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Elizabeth Stokoe
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Professor and Academic Director of Impact at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky .. more

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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!

go.bsky.app/6p8x2UZ

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 8h
Although apparently "electric power on the Midland Main Line between London St Pancras and Wigston"

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 11h
For all of us commuters on East Midlands Railway ... 🤞

www.railmagazine.com/news/east-mi...
East Midlands Railway confirms '810s' will enter service next month
Long-awaited introduction of Class 810s into passenger service is due to take place in December.
www.railmagazine.com

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Peter Thorne, Andrew Scott , and 4 more

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11h
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h
Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right.

We can't let this be normalised.

leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...
EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn slam Rupert Lowe’s ‘utterly repulsive’, and ‘deeply un-British’ social media comments
'Beyond disgusting'
leftfootforward.org

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Lesley A. Hall, Greg Walker , and 2 more

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20h
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Martin Paul Eve, Lesley A. Hall

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 21h
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.

Link below.

Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open! £200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 21h
Loughborough CA Day started out wa::y back in 2007 as a local, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

It's now a global, friendly get-together of like-minded interaction analysts.

People fly or dial in from all over the world.

Still great fun.

#EMCA
lizstokoe.bsky.social Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d
It's nearly time for CA day!

I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.

Here's the registration link and terrific programme:

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
conference programme: Time Title Presenter 09:30 – 9:55 Registration, tea and coffee 09:55 – 10:00 Welcome to CA Day 10:00 -10:30 Does Silence Speak Volumes? Accounting for Silences during GPs’ Background Tasks in Telephone Consultations Gilian Noord | Alison Pilnick | Elizabeth Stokoe | Tony Avery | University of Nottingham | Manchester Metropolitan University | London School of Economics and Political Science | University of Nottingham 10:30 -11:00 Whose choice is it? (Shared) decision-making in conversations between social workers and people with learning disabilities. Virginia Calabria | Joe Webb | Brett Smith | Durham University | University of Bristol | Durham University 11.00 – 11:45 Keynote 1: Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder 11:45-12:15 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 12:15- 12:45 Are Family Mealtimes Insitutional? Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities 12:45 – 13:15 On the three-partedness of lists Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat d’Alacant 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB) or bring you own! 14:30– 15:00 When Children Take the Floor: Children’s Self-Selection and Doctors’ Recipiency in Pediatric Consultations in China Luyang Zhou | University of York 15:00- 15:30 Lessons learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction Ole Pütz | Bielefeld University 15:30 – 16:00 A conversation analytic study of culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients Sanaa Hyder | University of Manchester 16:00 – 16:30 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 16:30-17:00 Managing Emotion Displays in Early Childhood Kathryn Jordin | Loughborough University 17:00 – 17:45 Invited talk 2 Deborah Chinn | King’s College London

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Ruth Mace, Elizabeth Stokoe , and 2 more

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Elwys De Stefani

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 1d
It's nearly time for CA day!

I'm so:::::: looking forward to the **18th** year of #EMCA @darg-sessions.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social having made a tragic diary error last year and missing it.

Here's the registration link and terrific programme:

darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/ca-day...
conference programme: Time Title Presenter 09:30 – 9:55 Registration, tea and coffee 09:55 – 10:00 Welcome to CA Day 10:00 -10:30 Does Silence Speak Volumes? Accounting for Silences during GPs’ Background Tasks in Telephone Consultations Gilian Noord | Alison Pilnick | Elizabeth Stokoe | Tony Avery | University of Nottingham | Manchester Metropolitan University | London School of Economics and Political Science | University of Nottingham 10:30 -11:00 Whose choice is it? (Shared) decision-making in conversations between social workers and people with learning disabilities. Virginia Calabria | Joe Webb | Brett Smith | Durham University | University of Bristol | Durham University 11.00 – 11:45 Keynote 1: Institutional ‘Lingualism’ as Interactional Practice: A Sequential Typology of Language Access Chase Wesley Raymond | University of Colorado, Boulder 11:45-12:15 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 12:15- 12:45 Are Family Mealtimes Insitutional? Alexa Hepburn | Jonathan Potter | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities | Rutgers and Loughborough Universities 12:45 – 13:15 On the three-partedness of lists Natàlia Server Benetó | Universitat d’Alacant 13:15 – 14:30 Lunch: Christmas Menu available the Edward Herbert Building (EHB) or bring you own! 14:30– 15:00 When Children Take the Floor: Children’s Self-Selection and Doctors’ Recipiency in Pediatric Consultations in China Luyang Zhou | University of York 15:00- 15:30 Lessons learned from trouble: Third-position repair in human-chatbot interaction Ole Pütz | Bielefeld University 15:30 – 16:00 A conversation analytic study of culturally relevant storytelling in consultations between General Practitioners and ethnic minority patients Sanaa Hyder | University of Manchester 16:00 – 16:30 Break – tea and coffee and #CAkeOff2025 16:30-17:00 Managing Emotion Displays in Early Childhood Kathryn Jordin | Loughborough University 17:00 – 17:45 Invited talk 2 Deborah Chinn | King’s College London

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social · 2d
8th November 2025 07.03
Early colour before sunrise

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 3d
Last light of the day and the last #autumn leaves on the acers at #Bodnant Gardens Tal-y-Cafn @nationaltrust.org.uk 🍂🍁🍂
Carpets of red leaves on the grass and tree branches Orange leaves on nearly bare trees behind a fence Carpets of red leaves on the grass and tree branches Red leaves on trees through stone doorway

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Liam Delaney

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 3d
Our lives are full of accusations of hypocrisy, yet little seems to change. Join "The Hypocrisy Trap" author @mhallsworth.bsky.social at @lsepbs.bsky.social on Wednesday, Nov. 19th, where he will discuss tools for moving from outrage to outcomes with Professor @liamdelaney2025.bsky.social:
The Hypocrisy Trap with Dr Michael Hallsworth
Dr Hallsworth will explore how the "hypocrisy trap" — our relentless drive to expose inconsistency — either breeds more hypocrisy or exhausts our belief in shared standards altogether.
www.lse.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain’s two-party politics is fragmenting: what unintended consequences await? | Andy Beckett
On one hand, no more safe seats or long careers could mean less complacency. On the other, no big parties could mean greater corporate influence, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d
Wes Streeting talking about "the racism of the 1970s and 1980s" is a useful cue to consider
- what changed to strengthen antiracism norms from the 1990s?
- why & how is that being challenged now?
- what practically is needed to change + reverse that?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 4d
Long live terrestrial, linear TV.
Tonight would have been shite and, quite frankly, impossible without it.
#TheCelebrityTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Martin Shaw, Margot C. Finn

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 4d
If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it.

Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy

There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire

Reposted by John Drury, Elizabeth Stokoe, Ruairidh Milne

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4d
The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede.

Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

Reposted by John Drury, Gordon Hodson, Madeleine Pownall

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4d
Come and work with my wonderful colleagues @lsepbs.bsky.social!

Assistant Professor in Social #Psychology / Environmental Psychology

#AcademicSky

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
PBS homepage screenshot https://www.lse.ac.uk/pbs

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Alan Richardson, Mike Rowe , and 3 more

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · 4d
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting thread and discussion on team teaching #AcademicSky
ruthholliday.bsky.social Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · 4d
Yet mainstream parties and policy-makers are still there. 🤷🏼‍♂️ (also, re-read @drjennings.bsky.social’s piece observer.co.uk/news/opinion...)

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Jan W. Mueller, Dorothy Bishop , and 27 more

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com

Reposted by Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West , and 3 more

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Anna Tarrant @profatarrant.bsky.social · 5d
This reveals something fundamental about what we've come to accept as evidence in that quantitative data are still being considered the most useful form of evidence that counts; that scale cross nationally is still prioritised over scale temporally.

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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Anna Tarrant @profatarrant.bsky.social · 5d
I'm recently noticing a pattern emerging in how my research on young fathers gets received and whether or not it is deemed to ‘count’ and have impact.

A short thread 🧵🧵🧵

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Christian Odendahl, Steve Peers , and 24 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 6d
From Gaza to Sudan, and Syria to Ukraine, the long-standing idea that health should not be targeted in conflict is being increasingly undermined.

In a new World Report, Sharmila Devi explores the erosion of medical neutrality: tinyurl.com/3j3sjb3f
The erosion of medical neutrality
From Gaza to Sudan, and Syria to Ukraine, the long-standing idea that health should not be targeted in conflict is being increasingly undermined. Sharmila Devi reports.
tinyurl.com

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Margot C. Finn

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 7d
Sheffield Hallam apologises after halting academic’s China research.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Paul Nightingale, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au