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Laura Salisbury

@laurasalisbury.bsky.social
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Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What happens after an imposed ending? Wonderful exhibition of Jon Pountney's work in Port Talbot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Eerie silence and ‘still surviving’: what happened next after steel town’s last blast furnace shut down
Exhibition in Port Talbot is part of project exploring how communities experience endings and transitions
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is excellent from @mcraeandrew.bsky.social
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The House of Lords fiddled while Exeter burns
At last week’s HE debate, a host of Oxford-associated grandees made the usual points while the sector continued to melt down, says Andrew McRae
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
It's an honour to be working with Jon and people in Port Talbot on how endings are constructed, narrated, and lived beyond.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
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The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@uniexecec.bsky.social have announced that 200 people will be made compulsorily redundant, with over 500 in scope and most of those in Humanities and Social Sciences. The branch has asked for the key financials to support this case, but this has been denied. Complaint is in with CAC #vandalism #ucu
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
More slash and burn across UK Universities. 153 jobs to be lost at Exeter; 117 targeted at Humanities and Social Sciences. Exeter is not in financial crisis; this is a choice to align with narrowly conceived government strategies and priorities. Please sign. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Please do join us, either in person or online, for this free event next Monday about psychoanalysis, art, and a mental health commons. The FREEPSY Collective at the CCEH www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-freeps...
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Nice piece from my colleague at QM, Aoife Monks www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Let’s not make the same mistake as the UK. ‘Sensible’ degrees are overrated
Coding and accountancy were once trumpeted as secure careers, but AI is showing otherwise
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Here's another postdoc position on the Wellcome-funded 'After the End' project, this time working alongside Prof Patricia Kingori at Oxford. Please do share. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Interesting approach on #r4today: like, the existence of transgender people is going to cause problems and costs for organisations and businesses. No, Amol: our state-mandated bigotry will cause problems and costs. It’s a political choice.
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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I know it's usual for a book to be published before it's launched, but we are having an early launch of our co-authored book - Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity and Care - at Birkbeck's Social Science week. Please do sign up if you'd like to attend in person/virtually. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Social Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser
Social Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser
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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
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LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...
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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/free-sp...
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Free speech tsar’s position ‘untenable’, says Sussex v-c
University leader questions Arif Ahmed’s position after landmark court case highlights conflict of interest, as others cast doubt on future of regulator's incoming free speech complaints scheme
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Good. I'm delighted that Sasha Roseneil and Sussex found the moral clarity to stand up to the OFS, which is unfit for purpose in its current form. A coincidence that Sasha is a feminist researcher who works on women's and queer community? It is not. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim
Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...
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Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On
A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Great to hear the latest 'After the End' podcast, where Lukas Engelmann from the University of Edinburgh speaks about infectious disease modelling and when and if we can say that an epidemic is over. soundcloud.com/user-7994152...
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AFTER THE END
Welcome to AFTER THE END from the ETHOX CENTRE at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, funded by the WELLCOME DISCOVERY AWARD SCHEME. AFTER THE END is an eight-year collaboration bringing together researchers
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Why has the notion of peace being a deal been so easily taken up in the media? A deal is a dividing up and distribution of assets or materials. Peace emerges from discussion and, yes, negotiation, but a just and lasting peace requires, above all, a process.
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Celia Graham-Dixon @celiagrahamdixon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Delighted to discuss Eurydice and the resistance of the muse by way of Bracha Ettinger and Billie Whitelaw in the latest issue of Samuel Beckett Today – and in such good company! Thanks so much @laurasalisbury.bsky.social and Nadia Louar brill.com/view/journal...
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 12/03/2026
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Thrilled that Anna Burel's illustrations in my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories' are shortlisted for the @vamuseum.bsky.social Illustration Awards 2026 in the Adult Factual category. Adults like pictures too!
Cover of my book 'Conceiving Histories', featuring one of Anna's illustrations of a naked lady riding a fish in front of a moon. Black and white with pink and white text.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 06/03/2026
I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels
Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A long time ago I wrote about Ian McEwan's problematic intellectual dalliance with Brockman and Edge. Useful essay below on some of the power behind the 'just asking questions', 'biology is destiny', 'anti theory' positions that the British and US press have so cheerfully mainstreamed.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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Louise A Ray @louisearay.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2590162...
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Funds sought to open archive of renowned Dorset writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer
Dorset Archives Trust launches £48,000 appeal to catalogue and digitise Sylvia Townsend Warner archive, preserving the Dorset author and LGBTQ+…
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 09/02/2026
Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Go outside, rest your hand on the ground, keep very still, and you will feel a gentle thrum. It's the entire generation of British post-1945 national leadership spinning in their graves.
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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Queer and Trans Healthcare and Creativity studentships | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester
Explore Queer and Trans Healthcare and Creativity studentships at The University of Manchester, supporting inclusive postgraduate research funding options.
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Niche UK academia question: does anyone have experience of producing accurate figures of how grants from charities contribute to university finances across a research cycle. The usual 'cost recovery' model produces anomalies. There must be other and more holistic ways of accounting for their value.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If you work in a university, please join us in signing this open letter calling on the UK government to drop the charges against Palestine Action: click through to the link at the bottom of the @versobooks.bsky.social page www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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‘We support Palestine Action in Their Campaign Against Proscription’
As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics, we are astonished and dismayed by the current priorities of Keir Starmer and his ministers. On the one hand they continue to offer material, m...
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
What happens when reading books gets positioned as a health intervention? And what does this case tell us about the wider landscape of austerity therapeutics? I'm glad to have contributed to a new paper addressing these questions, led by Hayley Redman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity
In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained fundin...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
good to see, more of this from everyone please
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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
An industry with world impact being hollowed out with thousands of redundancies: barely a ripple of concern
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UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Currently rereading Carolyn Steedman's account of mid-century motherhood and childhood _Landscape for a Good Woma_ and reeling under its intellectual and affective power. It begins by remembering a health visitor saying to her mother 'This house isn't fit for a baby'. Steedman reflects:
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This looks interesting, forthcoming from Pluto Press. www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...
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A People's History of Psychoanalysis
It has been decades since Freud fell out of favour, not only in mainstream psychiatry but also in radical thought, where both he and Lacan were accused of se...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A day that demands posting @reproutopia.bsky.social’s “TERF island” published in last autumn’s @readlux.bsky.social “there are strands of thought that are both authentically feminist and irredeemable — even fascist” lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
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TERF Island - Lux Magazine
There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp
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John Jackson @johnjacksonnathist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Conceiving Histories - our NHM colleague @drbeldavis.bsky.social discusses the ambiguities of pregancy over time on Woman's Hour BBCRadio4 from 44:46 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Woman's Hour - Friendships, Nursery safety, Sudan - BBC Sounds
Can friendships between three people work?
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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I'm doomscrolling again. A lot. During that first lockdown, I started thinking about doomscrolling not just as a paranoid mode of reading, but as a form of anxious care. It's not the best or only thing to do, but there is something that might be made from it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times
This article analyses ‘doomscrolling’, or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social pract...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Who translated Foucault's The Order of Things? progressivegeographies.com/2025/04/06/w... Not the most important thing even in Foucault studies, but a chance archival discovery and an old oddity...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Apply now - the deadline is tomorrow!
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Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Dear BlueSky, Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere. Discount code in replies 👇🏾
The cover of my beautiful new book, Conceiving Histories. Black and white photo collage of a naked woman arms crossed riding a guppy side-saddle, in front of a moon. Title is in coral pink. Names of author and illustrator in white.
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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Enheartened to read this from the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
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