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Felicity Callard
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
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Researching daydreams and fantasies. I am employed as a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities

Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
My friend the writer and geographer Clive Barnett died four years ago today. I am thinking of his daughters, his partner, all those dear to him, for whom 24 December is so painful. I miss you Clive. I tried to write about your early writings earlier this year eprints.gla.ac.uk/359789/2/359...
The first page of the short essay “Lagged” in the collection The Promise of Cultural Geography, in memory of Clive https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/359789/2/359789.pdf

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
In the midst of the horror of what’s been done to the grad student, I’m struck by student’s use of “opinion”.

I’m sure I’m not alone in spending most of every seminar trying to develop students’ understanding of difference btw opinion & argument and to install hesitation before the word “opinion”.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
This is such an important paper by @gailfdavies.bsky.social on how functional neurological symptoms are produced. I hope it is very widely read by clinicians, clinical researchers, and medical humanities researchers — as well as geographers
gailfdavies.bsky.social Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social · 4d
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
I really hope that the University of Bristol has legal counsel who will treat this letter the way it deserves to be treated

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
The letter attempts an argument on pp. 37-39 profalices.co.uk/wp-content/u...)
Second half of text on p.37 from https://profalices.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/LetterBeforeActionBristol.pdf

Reposted by Richard Hall

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Important to realise that one of Alice Sullivan's demands in her legal letter to University of Bristol is for the university to withdraw its Trans Inclusion Policy profalices.co.uk/wp-content/u... (the policy is already listed as under review by the university www.bristol.ac.uk/inclusion/lg...)
F Action the Defendant is expected to take 112. To avoid litigation, the Defendant is asked to a. b. confirm that the Trans Inclusion Policy will be withdrawn on account of its unlawfulness; and issue a public announcement stating that its decisions in respect of the Claimant’s lecture were unlawful for the reasons outlined above.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 4d
This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families

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The six

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
The “adult content” markers and hiding of photographs of art in Bluesky drive me to distraction

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Reading TJ Clark has made me desperately want to see both the Met kouros and the Kroisos kouros in Athens again

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
Sorry for the crappy link but the side view is equally exquisite. The lines traced both by his buttocks and where his hair falls on his shoulders www.facebook.com/100050912284...
Ancient Ellenic Civilization/Ελληνικός Πολιτισμός
The Kouros of Anavyssos The Kouros of Anavyssos, or Kuros of Croissus, was found in Anavyssos in 1937, the ancestors cut him off with two-piece saws and fled to Paris. A year later he returned to...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
It’s strangely difficult to find good links online all in one place to front, back, side views of the Kroisos kouros. Have just spent the last hour clicking away gazing at that life though stone. An excellent use of 22 December. Here’s the beautiful back view commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ko...
File:Kouroi 02.JPG - Wikimedia Commons
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
I mean

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroisos...
Kroisos Kouros - Wikipedia
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
TJ Clark on a kouros!

30yrs ago, before I’d seen a kouros, my partner-to-be told me of standing transfixed as an adolescent by the eroticism & tautness of the Kroisos kouros in Athens. I fell in love with their love for that kouros & ever since have been fascinated by the power kouroi have over us
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d
‘Is the Met kouros indelibly, then – for all its composure – another Actaeon? Do we men and women not always look at his kind of manliness with an admiration subtended by pity and rage … by knowledge and foreknowledge of his death?’

T.J. Clark at the Met.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met
The kouros in the Met was almost certainly a soldier: he has stepped out of his armour into his skin. The idea of...
www.lrb.co.uk

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Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social · 4d
New paper outlining a spatial account of #FND and proposing an approach to the co-production of functional symptoms. It draws on my longstanding work on geographies of health knowledges, my recent health experiences, and emerging interdisciplinary conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Screenshot of the front page of an article published in the journal Social and Cultural Geography called Remapping the body: an autoethnography of pain, paraesthesia, and the co-production of functional neurological symptoms

Reposted by Felicity Callard, Tom Griffin

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 4d
Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine
HUNGER STRIKERS DAY 50 UPDATE from today's zoom call with prisonersApalestine EVERY HUNGER STRIKER HAS NOW BEEN HOSPITALISED Amu Hospitalised (location unknown) Bronzefield no longer providing thiamine and electrolytes Only provided with wheelchair one day before hospital transfer Missed GP appointment due to inability to attend physically Qesser - Day 50 Still on hunger strike - starting to lose her vision Got a 5 min social call (policy: if in hospital for over 72 hours she gets one) Heba - Day 49 Not receiving care Recovering from suspected COVID caught from being refused a mask Losing memory and decision making skills Kamran In hospital - Pentonville told his father they were taking him to hospital for a test and said he'd be right back but it's been 2 days without updates Teuta - Day 43 Dangerously low blood sugar levels (1.8-2), ketones averaging 3 Takes her 10 seconds to fully stand up then she blacks out Her skin is turning grey Lewie Has no medical assistance, hasn't seen GP in 3 weeks Managing his insulin and blood sugars alone Concerned in the spikes and lows of blood sugars Umer Refeeding in Wormwood Scrubs

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
When worlds crumble, looking at paintings seems for me the only thing that brings a world, of a kind, back

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
After nearly half a century Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has put its collection of Winslow Homer watercolours on display. Was determined to get there in the small crack of time I had between the New Hampshire bus dropping me off in Boston and the plane back home www.mfa.org/exhibition/o...
Winslow Homer’s Woodsman and Fallen Tree. Silver trunk leading the eye into the painting with gorgeous red in foreground and bulked clouds on the sky. The woodsman almost becomes part of the trunk’s structure as he stands beside it

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d
‘Is the Met kouros indelibly, then – for all its composure – another Actaeon? Do we men and women not always look at his kind of manliness with an admiration subtended by pity and rage … by knowledge and foreknowledge of his death?’

T.J. Clark at the Met.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met
The kouros in the Met was almost certainly a soldier: he has stepped out of his armour into his skin. The idea of...
www.lrb.co.uk

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
A steep walk through the deep snow and then to the top of this fire tower at Gile Mountain in Vermont
Looking up at a fire tower, the metal reaching into a blue sky, deep snow on the ground and conifers in the background

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
The reasons that have brought me to this state are painful but this was the view I gazed on in solitude yesterday and it was beautiful
A very wintery landscape looking down over a landscape that has trees and snow in the foreground, mountains and hills in the background and a weak white sun and brilliant blue sky

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6d
Please join all those of us who have signed
nisrinelamin.bsky.social Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 22d
Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:

spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17d
Also making sure you're connected with @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social on the other side of the Atlantic bsky.app/profile/anna...
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21d
AI Is Not Inevitable

join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience

zoom.us/webinar/regi...
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OX6fOyHCRgeKJd5dHLMa7Q#/registration

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17d
Yep, I'm still not reading the novel Pan

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 17d
More coverage of the decline of higher ed. www.wvxu.org/education/20...
UC, Miami ax degrees in arts and humanities due to Ohio SB1; low enrollment
Trends in higher education enrollment and Ohio's Senate Bill 1 are changing what degree programs will be available to students across the state.
www.wvxu.org

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17d
Solidarity with British Library workers on the picket line!
ceebarnacles.bsky.social Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 17d
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 17d
Today, I did an interview on the picket line with a reporter from the the ‘Evening Standard’. I prefaced it with the fact that I left the ES (I worked in the cuttings archive and did research for the journos) 20 years ago to join the British Library: I *still* earn *much* less now than I did then.

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 17d
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18d
Thank you so much for doing this

Reposted by Felicity Callard, Aleksandra Urman, Sarah Brouillette

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 19d
I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...