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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Chatbots for therapy: Worst idea ever or a good way to drive people into psychosis? On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, @mharrisondupre.bsky.social‬ will join @alexhanna.bsky.social and me to process the hype: Monday, August 18, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute
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dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
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kmachin.bsky.social @kmachin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Loved writing this - thank you to the wonderful @sbradstreet.bsky.social . And I got to squeeze in a mention of The AI Con from @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social The joy of writing after PhDone!
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Centre for Mental Health @centreformh.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🗣️ "Peer support has to start with meeting people where they are, not where systems expect them to be...It’s not just about ticking a box for inclusion, it’s about making sure people truly feel seen, heard and valued. " - @coproisaac.bsky.social @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social tinyurl.com/rmfcc7u9
"Peer support has to start with meeting people where they are, not where systems expect them to be." - Isaac Samuels"I learned that those who had been where I was could transmit life-saving hope in the darkest moments." - Mel Ball
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The government has quietly published 12 research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just 8 days after MPs voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-q...
disabilitynewsservice.com
Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… eight days too late for MPs
The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days afte…
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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It is immensely encouraging to see that 100+ Labour MPs have tabled a considered amendment to upcoming cuts to #DisabilityBenefits. If the Speaker selects it to be voted on, and it passes, the bill would fall entirely. A significant moment for holding the Government to account. 🔗 buff.ly/8Il0Ohh
Graphic: More than 100 Labour MPs have signed a considered amendment to the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill. It declines to give a second reading to the bill, citing lack of formal consultation with Disabled people, the absence of key impact assessments, and concerns that the changes will push 250,000 people into poverty.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Once a month I like to highlight the bipolar community here. It's been huge for me, and I hope for others. Attached are the two newest (and original!) infographics. I made a hub at the link with feeds, groups, the crisis bot, more. Check it, use it, help find people and share. ❤️ assisted.space/bp
Infographic titled "Stages of Mania in Bipolar I-II" summarizing phases: Euthymia, Hypomania, Mania (Manic & Mixed Episodes), and Psychosis, with symptoms and brief descriptions for each stage. Icons visually represent each phase. Full alt text available free on Gumroad through link on site due to length.Infographic titled "Mood Stages in Bipolar I-II" outlining various stages from Psychosis and Mixed Episode to Mania, Hypomania, Euthymia, and several forms of depression. Icons and text visually explain symptoms associated with each stage. Comparison bars show conditions overlapping with Bipolar. Full alt text available free on Gumroad due to length.Infographic titled "Terminology in Bipolar I-II" listing terms associated with bipolar disorder, such as Alogia, Mania, Depersonalization, Cyclothymia, and more. Each term is defined in brief. Color-coded boxes group related terms. Full alt text available free on Gumroad due to length
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/05/2025
“This moratorium would mean that even if a company deliberately designs an algorithm that causes foreseeable harm — regardless of how intentional or egregious the misconduct or how devastating the consequences — the company making that bad tech would be unaccountable to lawmakers and the public…”
businessinsider.com
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create 'unfettered abuse' of AI, 141 high-profile orgs warn in letter to Congress
The signatories include Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy and Technology, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alphabet Workers Union, and more.
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This ‘age detection’ tech is developed in the context of healthcare. But the UK government immigration white paper, announced today, states that they’re looking at “age assessment technology” for visa decisions, so you can see where it’s heading.
207. We will also continue to harness the latest developments in artificial telligence, facial recognition and age assessment technologies to ensure that we gather the most accurate information available on each individual seeking to enter the UK.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof
7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10-
10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment
11 of this Act.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Not so much let him cook as let them roast
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Survivor Researcher Network @survivorresnet.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
SRN is recruiting a lived experience advisory group for LSE research on role of local support and amenities for people aged 65+ with care and support needs. It's a paid opportunity. Further information and application link on our website: survivorresearcher.net/local-social...
aerial photo of mixed housing  with railway track to bottom left of image
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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
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From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis' final Easter message vs POTUS Easter message. A lot to be sad about today, but also some clarity. If you ever doubt it matters who your leaders are, re-read these two.
Pope Francis' last public homily - 
What a great thirst for death, for killing, we witness each day in the many conflicts raging in different parts of our world! How much violence we see, often even within families, directed at women and children! How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized, and migrants!
On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of GodA bleet from Donald Trump. I'm not going to type it all. Let's just say he's made his Easter message into a screed against migrants.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/04/2025
The Supreme Court sided with FWS. But it didn’t hear from a single trans person. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years. We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
8.8 million people in the UK experience anxiety or depression each week. Just 361,000 get PIP for it. PIP isn’t for the ‘worried well’—it’s for those with serious, disabling illness. Labour knows this. They’re counting on the public not to. #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityBenefits
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kmachin.bsky.social @kmachin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Always good to read how the values of #PeerSupport can be applied across contexts. Link is worth a read for anyone handling difficult conversations including #AcademicSky
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Number crunching: Cuts to health and disability benefit, and reduction in financial support for carers v unpaid care carried out every year. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
From Private Eye…..
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Labour's Disability benefit reforms will push 340,000 people into poverty, exacerbating the harms of a welfare system that is already killing people. NSUN is appalled by these proposals (1/3).
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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#WelfareNotWarfare Useful stats and figures to use in interviews when speaking to the media dpac.uk.net/2025/03/disa...
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you want a clear illustration of the Government’s disregard for really engaging with disabled people, they have produced NO accessible versions of their plans today.
Image is a screenshot of the Government’s Green Paper on welfare reform. ‘A highlighted section reads: We have published this paper ahead of the accessible versions to put detailed information about the matters subject to consultation in the public domain at the earliest opportunity.’
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today we have published our initial reaction and FAQs, including what a Green paper is and what you might be able to do to resist it. www.nsun.org.uk/news/initial... (4/5)
nsun.org.uk
Initial reaction: NSUN responds to the Pathways to Work Green Paper
We stand in solidarity with all who are affected by today’s announcements, as well as inflammatory news reporting on Disabled people, those living with mental ill-health, and our right to welfare.
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Zaccmax @zaccmax.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you have a Labour MP, use writetothem.com to send a simple email: if you vote for the cuts to disability benefits, I will not vote for you in the next election. Get your friends, family and work colleagues to do the same, individually. Let your MP know their job hangs in the balance over this.
writetothem.com
WriteToThem
WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.
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Kate Harrison @kslharrison.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There is a lot to digest in the Pathways to Work green paper, a lot of it deeply concerning. Some initial thoughts, from the perspective of conditionality and work coach support 🧵 /1 www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper
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kmachin.bsky.social @kmachin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"The evidence of the impact of welfare reform ... is worth repeating: Policies of more generous support delivered improvements in mental health, while those with stricter eligibility or reduced support worsened mental health and inequalities." www.researchgate.net/publication/....
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(PDF) IMPACTS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM ON CLAIMANTS' MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, AND HOW MIGHT HARMS BE MITIGATED: NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit Report
PDF | This report was written by the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit for the Department of Health and Social Care in July 2022. It summarises... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
‘Having now made the decision to abolish NHS England, & while we still wait for the publication of the NHS 10 year plan, the government must be clear why this significant structural change at this time is necessary, & how it fits into their wider plans.' Read the full press release. buff.ly/mhsS47Y
Sarah Woolnough, CEO of The King’s Fund, with a quote about NHS services improvements on a purple and gray background.

The text reads:
‘Today’s announcement lands on the same day that NHS stats show people continue to wait days in A&E and many patients remain stuck in hospital beds despite being well enough to leave. The most important question is how will the abolition of NHS England make it easier for people to get a GP appointment, shorten waits for planned care and improve people’s health? That hasn’t yet been set out – ministers will need to explain how the prize will be worth the price.
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 13/03/2025
1/7 🚨BREAKING: NHS England to be abolished 🚨 A major restructuring of our health service is coming. But is this about ‘democratic control’ or a power grab that could accelerate privatisation? 🧵⬇️...
Sky News: NHS England to be scrapped with management of health services returning to government, Stramer says
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
NHS England has published new principles on the use of digital technologies in mental health inpatient settings. These principles are vague and unenforceable. They don't halt the rollout of tech like Oxevision, and lack regulatory power. Our statement: www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-re...
nsun.org.uk
NSUN responds to NHS England’s new Principles on Digital Technologies
This long-overdue publication is vague and disappointing. The principles do not halt the roll-out of unethical, poorly evidenced and potentially unlawful technologies.
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Survivor Researcher Network @survivorresnet.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We're reviving our monthly online Discussion and Support Group meetings. The next one is at 5.30pm on Tuesday 25 February: survivorresearcher.net/february-202...
survivorresearcher.net
February 2025 Discussion and Support Group - Survivor Researcher Network
Our next SRN Discussion and Support Group meeting is at 17.30 GMT on Tuesday 25th February. At this meeting we’ll be introducing our new Awards for All funded project - and we'd love you to get involv...
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kmachin.bsky.social @kmachin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Great to hear him say this - and to mention unpaid care. I hope @carefull.bsky.social are listening in
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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
How can we make sense of the opportunities and risks of #AI in health care? In our fifth #REALChallenge lecture, @hetanshah.bsky.social will explore what AI might mean for our health. Join us in-person at @rcphysicians.bsky.social or online. Register now ⬇️ buff.ly/42dAazc
What might AI mean for our health?

REAL Challenge lecture from Hetan Shah

Thursday 13 February 2025
11.00–12.30
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Alan Simpson @cityalan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Good to see this paper from the ENRICH trial of peer support which suggests including peer support in an aftercare package reduces average costs of care. Peer support for discharge from hospital to community mental healthcare: a cost analysis gpsych.bmj.com/content/38/1...
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Peer support for discharge from hospital to community mental healthcare: a cost analysis
To the editor:
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
💥New: Generative AI is a hinge point for higher education ✍️ @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AIActionSummit #HigherEducation
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Generative AI is a hinge point for higher education
Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI st…
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With-you Consultancy @with-you.co.uk · 07/02/2025
📣🎧 Episode Two of Shoulder to Shoulder, Season 3 is out now. Jenny who is an Essex Partnership University Trust Lived Experience Ambassador, shares how peer support helped her begin a long journey of discovery. Listen here 👉 shorturl.at/rUaHm #PeerSupport #MentalHealthMatters #WithyouConsultancy
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 49, @ginasue.bsky.social joins @alexhanna.bsky.social & I to take apart the UK government’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan” and discover it’s made up of so much AI magic dust: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Thx to @whatulysses.bsky.social for production!
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s important to add that it comes as news to us that @rcpsych.bsky.social and Rethink are calling for Oxevision to be paused. We welcome and agree with this call but are surprised given neither institution has used their platforms to say this over the past 18+ months of our campaign
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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
“It felt like this invisible person was following me. It became really frightening and I got really unwell. I didn't feel safe... not knowing who was watching me or when” We spoke to BBC about why we are calling for an end to Oxevision, CCTV and other systems on wards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Call for Oxevision cameras to be banned in mental health patients' bedrooms
Former mental health patients are worried camera surveillance is being used without explicit consent.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
unep.org
AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces. What other campuses followed this playbook?
jewishcurrents.org
Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters
Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.
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Michael Marmot @michaelmarmot.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New @marmotihe.bsky.social report calls on the property sector to work with central & local government to put health, wellbeing and environmental sustainability at the centre of all UK house building www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-re...
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Very cool to see this work by @renshaolei.bsky.social and others estimating AI’s public health costs from the air pollution associated with data center power consumption and backup generators AI’s impacts go beyond carbon, energy, and water costs
news.ucr.edu
AI’s deadly air pollution toll
Computer processing demands for artificial intelligence, or AI, are spurring increasing levels of deadly air pollution from power plants and backup diesel generators that continuously supply electrici...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience
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Blackcat444 @blackcat444.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/m... Having this type of situation every week #mentalhealth
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Make It Make Sense!
I had a meeting this week at a conference about healthcare security and took the opportunity to whilst there to hear an input about Right Care, Right Person – it’s important to stay up …
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kmachin.bsky.social @kmachin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Energising Triangle of Care meeting this morning - thank you @purge11.bsky.social for the opportunity for a rant on the Mental Health Bill and the potential impact on family and friend carers
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kmachin.bsky.social @kmachin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Anyone know if the decrease in numbers of out of area placements for mental health <50km means a decrease in numbers of people - or an increase in merged Trusts? (so there's a larger area within any one organisation) tps://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/out-of-area-placements
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