Laura Salisbury
@laurasalisbury.bsky.social
Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.
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.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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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/...
‘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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August 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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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....
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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May 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!
Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
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good to see, more of this from everyone please
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
good to see, more of this from everyone please
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An industry with world impact being hollowed out with thousands of redundancies: barely a ripple of concern
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
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
An industry with world impact being hollowed out with thousands of redundancies: barely a ripple of concern
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:
April 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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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This looks interesting, forthcoming from Pluto Press.
www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...
www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...
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...
www.plutobooks.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This looks interesting, forthcoming from Pluto Press.
www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...
www.plutobooks.com/978074534960...
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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...
“there are strands of thought that are both authentically feminist and irredeemable — even fascist”
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
TERF Island - Lux Magazine
There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp
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April 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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...
“there are strands of thought that are both authentically feminist and irredeemable — even fascist”
lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
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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/...
Woman's Hour - Friendships, Nursery safety, Sudan - BBC Sounds
Can friendships between three people work?
www.bbc.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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/...
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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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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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...
progressivegeographies.com/2025/04/06/w... Not the most important thing even in Foucault studies, but a chance archival discovery and an old oddity...
April 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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...
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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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
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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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Apply now - the deadline is tomorrow!
Deadline 6 March! Innovative, fully-funded PhD scholarship supervised by me (cultural histories of gender & sexuality & human-animal relations) & Karen Hiestand (veterinary & animal ethics). Located at Birkbeck's School of Creative Arts, Culture & Communication & the Royal Veterinary College.
Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentship: The rise of veterinary specialist care in twenty-first century Britain — Birkbeck, University of London
This studentship offers a fully-funded doctorate in the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies.
www.bbk.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Apply now - the deadline is tomorrow!
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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.
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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
👇🏾
March 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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
👇🏾
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
👇🏾
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Enheartened to read this from the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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...
www.bmj.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Enheartened to read this from the @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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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
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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
With endings seeming to be everywhere, our research group is pleased to have this piece in The Lancet reflecting on how the idea of making an end gets used in global health. What happens after? Available if you sign up to The Lancet (it is free), or DM me for a PDF. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The end, and what comes after
In March, 2024, Paul Alexander, the last person in the world living with an iron lung,
died. Alexander had contracted poliomyelitis in 1952 when he was 6 years old, and
from that point onwards was onl...
www.thelancet.com
January 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
With endings seeming to be everywhere, our research group is pleased to have this piece in The Lancet reflecting on how the idea of making an end gets used in global health. What happens after? Available if you sign up to The Lancet (it is free), or DM me for a PDF. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A very insightful piece, drawn from lived experience, about pain, care and the storying.
January 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A very insightful piece, drawn from lived experience, about pain, care and the storying.
An important read on the reality of much post-industrial labour, and its health consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class | Aditya Chakrabortty
The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:09 AM
An important read on the reality of much post-industrial labour, and its health consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
The Wrestler and His World: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism
| Cultural Anthropology
journal.culanth.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:22 AM
This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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When you have conducted an extensive review of the existing criticism
November 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
When you have conducted an extensive review of the existing criticism
3 year postdoc at Liverpool John Moores University to work on the 'After the End' Wellcome Discovery Award.
jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese....
The post would suit someone with a PhD in psychology, sociology or a related discipline, or with equivalent experience.
jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese....
The post would suit someone with a PhD in psychology, sociology or a related discipline, or with equivalent experience.
Research Fellow (Fixed term for 36 months) (4905)
jobs.ljmu.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 7:33 PM
3 year postdoc at Liverpool John Moores University to work on the 'After the End' Wellcome Discovery Award.
jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese....
The post would suit someone with a PhD in psychology, sociology or a related discipline, or with equivalent experience.
jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/rese....
The post would suit someone with a PhD in psychology, sociology or a related discipline, or with equivalent experience.
Nothing to see here.
November 17, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Nothing to see here.