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rasmusbirk.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Psychology @ Aalborg University. I use qualitative methods to study mental health, focusing especially on the social, cultural and spatial contexts of experience. https://www.rasmusbirk.org/
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Imagine you spent the last decade building a career around being wrong abt the gravest threats to speech in America. When this becomes clear, you could a) either admit it, or b) relabel the threats to say that you were right all along. You'll never guess which route Thomas Chatterton Williams took!

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

The fascist subtext is not subtext, or even text, but a massive neon sign.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

Very unfortunate that this is happening at a low point in the cultural prestige of psychoanalysis imo. Imagine what a Reich or a Fromm could have done with these freaks.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

American scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

It feels like it should be a bigger story that S&P Global is considering downgrading SoftBank's credit rating due to their investment in OpenAI, saying that their "financial condition will likely deteriorate" as a result of their investment. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

*rising hysterical laughter*

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Economic crisis, a recession looming. We all know what comes next... Articles in the financial press asking if Marx was right

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Ok but you have to understand. There was a black woman jedi on the teevee. They made an all woman ghostbusters. Someone at my job said “Latinx” bsky.app/profile/jame...

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

Let me take this low-news days to say that colleagues and I are now soliciting abstracts for a special issue of the Sociology of Health and Illness: 'Urban Experiences of Health and Illness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care and Wellbeing in the City.' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The new issue of Philosophical Psychology is a delight, featuring one special issue on immunity to error through misidentification and two symposia on already classic books by fantastic women in philosophy, Elizabeth Barnes and Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic www.tandfonline.com/... #philsky #booksky

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 15 days ago • 433 comments

Also, once again, this is THE LAW IN FRANCE. These penalties exist, in statutes passed by the National Assembly, for reasons judged important by the elected legislators of the Republic. Fuck your "I'm so scared of right-wing extremism that I have to pander to it, unconditionally, all the time."

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

I think this is a pretty useful way to think about politics and media - broadly - these days. We need to rediscover the principle of symmetry from STS; too many analyses are only interested in understanding/explaining one part of the political spectrum. Why?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Some thoughts on mental health, capacity for work, and the end of the WCA - based on in-depth qualitative research involving claimants with lived experience of mental health problems…

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Yet another new "over-diagnosis" book, "No More Normal" by psychiatrist Alastair Santhouse, has just been promoted by the Times. Three of these have come out and been pushed by the reactionary press in recent weeks now - just as this discourse is used to justify disability welfare cuts.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

very funny watching the ivy league prove beyond any doubt that it believes its *sole* purpose is to reproduce the governing class, not any sort of academic mission. another w for the most cynical left-wing reading of American society lol

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Funnily enough the British free speech warriors who were so determined to protect free speech on campus they made up data on cancelled events, and relentlessly and successfully lobbied the government to pass a law protecting a right already legally protected, have had *nothing* to say on this.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 19 days ago • 179 comments

The Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health! @matthewbroome.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.bsky.social @jelliedsours.bsky.social @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social @rritunnano.bsky.social @emas-b.bsky.social @femimind.bsky.social @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and many talented colleagues!

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

They’re very sure they won’t get significant pushback on this and I’m unfortunately confident they’re right.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

For people earnestly suggesting FIFA withdraw the world cup from the US, can I suggest consulting the Wikipedia page on FIFA, and scrolling to either "controversies" or "corruption."

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments