Dr Tobias Atkinson
@tobiasa1994.bsky.social
"I said who put all those things in your head?"
Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University Medical School. He/they.
Interested in neurodiversity, disability, gender, sexuality, critical/anti-psychiatry, affect and psychoanalysis.
Shares not endorsements.
Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University Medical School. He/they.
Interested in neurodiversity, disability, gender, sexuality, critical/anti-psychiatry, affect and psychoanalysis.
Shares not endorsements.
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A Panorama programme in 2022 revealed that patients were humiliated, bullied and abused at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of 4 people at Edenfield
A Panorama programme in 2022 revealed that patients were humiliated, bullied and abused at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of 4 people at Edenfield
Mental health unit care workers charged after BBC Panorama probe
Two care workers are charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit in Greater Manchester in 2022.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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A Panorama programme in 2022 revealed that patients were humiliated, bullied and abused at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of 4 people at Edenfield
A Panorama programme in 2022 revealed that patients were humiliated, bullied and abused at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of 4 people at Edenfield
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🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.
Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.
Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
bylinetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨 Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand ‘Test and Trace’ Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.
Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
+ New emails released to Byline reveal Cummings involvement in VIP Lane deals.
Read my latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social report here: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
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🔴Challenger to Lead Britain’s Biggest Union Vows to Review Labour Ties and Slash Own Salary in Bid to Unseat Starmer Ally
Bolton social worker Andrea Egan is fighting to overhaul Unison’s leadership and promising a shift towards taking more strike action
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/c...
Bolton social worker Andrea Egan is fighting to overhaul Unison’s leadership and promising a shift towards taking more strike action
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/c...
Challenger to Lead Britain's Biggest Union Vows to Review Labour Ties and Slash Own Salary in Bid to Unseat Starmer Ally
Bolton social worker Andrea Egan is fighting to overhaul Unison's leadership and promising a shift towards taking more strike action
bylinetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🔴Challenger to Lead Britain’s Biggest Union Vows to Review Labour Ties and Slash Own Salary in Bid to Unseat Starmer Ally
Bolton social worker Andrea Egan is fighting to overhaul Unison’s leadership and promising a shift towards taking more strike action
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/c...
Bolton social worker Andrea Egan is fighting to overhaul Unison’s leadership and promising a shift towards taking more strike action
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/c...
Yet another example of the close interconnection of transphobic and ableist politics in the current period.
The last paragraph of the Sami Timimi interview in the tes magazine clearly confirms the reactionary politics of the anti-neurodiversity branch of anti-psychiatry. The interview was also praised by the hardcore neoliberal educationalist Tom Bennett.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yet another example of the close interconnection of transphobic and ableist politics in the current period.
Unsurprising development.
Two Labour ministers in Wes Streeting's Dept of Health & Social Care met with authors who believe mental health and neurodiversity-related condition are over-diagnosed.
This could be significant for Labour's imminent second assault on PIP payments.
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @leedsdpac.bsky.social
This could be significant for Labour's imminent second assault on PIP payments.
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @leedsdpac.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Unsurprising development.
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Two Labour ministers in Wes Streeting's Dept of Health & Social Care met with authors who believe mental health and neurodiversity-related condition are over-diagnosed.
This could be significant for Labour's imminent second assault on PIP payments.
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @leedsdpac.bsky.social
This could be significant for Labour's imminent second assault on PIP payments.
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @leedsdpac.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Two Labour ministers in Wes Streeting's Dept of Health & Social Care met with authors who believe mental health and neurodiversity-related condition are over-diagnosed.
This could be significant for Labour's imminent second assault on PIP payments.
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @leedsdpac.bsky.social
This could be significant for Labour's imminent second assault on PIP payments.
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @leedsdpac.bsky.social
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Something I've learned is institutions treat inclusion less as a right and more as a kind of weapon, offering it where it benefits them and then subtly withdrawing it selectively, say, to punish or intimidate. In this dynamic even the acts of inclusion become a form of division and domination.
October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Something I've learned is institutions treat inclusion less as a right and more as a kind of weapon, offering it where it benefits them and then subtly withdrawing it selectively, say, to punish or intimidate. In this dynamic even the acts of inclusion become a form of division and domination.
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FWIW, this is the MP who works with and co-authors with leading critical psychiatry proponents and PTMF authors.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
Farage urged to take action against Reform MP for 'dinosaur' LGBT comments
There are calls for Nigel Farage to take action against Reform MP Danny Kruger after he warned against the UK being led by a "LGBT-supporting" party.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
FWIW, this is the MP who works with and co-authors with leading critical psychiatry proponents and PTMF authors.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...
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🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not.
This is worse than we feared.
www.e-flux.com/journal/157/...
Really useful piece from Dagmar Herzog analysing eroticised racism and sadistic ableism of contemporary far right movements and the historical continuities with Nazism. Definitely want to read the full book when I get a copy.
Really useful piece from Dagmar Herzog analysing eroticised racism and sadistic ableism of contemporary far right movements and the historical continuities with Nazism. Definitely want to read the full book when I get a copy.
The New Fascist Body - Journal #157
Excerpted from Dagmar Herzog’s recent book, this text focuses on the way modern-day fascism is preoccupied with disability and "sexy racism.”
www.e-flux.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
www.e-flux.com/journal/157/...
Really useful piece from Dagmar Herzog analysing eroticised racism and sadistic ableism of contemporary far right movements and the historical continuities with Nazism. Definitely want to read the full book when I get a copy.
Really useful piece from Dagmar Herzog analysing eroticised racism and sadistic ableism of contemporary far right movements and the historical continuities with Nazism. Definitely want to read the full book when I get a copy.
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This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
Matt Goodwin’s stance on migration is pretty much indistinguishable from that of the BNP in the past 1990s and not a million miles from that of the NF in the 1970s.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.
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Young people are bearing the brunt of a worsening mental health crisis in the UK. 🔴
We've just released new analysis showing that the number of young people struggling with their mental health has more than doubled since 2009.
It's not just unfair, it's totally preventable.👉https://bit.ly/4orwdPz
We've just released new analysis showing that the number of young people struggling with their mental health has more than doubled since 2009.
It's not just unfair, it's totally preventable.👉https://bit.ly/4orwdPz
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Young people are bearing the brunt of a worsening mental health crisis in the UK. 🔴
We've just released new analysis showing that the number of young people struggling with their mental health has more than doubled since 2009.
It's not just unfair, it's totally preventable.👉https://bit.ly/4orwdPz
We've just released new analysis showing that the number of young people struggling with their mental health has more than doubled since 2009.
It's not just unfair, it's totally preventable.👉https://bit.ly/4orwdPz
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Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
www.equator.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Equator is live today. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: www.equator.org
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On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
On the 27th October 1924, Sigmund Freud appeared on the cover of Time magazine for the first time. #Freud #Time #Psychoanalysis
Some rather ominous cases here.
Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 complaints back, but a couple stood out.
They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT:
www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...
They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT:
www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...
People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Some rather ominous cases here.
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"Tricolor+First Brands had also borrowed from a breed of nonbank financial firms known collectively as private credit, whose workings are much more opaque. How many of their other borrowers are overleveraged in this way? What will happen if they, too, falter?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
October 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Tricolor+First Brands had also borrowed from a breed of nonbank financial firms known collectively as private credit, whose workings are much more opaque. How many of their other borrowers are overleveraged in this way? What will happen if they, too, falter?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
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This makes for grim reading, although there is a hopeful note at the end.
This makes for grim reading, although there is a hopeful note at the end.
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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This makes for grim reading, although there is a hopeful note at the end.
This makes for grim reading, although there is a hopeful note at the end.
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An exchange between Joel Kovel and Ian Craib in Radical Philosophy on the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism.
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/marx...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/marx...
October 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
An exchange between Joel Kovel and Ian Craib in Radical Philosophy on the relationship between psychoanalysis and Marxism.
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/marx...
www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/marx...
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We will be joined by @makanrights.bsky.social for ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, two workshops examining the concepts of disability and disablement in relation to Palestine.
Taking place on the 12th and 26th of November, 4-5.30, click below to register.
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Taking place on the 12th and 26th of November, 4-5.30, click below to register.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation workshops with Makan
NSUN is excited to be working with Makan to deliver two interactive workshops to members on Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation.
www.nsun.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We will be joined by @makanrights.bsky.social for ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, two workshops examining the concepts of disability and disablement in relation to Palestine.
Taking place on the 12th and 26th of November, 4-5.30, click below to register.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
Taking place on the 12th and 26th of November, 4-5.30, click below to register.
www.nsun.org.uk/news/nothing...
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I turned this post into a blog: rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/n...
Nothing about us with Suzanne O’Sullivan
Photograph of two people at a protest holding a banner with images of various disabled people and slogans including “Disabled people fightback”, “Nothing about us without us”…
rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I turned this post into a blog: rejoiceandcomplain.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/n...
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If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
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www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
History and Politics Seminar Series | Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
Michaelmas Term Seminars All meetings will take place in the Knox Shaw Room at Sidney Sussex College on Wednesdays at 5:30pm, except for the conference on 13 November, which will be held at Churchill ...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If you're in Cambridge next Wednesday, do join me for the History and Politics seminar, where I'll be talking about the politicisation of disability in early to mid twentieth-century Britain through print culture, marches, charters and defiant visual culture.
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
www.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/histo...
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What is the relationship between our work and our health?
With Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review imminent, explore the links in our Evidence Hub ⬇️
With Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review imminent, explore the links in our Evidence Hub ⬇️
Evidence Hub: Work | The Health Foundation
Explore the different ways in which work can affect health
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October 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM
What is the relationship between our work and our health?
With Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review imminent, explore the links in our Evidence Hub ⬇️
With Charlie Mayfield’s Keep Britain Working Review imminent, explore the links in our Evidence Hub ⬇️
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What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable?
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
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Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
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October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What will it be like to work or study at Lancaster University, if the current plans to fire 1 out of 4 staff members are implemented? How will these impact local communities and businesses? And who will be held accountable?
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
chng.it/xJpLzrsVvs
Sign our petition to stop unnecessary cuts to education!
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