This headline is simply infuriating as none of the rest of the story (nor the report itself from what I have seen) supports this claim. Rather consistent long term austerity has made it harder to get a diagnosis. Very poor show BBC.

REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 5d ago

Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apropos of everything, my book on death in law enforcement custody begins with a chapter on lynching & the direct historical linkage btwn these two phenomena. Lynchings were very public acts and only declined as overtly racist policing & capital punishment were put into place. deathincustodybook.com

Death in Custody - How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can do About It.

The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this?

deathincustodybook.com

30k jobs lost in the university sector and nobody batters an eyelid. 900 jobs in the steel industry and government holds a COBRA meeting. Surprising strategy given multiple governments' commitment to "growth".

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last wk.

'The job cuts are one of the highest figures seen in a sector which has seen an estimated 30,000 cut in recent years as universities battle a financial crisis caused by declining international enrolments, rising costs and a long fee freeze.'

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Completely echo The Wheelers in Return to Oz when I was 6 (also watched the film later in life and still found it terrifying). Honourable mention to Stphen King's It as well, which was shown on our school bus every night for a week when I was 12. Couldn't go out alone for weeks.

Kay@gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · last wk.

Two answers. The Wheelers in Return to Oz and the entirety of the episode The Soldier and Death from Jim Henson’s The Storyteller.

Impressed that healthcare was directly referred to in HMICFRS's report of Scottish police custody suites. Our study didn't include Scotland but happy to see healthcare being taken much more seriously. Will have to check the report to see if it is actually healthcare or simply safeguarding.

Policing Insight@policinginsight.bsky.social · 2w ago

HMICS warns custody arrangements are ‘outdated’ and not fit for purpose [SUBSCRIBER ARTICLE] policinginsight.com/feature/hmic...

What a fantastic (and much needed) module to provide MA students with a deep (and ultimately optimistic) scholarly approach for navigating our present technolandscape.

Stephen Hughes@stephenhues.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very excited to be working with the amazing @thecentriclab.com on MSc module - Emotions, Technology & Power. I’ve been a longtime fan of Centric and their radical approach to justice-oriented science. Getting to design a course with them is a dream come true. Students taking this module are lucky! 🧵

'We thought this time would be different – it hasn't been. Perhaps we need to accept an uncomfortable reality: higher education simply isn't high enough up the government's political priority list.'

If universities aren’t a priority, at least give them certainty

With Labour Party conference underway and universities still well down the queue, Ian Turgoose argues the sector’s most realistic ask is certainty about what government wants it to look like

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Great thread!

This skeet will self destruct@pardoguerra.bsky.social · 3w ago

From Mary Douglas to Barry Barnes to every single sociologist of knowledge worth anything, we know that scientific knowledge is conventional and grounded on *social*, collectve institutions. An LLM faffing around with bio papers is neither an institution, nor collective, nor conventional.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, nearly all the students I see in my role as providing additional support, are all working full-time (or close to full-time) outside their studies. The cost of university nowadays is far too high.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

'A third and two thirds can’t both be right. And when a minister at the heart of the government’s economic thinking picks one of them, it matters which is closer to reality.'

University messaging on the value of universities has clearly failed. Instead of repeating the same messages for the same result (or hiring a new PR firm), maybe try engaging with academic staff (who actually teach and support students) to message differently and better?

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Had a great time at #MedSoc. Definitely a theme of "Carceral Seepage" (Serrano 2026) across many of the papers (well those I attended anyway). @ellenstewart.bsky.social and my event on criminal justice healthcare was well-attended and had great discussion. Overall, very successful conference.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok@mrtylercrook.bsky.social · last mo.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Excited to attend the @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social annual conference this week. Specifically looking forward to @annekerr.bsky.social plenary today and @profellenstu.bsky.social and my special event on new sociological approaches to healthcare in criminal justice tomorrow.

My institution just launched a staff survey a week after 75% of applicants were turned down for promotion. This will end well (although should be grateful we had a promotion round, thanks to the unions for that). Might provide UEB with insight into why NSS scores collected in Feb are so poor!

Always easy to find contemporary examples for my social construction of crime lectures. This year's example 80 year old climate change "terrorists" versus blackshirt "protestors".

If a few older ladies sitting in roads blocking traffic to protest climate change is regarded as 'terrorism' then hundreds of balaclava-wearing thugs doing the same (regardless of reason) certainly is.

Marie Gardiner@mariegardiner.bsky.social · last mo.

What the hell is going on here and why isn't this terrorism rather than 'a protest'? All men, all in black, all in masks, storming a ferry port. No more info on it yet but if this is the small boat nonces then they're even thicker than I thought. These are big boats mate they're just far away.

Excited to share my latest article! Through interviews with pathologists, I explore the fascinating intersection of medicine and law, and the tensions between the demands of the law for certainty and the realities of expert medical judgement. doi.org/10.1111/jols...

The medico‐legal autopsy: medicine, expertise, and death investigation

This article sheds important new light on the hybrid space between medicine and law in which medico-legal autopsies are situated. By examining original empirical data obtained during interviews with ...

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First edition of ‘Social Theory and Health’ founded by Paul Higgs and myself in 2003. Now published online.

Interesting BBC InDepth on Coroner's Courts. Interested by @drimogenjones.bsky.social take on this. Particularly concerning that there is no official requirement to respond to PFDs. BBC News - The grieving family who say the coroner's courts aren't working - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The grieving family who say the coroner's courts aren't working

One man's death highlights the growing strains on the UK's coroner's courts

bbc.co.uk

The second paper from the police custody healthcare project is now online early at Health and Justice. This paper focuses on the lived experience of persons detained in police custody and the role that stigmatised beliefs about them had on their healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‘Even if you are guilty, you’re still a human being’: the impact of stigma on dignity and quality of healthcare from the perspective of people detained in police custody in England - Health & Justice

Background The aim of this paper is to explore harms to health and dignity generated through stigma from the perspective of people detained in police custody, a neglected population in healthcare rese...

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@inquest-org.bsky.social responds to data revealing increases in deaths at the hands of police. "The data lays bare the harm of police responding to people with mental ill health" said @debcoles13.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @britishcriminology.bsky.social mailchi.mp/inquest/inqu...

First paper from the police custody healthcare project has been published in Journal of Health Services Research and Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... Using a Human Rights approach, we show how the understaffing of healthcare in police custody suites potentially breaches... (1/2)

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'the Humanities and Social Sciences....disciplines ask not just “what works?” but “for whom?”, “at what cost?”, “under what assumptions?” and “towards what kind of society?” They are central to good policy, democratic accountability and social mobility.' Essential reading. Read it. 3/3

📢 True, but the nation's health will need to be fixed "upstream" by reducing #inequality and #poverty. All else is just tinkering... #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #ReadTheEvidence #EvidenceBasedPolicyMaking www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Restoring Britain’s health to 2014 levels could add 2% to GDP, thinktank says

Health Foundation paper argues health is an economic asset and improving it could generate £72bn for public finances

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Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)