Rutgers distinguished emeritus professor, discursive psychologist, now back in the UK.
Views everyone else’s (see Barthes, etc).
Currently building an emotionography for American Psychological Association Books with @alexahepburn.bsky.social ..
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Rutgers distinguished emeritus professor, discursive psychologist, now back in the UK.
Views everyone else’s (see Barthes, etc).
Currently building an emotionography for American Psychological Association Books with @alexahepburn.bsky.social
Jonathan Potter is a British psychologist and Dean of the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. He is one of the pioneers of discursive psychology.
University of Jyväskylä; University of Klagenfurt; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; University of Lausanne; Ghent University • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Emotions studied as they’re done in interaction - displayed, taken up, used.
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#discursivepsychology #EMCA
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Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
Reposted by Jonathan Potter, Charles Antaki, Alexa Hepburn
Adrenaline prescription decisions are complex. Making reasoning explicit opens up decision-making to caregivers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social @colinmacdougall.bsky.social
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Clinical risk discussions: an interactional perspective
- 7 novel papers (6 medical specialties)
- 1 report on CA training for high-stakes risk communication
- 1 expert clinical discussant
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe... #emca @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social @alexahepburn.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
If we want universities to defend society against pseudoscience & conspiracy (ever more needed), they need sustained support rather than caricatured takedowns.
Lazy claims about squeamishness or bias obscure the real bind: govt frameworks + financial erosion + political hostility particularly from the right. That is what’s crippling UK universities.
It’s glib to sneer at “VR caves” or gender theory syllabi. The real crisis is a system trying to do more with less while navigating hostile policy & public misunderstanding.
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Staff precarity, casualisation, and burnout don’t come from “fashionable taboos.” They come from impossible workloads, insecure contracts, and too much compliance paperwork.
The gap has been filled by international students. Now govt policy in the form of visa restrictions, and hostile rhetoric is driving them away. This is financial self-sabotage.
Meanwhile central funding has been hollowed out. Domestic fees frozen since 2017 while costs rise steeply. Govt support shrinks year by year.
REF, TEF, KEF aren’t abstract acronyms. They tie every university to govt metrics: research outputs, teaching “excellence,” knowledge exchange. All policed, all audited. They are good and bad, but any serious criticism of universities in the UK needs to address their role.
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Marriott paints universities as indulgent, decadent, and squeamish. But the reality is very different: an over-regulated, underfunded system caught between REF, TEF, KEF, and shrinking resources.
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. 🧵
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Gergen argues that the desire for self-unity is ultimately mistaken.
#socsky #philsky
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New from me in @theconversation.com, summarizing our recent work funded by @ukri.org & @behaviourresuk.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-do-peopl...
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#emotionography
I wrote a thread about it.
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