowing to an arms dealer.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
October 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
At last: in the wild - an official IT recommendation to turn it off and turn it on again
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
To add another:
October 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Looking something else up, I came across the mascot of the Estonian football club Paide Linnameeskond.

Not one of the cuddly type.
#gunnersaurus
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Soren Sandager Sorensen on how police & suspects do in arriving at an agreed understanding of important terms such as “rape”, “hurt”,etc
September 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Examples of videos put out on Brazilian police YouTube channels - chases, family “dramas”…
September 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Fabio Ferraz de Almeida listens While his co-author starts their talk (via video) on how Brazilian police use vlogs to present a version of their work
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We now have two Owls for broadcasting.

Next: Jenny Stock from the VU in Amsterdam on »copwatching » encounters
September 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Loughborough’s Forensic CA meeting: Keynote is Jan Svennevig on presenting evidence to suspects
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Next at the Forensic CA meeting: Aefke Diepeveen on police investigative interviews & how they compare to their written summaries
September 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM