Dr Hannah Farrimond
@hannahfarrimond.bsky.social
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
Life is very very unfair sometimes. Hugs to you x
June 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Life is very very unfair sometimes. Hugs to you x
Thanks for the reminder, might get some chips myself...
June 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thanks for the reminder, might get some chips myself...
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:)
June 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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:)
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.
June 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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.
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.
June 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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.
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)
June 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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)
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!
May 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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!
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!
May 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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!
Excited to be in this!
May 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excited to be in this!
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.
April 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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.
Reading how much you write tires me out! Inspirational all round (I'm trying to kick myself back into action for the summer).
April 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reading how much you write tires me out! Inspirational all round (I'm trying to kick myself back into action for the summer).
Agreed, there's a weaponization of the idea of overdiagnosis going on here which is very unsavoury
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Agreed, there's a weaponization of the idea of overdiagnosis going on here which is very unsavoury
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!
April 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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!
Also speaking, look forward to seeing you there!
April 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Also speaking, look forward to seeing you there!
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.
April 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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.
It is a crime wasting your Haribo quota on sour cherries...
April 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It is a crime wasting your Haribo quota on sour cherries...
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.
April 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.
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.
April 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
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.
April 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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.
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.
April 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.