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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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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Aug 4

Oo - is it open?

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Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social · Jan 17

The convention here is to say you are delighted to share a paper you’ve written. I'm not quite sure I can say that, but I will be pleased if this paper can further understandings of patient and social science perspectives around #pain and #FND. Look away now if health updates are not your thing 1/n

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Jun 9

I embarrassed myself with a non-ironic use of 'hanky-panky' only the other day.

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · May 31

I think it's probably not the same person, but this is amazing nevertheless! But, has nobody told these funders about surrealism, dada, uncreative writing, etc?

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · May 31

I think he was actually thinking about self help books that have no scientific merit, of which there are more than several, I'd wager.

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · May 31

Interesting how bibliotherapy discourse is fairly thoroughly stripped of the idea of education that underpinned the 'improving' twentieth-century work of the WEA, community colleges, the OU, Birkbeck, Ruskin College, etc. The aura of the medical and the NHS as the welfare state's last stand.

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · May 31

This is great! Did I ever tell you about an experimental psychologist once suggesting to me that you could test bibliotherapy by getting people to read books with no active ingredients? My modernist mind was pleasingly boggled.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · May 31

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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Abs Ashley @ainokash.bsky.social · May 20

📣🚨 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...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · May 7

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...

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · May 4

Very sad indeed to see some of these names.

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Apr 26

and think quite deliberately as we talk: a hundred years ago I'd have been cleaning your shoes. I know this and you don't.'

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Apr 26

'I will do everything and anything until the end of my days to stop anyone ever talking to me like that woman talked to my mother. It is in this place, this bare, curtainless bedroom that lies my secret and shameful defiance. I read a woman's book, meet such a woman at a party (a woman, now like me)

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Apr 26

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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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · Apr 25

This looks interesting, forthcoming from Pluto Press.
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...

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Apr 25

This does indeed seem very 'off brand' for you. Michael will be jealous, though.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Apr 16

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”

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TERF Island - Lux Magazine

There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...

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John Jackson @johnjacksonnathist.bsky.social · Apr 7

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?

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · Apr 6

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 · Mar 26

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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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Mar 25

No problem! I think it's really interesting.

Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Mar 25

I think this is a good piece, drawn from lived experience, on chronic pain and FND. Sorry to hear that things have been so difficult. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · Mar 3

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.

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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Mar 4

So painful to have lost these thinkers during a time when their work feels so needed. There is a reading group happening on Friday on Beth's work, organised by some of her friends and colleagues. We're starting with 'Committed to the End'. I'll email you the link.

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Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · Mar 4

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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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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Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social · Mar 2

Both are magnificent.