It’s like if Creative SoundBlasters were keeping the banks open.

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

I’ve been teaching medical students stimulants treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention systems, but it turns out I was wrong. Stimulants mimicked the effects of getting more sleep and anticipated reward, not attention.

I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

2nd last ever Click Clack on 2XM now streaming here, www.rte.ie/radio/2xm/cl..., sob. Last ever one goes out on Stephen's day, save some of your selection box 'til 1PM Friday and bid farewell with me!

Publication day! It’s been a long journey to get to this point, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s supported that, and to @routledgebooks.bsky.social for publishing it.

OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062

I think it’s really important we do *not* attribute this failure to “fossilized thinking” on the part of academics, but on the part of business studies-led management teams who value “internal markets” over education.

The films of the year: 26 discoveries, 10 old favourites, 7 bad movies, 6 re-appraisals and 5 obsessions. Feat. all your faves: Linda Fiorentino, Joan Micklin Silver, Sinners, Wallis Island, Argentinean child noir, and really quite a lot of John Ford. advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...

Hear Bad History Month's benefit cover of roommate Dust From 1000 Years' "The Fighters"

Bok bok

this!!!

This is excellent

We did some codesign work with DA survivors, support orgs, and West Mids Police, pre-pandemic, and education about relationships (but in *primary schools) was something all three advocated for.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Finally out!! 3rd @phenolab.bsky.social Summer School in Umbria "Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the lived experience of Illness and Care" Deadline for submission February 15, 2026

ECR looking for a change in the New Year? We are recruiting a new Lecturer in Psychology at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social ! If you’d like to talk about life in the Department, please do feel free to get in touch. Deadline 8th Feb - More details below 👇 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

I guarantee, I absolutely guarantee, the people making the "disabled people are faking it" are not disabled themselves nor indeed do they have disabled people in their social proximity. Otherwise they'd understand that disabilities take infinite and often non-visible forms, and that the "advantages"

This year, @annayahprosser.bsky.social, Tamarinde Haven, Nicki Lisa Cole, and I have tried to envision the ideal, utopian future for open qualitative research. We've had community workshops, talks, a charter, grant apps, a special issue, all to build "Qualitopia" for 2026✨ qualitopia.my.canva.site

You remember that Nature Aging paper about how multilingualism protects against accelerated aging? Well…

What's notable about Aviv's Sacks article is not so much that he fictionalised (although you can argue about the extent to which this was appropriate for any particular case), but that he fictionalised using his own story to fill other people's stories.

Twice in two weeks, first in Germany then in England last week, I have spoken with friends who work at pro-refugee NGOs who have experienced multiple recent attacks on their offices.

I've been part of a team contributing to this project about understanding young people's experiences of high-follower TikTok influencer accounts posting about mental health. Excited to be chairing the Mental Elf webinar in the new year: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wtf-this-i... #qualitative #linguistics

The lurgy enjoyer, logging in

i also don't think everyone has to do every part of the chain. some people write the books, some people make videos about the books. maybe strengthening those networks would be beneficial, but you don't need to do it all yourself

Excited to speak at this! 🤓

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

Things you LOVE to see 🤌🏻 #UTB

I know there's a gut instinct to think about these tools as if they 'don't work' but there are lots of things that perform a function but are still intensely and shockingly bad (eg......coal, oil and gas)

Anyway, only about 4 months to go and winter is done ithinklikemidnight.bandcamp.com/track/spring...

Gave a talk about some of my gripes regarding 'resilience' this week, and had that very enjoyable 'first take is the best take' feeling that you get sometimes when you play a new thing.

I have enjoyed this a lot. Finished listening last night, and feeling a bit sad today that there are no further installments to look forward to this evening.

Shane's new LP has got people losing their minds. Can they be blamed? It'll be sold out by release date, but I'm holding back some copies to sell at Roulette where Shane will debut this material live for the NY audience. TICKETS ON SALE NOW. FRIDAY 3/20: roulette.org/event/bill-o...

Starting off the session on mental health and medication at #seattleclub, we have Dr Olivia Hewitt from Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust and University of Birmingham discussing work from her PhD on mental imagery and anxiety in people with mild to moderate intellectual disability.

Our very own SHINE lab doctoral researcher Beth Logan presented her poster at #seattleclub. Her PhD is looking to develop a new mental health screening tool for adolescents who are autistic and/or have mild to moderate ID. Follow along for more updates as her PhD progresses!

The fantastic co-design work continues with a talk from Dr Nicki Hewitt on using creative methods to co-design and disseminate research findings with people with intellectual disabilities #seattleclub

Really enjoyed talking about delusions as embodied, affective and relational experience yesterday at one of our IMH lunchtime seminars! Great questions and lots more to work on in the new year!

Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation

Good point in a good thread. It's wild! Bill Burr lives in *Los Angeles* a city that is in every way more dangerous and worse than London!

48 people shared photos and stories of detention under the Mental Health Act 📸 The Co-Pact PhotoVoice study found coercive care, institutional racism, and people feeling "voiceless" 🌳🌤️🍄 #MentalHealth #RacialEquity #MentalHealthAct #CoProduction #ElfHelp 🧵 THREAD

watch out for pretend papers guys!

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation. In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills. Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors. No end to nightmare without public ownership.

"Vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter J Mascis discusses observing how others work, longevity and timing, and getting better by just doing it." J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) on the importance of staying in motion:

Today's one hour Kosmos Klub radio show as broadcast on Radio Worm. Listen here : www.mixcloud.com/ajaysaggar/k...

The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

in psych, whole subfields have decided to simply skirt the issue, so the causal inference happens in the introduction of the next paper that cites the "totally-not-causal-I-swear" paper and of course absolutely interprets it causally 🥲

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