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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20d

A recent report, "Cradle to Grave," outlines health hazards of #fossilfuels, from extraction to combustion, including raising infant mortality to 31 per 1000 births and lowering life expectancy to 50 near extraction sites.

via @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
healthpolicy-watch.news/ban-fossil-f...

An image showing the damaging effects of fossil fuels, from extraction to use, on human body organs and systems.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 17h

In my experience, tenure-track professors are discouraged from speaking up due to the lack of tenure-related protections. As a consequence, when reaching tenure, most professors are already well-trained to comply and not to speak up.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Those years helped to firm up ideas of what the parameters of "academic freedom" needed to be, though. That is why professors now are always insisting on the importance of tenure. Tenure is supposed to provide certain protections so that you can speak and write about your research freely.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 16h

Agree! A tenure is a relationship between a faculty member and their corporate university, where the corporation has control over the process. A union is a union of peers.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 17h

In my experience, tenure-track professors are discouraged from speaking up due to the lack of tenure-related protections. As a consequence, when reaching tenure, most professors are already well-trained to comply and not to speak up.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Those years helped to firm up ideas of what the parameters of "academic freedom" needed to be, though. That is why professors now are always insisting on the importance of tenure. Tenure is supposed to provide certain protections so that you can speak and write about your research freely.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 18h

In my experience in academia, tenure-track professors were often discouraged from speaking up due to the lack of tenure-related protections. As a consequence, when reaching tenure, most faculty were well-trained to comply.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

PBS in 2024: "Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices: China."

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Thousands of Trump Bibles were printed in China as he campaigned against trade practices

Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in China, a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade...

www.pbs.org

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

The Independent: "Branded watches are one of the many attempts made by Trump to cash in on the presidency having previously hawked merchandise during his campaign and return to office including trading cards, guitars, golden high-top sneakers, and even Bibles."

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

A recent study in rats shows that early-life exposure to fluoxetine during gestation or breastfeeding alters brain development.

medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...

Early intake of the antidepressant fluoxetine alters brain development in rats, study finds

Past neuroscience studies have consistently showed the profound effects of early life experiences on the brain's wiring, particularly on the formation of the junctions that enable communication betwee...

medicalxpress.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

It's The Guardian, not The Onion:

"With hours to go until the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian politicians were steeling themselves for potential repercussions to US-Norway relations if it is not awarded to Donald Trump."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 2d

What does the phrase "meat machine" reveal about the consciousness of those who use it?

“Humanity's true moral test..consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.. In this respect humankind has suffered..a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it” - Milan Kundera.

Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 3d

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

authors.elsevier.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity, not focus on corporate finances and profits, is the way:

"Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation [and] ...are banding together in an alliance."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 2d

"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The Constitution of the USA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 3d

"The University of Arizona Faculty Senate approved a resolution calling on the UA to reject the White House’s compact requiring ideological, political, and financial commitments in return for federal funding advantages."
#AcademicSky
tucson.com/news/local/e...

U of A Faculty Senate opposes Trump compact; provost says no decision yet

The University of Arizona Faculty Senate approved a resolution calling on the UA to reject the White House’s compact requiring ideological, political and financial commitments in return for federal fu...

tucson.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 3d

"To defend #academicfreedom, universities need to form a powerful bloc that can challenge the attempt to illegitimately remake higher education."

wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...

Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum

Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

“There’s the huge unspoken burden to save a world, which frankly, we didn’t break in the first place/ I think that pressure is so overwhelming for so many of us, it deteriorates and completely destroys our mental health in ways that I think we’re only beginning to understand.”

#ClimateSky

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

'If we don’t act on climate change within the next few years, the world as we know it disappears.'

"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...

Young Canadians’ happiness has nosedived. They’re coping by redefining a meaningful life

Economic hardship and the climate crisis have forced young adults to reshape their ideas of a successful life

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government.. Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world."
#AcademicSky
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

"Research funders, and many universities, only say ‘yes’ to working with people employed by other institutions. This enables institutions to retain their power... Those with extensive experience of doing research in the third sector, local government, and industry are...unable to participate."

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 4d

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

"Research funders, and many universities, only say ‘yes’ to working with people employed by other institutions. This enables institutions to retain their power... Those with extensive experience of doing research in the third sector, local government, and industry are...unable to participate."

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 4d

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats!

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government.. Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world."
#AcademicSky
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

“There’s the huge unspoken burden to save a world, which frankly, we didn’t break in the first place/ I think that pressure is so overwhelming for so many of us, it deteriorates and completely destroys our mental health in ways that I think we’re only beginning to understand.”

#ClimateSky

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

'If we don’t act on climate change within the next few years, the world as we know it disappears.'

"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...

Young Canadians’ happiness has nosedived. They’re coping by redefining a meaningful life

Economic hardship and the climate crisis have forced young adults to reshape their ideas of a successful life

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

There is a difference between awaiting doom and preparing to face it. Collectively.

"young people, given the choice, will find meaning in more prosocial ways. Compared to older citizens... life satisfaction for them is more affected by issues related to trust, social support and hope"

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

Try pasting the link to the article on the archive.is site.

archive.is

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

A British scholar warns his copatriots: "We have to take action before the iron bars of fascism slam the door shut. That's the risk we face, and our politicians have to rise to the challenge... The US is already a fascist state. We could be too ".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvB...

What Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means for America

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

www.youtube.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 4d

We are talking about young Canadians, people who are now approximately 20 years old. They did not have a choice 20 years ago, and the choices being made today will affect reality in 20-40 years. For them, transitioning to sustainable living is not just about climate action, but about adaptation.

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