Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
@drjacekdebiec.bsky.social
Psychiatrist. Researcher of Fear and Memory. Author.
#PlanetaryHealth, #BrainHealth and #MentalHealth
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/psychiatrists/jacek-debiec-ann-arbor-mi/121480
#PlanetaryHealth, #BrainHealth and #MentalHealth
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/psychiatrists/jacek-debiec-ann-arbor-mi/121480
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There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n
Dominika Tworek recently interviewed me for Polish Zwierciadlo about #climatedenial in adults and #climateanxiety in children:
"Maybe our children worry because we, adults, don't worry enough?"
#ClimateSky
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
"Maybe our children worry because we, adults, don't worry enough?"
#ClimateSky
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Dominika Tworek recently interviewed me for Polish Zwierciadlo about #climatedenial in adults and #climateanxiety in children:
"Maybe our children worry because we, adults, don't worry enough?"
#ClimateSky
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
"Maybe our children worry because we, adults, don't worry enough?"
#ClimateSky
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
Z rozmowy o zbiorowym denializmie dorosłych i lękach klimatycznych dzieci, którą ze mną przeprowadziła dla Zwierciadła Dominika Tworek: "Może właśnie nasze dzieci martwią się, bo widzą, że jako dorośli się nie martwimy?"
CC: @joannakedzierska.bsky.social
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
CC: @joannakedzierska.bsky.social
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Z rozmowy o zbiorowym denializmie dorosłych i lękach klimatycznych dzieci, którą ze mną przeprowadziła dla Zwierciadła Dominika Tworek: "Może właśnie nasze dzieci martwią się, bo widzą, że jako dorośli się nie martwimy?"
CC: @joannakedzierska.bsky.social
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
CC: @joannakedzierska.bsky.social
#COP30
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
This reset should start with asking"Why is it easier to phase out democracy than fossil fuels?
Obama:“America is the largest oil producer,that was me people..say thank you”
Trump:"drill,baby drill"
Harris:"[Biden-Harris administration has overseen] the largest increase in domestic oil production"
Obama:“America is the largest oil producer,that was me people..say thank you”
Trump:"drill,baby drill"
Harris:"[Biden-Harris administration has overseen] the largest increase in domestic oil production"
I was asked to contribute to The WIRED World 2025, and this is what I said.👇 Thanks to the editors for reaching out!
The climate conversation needs a hard reset.
www.wired.com/story/fossil...
The climate conversation needs a hard reset.
www.wired.com/story/fossil...
The Fossil Fuels Conversation Needs a Hard Reset
The term “reducing emissions” has outlived its usefulness, a crutch to soften the blow that’s being exploited by greenwashers. Now it’s time to get real.
www.wired.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:14 PM
This reset should start with asking"Why is it easier to phase out democracy than fossil fuels?
Obama:“America is the largest oil producer,that was me people..say thank you”
Trump:"drill,baby drill"
Harris:"[Biden-Harris administration has overseen] the largest increase in domestic oil production"
Obama:“America is the largest oil producer,that was me people..say thank you”
Trump:"drill,baby drill"
Harris:"[Biden-Harris administration has overseen] the largest increase in domestic oil production"
In the U.S., it's easier to end democracy than the political establishment's support for fossil fuels.
Trump: "Drill, baby, drill!"
Harris: "I was a tie-breaking vote..., which opened new leases for fracking."
Obama: "We are drilling all over the place... That's not the problem."
#ClimateSky
Trump: "Drill, baby, drill!"
Harris: "I was a tie-breaking vote..., which opened new leases for fracking."
Obama: "We are drilling all over the place... That's not the problem."
#ClimateSky
America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In the U.S., it's easier to end democracy than the political establishment's support for fossil fuels.
Trump: "Drill, baby, drill!"
Harris: "I was a tie-breaking vote..., which opened new leases for fracking."
Obama: "We are drilling all over the place... That's not the problem."
#ClimateSky
Trump: "Drill, baby, drill!"
Harris: "I was a tie-breaking vote..., which opened new leases for fracking."
Obama: "We are drilling all over the place... That's not the problem."
#ClimateSky
More carbon emissions to mine more Bitcoin. The costs for the planet do not matter.
"The fossil-fuel powered plant, operated by Greenidge Generation, has the capacity to run more than 20,000 computers continuously to solve complex algorithms that release new Bitcoin."
#ClimateSky
"The fossil-fuel powered plant, operated by Greenidge Generation, has the capacity to run more than 20,000 computers continuously to solve complex algorithms that release new Bitcoin."
#ClimateSky
It got overshadowed by the pipeline news, but NYS’s deal to allow Greenidge Generation to keep operating an upstate gas plant *for the sole purpose of mining bitcoin* might be almost as big of a reversal gothamist.com/news/upstate...
Upstate NY Bitcoin mine agrees to slash emissions, will get air permit from the state
The move comes days after Hochul’s administration paved the way for a new natural gas pipeline in New York Harbor.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
More carbon emissions to mine more Bitcoin. The costs for the planet do not matter.
"The fossil-fuel powered plant, operated by Greenidge Generation, has the capacity to run more than 20,000 computers continuously to solve complex algorithms that release new Bitcoin."
#ClimateSky
"The fossil-fuel powered plant, operated by Greenidge Generation, has the capacity to run more than 20,000 computers continuously to solve complex algorithms that release new Bitcoin."
#ClimateSky
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
The reality of #overshoot and the #climatecrisis:
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran
The government is pleading with Iranians to save water as reservoirs dry up and rainfall is at a record low.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The reality of #overshoot and the #climatecrisis:
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The reality of #overshoot and the #climatecrisis:
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran
The government is pleading with Iranians to save water as reservoirs dry up and rainfall is at a record low.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The reality of #overshoot and the #climatecrisis:
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"If rationing doesn't work, we may have to evacuate Tehran."
#ClimateSky
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“This information clearly exposes corporate capture of the global climate process … the space that should be about science and the people has been transformed into a large carbon business hall.”
Creative self-destruction "How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“This information clearly exposes corporate capture of the global climate process … the space that should be about science and the people has been transformed into a large carbon business hall.”
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
From my interview for the Polish Zwierciadlo about #climatechange and #mentalhealth: "How should adults respond to a child's #climateanxiety? Don't see everything as a mental disorder. Perhaps children worry because they see that we, adults, don't worry enough?"
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
Solastalgia – nowy lęk XXI wieku. Media ciągle nas „straszą”, a zdaniem badaczy z Harvardu to głównie demotywuje
Może właśnie nasze dzieci martwią się, bo widzą, że jako dorośli się nie martwimy? – zastanawia się psychiatra i filozof dr Jacek Dębiec w rozmowie o lękach, jakie wśród młodych ludzi budzi pogłębiają...
zwierciadlo.pl
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
From my interview for the Polish Zwierciadlo about #climatechange and #mentalhealth: "How should adults respond to a child's #climateanxiety? Don't see everything as a mental disorder. Perhaps children worry because they see that we, adults, don't worry enough?"
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy"
- Marie Skłodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.
- Marie Skłodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy"
- Marie Skłodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.
- Marie Skłodowska Curie, born on this day in 1867.
A real emergency use of the National Guard: "Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is sending the National Guard to staff food banks while more than 600,000 in the state await federal food assistance during the ongoing government shutdown."
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...
Beshear sends state National Guard to staff food banks seeing ‘surge’ amid SNAP delays • Kentucky Lantern
Gov. Andy Beshear is sending the National Guard to staff food banks while more than 600,000 in the state await federal food assistance.
kentuckylantern.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A real emergency use of the National Guard: "Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is sending the National Guard to staff food banks while more than 600,000 in the state await federal food assistance during the ongoing government shutdown."
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...
Hoarding, including hoarding of enormous wealth and resources, is a pathology.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade
In an era of skyrocketing CEO pay, the award is unprecedented. The deal sets up Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Hoarding, including hoarding of enormous wealth and resources, is a pathology.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
From my interview for the Polish Zwierciadlo about #climatechange and #mentalhealth: "How should adults respond to a child's #climateanxiety? Don't see everything as a mental disorder. Perhaps children worry because they see that we, adults, don't worry enough?"
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
Solastalgia – nowy lęk XXI wieku. Media ciągle nas „straszą”, a zdaniem badaczy z Harvardu to głównie demotywuje
Może właśnie nasze dzieci martwią się, bo widzą, że jako dorośli się nie martwimy? – zastanawia się psychiatra i filozof dr Jacek Dębiec w rozmowie o lękach, jakie wśród młodych ludzi budzi pogłębiają...
zwierciadlo.pl
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
From my interview for the Polish Zwierciadlo about #climatechange and #mentalhealth: "How should adults respond to a child's #climateanxiety? Don't see everything as a mental disorder. Perhaps children worry because they see that we, adults, don't worry enough?"
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
zwierciadlo.pl/psychologia/...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
"For the first 25 years of Putin's rule, Russians didn't live in fear. Now they live in fear, obedience, and learned ignorance, as if they didn't want to know anything. Because they realize that anything can happen to anyone." - Russian author, Dmitry Glukhovsky
www.newsweek.pl/swiat/znany-...
www.newsweek.pl/swiat/znany-...
Jaki jest najbardziej prawdopodobny scenariusz dla Rosji? "Całkowita dezintegracja"
Przez pierwsze 25 lat rządów Putina Rosjanie nie żyli w strachu. Teraz żyją w strachu, posłuszeństwie i wyuczonej ignorancji, jakby niczego nie chcieli wiedzieć. Zdają sobie bowiem sprawę, że każdemu ...
www.newsweek.pl
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"For the first 25 years of Putin's rule, Russians didn't live in fear. Now they live in fear, obedience, and learned ignorance, as if they didn't want to know anything. Because they realize that anything can happen to anyone." - Russian author, Dmitry Glukhovsky
www.newsweek.pl/swiat/znany-...
www.newsweek.pl/swiat/znany-...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
"Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates... 0.15% of users had conversations with explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent."
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
ChatGPT: More than a million users show signs of mental health distress and mania each week, internal data suggest
Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates.1
The finding, released as part of an update to the AI technology to...
www.bmj.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates... 0.15% of users had conversations with explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent."
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
Nature: "An estimated 40,000 highly educated but underemployed young people ghostwrite everything from undergraduate essays to master’s dissertations and PhD theses, often producing several essays every day, with tight turnarounds."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nature: "An estimated 40,000 highly educated but underemployed young people ghostwrite everything from undergraduate essays to master’s dissertations and PhD theses, often producing several essays every day, with tight turnarounds."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates... 0.15% of users had conversations with explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent."
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
ChatGPT: More than a million users show signs of mental health distress and mania each week, internal data suggest
Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates.1
The finding, released as part of an update to the AI technology to...
www.bmj.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users exhibit signs of psychosis, mania, or suicidal intent every week, a company audit indicates... 0.15% of users had conversations with explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent."
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Nature: "An estimated 40,000 highly educated but underemployed young people ghostwrite everything from undergraduate essays to master’s dissertations and PhD theses, often producing several essays every day, with tight turnarounds."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nature: "An estimated 40,000 highly educated but underemployed young people ghostwrite everything from undergraduate essays to master’s dissertations and PhD theses, often producing several essays every day, with tight turnarounds."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"By understanding when and where critical genes are turned on during development, we can begin to uncover how disruptions in that process may lead to disorders like autism or schizophrenia."
#NeuroSky
#PsychSky
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
#NeuroSky
#PsychSky
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
Scientists complete first drafts of developing mammalian brain cell atlases
A global consortium of scientists has created the first and most detailed "developmental maps" of the mammalian brain (from mouse to human) to date, taking the first critical steps in unraveling the m...
medicalxpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
"By understanding when and where critical genes are turned on during development, we can begin to uncover how disruptions in that process may lead to disorders like autism or schizophrenia."
#NeuroSky
#PsychSky
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
#NeuroSky
#PsychSky
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
How will science driven by AI look like?
Why do scientific journals recommend using AI bots?
Have the effectiveness of these bots been verified by multiple, multisite and multidisciplinary research?
#AcademicSky
Why do scientific journals recommend using AI bots?
Have the effectiveness of these bots been verified by multiple, multisite and multidisciplinary research?
#AcademicSky
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
How will science driven by AI look like?
Why do scientific journals recommend using AI bots?
Have the effectiveness of these bots been verified by multiple, multisite and multidisciplinary research?
#AcademicSky
Why do scientific journals recommend using AI bots?
Have the effectiveness of these bots been verified by multiple, multisite and multidisciplinary research?
#AcademicSky
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
"European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during..negotiation over..shipping rules... — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting..as the U.S. maneuvered to block a new effort to tax pollution"
#ClimateSky
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
#ClimateSky
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during..negotiation over..shipping rules... — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting..as the U.S. maneuvered to block a new effort to tax pollution"
#ClimateSky
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
#ClimateSky
www.politico.eu/article/us-a...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The authors of this editorial in Nature seem to forget that fighting climate change without the US may sometimes mean fighting it against the US. It does make things more challenging.
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#ClimateSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...