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Dr Hannah Farrimond

@hannahfarrimond.bsky.social

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Stigma and stigma theory; drugs and pharmaceutical cultures; addiction; tobacco, vaping, alcohol, cannabis, psychedelics; sociology of health and biomedicine; social impacts of brain injury and altered states of consciousness; University of Exeter, UK

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jan 15

My new paper with Uni of Leicester gang came out just after Christmas! Sociological take on psychedelic microdosing 'Towards a dynamic processual model of psychedelic: microdosing' Open Access, so feel free to download
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39709729/

Picture of first page of article on psychedelic microdosing by Hughes et al (2024)

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 28

Life is very very unfair sometimes. Hugs to you x

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 28

Thanks for the reminder, might get some chips myself...

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is going to be fab! Wish I was there!

Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · Jun 25

Tomorrow 👇🏼

Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social · Apr 2

Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at [email protected].

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 19

Brilliant job on the social science of Health and Climate, three year post-doc, hybrid opportunity, come at work at #Egenis, University of Exeter:

jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

jobs.exeter.ac.uk

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Oli Williams @oliwilliams.bsky.social · Jun 18

Reminder: launch event tomorrow (19th June) organised by @britsoci.bsky.social London MedSoc Study Group - thanks again @twiterney.bsky.social

Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Location: G08 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE

www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-london...

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 18

It's a shame the Sainsbury's cafe is shutting (I think) as it was also friendly to wheel-chairs, I'm sure you go to ParkLife down at Heavitree anyway, but that's fantastic. Not til you are well enough, obviously:)

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 9

Just to add, though, we do have fully hybrid online/in-person research talks every week, and have good online attendance. Everyone on different schedules all week means students and staff were becoming isolated, and when they did come in, no-one is there, and we are pushing back against that.

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 9

We are doing the opposite at our work because this doesn't facilitate a research culture part/time/remote workers can participate in easily, if talks/workshops are on random days. We are fixing our research culture activities on two specific afternoons, with flex working around that.

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Jun 6

What a great example of a clearly written and informative blog post- I had not thought about silence in this way til I read it. I'm going to share this with colleagues writing about absence and silence (it's hard to interpret silence in text/Whatsapp mediated conversations which we've written about)

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · May 22

I did not know you knew Jason! We are indeed writing together pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39709729/ also looking at shifting meanings/stigma around drugs which do not remain static. Great to have that connection!

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · May 20

Thank you so much Oli! I'm hoping to write a book on stigma change and flow now- this chapter set off a whole train of thought, so the opportunity to be included was fantastic!

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · May 17

I love writing on a Saturday morning when I’m tucked up in bed with my laptop on my duvet and a cup of tea by my side.

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · May 16

Excited to be in this!

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 25

In addition to 'carnivalesque' I always think of 'calculated hedonism' although the word hedonism always sounds a bit much, a lot of going out drinking is just routine fun, if that makes sense.

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 25

Reading how much you write tires me out! Inspirational all round (I'm trying to kick myself back into action for the summer).

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 25

Agreed, there's a weaponization of the idea of overdiagnosis going on here which is very unsavoury

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 25

Hi Flora, this is a very interesting paper for me, I've been writing about Long Covid stigma (can send you preprint) and I think invisibility/exclusion is the flip side of the more active stigmatisation/devaluation of people with Long Covid. Happy to be in touch about this!

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thanks! Looking forward to hearing you talk this afternoon at #BreakCon25 on the drug policy landscape.

Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · Apr 17

Stigma being discussed at #BreakCon25, take aways:

- Different groups are perceived differently when doing the same thing
- Stigma is a product of power
- People are inclined to use "othering" to retain their own social status (i.e I'm not as bad as...)

🙏 Thanks @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social

Slide with stop sign and "why stigma (still) matters
State of change. Both positive & negative perceptions. Social stigma still.an issue

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 16

Also speaking, look forward to seeing you there!

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 16

I would love to see this- I'm currently trying to fit as many as possible on my 2m squared patio. More is more when it comes to plants.

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 14

It is a crime wasting your Haribo quota on sour cherries...

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Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 9

One thing I think is always missed by government, and I don't think they are going to get right this time around, is the benefit of part-time work. Being able to do even a small amount of work is very motivating, but systems are often set up for all or nothing.

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 9

This was one of the worst things for me in that early post-Covid time when I felt so ill, I thought I had lost everything, work, ability to be independent.

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great article- it seems shifting legal boundaries 'rocks the boat' in terms of stigma, so you get both increases and decreases in stigma at the same time.

Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social · Apr 9

I don't see how these types of biological malfunctions could be ruled out, just because people share symptoms with mental illnesses such as depression.

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