Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.https://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3msx2c2zuas27What happens after an imposed ending? Wonderful exhibition of Jon Pountney's work in Port Talbot. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/12/port-talbot-wales-steel-photography-exhibition13 Aug 2026 06:46 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3msx2c2zuas27https://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mpuygpdvyk2aIt's an honour to be working with Jon and people in Port Talbot on how endings are constructed, narrated, and lived beyond. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jul 2026 06:52 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpuygpdvyk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mp3trc4duc2qMore 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. https://www.change.org/p/stop-redundancies-at-the-university-of-exeter-706befbf-8195-4b87-a96c-13666e695878?recruited_by_id=b319fea0-7017-11f1-95c3-6352969a89e9&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_promote_or_share&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=facebook&share_id=v9WLM4T8JH25 Jun 2026 06:52 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp3trc4duc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mox2v3ztlk2uPlease 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 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-freepsy-collective-at-the-cceh-tickets-1990957471392?msockid=11288e3887fd644912ea9de4861d658f https://eventbrite.co.uk23 Jun 2026 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mox2v3ztlk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mnhwh3wbxc2aHere's another postdoc position on the Wellcome-funded 'After the End' project, this time working alongside Prof Patricia Kingori at Oxford. Please do share. https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=18677004 Jun 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhwh3wbxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mm74odbdkk2jI 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. https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/61572/social-sciences-festival-2026-waiting-times-book-launch-professor-lisa-baraitser?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Social%20Sciences%20Festival%202026&utm_content=Social%20Sciences%20Festival%202026+CID_c04adc0c05e827039b47b1310072a5c1&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Waiting%20Times%20Book%20Launch%20-%20Professor%20Lisa%20Baraitser19 May 2026 09:54 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm74odbdkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mlnjhzy2es26We 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. https://careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/792/postdoctoral-research-associate.html?HiddenApply=ee6a9174-66cf-4d5f-b520-b6813d6fbdf0&Source=hiddenreferral12 May 2026 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnjhzy2es26https://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mknilg5eok2rGood. 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. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/29/sussex-university-overturns-fine-free-speech-kathleen-stock29 Apr 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknilg5eok2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mhskr5x3ek22Great 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. https://soundcloud.com/user-799415203/sets/after-the-end24 Mar 2026 12:20 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhskr5x3ek22https://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mhqhdyyup22kWhy 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.23 Mar 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqhdyyup22khttps://bsky.app/profile/laurasalisbury.bsky.social/post/3mgfd6ydr6s2xA 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. https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman?fbclid=IwY2xjawQXpmlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEevKHDvCbQTMEPyVm60olbOvJjwWeFP_pkKBVNPiz6uIXWUk7BeleKMJu6gfQ_aem_qUogYUjy0rz8-5vPlk2wCA06 Mar 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:y2jcfa2alqadb6wtb7gjoebh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfd6ydr6s2x