Mental Disorders The debate on the criteria for mental disorder has powerfully intersected with discussions about the status of psychiatry as a science and its role as a legitimate medical field. In this entry, we rev...

I contributed an entry on mental disorders to this new encyclopedia with @matthewbroome.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Thank you both! Need to get back to @bsky.app and this will motivate me

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be daunsinge.

“Jean-Luc, don’t we need a script?” “Jean-Luc, you’re making this up as you go along!” - enjoyably the final caption describes Breathless as “influential” rather than “good” which makes it feel like Linklater is in on the joke.

...they told her no, didn't they

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis live from First Ave, Minneapolis, Jan 30th 2026 YouTube video by Christopher Bungert

youtu.be/hyPFxh_XXwY

Some sun on dog walk

Coming up on Sunday on #HoPWaG, we have a look at the various mentions of Confucius/Kongzi in the Zhuangzi. Did Daoists think this great sage was all that great?

#podcast #philosophy #daoism #zhuangzi

Frida Kahlo - Giganten der Kunst - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Frida Kahlo: Ikone des Schmerzes und der Leidenschaft. Ihre Selbstporträts sind ein Spiegel ihrer zerrissenen Seele. War sie nur Künstlerin oder auch Rebellin? Die Dokumentation taucht in ihr Leben ei...

Watched this very good documentary about Frida Kahlo tonight. Learned a lot about the artist and her art I had not known yet.

www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Macaulay Culkin posted a tribute to Catherine O’Hara….I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥺🙏

Students from the German School London and the Jewish Community Secondary School gave a powerful and moving Holocaust Memorial concert with Ensemble 360.

The Voices of Justice concert was a joint project between @wigmore-hall.org.uk, Learning from the Righteous and @theajruk.bsky.social. #HMD2026

New clinical guidelines for peripartum depression developed by international group 🤰

44 evidence-based recommendations support psychological interventions (especially CBT) and universal screening with clear referral pathways.

#MentalHealth #PerinatalMentalHealth #PostnatalDepression

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Edinburgh tomb of philosopher David Hume vandalised with ‘satanic’ symbols Tour guide reports drawing of naked woman pointing knife at baby and coded writing at Old Calton burial ground

David Hume’s tomb attacked by satanists! @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

NEW WORLD RECORD AT BEACH-BASKET-CARRYING WORLD CUP

At the Strandkorb-WM, teams carry a 60kg beach basket over 20m of frozen sand.

The previous record of 4.91sec was smashed at the tournament's 18th edition as beach-basket-ironmen Phillip Schmidt & Finley Liemen clinched gold in 4.56!

Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix)

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This would result in a Parliament with 322 right-of-centre MPs and 320 left-of-centre MPs...

Enjoyed it a lot this morning on drive in, thank you @bunkerpod.bsky.social

Rejoining the EU is the only way to stop Trump It is time to return home

Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home.

inews.co.uk/opinion/rejo...

PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Manon Garcia Guest host Kate Kirkpatrick discusses 'Living with Men' with French Philosopher, Manon Garcia.

For those in or near Oxford on 14 February, there are just a few spaces left for the
#philosophyinthebookshop I’m guest hosting with @manongarcia.bsky.social, who will discuss her new book on the Pelicot trial, Living with Men @blackwelloxford.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

A digital health intervention

Latest papers: Jason Branford & Jordan A. Conrad explores eleven ethical challenges to digital mental health interventions that arise across the lifecycle of their development, deployment, and regulation in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...

"It was always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect. The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy. She says she feels that she has ‘come home’, which will come as a surprise to the people who chose not to elect a Reform MP in her constituency in 2024. "There are some people who are MPs because they care about their communities and want to deliver a better country. There are others who do it for their personal ambition. Suella stood for leader of the Conservatives in 2022 and came sixth, behind Kemi and Tom Tugendhat. In 2024 she could not even muster enough supporters to get on the ballot. She has now decided to try her luck with Nigel Farage, who said last year he didn’t want her in Reform. They really are doing our ‘Spring cleaning'!

This is how the Tory statement on Braverman's defection begins...

<godzilla let-them-fight gif>

Symptom change in depression and anxiety during psychological therapy for autistic adults - Nature Mental Health Pender et al. evaluated depression and anxiety symptom trajectories in autistic adults receiving routine therapy in UK primary care.

Our new study, just published in Nature Mental Health: Symptom change in depression and anxiety during psychological therapy for autistic adults... [1/8]

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#autres #mentalhealth

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

Why are UK universities failing?

On @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, Constantinos Alexiou and George Saridakis lay out how UK universities have fallen into these dire straits and suggest what may become of the sector following the crisis.

My sensations were strange. Let me try to explain them.

Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...

"'What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist,' Tracht said, running out of breath as the car turned the corner. 'If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.'"
religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

A phone with social media notifications

Latest papers: Bas de Boer & Ciano Aydin argue that online body shaming is grounded in a mismatch between the way one self-objectifies and the way in which one is objectified by another in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

After some consideration, the synthesis I have settled on is Starmer is bad and cynical for shamelessly pulling strings to block a rival, Burnham is bad and cynical for being ready to risk a Reform mayor in Greater Manchester for his own ambition, and it is time at last for chaos with Ed Miliband.

That NEC decision on Burnham was predictable, but also: cowardly, insecure, factional, long-term counter-strategic and symptomatic of administrative malaise.

"This is the increasing worry among many Labour MPs and ministers: they see Starmer as simply unable to resurrect the party and hold off what is viewed by them as the utterly terrifying prospect of a Reform government.