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...

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...

If we repeat this enough it will make it into Grok, I expect.

@bruces.bsky.social is your site on discontinued innovations still up? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

*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.

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...

"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....

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.

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....

"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...

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...

"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-...

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/...

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".

excellent new article on rejection in academic publishing. in @sijournal.bsky.social #sssi #sociology

How Maga is interfering in the UK and why Britain is much less well equipped to deal with this kind of ‘foreign interference’ than other countries in Europe. My latest analysis for @blaetter (#German, but there always is Deepl)

My new paper on how patients use epistemic markers like “I read” and “I heard” is out. I show that epistemic markers allow patients to assert their agency while acknowledging medical authority #EMCA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fab blog post on unpacking the notion of 'collaboration' between humans and robots, including video footage.

short blog post (with exciting video!) on our #CSCW2025 paper "Opening Up Human-Robot Collaboration", summarising our arguments about human-robot 'collaboration' (is it?) #EMCA #CSCW (paper with Hannah Pelikan & @marinanc.bsky.social) medium.com/acm-cscw/ope...

*Did you know that a high-tech typesetting machine bankrupted Mark Twain? *Authors seizing control of their means-of-production, man, that scheme sounds cool but it never works out www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/20...

"War is a Virtual Hell" Bruce Sterling @bruces.bsky.social in Wired's inaugural issue in 1993 www.wired.com/1993/01/virt...

Museum studies people: are there any scholarly texts on new forms of museum interpretation -- Specifically label writing?

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration FT (£) on.ft.com/3K9ciGb

We are presenting our data and analysis on the impact of disposable nappies on child health, school readiness, and pollution to MPs in UK Parliament on 5th Nov. If you want your local MP to attend please do contact them. Details here: senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Speaking to the #PlanningBill, I say large donations should be on the record before Westminster government makes decisions about major developments. Yes you might call it the Jenrick amendment bit.ly/fulldebatehere

Something I wrote a year ago that’s infuriatingly relevant

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%… Reducing vaccinations — through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jr’s lunatic theories/claims) — will kill people – adults and children alike. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social looks like BVB will come to Tottenham again this autumn/winter 😃👌

Listen to this success story! 💙 It's a decade since Syrian refugees arrived in Germany. Today, they're an indispensable part of the German workforce – especially in medicine! This is what the media SHOULD be showing you, instead of constantly pandering to the racists who just spread doom and gloom.

Reviewed Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal.bsky.com) by Jason Turowetz (UCSB) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

From the Archive: Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard, 'Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements' - an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Advertising campaign on IG promoting #lewisham by @lewisham.gov.uk

Lewisham honours forgotten World War One War heroes at Ladywell and Brockley cemetery #Brockley #LAdywell #Lewishham #SE4 #SE6 #SE8 #SE13 lewisham.gov.uk/articles/new...

New on Early View: “The MBTI as a Cultural Meme, Its Diffusion on Chinese Social Media, and Its Significance for Millenials’ and Gen-Zs’ Selves and Identities” by J. Patrick Williams and Si Wu https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70012 #sssi #sociology #memes #socialmedia #identity #self #KUFAT We have…

New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…

We will be posting images from the award ceremony here - sssiorg.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...

David R. Gibson (Notre Dame) has setup this blog that provides #emca related analyses of current events worthwhile having a read #sssi

Interrogating the foundations from which good science can flow, allows scholars to see that we all have much in common despite important differences. So I wrote this to capture key elements of *all* (social) science - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Facilitating Positive Communication" in Optometry Today #emca #sssi #interactionism - www.aop.org.uk/ot/features/...

The government should lean into citizen science and make citizen testing of water integral to the new regulation of waterways."For the people by the people".

New #EMCA Article in current issue of AJS - "Cross-Cutting Preferences in Interactional Trajectories Toward Violence" by Kevin Whitehead, Geoffrey Raymond and Brett Bowman www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

New on Early View: Philip Lewin discusses “Interpreting Subcultures” edited by Patrick J. Williams https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70007 #sssi #sociology #subcultures #culture We have just published Philip Lewin's’s review of “Interpreting Subcultures. Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying…

New on Early View: ““Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non-Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom” by Jørn Bjerre https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70005 #sssi #sociology #interaction #classroom # We have just published ““Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of…

My latest visitor to @lsepbs.bsky.social was @marithalvorsen.bsky.social from @oslomet.bsky.social - here we are with @tillyflint.bsky.social who also came to London for our data session with @sylvainet.bsky.social @dirkvl.bsky.social et al at KCL on gender categories 🔎🧐💬 #EMCA

New on Early View: “Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard-of-Hearing Employees” by Ida Friis Thing https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1255 #sssi #sociology #stigma We have just published "Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard-of-Hearing Employees" by Ida Friis…

New on Early View: Richard E. Ocejo discusses “Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career” by Ruth Horowitz #sssi #sociology #culture #dance #career We have just published Richard E. Ocejo's review of "Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career" by Ruth Horowitz on Early View of Symbolic…

New on Early View: Juliana de Oliviera Horst discusses Kate Herrity’s book “Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown”#sssi #sociology #prison #atmosphere We have just published Juliana de Oliviera Horst review of Kate Herrity's book "Sound, Order and Survival in…

New book review in Symbolic Interaction: Julien C. Grayer discusses Brandon A. Jackson's Brotherhood University @rutgersupress.bsky.social