Wieso werden Populisten überhaupt gewählt? Was haben wir liberale Demokraten übersehen? Wo waren wir naiv in der Beurteilung der Chancen populistischer Parteien? In meinem neuen Buch versuche ich Antworten zu geben. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Politik #Populismus @springernature.com

This is just the truth.

Can AI genuinely "relate" to meaning in interpretive research? A panel on the epistemological implications of AI in qualitative analysis. Panelists: Christina Silver, Anat Gofen & Marie Østergaard Møller. Mod: Ana Petek. 📅 March 3 | 14:00 CET Register: forms.gle/nGxT2QPd7kov... #AcademicSky

Safewards, Six Core Strategies, UN-CRPD, de-escalation training… Are we on the way to abolishing psychiatric coercion? For years, mental health care systems have been striving to avoid coercion and are constantly implementing new programmes and measures. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Editorial by @astridchevance.bsky.social on censorship in academia. Worth your time. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We've got a new preprint out on Psyarxiv which explores the causes of the increasing rates of people in mental health treatment. We propose that the underlying epidemiology is of lesser importance here compared to sociocultural issues. osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #psychiatry #psyarxiv

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

How effective is community mental health nursing? Together with my colleague Anna Hegedüs, I have published one of the largest studies in this field. Based on routine data, we utilized a relatively unknown epidemiological methodology: the mirror image design. #nursing #psychscisky

Can coercion in mental health care be justified? See our new OA-paper that is based on an adversarial collaboration approach. Two authors collaborate from completely antagonistic standpoints and come to some surprising results. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychsciSky #AcademicSky #philsci

Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach

The use of coercion in psychiatry is one of the most controversial issues in modern healthcare. There are clinical, legal and ethical arguments in fav…

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Ontological Insecurity - A new post on my 'PsychoSociety' Substack. These insecurity issues can trigger different outcomes, from psychological distress to anti‑liberal political behavior. This topic is one of the most important issues in current societies. dirkrichter.substack.com/p/ontologica...

Ontological Insecurity

The societal link between mental health problems and right-wing populism

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journals.lww.com/wpsy/fulltex... New open access paper on the state and the future of social psychiatry by a group of Swiss researchers

Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met. By Kelly McFadden www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...

Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues

Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.

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My new book on human rights in psychiatry is now available as E-book at Springer Link. In the book I discuss the necessity of abolishing coercion in psychiatry and the dilemmas that are associated with it. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Human Rights in Psychiatry

The book describes describes the lines of conflict in the context of coercion in psychiatric nursing and care.

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We are witnessing a roll-back in mental health care towards a post-liberal psychiatry. See my new post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/dirkrich... #psychiatry #coercion #mentalhealth

The prospect of a post-liberal psychiatry

Surveillance and long-term detention for people with mental health problems are re-instated even in liberal democracies

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I have just launched 'PsychoSociety', a Substack covering anything related to the human psyche and modern society. Please subscribe to this free newsletter to keep updated. dirkrichter.substack.com

PsychoSociety | Dirk Richter | Substack

Anything related to the human psyche and modern society and in between. Click to read PsychoSociety, by Dirk Richter, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.

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An ode to Europe: our continent (including the UK of course) is a haven of political stability and liberalism (with certain exceptions) compared to other regions in the northern hemisphere: The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now

Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison

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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Academics - where are academic jobs posted for non-UK non-North American countries? If you were looking for jobs in, say, the Nordic countries, or Australia, where do you look? Asking for all the PhDs who are on the market this year. (Pls no April fools jokes, their nerves are frayed as it is)

🚨 ++ Offener Brief an Friedrich Merz und Lars Klingbeil ++ KEINE INBETRIEBNAHME VON NORDSTREAM, KEINE RÜCKKEHR ZUR ENERGIEPARTNERSCHAFT MIT PUTIN-RUSSLAND Zum Aufruf: libmod.de/offener-brie... 1/3

A crucial moment in global democratic backsliding www.ft.com/content/c1a2...

Turkish police detain Erdoğan’s main political rival

Lira and stocks fall as Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a key challenger to president, held

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You can access the full set of interviews -- **FREE until April 12** -- here: www.nature.com/collections/...

Lived experience expertise in mental health research

In this Collection we amplify the contributions of people with lived experience to mental health research through interviews with lived experience experts and ...

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Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

At Least Now We Know the Truth

The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.

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Es möge sich keine AFD-Wählenden beschweren, wenn im Alter niemand da ist, den Hintern abzuwischen. www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pr... #migration #afd

Beschäftigte mit Einwanderungsgeschichte in vielen Mangelberufen überdurchschnittlich stark vertreten

Ob im Bau, in der Lebensmittelindustrie, der Gastronomie, der Pflege oder im Personen- und Güterverkehr: In vielen Engpassberufen sind Beschäftigte mit Einwanderungsgeschichte überdurchschnittlich sta...

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A not so good morning from Kyiv - with ballistics and drones in the air above. This is the reality of Ukrainians since more than three years! It cannot be said or written enough. More than three years! Look at the map. Understand it. Feel it.

"These universities have the most retracted scientific articles." from @richvn.bsky.social at @nature.com “It’s tempting to think about whether differences are related to varying incentives for researchers in different institutions,” says Ivan Oransky.

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles

A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

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The Air Alert map of warnings of Russian air attacks on Ukraine just now, as #Putin is supposedly talking peace with #Trump

The moment that we operationalise "ratio of retracted papers" into a metric of suspicion - even if only informally, we put Goodhart's Law in reverse: We'd be disincentivising institutions to cast a serious gaze inward and we'd be casting entire nations and their scientists into risk categories

Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articles

A first-of-its-kind analysis by Nature reveals which institutions are retraction hotspots.

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If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.