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Matthew B

@matthewbroome.bsky.social
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Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis

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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 08/04/2026
I contributed an entry on mental disorders to this new encyclopedia with @matthewbroome.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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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...
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Thank you both! Need to get back to @bsky.app and this will motivate me
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“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.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
...they told her no, didn't they
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis live from First Ave, Minneapolis, Jan 30th 2026
YouTube video by Christopher Bungert
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Some sun on dog walk
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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
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Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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...
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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...
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Macaulay Culkin posted a tribute to Catherine O’Hara….I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥺🙏
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 30/01/2026
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
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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 🧵 THREAD
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
David Hume’s tomb attacked by satanists! @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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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
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 30/01/2026
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!
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix)
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 27/01/2026
This would result in a Parliament with 322 right-of-centre MPs and 320 left-of-centre MPs...
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Enjoyed it a lot this morning on drive in, thank you @bunkerpod.bsky.social
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home. inews.co.uk/opinion/rejo...
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Rejoining the EU is the only way to stop Trump
It is time to return home
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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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...
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PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Manon Garcia
Guest host Kate Kirkpatrick discusses 'Living with Men' with French Philosopher, Manon Garcia.
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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
A digital health intervention
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
More members of Liz Truss's cabinet are in Reform than in Badenoch's shadow cabinet...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is how the Tory statement on Braverman's defection begins... <godzilla let-them-fight gif>
"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'!
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Laura Crane @lauramaycrane.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our new study, just published in Nature Mental Health: Symptom change in depression and anxiety during psychological therapy for autistic adults... [1/8] 🧵⤵️ #autres #mentalhealth www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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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.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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.
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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?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"'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...
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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...
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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
A phone with social media notifications
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
That NEC decision on Burnham was predictable, but also: cowardly, insecure, factional, long-term counter-strategic and symptomatic of administrative malaise.
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"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.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex pretti was a Va nurse and a dog owner
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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Rounding off yesterday’s 20th Anniversary celebrations @ip-sas.bsky.social with an AI vs Human Cocktail Turing Taste Test designed by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social and delivered by Isabel Graham-Yool
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/01/2026
as a parent I cannot imagine how absolutely fucking heartbreaking and awful it must be to have to put out a statement like this because the federal government killed your son and is telling monstrous lies about him
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A while back
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC on Noem's lies: "They are asking you to give up your belief in your own senses and instead hand over your belief to anything they say ... look at it for yourself and what you will see is an innocent man being executed in the street."
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just remembered Snow Patrol today open.spotify.com/track/49Gklf...
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How To Be Dead - Live At Somerset House, London, UK / 2004
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Big backtrack from Trump tonight
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
How terrible for you!
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Trapped in Mexico due to snowpocalypse
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm looking for suggestions of what to cover in a special series of interviews when I reach my 500th podcast episode: things I should have covered in past series, but missed out! More explanation here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/suggestions-... Thanks in advance! #philsky #philosophy
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Request for ideas: episode 500! | History of Philosophy without any gaps
As you might have noticed I am coming up on episode 500 of the podcast (to air in autumn 2026 or so), and my plan is to celebrate this by doing several (probably five) interviews covering topics that ...
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Adore this !
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 24/01/2026
This is Edie. She takes approximately 3 to 7 business days to eat a piece of cheese. She and her four teeth cannot be rushed. 13/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: littleediethechi)
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/01/2026
Snowstorm #Goals from the @squirrel_boxes instagram 🥰😴 #sqrlpix
squirrel asleep in a little wooden house
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Maybe it’s an allusion to the Gotham villain?
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a close up of a man 's face with the word max in the corner
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the word max in the corner
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A big problem with The End of History is it’s far too long and has far too much Hegel so most people know the title but not the book and missed the crucial and prophetic caveat at the end. This book should have remained an essay
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Latest papers: Nicolás Sebastián Sánchez argues that Dennett’s views on the intentional stance shift eschews the role of the rationalists assumption in deterring what the system represents doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A primate
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Frances Egan @francesegan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation this week. Comments by Mazviita Chirimuuta, Caitlin Mace & Adina Roskies, and Oron Shagrir. philosophyofbrains.com/2026/01/12/f...
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Frankie Egan: Brains Blog precis of Deflating Mental Representation  — The Brains Blog
Brains Blog precis of Deflating Mental Representation  In the book I propose what I call a deflationary account of mental representation, characterized by three claims:  (1…
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My God. I’m writing about the last 100 years of theories of equality and just realised that Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (1971) falls into the first half.
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A few photos from this great event yesterday @ip-sas.bsky.social @barrycsmith.bsky.social
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