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Elizabeth Stokoe

@lizstokoe.bsky.social

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Professor and Associate Vice President (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

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 · 20d

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

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14h

Hundreds of early career researchers have warned the UK will lose a generation of scientists after the announcement of significant cuts to physics projects and research facilities. #AcademicSky #ECRs

UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities

Researchers say best scientists are taking posts overseas because of lack of job stability at home

www.theguardian.com

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 14h

The Telegraph taking notes from the US right wing media's insistence that observation is the same thing as harassment.

(That notion has been used to justify countless instances of state violence and multiple murders).

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14h

Did you see all the “Countryside is too white”, “countryside is racist” hoo ha last week?

If you were anywhere near RW media or the hell site, you can’t have missed it!

Want to know where it all came from? Why there were over 30 “news” pieces about it in just 4 days?

Let’s take a look!👀

🧵1/29

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 16h

Moss in the forest to bring you a moment of tranquility.

Moss covered rocks, fallen tree trunk and still standing birch tree. In the background are many trees and holly shrubs sloping downward from left to right. From the Angidy River, not far from the Wye Valley.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance

"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”

Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 19h

"The decision was not about ensuring a trustworthy man was in DC; it was about putting in action a player who knew how to network, trade favours and shore up a closed circle back home with his aptitude for cultivating connections across influential domains without qualms or scruples"

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 20h

"The gut-twisting way that casual references to body parts would come up in correspondence is part of a whole language of signalling. Referring to women as “pussy” – or just “P” – is to flash your exclusive club membership card."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik

We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 20h

"The gut-twisting way that casual references to body parts would come up in correspondence is part of a whole language of signalling. Referring to women as “pussy” – or just “P” – is to flash your exclusive club membership card."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik

We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 21h

it will really be something if the Epstein Files unseat a British Prime Minster who isn't in them, and not the American President who was Epstein's best friend.

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Political Satirical [MAGA/Reform = #SameCuntsDifferentContinent] @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK’s ‘Dear Neighbour’ Trick… MKII…

Goodwin just got BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 1d

As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists.

TAT: [Nationalism | Undermining Democracy]

Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and in some cases anti-ICE activists in Minnesota.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

Definite signs of spring…

A clump of snowdrops on a gravel path.

An early pink primrose on a bed of dead leaves.

Cyclamen on an old tree stump.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 2d

First cup of tea: so this is where paradise has been hiding.

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Áine ☽𖤐☾ @whoa-magic.lol · 2d

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example

fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

*Not satire.

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune

The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

www.nytimes.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3d

The hypocrisy is off the scale. Does a puff piece in The Times. Then sends a notice via the press regulator telling journalists, those worthy of the name, not to harass him.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 3d

It is terribly sad that the former PM feels the need to say this in the face of low life blowhards.

We cannot allow this to even be a question.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity

Podcaster claimed former prime minister not English because he is ‘brown-skinned Hindu’

www.theguardian.com

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UK Flood Alerts @ukfloodalerts.bsky.social · 3d

Flood Alert for Loughborough urban watercourses and local tributaries to the River Soar

Flood Alert for Loughborough urban watercourses and local tributaries to the River Soar

River levels have lowered at the Loughborough river gauge, but may rise again overnight. Areas most at risk are low-lying agricultural land and roads including Kingfisher Way, Forest Road and Monarch Way from the Wood Brook, the Grace Dieu Brook, Burleigh Brook, Black Brook, Grammar School Brook, Hermitage Brook, Sileby Brook, Long Whatton Brook, King’s Brook and Kingston Brook. Rainfall is forecast to continue over the next 24 hours. We are closely monitoring the situation. Take care and avoid walking, cycling or driving through flood water. This message will be updated by 09:00AM on 07 February 2026 or as the situation changes.

www.floodmapper.co.uk

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 3d

Counterpoint: tulips on sale at a care/deli around the corner from my house in London for £2 a bunch.

Cheap flowers

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 4d

Psychology needs a… revolution
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
@maddipow.bsky.social @richardwiseman.bsky.social @joakimsundh.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social @margaritap.bsky.social and others…

Psychology needs a… revolution | BPS

Our editor Jon Sutton introduces a special collection, with your views...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d

This event about Conor Gearty is extraordinary. Only halfway through the first panel, and we’ve already brought in the U.S. court system, climate change, and now Gaza.

The biggest point: we have a duty to use our voices, use our positions, and to look as widely and wisely as possible.

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Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 4d

At LSE event celebrating the late Conor Gearty - scholar, teacher and public intellectual. An ideal roll model - what an academic should be. A great loss we all still feel. @lselaw.bsky.social

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4d

A Lincolnshire farmer replied! @thesecretfarmer.bsky.social

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Rhodri Morgan-Smith @docrods.bsky.social · 4d

It’s utterly bewildering .
Ynys Môn is farming country - damaged by Brexit .
The biggest employer on the island is the Port of Holyhead - now ferries go direct from Ireland to France , with 30-50% cut in traffic - damaged by Brexit .
Renewables were being built supported by EU funding - no more.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 4d

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

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Richard Jones @richardaljones.bsky.social · 4d

The way UK govt funds science is in the midst of a major transition, with creation of a much more direct link between government priorities & UKRI research funding.

My attempt to set in context the biggest upheaval in UK science funding policy since the 1980s:
softmachines.org?p=3252

UK science policy in transition – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones

softmachines.org

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

Trump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself.

25th Amendment now.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 4d

Kudos to @jdmunday.bsky.social & other authors of this really elegant study of viral transmission in schools. 👇
Indoor air quality is very important, something we on @independentsage.bsky.social argued strongly during pandemic. Ventilation matters.

James Munday @jdmunday.bsky.social · 4d

Our paper modelling transmission risk in schools is published in Nature Communications. **The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools** doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly!