Victoria Tischler
@victischler.bsky.social
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psychologist/academic/creative https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/victoria-tischler Personal views only: art, mental health, and ageing.
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage
cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
www.nytimes.com
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
We’re hosting live Salon Debates this October & November!

Short debates, respectful disagreement, better conversations.

👥 Q&A and group chat after every session.

We need your debating skills! View the topics and choose a side.

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victischler.bsky.social
Great to co-write this piece with Simon. In case you’re considering it, I highly recommend working with an artist in residence. @surreypsychology.bsky.social
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Huge congratulations to my colleagues at #cultureand for last night's event at the #Guildhall Such important work; leaving a permanent testimony highlighting the slave-trade legacy of the City of London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Slave trader statues given plaques detailing 'enormous wrongdoings'
The City of London Corporation reinterprets the statues of slave traders Lord Mayor William Beckford and MP Sir John Cass.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Great first day at @britishgerontology.bsky.social lots of interest in smell & ageing research area: an olfactory kiosk, a smell n tell board game, Boots memory boxes & artwork to scratch & sniff!
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Come and meet the artist Michaelle St Vincent @ladymichaelle and interact with her olfactory artwork Thurs 26th June 1030- AP1/2
bsgcreativeageing.bsky.social
Is this going to be shared as part of #BSG2025? Please share details on where people can find out more! #CreativeAgeing
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Olfactory artwork c/o Lady Michaelle BSG conference @bsgcreativeageing.bsky.social
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I’m very proud of this work with Boots, all underpinned by research. This Dementia Action Week, the Boxes have been launched across the UK. www.boots-uk.com/environmenta...
Boots Memory Boxes
Boots launches Memory Box initiative
www.boots-uk.com
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This is not just a talk—it's a gold standard opportunity to experience how disability art powerfully challenges the psychological underpinnings of ableism while exposing the absurdities of our economic system. 17th June 2025, 1400-1700, Wates House @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
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Drawing on 20 years of bipolar lived experience, Raven offers a darkly humorous yet poignant examination of how mental health conditions are stigmatized and commodified. The session includes film, AI-generated music, and invites participants to transform their future anxieties into a soundscape.
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via a blend of disability satire and academic critique, Raven transforms the tears of PhD students and adjunct faculty into "therapeutic elixirs," explores the olfactory dimensions of mood disorders, and reveals how diagnosis might become the next competitive marketplace in our AI-disrupted future.
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"Why Choose Bipolar?: A Gold Standard Career Alternative" coming soon!
Join @surreypsychology.bsky.social artist-in-residence Simon Raven for a provocative, gold-lamé-clad performance-lecture that satirically reframes bipolar disorder as the ultimate career strategy for precarious times.
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Early start for a packed day in Nottingham: an activity session in a care home and then to Boots headquarters. Exciting project to be launched this Dementia Action Week next month!!
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Fab to participate in this creative industries and well-being event. Thank you to the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce for the invite.
Panel members for sustainable well-being in creative spaces.
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lrb.co.uk
It’s hardly tragedy that I can’t tell
The milk’s gone off, eggs rotten. It’s no joke
With other things though – no internal bell
That signals smoke

(The toast burned or the house on fire).

‘Anosmia’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Anosmia’
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A really powerful event, one that statutory mental health services should take note of.