by Awais Aftab — Reposted by: Nev Jones, David L. Anderson, Awais Aftab
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...
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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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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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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.”
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Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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#Prevention #SocialSupports
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#Crisis #Response
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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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Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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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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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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Are we alone?
Crowd: No!
Are we helpless?
Crowd: No!!
Hell no!
#HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social
by Nev Jones
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by Carl T. Bergstrom — Reposted by: Nev Jones
Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch.
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process
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by Carl T. Bergstrom — Reposted by: Nev Jones, Geraint Rees, Michael Z. Lin , and 1 more Nev Jones, Geraint Rees, Michael Z. Lin, Asheley R. Landrum
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
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@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.
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by Ezra Golberstein — Reposted by: Nev Jones, Michelle L. Mazurek, Dave E. Marcotte
We really are flying blind now.
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“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.
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Their cuts are going to make more Americans sick, devastate public health, and set biomedical research back a generation.
