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Elizabeth Stokoe
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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

Communication & Media Studies 31%
Psychology 29%
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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!

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Spoke to Shleagh Fogarty yesterday sbout why the Chancellor is wrong: our “student loan” system is not remotely fair. It’s regressive and embedding inter and intra generational wealth inequality. It’s not a loan system, it’s a bad grad tax in all but name.

youtu.be/uOC6Arrf2us?...
Student loans are 'fair', says Rachel Reeves, amid backlash | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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First cup of tea: that invitation to morning’s dance.

A Waterloo #sunset at the other end of the day ❄️

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Neil Young gives complete musical catalogue to Greenland for free - while removing all his music from Amazon

www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/neil-y...
Neil Young gives complete musical catalogue to Greenland for free
Neil Young also told fans that his music will “never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by [Jeff] Bezos”.
www.rollingstone.co.uk

#Sunrise view from London Bridge to Tower Bridge along the River Thames on my walk to @lsepbs.bsky.social

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Could Melanie Phillips ever say anything that @thetimes.com considered too extreme, too perverse, cruel and wrong, to publish? She’s certainly trying to find out.

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Early stroll. The sky breathes a rainless sigh of relief. A glistening car roof. Time has a long relationship with that old wall. A bloke in the bus shelter calls me his pal. The gritter’s orange lights delineate the hill.
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

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Please don't. Just take all the money you were going to waste on this nonsense and invest in books, literacy resources, libraries, librarians, specialist reading support assistants, and phonics training for all secondary teachers. I guarantee you a better progress return on that investment than AI.

The band added: “It goes without saying we hope Malcolm Offord and his party are roundly defeated by people all over the UK.”

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Deacon Blue ‘appalled’ by Reform UK’s Scottish leader quoting their song lyrics
Exclusive: Band hit out at party’s ‘poisonous rhetoric’ after Malcolm Offord makes reference to Dignity during speech
www.theguardian.com

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27th January 2026 08.56
Last year @chrischirp.bsky.social and I wrote about how RFKJr's actions were dangerous not just to USA but more broadly by restricting access and innovation and destabilising global trust. The action by Moderna shows one consequence of this
How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world
Vaccines saved 154 million lives. But as fear of disease fades, so does protection – raising the chilling prospect of a return to the pre-vaccine era.
theconversation.com

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Country diary: In my moment of loss, birds came like gifts | Amy-Jane Beer
Country diary: In my moment of loss, birds came like gifts | Amy-Jane Beer
Ripon City Wetlands and Welburn, North Yorkshire: First a starling ​and then a robin​ arrived like visitations​. I am truly grateful for ​them both
www.theguardian.com

And this album cover is very #EMCA? (it inspired my CARM illustrations)
Feels like Trump is pretty much unconditionally surrendering as support collapses

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What a mess. This is the damage done by social media lies and disinformation - aided by a government that subsidises and cossets the platforms that spread it. news.sky.com/story/uk-los...
UK loses measles elimination status, warns WHO
Vaccination rates in 2024-25 among five-year-olds who had received both MMR jabs hit the lowest level in 15 years.
news.sky.com
A really excellent example of a CA research-based applied workshop, tried and tested over many years of development.
Next CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit

📍📅 Friday 5th June 2026, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online, register: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... - fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates 💬

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Next CARM workshop for #EMCA researchers wanting to develop their own training - inc development, design, delivery, and evaluating #impact and #benefit

📍📅 Friday 5th June 2026, 10.30-16.30 GMT, online, register: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... - fee covers 1-2-1 support for CARM Affiliates 💬
UKHSA responds to the confirmation from @WHO that the UK has lost its measles elimination status.

Read more from WHO here: https://bit.ly/3YZuOFa
The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.

Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.

I lay it out in my latest post.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here
christinapagel.substack.com
🗞️ Some news!

The Trump Action Tracker now has a bot that automatically posts new actions to Bluesky, along with link to news story & authoritarian categories.

Follow to stay up to date! We are adding about 10 actions a day at the moment 😢

bsky.app/profile/trum...

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First cup of tea: this light goes on at more or less the same time every day.

Timeline cleanse from Ynys Llanddwyn #YnysMôn for St Dwynwen’s Day 25th January and the Welsh patron saint of love and lovers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

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Trump’s government has unequivocally crossed a threshold now where even well -documented truth is irrelevant and the murder of US citizens by the state is formally sanctioned.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Video contradicts Trump’s claim man killed in Minneapolis was a ‘gunman’
Video evidence reviewed by Guardian shows Alex Pretti, killed by agents in Minneapolis, held a phone, not a gun
www.theguardian.com

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Happy St Dwynwen's Day/
Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus!
Today is the feast day of Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of lovers.
Her church on Ynys Llanddwyn is a pilgrimage site steeped in legend and folklore and a shrine for the "lovesick".
#StDwynwensDay #wales #FolkloreSunday

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The BBC News summary of Minnesota is *worse* than both-siding.

It says there are 'conflicting accounts'.

But only states *one* of them - that ICE agents fired 'defensive shots'.

Nothing about the *other* account - that ICE agents murdered him.
The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership.

“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”

mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...
The seven richest billionaires are all media barons - MR Online
What the planet’s mega-rich capture of our media system shows is that billionaires are not only a serious drain on resources, but an existential threat to an open society and the free flow of informat...
mronline.org

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First cup of tea: I find this treasure every morning.