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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It's not necessarily a loss. I all depends on the specific countries and on the country where you live during retirement. Having lived and worked for a considerable time in Switzerland and being retired in Germany makes actually a profit.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

They use public transport? That's unpatriotic!

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Economics 101, isn't it? Provide some incentive, and even academics will comply... To be honest, that would definitely raise my willingness to review which has been deteriorating in recent months.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Exactly. And I suppose that many of them get along without a diagnosis. Not having received one does not necessarily mean neglect. Many neurodivergents just don't want a diagnosis.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Was spricht gegen Delmenhorst?

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

That's the price for being too curious. A price I have paid willingly (pivoting between social science, philosophy, health science, nursing and epidemiology).

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Search for the signal rather than the noise and restrict the screen time.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Exactly, and this goes beyond neuroimaging. The entire biomarker effort is a dead end.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Wieso werden Populisten überhaupt gewählt? Was haben wir liberale Demokraten übersehen? Wo waren wir naiv in der Beurteilung der Chancen populistischer Parteien? In meinem neuen Buch versuche ich Antworten zu geben. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Politik #Populismus @springernature.com

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Lucky Italians: who else has survived three apocalypses?

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Interesting way of communicating to publishers. Does anybody have experience whether it works, rather than the usual way of submitting proposals?

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

What an honour to be a sociologist...

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

But even for tenured profs it's not always work life balance due to high workload and pressure to submit grant proposals. Redundancies happen increasingly even at high profile research institutions. Personal experience...

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

That's certainly true. However, due to the extreme amount of publications currently, I often get some hints about interesting papers on this platform here. Keep posting!

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Why only bodies? What about inconvenient minds?

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Book deadlines are negotiable to a certain extent. I have never met the first....

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

When both the paper and the review are okay, I see no problem. Have done it myself, no issues there.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

There is a paper genre that becomes cited although it has nothing to do with the topic of the paper in which it becomes cited. I've published several systematic reviews and meta analyses and they happen to appear often in the intro section of a paper that covers different issues.

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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Can AI genuinely "relate" to meaning in interpretive research? A panel on the epistemological implications of AI in qualitative analysis. Panelists: Christina Silver, Anat Gofen & Marie Østergaard Møller. Mod: Ana Petek. 📅 March 3 | 14:00 CET Register: forms.gle/nGxT2QPd7kov... #AcademicSky

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

There can be no question of coercion reduction, let alone abolition. We are clearly on the way to a more involuntary system of care. The trend is obviously moving towards post-liberal psychiatry. dirkrichter.substack.com/p/the-prospe...

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The prospect of a post-liberal psychiatry

Surveillance and long-term detention for people with mental health problems are re-instated even in liberal democracies

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

The results are more than sobering. Neither the number of involuntary admissions nor the use of coercion during hospital stays has decreased in recent years. With a few stagnating exceptions, most countries saw an increase in involuntary admissions and coercion during treatment.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Have these efforts reduced the number of coercive measures? I was part of a European research team that compiled and analysed publicly available data from six countries (Austria, England, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland). #psychiatry #PsychSciSky #coercion

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Safewards, Six Core Strategies, UN-CRPD, de-escalation training… Are we on the way to abolishing psychiatric coercion? For years, mental health care systems have been striving to avoid coercion and are constantly implementing new programmes and measures. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Abolition of coercion in psychiatry on the horizon? A descriptive ecologic data study from six European countries. | European Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Abolition of coercion in psychiatry on the horizon? A descriptive ecologic data study from six European countries.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Guilty as charged... It is both backlash and political project. What progressives don't get is the fundamental social insecurity behind the backlash open.substack.com/pub/dirkrich...

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Ontological Insecurity

The societal link between mental health problems and right-wing populism

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We've got a new preprint out on Psyarxiv which explores the causes of the increasing rates of people in mental health treatment. We propose that the underlying epidemiology is of lesser importance here compared to sociocultural issues. osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #psychiatry #psyarxiv

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Leftwing infighting - that's the recurring history of the left since the early 20th century. In Spain this has helped the rise of fascism. It may happen again...

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We were able to show that CMHN significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization in Switzerland. However, we could not rule out that this is partly due to a regression to the mean effect. See the paper in the link smw.ch/index.php/sm...

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Effectiveness of community mental health nursing on psychiatric hospitalisations in Switzerland: a mirror-image analysis | Swiss Medical Weekly

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

How effective is community mental health nursing? Together with my colleague Anna Hegedüs, I have published one of the largest studies in this field. Based on routine data, we utilized a relatively unknown epidemiological methodology: the mirror image design. #nursing #psychscisky

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Auch auf die Gefahr hin, dass ich mich noch unbeliebter mache: so treiben wir die Konservativen in die Arme der Rechten. Eine liberale Demokratie kann auf Konservative nicht verzichten, auch wenn ich für die Positionen keine Sympathie habe.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In Switzerland we've a similar situation with Springer and Sage. Currently, we cannot access Sage journals. It is imperative to set up diamond access journals which are presumably cheaper to run than paying the hedge fonds driven publishers.

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Wenn aber Respekt der Anfang von allem ist, wie Sie völlig zurecht in Ihrem Account schreiben, verbieten sich solche unflätigen Beschimpfungen wie in diesem Post, meine ich (ebenfalls links und Grün Sympathisant)

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Use of titles is still very common in Austria. It doesn't imply distance, it's just the usual approach

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

And it has thousands of elderly German bus tourists on walkers...

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Da wäre ich auch gerne dabei, obwohl halb CH ....

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Dirk Richter @dirkrichter4.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Can coercion in mental health care be justified? See our new OA-paper that is based on an adversarial collaboration approach. Two authors collaborate from completely antagonistic standpoints and come to some surprising results. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychsciSky #AcademicSky #philsci

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Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach

The use of coercion in psychiatry is one of the most controversial issues in modern healthcare. There are clinical, legal and ethical arguments in fav…

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