Nev Jones
@viscidula.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Social Work- Democratizing Psychiatry - Critical Public Mental Health - Lived Experience & Disability Justice
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Nev Jones
@viscidula.bsky.social
· Nov 17
I’ve long argued that the U.S. public mental health system needs radical reform but now, a month after returning from Trieste, half-way through my tour of Australia, I think we’ve lost the plot in even deeper ways. A 🧵
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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.
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-groundbr...
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...
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
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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...
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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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!)
🧠 WHY IS MY BRAIN TRYING TO K!LL ME?: Living With Bipolar 1 Disorder & Chronic S#icidality with Dr. @mayaschumer.bsky.social (pt. 1) ☯️
Ep. 40 of A Chat with Uma out now! Listen here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma...
#BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #LivedExperience 1/
Ep. 40 of A Chat with Uma out now! Listen here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma...
#BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #LivedExperience 1/
May 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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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🚨 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...
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...
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨 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...
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...
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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
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.
www.publicsource.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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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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.”
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.”
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.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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.”
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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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...
Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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.
thetyee.ca
May 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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...
Dr. Bonnie Larson, community physician, The Tyee
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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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
#Prevention #SocialSupports
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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
#Prevention #SocialSupports
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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
⚠️ 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
May 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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⚠️ 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
⚠️ 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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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...
Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
May 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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...
Fight back. Here is the link to the media tool kit: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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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.
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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.
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April 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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.
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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.
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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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
Are we alone?
Crowd: No!
Are we helpless?
Crowd: No!!
Hell no!
#HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
Are we alone?
Crowd: No!
Are we helpless?
Crowd: No!!
Hell no!
#HandsOff @rahnamepting.bsky.social
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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.
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.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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.
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.
Hands Off Pittsburgh!!
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hands Off Pittsburgh!!
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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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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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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
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First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process
1/n
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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
First, plaintiffs seek relief for the unreasonable and intentional delays currently plaguing the grant-application process
1/n
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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...
Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch.
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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."
www.404media.co
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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...
Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch.
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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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.
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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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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
DOGE has targeted the NEH and as of this morning has begun terminating PREVIOUSLY-AWARDED grants. Contact your Congresspeople today.
URGENT: Save the NEH
p2a.co
April 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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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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
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
scim.ag
April 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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Goodbye CDC, NIH, FDC
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“The amount of knowledge that is being purged today at CDC is just tragic.”
@swin24.bsky.social and @lorenaoneil.com spoke with several current and former staffers about the layoffs and the impact they will have on Americans for years to come.
@swin24.bsky.social and @lorenaoneil.com spoke with several current and former staffers about the layoffs and the impact they will have on Americans for years to come.
Inside Trump and RFK Jr.'s Health Agency 'Bloodbath'
Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are uncertain.
www.rollingstone.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Goodbye CDC, NIH, FDC
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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.
April 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM