What are the harmful stereotypes associated with hearing voices? In this open-access chapter, members of the Voice Collective, Fiona Malpass, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies and I explore this issue using an Aesop-style fable link.springer.com/ch... #philsky #EpistemicInjustice
The Forest Service just told Congress to go pound sand. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz appeared before the House Appropriations Committee this week and made it clear the agency is moving forward with
In bloom: nurturing lived experience researchers and responsiveness – reflections and recommendations from an intersectional lens
Sumedha Verma
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THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW!
Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
CFA: Philosophy of Psychiatry & Lived Experience Workshop June 22 online
Deadline 20 April
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Sofia Jeppsson and I have a new publication: "Mad Philosophy" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
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Camilla Lyckblad introduces us to her audio installation on medical records and record keeping. Read and listen…
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Zsuzsanna Chappell's and my "Philosophy of Madness" is now published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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.
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Can you taste words or see music? Synesthesia is a condition where the senses mix - sounds might evoke shapes, or sight of letters might evoke colour. Affecting about 4% of people, it's a unique brain connection where one sense triggers an experience in another.
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The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully. - Humphry Osmond — AZ QUOTES
I will be talking about Humphry Osmond, the deconstruction of madness, and its reconstruction in the concept of psychedelics at the Mad Pasts & Mad Presence Conference at the University of Victoria from April 28th - 29th. Registration is free: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mad-pasts-...
The History of Psychiatric Hospitalization at Home in the US
A story of institutional amnesia
Guest post by David Heath
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🎧 Listen to this interview with Hemant Bhargav, MD, PhD, author of Yoga for Opioid Withdrawal and Autonomic Regulation: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Hosted by John Torous, MD.
mad pasts mad presence conference UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA APRIL 28-29 BRINGING TOGETHER ACTIVISTS, SCHOLARS, ARTISTS, AND SURVIVORS TO REFLECT ON THE MAD MOVEMENT AND ITS LEGACIES. IN PERSON OR ONLINE. NEW QR CODE
I’m talking about how LSD testing in 1950s Saskatchewan, Canada revolutionized thinking about madness and mental illness at this free hybrid conference at the end of April.
Hey, if you're not doing anything better next Friday and Saturday, try this👇 The in-person is full, but online is good. On Saturday 11th at 14:15 we're overturning 64 years or psychedelic 'science' in twenty minutes.
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Here’s the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Computational data up next!
Follow up grant Not Discussed 🤪
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More common hallucinations experiences to brighten up your feed!
Sleep-related hallucinations are know as Hypnogogic (falling asleep) & Hypnopompic (waking up).
There very common in the general population & don’t mean you’re experiencing a mental health problem.
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World Psychiatry ~ The lived experience of persons who attempt suicide: a bottom-up review co-designed, co-produced and co-written by experts by experience and academics.
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Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron!
Here is a download link (free for 50 days):
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Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social
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Hey, if you're not doing anything better next Friday and Saturday, try this👇The in-person is full, but online is good. On Saturday 11th at 14:15 we're presenting- Archaeology of a Thesis, Genealogy of a Belief: The Mystical Detour in Psychedelic Science
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What Do We Owe the Mystics?
Thoughts on Richard Saville-Smith’s ( @dranamorphosis.bsky.social ) “How is it possible to persuade a psychiatrist that one is sane when in the midst of an overwhelming and ineffable experience of god?”
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One person’s loss of reason is another’s transcendence. |@awaisaftab.bsky.social on Richard Saville-Smith’s Acute Religious Experience: open.substack.com/pub/awaisaft...
Very interesting point by Dr Anne-Kathrin Fett, that people with psychosis like being alone a lot less than people without psychosis, but are alone more.
So more is needed to support social interactions and make welcoming people with psychosis to social spaces. #SIRS2026
In a great #sirs2026 session about AI and ethical use in mental health care.
Loes Jonker explains that reality is ahead of research.
Whilst conversational AI CAN be useful for mental health support, commercial apps are often limited and prioritise extended use not therapeutic intervention.
Symposium at #SIRS2026 on Responsible use of GenAI in psychosis.
Eric Lin presented a great paper & found users can enter lengthy spirals of conversation with chatbots where the validation from GenAI can lead to much longer conversation.
Preprint here arxiv.org/pdf/2603.16567
Shelter villages offer temporary and private places for the unhoused to sleep and store belongings. One of the newest, The Bridge, opened recently in central Illinois. n.pr/4rZjBQV
Are you interested in supporting research to develop a questionnaire assessing smartphone use?
Share your thoughts by taking part in the online study below:
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Lucy Osler on creating realities with AI chatbots: one of the talks at our #philosophymatters workshop last week #philsky #BPF2026 @triphilosophy.bsky.social @lucyosler.bsky.social
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"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."
A Le Guin classic: www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/25/t...