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Nev Jones

@viscidula.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof Social Work- Democratizing Psychiatry - Critical Public Mental Health - Lived Experience & Disability Justice

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr...
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Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds
In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.
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Maya Schumer! @mayaschumer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)
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Center for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 Important new op-ed in @thehill.com by @jjjordynjensen.bsky.social & @viscidula.bsky.social As political leaders push forced psychiatric confinement, the federal government moves to dismantle PAIMI—one of the only safeguards against abuse in psych settings. Read at thehill.com/opinion/heal...
A dark, shadowy corridor with dim overhead lighting and labeled doors fades into the distance. At the center, a silhouetted figure stands facing forward, casting a long shadow. Bold white text reads: “Trump, RFK Jr. are pushing psychiatric confinement, not mental health care” with smaller text below: “Jordyn Jensen & Nev Jones.” The Hill's blue-and-white logo appears in the bottom right corner.
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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 14/05/2025
Allegheny County officials faced sharp questions from mental health advisory board members for considering "one of the most controversial practices in public mental health in the United States and internationally.” buff.ly/xavf4ei
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Allegheny County board skeptical of assisted outpatient treatment
County plans to opt into assisted outpatient treatment [AOT] drew skepticism and opposition from new Mental Health/Intellectual Disabilities advisors.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
9/9 How should we fund this better approach? "Slow the cash flow to law enforcement, reject wasteful and ineffective involuntary care, and reclaim simply caring, as we do in Canada, for each other." Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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We Need Alternatives to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act | The Tyee
A doctor calls for better investments in housing and mental health care, not policing.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
8/9 Prevention is possible—through investment in supportive housing and accessible healthcare with on-demand access to voluntary mental health supports, not through expanded policing powers and involuntary detention. #Prevention #SocialSupports
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
6/9 They recently observed this system in action—a disoriented man outside the hospital, likely experiencing psychosis, immediately surrounded by six officers in cruisers rather than receiving healthcare, despite being steps from a hospital entrance. #Crisis #Response
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1/9 ⚠️ FORCED CARE IS COMPASSIONATE CARE? ⚠️ Alberta's new Compassionate Intervention Act allows police to force people into treatment. A doctor serving unhoused populations witnessed a troubling reality with expanding involuntary treatment while the system remains broken. #MentalHealth
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Momento Vivere @behindthefrequency.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The White House is trying to destroy the NSF and public scientific research in the US. Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Here is a key paragraph: The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut. It would consolidate NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight. 2/n
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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wow. Pittsburgh.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 05/04/2025
Rahna Epting: They want us to be hopeless. They want us to feel alone in our concern. Are we alone? Crowd: No! Are we helpless? Crowd: No!! Hell no! #HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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Nev Jones @viscidula.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off Pittsburgh!!
Four researchers standing in light rain at the Hands Off Pittsburgh protest
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/04/2025
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New NBC story up about LGBTQ funding... www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
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Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter century.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New lawsuit filed today in Massachusetts aginst NIH from many state Attorneys General First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process 1/n
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/04/2025
The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data. Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch. www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you are an MAA member and your NEH or IMLS funding is at risk or has already been revoked, please email me. I don't know what, if anything, MAA can do to help you, but we will absolutely try. #MedievalSky
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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/04/2025
Along with the firings of up to 1300 co-workers this week and the removals of several institute leaders, NIH employees are dealing with another blow from the administration of President Donald Trump: a mandate to eliminate $2.6 billion in contracts. scim.ag/43XU1nd
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NIH under orders to cancel $2.6 billion in contracts
Mandate has set off a scramble to find places to trim awards that support much of the biomedical agency’s work
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ResistFascism @brokenwing2005.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Goodbye CDC, NIH, FDC 😢
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A helpful read on some of the legal avenues for appeal. What the new administration is doing to #NIH (& other HHS orgs like #CDC, #FDA) is not only economically wasteful but blatantly, morally bankrupt. People will be more sick and die needlessly as a result of these actions, now and in the future.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NIH staff are instructed to hold all awards located in South Africa, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea but also other countries I hadn't seen reported, including Nicaragua, Pakistan, Eritrea, Cuba, Burma, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Yemen, Venezuela, per source familiar w guidance.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Researchers did not mince words about this purge of senior NIH leadership: “This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says @mtosterholm.bsky.social. These cuts come on Jay Bhattacharya's first day as NIH director.
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Herr Doktor Evil @herrdoktorevil.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What happened within the NIH this morning is disgusting. We will not be able to continue to function. We lost entire offices critical to managing ONGOING CLINICAL TRIALS. Fuck everyone who allowed this to happen.
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Sarah D. Wire @sarahdwire.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Mass layoffs at HHS: Latest news on the moves at CDC, NIH and FDA; live updates www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com
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Mass layoffs at HHS: Latest news on the moves at CDC, NIH and FDA; live updates
Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention closed
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NIH Institute Directors being ousted: Per Jeremy, also NIA, NHGRI, more.
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reginalabelle.bsky.social @reginalabelle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US. We really are flying blind now.
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Large Marge (she/her) @margdoosamm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
@propublica.org wants to hear about terminated NIH grants. Please help spread the word. Independent journalism is needed now more than ever.
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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New newsletter post on the HHS "reorganization" -- really, gutting -- that RFK announced last week. ' Of Politics and Expertise -- Thoughts on the RFK "Reorganization" of HHS'. buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
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Of Politics and Expertise -- Thoughts on the RFK "Reorganization" of HHS
This past Thursday, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced a major restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services. The number of civil...
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The NIH terminated 145 grants related to research in HIV care. “These drastic cuts are rapidly destroying the infrastructure of scientific research in this country and we are going to lose a generation of scientists,” said Julia Marcus, of Harvard Medical School. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘Setting us back decades’
Termination of at least 145 grants will decimate progress toward eliminating epidemic, scientists say
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Whenever people challenge privileged elites and make them explain themselves, that is a Great Horror That Signals The End Times. But, those so-called protectors of free speech will say nothing when it comes to actual censorship based on fear of government retaliation. Because it was always a lie.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“At this crucial moment, clients need to find their courage, too. And partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession and the rule of law itself is at stake.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
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Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"So if the aloof trustees of #Harvard, #Princeton, #Yale et al think that their august institutions lie beyond his reach, perhaps they should understand that Trump looks on them much as Henry VIII looked on the rich monasteries of his heyday." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Jay Bhattacharya said in his confirmation hearing that he plans to restore NIH to its former glory & repair public distrust of science. Would love to hear how rescinding the NIH policy on scientific integrity accomplishes that goal. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
First lines of NOT-OD-25-080, available at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-080.html
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This letter submitted to Congress by the @aapd-disability.bsky.social and 450+ organizations: www.aapd.com/hhs-restruct...
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450+ Organizations Join AAPD In Letter to Congress re: HHS Restructuring - AAPD
On Friday, March 28, AAPD and more than 450 disability, civil rights, aging, mental health, and patient organizations sent a letter to majority, minority, and committee leadership in Congress expressi...
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
On addiction medicine consult service this week- patient arrested for missing court day last month (non-violent, low level crime) because was hospitalized for cardiac issues- now readmitted with a chest tube draining >1 liter of fluid- and CHAINED TO HER BED; wearing SHACKLES to work with PT. 1/2
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Powerful new Washington Post story up... wapo.st/426d9fT (Gift link) 1/n
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Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.
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Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“We would do well to take such signals both literally and seriously, if we are to preserve what history teaches is a bulwark against authoritarianism — a vibrant, robust, and independent university system.”
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‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’
Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.
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Kelly Dyer, MD MSHP @kdyer330.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
For those of you in Philadelphia/Pennsylvania… was made aware that senator dave McCormick was not aware any nih grants had been canceled. New calling campaign is to call him every time I become aware of canceled grant… please join me. Dc office mailbox is full but philly office is not! #IDSky
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Brian Trainor @briantrainor.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I will be reading through this and attending the aaas workshop tomorrow
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Just before bedtime last night I got a message from inside NIH which read: “It’s so, so bad and no one cares (who has any influence)” I asked “What, in particular?” My friend responded “Everything”
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
NEW: During these mass interruptions in NIH funding, scientists have been screaming for help from their institutions. I wrote about the handful of universities that are trying to keep researchers afloat by offering bridge funding — will there be enough to go around? www.chronicle.com/article/face...
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Faced With Frozen NIH Funding, These Universities Are Trying to Fill the Gap
Scientists have been screaming for a life raft. Some institutions hope internal funds will keep them afloat during the chaos.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/03/2025
Today, RFK Jr. announced that the Department of Human and Health Services would cut 10,000 employees. If you have been impacted by the layoffs, our reporters want to hear from you. You can reach out to us on Signal at 917-512-0201 or by going to propublica.org/tips.
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How to Contact ProPublica Securely — ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Rich Lord @richelord.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today some dozen immigrant children, housed in Pittsburgh, are set for "rocket docket" hearings on their statuses, a week after the Trump administration cancelled the contract that paid their lawyers, @chwolfson.bsky.social reports www.publicsource.org/immigrant-re...
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Immigrant children could lose legal aid in Pittsburgh, nationwide
Could immigrant children in the U.S. without an adult face judges alone now that their lawyers just lost federal funding?
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