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Nev Jones

@viscidula.bsky.social

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Assoc Prof Social Work- Democratizing Psychiatry - Critical Public Mental Health - Lived Experience & Disability Justice

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Nev Jones @viscidula.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’ve long argued that the U.S. public mental health system needs radical reform but now, a month after returning from Trieste, half-way through my tour of Australia, I think we’ve lost the plot in even deeper ways. A 🧵

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Nev Jones @viscidula.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Jul 23

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds

In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr...

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds

In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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Uma R. Chatterjee, M.S., MHPS @umarchatterjee.bsky.social · May 20

🧠 WHY IS MY BRAIN TRYING TO K!LL ME?: Living With Bipolar 1 Disorder & Chronic S#icidality with Dr. @mayaschumer.bsky.social (pt. 1) ☯️
Ep. 40 of A Chat with Uma out now! Listen here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma...

#BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #LivedExperience 1/

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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 Important new op-ed in @thehill.com by @jjjordynjensen.bsky.social & @viscidula.bsky.social

As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings.

Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · May 14

Allegheny County officials faced sharp questions from mental health advisory board members for considering "one of the most controversial practices in public mental health in the United States and internationally.” buff.ly/xavf4ei

Allegheny County board skeptical of assisted outpatient treatment

County plans to opt into assisted outpatient treatment [AOT] drew skepticism and opposition from new Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilities advisors.

www.publicsource.org

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 14

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.

The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

www.nytimes.com

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · May 13

9/9 How should we fund this better approach? "Slow the cash flow to law enforcement, reject wasteful and ineffective involuntary care, and reclaim simply caring, as we do in Canada, for each other."

Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

We Need Alternatives to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act | The Tyee

A doctor calls for better investments in housing and mental health care, not policing.

thetyee.ca

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · May 13

8/9 Prevention is possible—through investment in supportive housing and accessible healthcare with on-demand access to voluntary mental health supports, not through expanded policing powers and involuntary detention.
#Prevention #SocialSupports

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · May 13

6/9 They recently observed this system in action—a disoriented man outside the hospital, likely experiencing psychosis, immediately surrounded by six officers in cruisers rather than receiving healthcare, despite being steps from a hospital entrance.
#Crisis #Response

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · May 13

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⚠️ FORCED CARE IS COMPASSIONATE CARE? ⚠️

Alberta's new Compassionate Intervention Act allows police to force people into treatment. A doctor serving unhoused populations witnessed a troubling reality with expanding involuntary treatment while the system remains broken.
#MentalHealth

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A Friend From Out of Town @behindthefrequency.bsky.social · May 6

The White House is trying to destroy the NSF and public scientific research in the US.

Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 16

Here is a key paragraph:

The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut. It would consolidate NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 5

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · Apr 5

Rahna Epting: They want us to be hopeless. They want us to feel alone in our concern.

Are we alone?

Crowd: No!

Are we helpless?

Crowd: No!!

Hell no!

#HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social

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Nev Jones @viscidula.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hands Off Pittsburgh!!

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · Apr 5

Wow. Pittsburgh.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 5

The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data.

Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch.

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

www.404media.co

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 4

New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General

First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process

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Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 4

Along with the firings of up to 1300 co-workers this week and the removals of several institute leaders, NIH employees are dealing with another blow from the administration of President Donald Trump: a mandate to eliminate $2.6 billion in contracts. scim.ag/43XU1nd

NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts

Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 3

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

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Renée Trilling @rrtrilling.bsky.social · Apr 3

DOGE has targeted the NEH and as of this morning has begun terminating PREVIOUSLY-AWARDED grants. Contact your Congresspeople today.

URGENT: Save the NEH

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 3

New NBC story up about LGBTQ funding...

www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field

The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Apr 2

“The amount of knowledge that is being purged today at CDC is just tragic.”

@swin24.bsky.social and @lorenaoneil.com spoke with several current and former staffers about the layoffs and the impact they will have on Americans for years to come.

Inside Trump and RFK Jr.'s Health Agency 'Bloodbath'

Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are uncertain.

www.rollingstone.com

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 2

NIH staff are instructed to hold all awards located in South Africa, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea but also other countries I hadn't seen reported, including Nicaragua, Pakistan, Eritrea, Cuba, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Yemen, Venezuela, per source familiar w guidance.

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Kathryn Palmer @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

How Researchers Could Get Their Canceled NIH Grants Back

The National Institutes of Health terminated numerous federal research grants that officials say no longer align with the agency’s priorities. But experts see multiple avenues to appeal the NIH’s deci...

www.insidehighered.com

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reginalabelle.bsky.social @reginalabelle.bsky.social · Apr 1

The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.

We really are flying blind now.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 1

Researchers did not mince words about this purge of senior NIH leadership:
“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says @mtosterholm.bsky.social.

These cuts come on Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director.

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs

In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

www.nature.com

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Rep. Diana DeGette @degette.house.gov · Apr 1

Trump, Elon, and RFK Jr. are firing those responsible for finding cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes while harming our pandemic preparedness & drug approval process.

Their cuts are going to make more Americans sick, devastate public health, and set biomedical research back a generation.

Kennedy lays off thousands across the health bureaucracy

Overnight notices hit civil service leaders as well as the rank and file.

www.politico.com

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