@aldersonday.bsky.social Ben's talk was, as predicted, much more coherent than mine but if you do want to find out more about delusions, language and embodied metaphors, do watch this space for the recording of the talks (Ben's included! Fascinating stuff on felt presence and inner speech) and more

@aldersonday.bsky.social My excuse is that I only have 20 minutes to explain EVERYTHING there is to know about delusions and therefore I'll have to be brief and silly by necessity but hey - that's how life goes...

Tomorrow in Oxford I'm going to be taking about the somewhat surprising relations between inner speech and felt presence... Come along and be as surprised as me! The excellent @rritunnano.bsky.social will also be presenting something much more coherent than me. www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Question for fellow #qualitative researchers: anyone aware of training courses available in the UK specifically dealing with body-mapping approaches?

Very interesting reflections from a cross-cultural perspective on our recent paper on Delusions as Embodied Emotions in The Lancet Psychiatry www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This was a wonderful read @eikofried.bsky.social ! It is a great joy to read a psychiatric nosology perspective that integrates philosophy of science and data science so well. 👏

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

15 April - Oxford Workshop on language, psychopathology and psychotherapy I'll be talking about "Delusions: when the mind speaks the body's language" www.eventbrite.com/e/language-a...

Super excited to have been invited to contribute to this incredible event as keynote speaker alongside some of my favourite people including Awais Aftab and Sofia Jeppsson! Have a look and submit your abstract: What can philosophy do for psychiatry? inpp2026.com

New exciting collaborative work just published, led by Florestan Delcourt Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Full original article here:

Living In Metaphor: Why Psychiatry Should Treat Delusions As Whole-Body Experiences, Not "Just Faulty Beliefs" www.iflscience.com/living-in-me...

Thank you to all the brilliant speakers and participants who made our workshop yesterday so rich and truly interdisciplinary ❤️. Let's keep up the good work guys, and hopefully meet again soon!

RESEARCH | Delusions in psychosis are shaped by emotions and language, an important new study from @unibirmingham.bsky.social, @unimelb.bsky.social, @york.ac.uk and Orygen has found – challenging old notions about these experiences. More details + key findings: bit.ly/4pBBgg8

"To our knowledge, this is the first study using a phenomenologically informed, multi-method approach to situate the investigation of delusions in first-episode psychosis (across different themes and diagnoses) within a life-as-a-whole context." So appreciated reading this bsky.app/profile/rrit...

"Part of the analysis focused on uncovering aspects of self-understanding and meaning making that operate outside of the participant's awareness and are hidden behind ambiguous or contradictory expressions, or within figurative expressions, including metaphor and metonymy"

📢 Don't miss our new paper just out in The Lancet Psychiatry Psychiatry today‼️📆 "Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK" Full Open Access article 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📆📢 Coming up soon Stanford Medicine Master Clinician Series 2026 Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox Presenters: Rosa Ritunnano, MD, PhD and Elizabeth Pienkos, PsyD stanford.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...

A beautiful winter issue of The Philosopher "Crossing the Floods" is out now with a contribution by myself and my friend and colleague Kathleen Murphy-Hollies on "Engaging Delusions", alongside other wonderful essays. Don't miss it! www.thephilosopher1923.org/print-issues

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!

📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism

📆 🔊 ❗ Another date for your calendars ⭐ 16th January 2026 - 4h workshop ⭐ "Engaging meaning-making in delusions: the phenomenological toolbox" Presented by myself & Dr. Elizabeth Pienkos med.stanford.edu/inspire-trai...

📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026 ⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐ Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited): lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt

SAVE THE DATE 📅 Wed 10 December 1-2 IMH Lunchtime seminar: Delusion as embodied, affective and relational experience Online and in person bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Read the report here bci-hub.org/documents/ep... And find out more about the Agency project here mcpin.org/project/agen... and Agency-in-Practice mcpin.org/project/agen... @ipanalysis.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.com @matthewbroome.bsky.social @rachelred94.bsky.social @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

Next week in Cagliari, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (@kmurphyhollies.bsky.social) and I will represent #projectEPIC at this awesome event, organised by Francesca Ervas: prin.unica.it/meimi/prin-p... Looking forward to talking about expertise and #epistemicinjustice #philsky #philpsy

Delighted that Rosa Ritunnano passed her viva without corrections! Her PhD on delusions is a marvel of interdisciplinary research. My favourite paper by Rosa so far is the one on Harry, the happiest man in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philsky #philpsy #womeninphilosophy

I am very excited about the upcoming seventh edition of the Institute of Applied Psychology Interdisciplinary Series (IAPIS, ips.uj.edu.pl/nauka/iapis/... & @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social) To register for the first talk use: forms.gle/GcnHuj3rhamH...

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

#philsky #EpistemicInjustice #YouthMentalHealth #edusky #projectEPIC

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

'“The humanities are where people learn to think critically, to analyse systems, to question authority,” @desfitzgerald.bsky.social says. “What happens if that disappears? What happens if you can simulate critical thinking without actually engaging in it?”'

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis #NeuroPsychSky

A brilliant talk from @rritunnano.bsky.social at #IEPA in Berlin

I think this may be the very last conference presentation before the end of my PhD 🥹 @lisabortolotti.com @matthewbroome.bsky.social

Really enjoyed presenting with amazing colleagues at our session #IEPA15 "Beyond the medical model: pluralistic and meaning-centred approaches to early intervention, youth mental health and recovery.

Great kick off for the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! Inspiring day, fruitful conversations and great speakers. An heartfelt thanks to all the people who presented and attended (in person and remotely) from us! @matthewbroome.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social

moving from the midwestern US to London means anything within a 2-3 hour train ride is *super close* as far as i’m concerned. also, i really enjoy giving talks. what i’m saying is if your uni is within 3 hours of London i would love to come give a talk and chat about research 😊

"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health. Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham) @matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks

thank you @uobphenomenal.bsky.social for an excellent workshop today! such a diverse and thought-provoking collection of talks, and lovely conversations with fellow attendees. i’m looking forward to the next event!

I've had the privilege of writing a chapter for the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine with Dr Ellie Byrne and Dr Ian James Kidd! 🙌 Check out our chapter on 'Epistemic Injustice in Medical Contexts' here 👉https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_92-1

Check out this episode of @philosophybites.bsky.social in which I discuss the life and philosophy of Henri Bergson with Nigel Warburton philosophybites.com/podcast/emil...

Nearly 1 in 4 employers still don’t provide the adjustments disabled staff need. RCPsych’s new guidance offers 15 practical steps to change that. Let’s build inclusive, thriving workplaces. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=adF2... 👉 rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/providing-reasonable-adjustments

I am on tour from the end of this week. I will be at the Urbino Summer School in Epistemology from 25 to 27 August and at the SIFA conference in Turin from 28 to 29 August. Six (different) talks in five days! Wish me luck. (Really pretty posters!)

Universities make a loss on home teaching. They make a loss on state-sponsored research. Now they will make a loss on international students. So there will be no activities at all that even break even. In those circs you cannot continue: the end. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deficit...

A colleague has just shared this with me - it's a really good article from @davehitchcock.bsky.social about the crisis in UK Universities. The situation is more dire than the public realise. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-... #AcademicSky