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Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction - 04 June 2026 10:00 to 05 June 2026 16:30 - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a...
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London
The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction
www.kcl.ac.uk
Call for Applications: Collaborative PhD Studentship: (King’s Business School/College of Optometrists) (start date: October 2026)

Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK King’s Business School (King’s College London), Public Services Management &…
Call for Applications: Collaborative PhD Studentship: (King’s Business School/College of Optometrists) (start date: October 2026)
Blurred Jurisdictions: investigating the professional boundaries in Eye-Care in the UK King’s Business School (King’s College London), Public Services Management & Organisation & College of Optometrists Collaborative PhD Studentship King’s College London, in partnership with the College of Optometrists, is offering a PhD studentship to examine how optometrists cooperate with other eyecare and healthcare professionals. This doctoral project thereby investigates how optometrists maintain professional autonomy while navigating complex, multi-professional relationships.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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The Children’s Wellbeing Bill is short on wellbeing.

There’s an easy win here for government: adopt the Children’s Society recommendation for a national wellbeing measurement programme.

#ChildWellbeing #Education
February 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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I said it 10 years ago:
savageminds.org/2016/12/13/a...
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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*The Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence made up that term in 1956 because they didn't like the mushy term "cybernetics"
Whoever invented the term artificial intelligence came up with the worst possible term.
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 AM
New Paper: “Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums” by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn

This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned…
New Paper: “Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums” by Rachael Ironside, Brianna Wyatt, Craig Wight, Alona Roitershtein, Dirk vom Lehn
This study explores how prison tourism experiences are co-constructed through situated visitor interactions. Penal heritage sites are decommissioned prisons, transformed into immersive educational attractions, drawing upon multiple interpretative practices to engage visitors with historic and contemporary issues of crime and punishment. Using ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA), this research examines how gestures, talk, gaze and bodily position influence how visitors see, interpret, and emotionally negotiate difficult heritage.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology

The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the…
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction #emca #sociology
The Work Interaction and Technology Group is holding an Advanced Summer Institute providing practical guidance for researchers interested in the use of video to analyse social interaction in any domain (incl. health, technology, public places, organisations, etc.). It is designed for doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career faculty. For more information, click HERE
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January 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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I am very happy to hear that @democracyforward.org and @asanews.bsky.social won a major victory against the Trump administration's unconstitutional attempt to make schools censor college classroom teaching on race, gender and inequality.
Major Victory for Public Education Comes As Trump-Vance Administration Abandons Appeal on “Dear Colleague Letter”
Government’s Withdrawal Brings Unlawful Re-writing of Civil Rights Law to Resolution Baltimore, Md. – Today marks a final defeat in the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to require school districts...
democracyforward.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction - 04 June 2026 10:00 to 05 June 2026 16:30 - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/wit-a...
Work, Interaction & Technology Advanced Summer Institute | Video in qualitative research: materiality, embodiment and social interaction | King's College London
The WIT Advanced Summer Institute on Video in Qualitative Research: Materiality, Embodiment and Social Interaction
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Wir sind erst seit Kurzem hier bei Bluesky und bräuchten bitte eure Unterstützung: Insta legt unseren Hauptaccount immer wieder lahm und wir würden hier gerne die verlässliche demokratische Alternative aufbauen. Könntet ihr unseren Account vielleicht weiterempfehlen? Das wäre eine Riesenhilfe 💝🌟
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?

Interesting

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally...

christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...
Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025
The implications of a year in Trump's new America and why I started tracking Trump - and why I'm not stopping.
christinapagel.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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If we repeat this enough it will make it into Grok, I expect.
Did you know that Mar a Lago is Ruritanian for Home of Lies?
December 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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*wink wink*
*nudge nudge*
Remember this paper by me and analyst-comrade Dr Emma Tennent? You might have seen it earlier this year. The special issue on "social asymmetries-in-action" of which it is a part is now published. Recommend all the wonderful contributions. Such amazing work by all.
December 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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New blog on the ROLSI website on The Ethnomethodology Reading Group, its history, disputes, challenges, and payoffs. Oh, and the spectre of the poker...

If you want to join us, get in touch. New members are always welcome.

#EMCA #EM/CA #Wittgenstein

rolsi.net/2025/12/02/g...
Guest blog: Ethnomethodology, from Manchester to MS Teams
One of the most adhesive binding agents for researchers in EM/CA is the weekly get-together, whether to pore over data or to discuss the week’s chosen reading. Some reading groups and data se…
rolsi.net
December 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The SSSI 2026 annual meeting will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 10-12, 2026, with The Qualitatives. Submit abstracts at www.qualitatives.ca/submit-abstract by November 28th, 2025. More information at www.symbolicinteraction.org/North-Americ... or www.qualitatives.ca/CFP.
The Qualitatives - Submit an Abstract
Deadline for Submissions: 28 November 2025 We expect to send notifications early in 2026. Please Note: Some Safari users have had difficulty submitting using the form. If this is the case, please try...
www.qualitatives.ca
October 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Dr. Christopher Conner will be presenting research on conspiracy theories and QAnon in Kansas City. Please RSVP, attend in person, or join the livestream.
Live Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xkj...
For more information visit: kclibrary.org/events/consp....
December 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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"Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft" Claudio E. Benzecry reviews "Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World among Glassblowers" By Erin O'Connor #sssi #bookreview #culture #sociology #glassblowing doi.org/10.1002/symb...
Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Took myself to the playground aka the new exhibition The Secret Power of Scents at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Smells to bring new life to the collection and its history...and a lot of fun. Was grinning the whole time Thread of highlights!
www.kunstpalast.de/en/event/die...
The Secret Power of Scents - Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
www.kunstpalast.de
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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"As far as green electrification is concerned, China can claim an undeniable, almost embarrassingly total claim to world leadership [..], but it is testimony to the relatively underdeveloped quality of China’s soft power, that the message is as muted as it is." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 414: Slouching towards (Red-Green) utopia. Voicing the muted politics of China's renewable energy revolution.
It can’t be said too often.
adamtooze.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Many thanks to @sgrosjean.bsky.social for her visit yesterday at the Institute of Informatics at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, and to everyone who participated!
Sylvie gave a talk "From Daily Struggles to Digital Support: Co-Designing an AI-Powered Self-Care Technology with People with Parkinson's".
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM