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Dom Weinberg
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Freelance researcher | Youth, mental health, inequality, injustice, civil society, evidence | Formerly UK youth charity sector (YMCA George Williams College / NCVYS) Dutch academia (Utrecht Uni / Erasmus) | he/him
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Apparently young people voting @greenparty.org.uk (& Reform) are "giving up on mainstream politics & instead turning to parties that promise to burn it all down & start again".
Aside from false equivalence of G&R, this also misrepresents Green appeal - Greens opposition to the world being burned!
Luke Tryl from More in Common says with all the pressure "it's little wonder these young people are giving up on mainstream politics, and instead turning to parties that promise to burn it all down and start again like Reform and the Greens".
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
domweinberg.bsky.social
Tbh, the "clinical review" bit worries me. Not clear what's meant by 'clinical', but I fear a medical approach. Yet, as @eric-reinhart.com argues, we must reverse the "overmedicalization of mental health & illness... to confront the political determinants of health"
undark.org/2025/08/21/o...
Screenshot with excerpt from article: "To stop these cycles of harm, what we need is not yet more superficial debates about medications but a reckoning with the policies and associated ideas that generate and perpetuate distress that drives demand for pharmacologic balm. Mental health professionals should help people — and culture writ large — to identify the psychosocial, historical, and political roots of what they are experiencing and how their suffering could be modifiable through social action at both individual and collective scales. That means reversing the overmedicalization of mental health and illness in order to confront the political determinants of health: poverty, racism, social isolation, inequality, mass incarceration, and growing levels of political violence and nihilism amid the rise of oligarchy. It means reinvesting in public systems of care and rebuilding them on a new community-oriented basis that offers time, attention, and sustained relationships, rather than just doctor’s appointments, diagnostic codes, and 15-minute medication checks."
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
domweinberg.bsky.social
Some learning for youth services too here...
Although, it's also more interesting than that, as this paper excerpt (and the conclusion) reveals. By highlighting the limitations of current evaluation practices, there is hope for some de-medicalisation of public mental health discourse
Screenshot from the mentioned article "Creative Bibliotherapy has potential as a truly ‘public health’ intervention, contributing to the conditions for a mentally healthy public life. That this is difficult to capture using evaluative methods which aggregate the effects on individual participants is an indicator more of the paucity of the causal models of public health evaluation than of the intervention itself." Found at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/14461242.2025.2509941
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
domweinberg.bsky.social
Such poor #datavis from BBC Sport (from which I also learn BBC is not on bsky) - no scale, stacked bar chart makes comparison of sale & purchase difficult (compared to side-by-side), title and chart don't correspond...
A completely inappropriate stacked bar chart without a scale
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
domweinberg.bsky.social
Two thoughts:
1 (on Pinker's article, copied here) Serious scientists don't make such absurdly simplistic claims (we must communicate uncertainty better)
2 (on EtV's comment) Serious (human) science requires understanding of the social context of science (and able to recognise race science)
Screenshot of Pinker's NYT article under discussion, with text copied below. It includes hyperlinks to various scientific articles: "Most of my colleagues, too, follow the data and report what their findings indicate or show, however politically incorrect. A few examples: Race has some biological reality. Marriage reduces crime. So does hot-spot policing. Racism has been in decline. Phonics is essential to reading instruction. Trigger warnings can do more harm than good. Africans were active in the slave trade. Educational attainment is partly in the genes. Cracking down on drugs has benefits, and legalizing them has harms. Markets can make people fairer and more generous. For all the headlines, day-to-day life at Harvard consists of publishing ideas without fear or favor."
May 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM