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“He worked tirelessly to inspire all students from marginalised backgrounds to believe that academia could also belong to them. He did not inspire one or two people to do a PhD; there are dozens of us over generations who have dreamed and are now doctors and soon-to-be professors because of him.”
Tens of thousands pay tribute to Jason Arday at Trafalgar Square vigil
MPs, friends and campaigners gathered to remember former Cambridge professor after his death on Friday
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if you ever wondered what i mean when i speak about “anti-sanity,” i wrote an accessible introduction to the concept for @asylummagazine.bsky.social’s 40th anniversary edition. you can access the article at this link. tenderlyborderline.substack.com/p/the-politi...
The Politics of Anti-Sanity
Essay in the 40th Anniversary Edition of Asylum Magazine
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DWP warned as it begins another ‘life-threatening’ disability benefits migration project
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will finally reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disabi…
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An important figure in mental health politics in Greece passed away this morning. He was very ill for nearly a year. Theodoros Megalooikonomou, a radical psychiatrist, devoted his whole career to the struggle for a mental health system underpinned by social justice and Basaglia's philosophy. RIP ❤️😥
Extreme heat as a 'poverty multiplier' #EnvironmentalSociology www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers
Exclusive: Outdoor workers losing up to 9% of income as weather becomes ‘poverty multiplier’, research says
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What do you do when clinicians won’t work with you? When you’ve repeatedly been told you are “too hard”; “too complex”; “too high risk”; or simply “too much”? From @asylummagazine.bsky.social as shared in @nsunnews.bsky.social asylummagazine.org/2026/06/too-...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ma... A really interesting piece on AI and mental health by Sascha DuBrul embracing the idea that AI has "dangerous gifts" just like madness
The Machine Will Never Say I’m Losing You
DuBrul argues that AI is becoming a powerful new mediator of meaning for people in psychological distress—it offers an unprecedented opportunity to feel heard, but also risks amplifying delusions and…
theideasletter.org
Pathological over-surveillance has always been a problem in psychiatry. The 'panopticon' buildings were a predecessor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopti.... According to Foucault, the information asymmetry they produced was a form of oppression. Great to find @asylummagazine.bsky.social on here!
Panopticon - Wikipedia
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Asylum Magazine@asylummagazine.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Clearly everyone surveilled by Oxevision is going to have to do this and make the risk to the NHS real. The cornerstone of 'observation' in mental health settings is that it should be a therapeutic intervention by professionals, not passive data collection.
novaramedia.com/2026/06/23/c... Via @nsunnews.bsky.social
‘Creepy’ Bedroom Surveillance Tech a ‘Clear Legal Risk’ for NHS Trusts
The patient watchdog’s ruling points to wider risks around consent and clinical justification in how NHS trusts are using a controversial bedroom surveillance technology called Oxevision. Harriet Will...
novaramedia.com
The Summer 2026 Issue of Asylum magazine is out💜 *Read 3 articles free of charge *Register for the online launch of the Issue on Monday 29th June asylummagazine.org/2026/06/asyl...
media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/So... Social Insecurity: A report on the devastating human rights impact of social security system failures in the UK
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If you are a person who experiences mental distress & would like to contribute to a study on rest, free time and disablement, please consider visiting this page breadrosesdisability.uk/questionnaire/ The questionnaire will remain open until 30 Nov @asylummagazine.bsky.social @makespaceco.bsky.social
The Summer 2026 Issue of Asylum magazine is out💜 *Read 3 articles free of charge *Register for the online launch of the Issue on Monday 29th June asylummagazine.org/2026/06/asyl...
