if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

"Some may be concerned about the optics of a giant inflatable ghost hovering outside a hospital. Does it send the wrong message? Maybe. But when weighed against the message of 'We’re shutting down, and the closest emergency room is 178 miles away,' Casper here doesn’t seem so bad."

#Wildfire smoke is about as deadly as prostate cancer, says Michael Brauer, co-author of a new Nature study. 🔥

We all know what Atlas Shrugged is about, but it’s still jarring to see Alberta’s Premier openly praise it while showing so little respect for the workers who keep this province running. 👇

The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity by Konstantinos Kontis I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly. buff.ly/wkFoy9i

🧵Why are seasonal childhood vaccination rates falling after the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a mass increase of viral illness? @mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I add some new understanding to this in our new paper published in The Sociological Quarterly

Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy Model Promises Liberation, Not Adaptation Psychologists propose a comprehensive new model for psychotherapy that integrates insights from critical, liberation, and decolonial psychologies. By Micah Ingle www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/crit...

“Indigenous communities impacted by wildfires disproportionately experience adverse mental health outcomes partly because they often live in affected areas. That's on top of cultural trauma from being displaced [bc] land is integral to [their] identity & well-being[.]. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

“Half of the study’s 1,800 adult participants are suffering depressive symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, and poor concentration, while one in four adult survivors are racked with anxiety.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As Trump cuts climate adaptation funding, climate research & disaster relief, climate change & the devastation it causes doesn’t stop. It just piles on. The people working to build a sustainable alternative support. Please join Susanne Moser, Ph.D. for this powerful workshop. CEs available.

Five federal firefighters, who spoke anonymously because they are barred from speaking publicly, were asked if their agencies were ready for fire season. The answer was a resounding “no”. “If this turns out to be a major fire year, it’s going to be a shit show.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For any who are interested, I’ve updated my spreadsheet for climate-related information in Alberta and BC. It includes tabs for websites, social media accounts, apps and more. 🧵

looks like canada’s in for another summer of intense fires as our government talks about increasing oil production and building more pipelines

The wildfire situation in the Prairies continues to rage on. Saskatchewan has called a province-wide state of emergency and Alberta Wildfire has issued a red flag warning, meaning wildfires could spread rapidly under the current weather conditions.

As wildfire season grows, it is critical to have access to emergency information: Download the Alberta Emergency App Look up alberta.ca/emergency Visit the Alberta Emergency Alert page on Facebook and X We all need to work together to keep Alberta safe! #albertafire #safety

My son's debut article ❤️✍️: "The immune system is a far too often undiscussed casualty of (wildfires), & long after the last embers of the LA infernos fizzle out, their invisible scars will remain ... the human body is left in a weakened & vulnerable state to infectious diseases" tinyurl.com/2s3vbans

Download the Alberta Wildfire app here: apps.apple.com/ca/app/ab-wi...

I’m very pleased to be serving on the international advisory council of this important, ambitious, and highly original experiment in the re-making of global history: uhgi.org

Interesting piece. Started thinking about recent Finnish work suggesting a community resilience framework, which separates acute resilience (immediate response capacities) from basic resilience (e.g. more long-term adaptive capacity, social cohesion, and democratic stability). Curious of thoughts?

NEW: Our new global factsheets tool provides 8 key measures of climate attitudes, behaviors, and policy support and climate change audience segmentation for many countries across the world.

“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”

A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

As FEMA gets cut and the climate crisis escalates, the need for climate related disaster mental health will only intensify! Join us for our inaugural series! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

Dear Canadians: Ask yourselves what, and who, you value. This is apprehension, with medical experimentation, of and on your neighbours. It is no different from El Salvador, no different from a residential school. Justifying any erosion of human rights, for any group, is a slippery slope. Fight back.

"Albertans looking to get their 'elbows up' against MAGA may identify the MAGA threat now in plain sight in their own province: armed seizure of people deemed undesirable by the state and their rendition into incarceration without due process." #Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Policing #Incarceration

Kids have been forced into treatment in AB since 2006 with 0 evaluation of the PChAD program, other that the harms summarized by the child advocate. “we don’t know if it works, but we are expanding it anyway” The #AB model!

Nothing says compassion like forcible confinement.

Danielle Smith, who rode to office complaining that vaccines weren’t supported by evidence… Is now revoking people’s Charter rights to force treatment that she openly admits she has no evidence to support. Read that again Then watch this clip. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"compassionate intervention" is a weird way of describing removing someones fundamental Charter rights when there's little to no evidence to support doing so.

NEW The Alberta government is going full MAGA with its Compassionate Intervention Act, which will strip people who use drugs of due process and force them into months-long medical incarceration. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-ends...

🧵I was on CTV News to discuss the recent “exemptions” in the Provincial Priorities Act. Despite all federally funded research projects being publicly available, the Advanced Minister of Education maintains this was a “tremendous exercise” to see what research has been funded.

The Birth of Macropsychology: Psychologists Call for a New Discipline to Tackle Systemic Harms A growing field explores how laws, policies, and power shape mental health far more than internal traits or disorders. By Kevin Gallagher

Two at-risk caribou herds could be lost forever under the Alberta government's new draft subregional plan for the Upper Smoky area. If approved, a U.S.-based company will be allowed to log their winter ranges, which could lead to their extinction. 🌍 Read our joint release: shorturl.at/T2Iem #abpoli

Here's a closer comparison showing caribou winter habitat (above) and Alberta's / Weyerhaeuser's proposed logging plans (below). This looks like intentional extirpation. Where are caribou supposed to live?!? #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Kairos time, Deep time. As Bayo Akomolafe says: “ the times are urgent, we must slow down” … this kind of profound presence, needed now more than ever.

My hope - and my personal experience - is that by withstanding these primal fears more than our avoidant culture encourages, that we become braver, freer and more connected to our lives and the lives of other people and species. www.whatashrinkthinks.com/mortality-wo...

From GTDF collective- “Facing Human Wrongs: Unsettling Wellness, is an experiential, online course for care workers broadly defined, focusing on how psychology and wellness keep systems like modernity, capitalism, and colonialism on life support”

Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology Interview by Tim Beck

The UCP backed down on including post-secondary federal funding in the Provincial Priorities Act. @kathrynjohnson.bsky.social from the @thegateway.bsky.social interviewed @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I about how this is not a "win" many in Alberta post-secondary organizations are claiming.

Alberta public money is paying for the Premier of Alberta to speak at a fundraising event for an American political organization.

For those looking for a climate psychology starter pack:

Climate change has become one of the most polarized topics in the entire country. Join our fundraiser with @katharinehayhoe.com where she will discuss identity and highlight the key role our values can play in shaping conversations on this crucial topic. www.eventbrite.com/e/dont-say-c...

it's so cool how Trump's entire political coalition seems to be just the literal death drive from Freud

Disappointing to see the Premier of Alberta travelling to the U. S. again while Canadians are encouraged to spend money elsewhere It would appear, to me at least, that she is planting the seeds to build a career in media as opposed to doing what is best for the people of Alberta

Is Global Mental Health Missing the Point? Ethiopian Voices Challenge Western Models Interviews with people diagnosed with depression in Ethiopia raise concerns about Western mental health interventions. By Richard Sears

The fantasy that you can engage in one big effective action that will solve & dominate the problem is supremacy resin in the brain. You’ve been taught that small things don’t matter, that planting seeds doesn’t matter, that people, communities don’t matter These are the only things that matter.

If anybody else is struggling to keep track of every terrible decision related to the fossil fuel industry (and energy regulation) in Alberta, I've tried my best over the past year to keep a record in the Google Doc linked here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #ABLeg #ABPoli