Laura Salisbury
@laurasalisbury.bsky.social
Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.
What happens after an imposed ending? Wonderful exhibition of Jon Pountney's work in Port Talbot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Eerie silence and ‘still surviving’: what happened next after steel town’s last blast furnace shut down
Exhibition in Port Talbot is part of project exploring how communities experience endings and transitions
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It's an honour to be working with Jon and people in Port Talbot on how endings are constructed, narrated, and lived beyond.
Jon Pountney@jonpountney1.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfter the End? Voices of Port Talbot. Sharing knowledge and reflections on the blast furnace closure Working in collaboration with artist Jon Pountney, Professor Patricia Kingori (Oxford), Professor @laurasalisbury.bsky.social (Exeter) and Professor Sharifa Sekalala (Warwick)
‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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@uniexecec.bsky.social have announced that 200 people will be made compulsorily redundant, with over 500 in scope and most of those in Humanities and Social Sciences. The branch has asked for the key financials to support this case, but this has been denied. Complaint is in with CAC #vandalism #ucu
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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More slash and burn across UK Universities. 153 jobs to be lost at Exeter; 117 targeted at Humanities and Social Sciences. Exeter is not in financial crisis; this is a choice to align with narrowly conceived government strategies and priorities. Please sign. www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Please do join us, either in person or online, for this free event next Monday about psychoanalysis, art, and a mental health commons. The FREEPSY Collective at the CCEH www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-freeps...
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Find tickets to your next unforgettable experience. Browse concerts, workshops, yoga classes, charity events, food and music festivals, and more things to do.
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Here's another postdoc position on the Wellcome-funded 'After the End' project, this time working alongside Prof Patricia Kingori at Oxford. Please do share. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Interesting approach on #r4today: like, the existence of transgender people is going to cause problems and costs for organisations and businesses. No, Amol: our state-mandated bigotry will cause problems and costs. It’s a political choice.
Today staff in the School of Creative Arts, including the Humanities department, were called to a redundancy consultation meeting. We were informed that 23 posts were to go by August this year, with further redundancies as the Humanities programmes are taught out over 2 years.
I know it's usual for a book to be published before it's launched, but we are having an early launch of our co-authored book - Waiting Times: Crisis, Chronicity and Care - at Birkbeck's Social Science week. Please do sign up if you'd like to attend in person/virtually. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Social Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser
Social Sciences Festival 2026: Waiting Times Book Launch - Professor Lisa Baraitser
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“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
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We have a postdoc medical humanities position available at Exeter on the Wellcome-funded After the End project. Are you interested in endings and aftermaths? If so, please do apply and join our research team. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/79...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate vacancy in Exeter. Postdoctoral Research Associate Salary Details The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Gra...
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Free speech tsar’s position ‘untenable’, says Sussex v-c
University leader questions Arif Ahmed’s position after landmark court case highlights conflict of interest, as others cast doubt on future of regulator's incoming free speech complaints scheme
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Good. I'm delighted that Sasha Roseneil and Sussex found the moral clarity to stand up to the OFS, which is unfit for purpose in its current form. A coincidence that Sasha is a feminist researcher who works on women's and queer community? It is not. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim
Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views
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WRITING / REWRITING: CULTURAL STUDIES AND DECONSTRUCTION - ‘THE LINGUISTICS OF WRITING’ 40 YEARS ON June 4, 4-7pm, University of Strathclyde Please join for this event on the legacies of cultural studies and deconstruction today... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writingre-...
Writing/Re-writing: The Linguistics of Writing 40 Years On
A discussion of cultural studies, deconstruction and 'theory' today
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Great to hear the latest 'After the End' podcast, where Lukas Engelmann from the University of Edinburgh speaks about infectious disease modelling and when and if we can say that an epidemic is over. soundcloud.com/user-7994152...
AFTER THE END
Welcome to AFTER THE END from the ETHOX CENTRE at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, funded by the WELLCOME DISCOVERY AWARD SCHEME. AFTER THE END is an eight-year collaboration bringing together researchers
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Why has the notion of peace being a deal been so easily taken up in the media? A deal is a dividing up and distribution of assets or materials. Peace emerges from discussion and, yes, negotiation, but a just and lasting peace requires, above all, a process.
Delighted to discuss Eurydice and the resistance of the muse by way of Bracha Ettinger and Billie Whitelaw in the latest issue of Samuel Beckett Today – and in such good company! Thanks so much @laurasalisbury.bsky.social and Nadia Louar brill.com/view/journal...
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Thrilled that Anna Burel's illustrations in my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories' are shortlisted for the @vamuseum.bsky.social Illustration Awards 2026 in the Adult Factual category. Adults like pictures too!
I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels
Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’
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A long time ago I wrote about Ian McEwan's problematic intellectual dalliance with Brockman and Edge. Useful essay below on some of the power behind the 'just asking questions', 'biology is destiny', 'anti theory' positions that the British and US press have so cheerfully mainstreamed.
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
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We're looking for a new editor for @histhum.bsky.social's para-site histhum.com (founding editor @desfitzgerald.bsky.social; subsequent editors @sarahvmarks.bsky.social @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social), who will also be the journal's social media editor Honorarium Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate
History of the Human Sciences@histhum.bsky.social · 7mo ago❗Applications open for new editor for History of the Human Sciences (HHS) online blog (histhum.com) and HHS social media. Honorarium. Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate www.histhum.com/applications...
Come and work with us on project EPIC at @unibirmingham.bsky.social. We are looking for a #Philosophy postdoc with an interest in the area at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and mental health. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #philsky #jobs #epistemicinjustice
Go outside, rest your hand on the ground, keep very still, and you will feel a gentle thrum. It's the entire generation of British post-1945 national leadership spinning in their graves.
CarolineJMolloy@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
