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Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds

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...

I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)

A dark, shadowy corridor with dim overhead lighting and labeled doors fades into the distance. At the center, a silhouetted figure stands facing forward, casting a long shadow. Bold white text reads: “Trump, RFK Jr. are pushing psychiatric confinement, not mental health care” with smaller text below: “Jordyn Jensen & Nev Jones.” The Hill's blue-and-white logo appears in the bottom right corner.

🚨 Important new op-ed in @thehill.com by @jjjordynjensen.bsky.social & @viscidula.bsky.social

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...

Allegheny County board skeptical of assisted outpatient treatment County plans to opt into assisted outpatient treatment [AOT] drew skepticism and opposition from new Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilities advisors.

Allegheny County officials faced sharp questions from mental health advisory board members for considering "one of the most controversial practices in public mental health in the United States and internationally.” buff.ly/xavf4ei

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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.”

We Need Alternatives to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act | The Tyee A doctor calls for better investments in housing and mental health care, not policing.

9/9 How should we fund this better approach? "Slow the cash flow to law enforcement, reject wasteful and ineffective involuntary care, and reclaim simply caring, as we do in Canada, for each other."

Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

8/9 Prevention is possible—through investment in supportive housing and accessible healthcare with on-demand access to voluntary mental health supports, not through expanded policing powers and involuntary detention.
#Prevention #SocialSupports

6/9 They recently observed this system in action—a disoriented man outside the hospital, likely experiencing psychosis, immediately surrounded by six officers in cruisers rather than receiving healthcare, despite being steps from a hospital entrance.
#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

The White House is trying to destroy the NSF and public scientific research in the US.

Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Here is a key paragraph:

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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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Wow. Pittsburgh.

Rahna Epting: They want us to be hopeless. They want us to feel alone in our concern.

Are we alone?

Crowd: No!

Are we helpless?

Crowd: No!!

Hell no!

#HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social

To the world:
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.

Four researchers standing in light rain at the Hands Off Pittsburgh protest

Hands Off Pittsburgh!!

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.

New NBC story up about LGBTQ funding...

www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General

First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process

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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data.

Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch.

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

If you are an MAA member and your NEH or IMLS funding is at risk or has already been revoked, please email me. I don't know what, if anything, MAA can do to help you, but we will absolutely try. #MedievalSky

NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work

Along with the firings of up to 1300 co-workers this week and the removals of several institute leaders, NIH employees are dealing with another blow from the administration of President Donald Trump: a mandate to eliminate $2.6 billion in contracts. scim.ag/43XU1nd

Goodbye CDC, NIH, FDC
😢

A helpful read on some of the legal avenues for appeal. What the new administration is doing to #NIH (& other HHS orgs like #CDC, #FDA) is not only economically wasteful but blatantly, morally bankrupt. People will be more sick and die needlessly as a result of these actions, now and in the future.

NIH staff are instructed to hold all awards located in South Africa, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea but also other countries I hadn't seen reported, including Nicaragua, Pakistan, Eritrea, Cuba, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Yemen, Venezuela, per source familiar w guidance.

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

Researchers did not mince words about this purge of senior NIH leadership:
“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.

What happened within the NIH this morning is disgusting. We will not be able to continue to function. We lost entire offices critical to managing ONGOING CLINICAL TRIALS. Fuck everyone who allowed this to happen.

Mass layoffs at HHS: Latest news on the moves at CDC, NIH and FDA; live updates Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention closed

Mass layoffs at HHS: Latest news on the moves at CDC, NIH and FDA; live updates www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com