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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The price of food alone is 35% higher than just five years ago. And as temperatures drop, the coming months will be harsher than ever for people already living on the sharpest edge.
This winter, thousands of people will walk through the doors of a food bank for the very first time.
This winter, thousands of people will walk through the doors of a food bank for the very first time.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The price of food alone is 35% higher than just five years ago. And as temperatures drop, the coming months will be harsher than ever for people already living on the sharpest edge.
This winter, thousands of people will walk through the doors of a food bank for the very first time.
This winter, thousands of people will walk through the doors of a food bank for the very first time.
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So happy HHS is focused on making healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone and not getting bogged down in culture war issues the right invented.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
So happy HHS is focused on making healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone and not getting bogged down in culture war issues the right invented.
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WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
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Same in the UK
i’m laughing but honestly it’s sad how much the government is pushing this largely useless and materially harmful technology in the false hope it delivers productivity benefits.
mark carney wants companies to adopt generative AI, but only 2% are seeing a return on investment. this cannot last.
mark carney wants companies to adopt generative AI, but only 2% are seeing a return on investment. this cannot last.
Just 2% of Canadian businesses got return on generative AI investments, survey shows
KPMG poll finds only a handful of businesses seeing benefits from technology despite widespread adoption
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Same in the UK
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Sadly, I now await the already-launched Trump admin attacks on the Nat'l Academies to amp up. Setting the record straight means RFK Jr.'s bunk claims get elevated/legitimated. No choice--public responsibility to correct the record--but I expect to see RFK Jr./HHS respond w/ smearing & other tactics.
NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Sadly, I now await the already-launched Trump admin attacks on the Nat'l Academies to amp up. Setting the record straight means RFK Jr.'s bunk claims get elevated/legitimated. No choice--public responsibility to correct the record--but I expect to see RFK Jr./HHS respond w/ smearing & other tactics.
Reposted by Dr Tobias Atkinson
The National Academies statement says: “…based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism.” 2/2
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The National Academies statement says: “…based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism.” 2/2
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NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
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🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
www.science.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies.
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026.
This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Incredible article, dissembling the Governments floored Welfare plans by leading Psychotherapist and Activist @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The 'Avoiding Avoidance' Trap
How Britain's Welfare Policy Weaponizes Therapy.
substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Incredible article, dissembling the Governments floored Welfare plans by leading Psychotherapist and Activist @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
Just days to STOP new NHS private finance debts - take action now
Your MP can help STOP plans for new private finance debts in our NHS in the Autumn Budget
weownit.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Useful piece critically analysing American liberal centrist efforts to do positive masculinity politics. Can definitely see parallels with some of the moves that Blue Labour types make here.
Useful piece critically analysing American liberal centrist efforts to do positive masculinity politics. Can definitely see parallels with some of the moves that Blue Labour types make here.
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Useful piece critically analysing American liberal centrist efforts to do positive masculinity politics. Can definitely see parallels with some of the moves that Blue Labour types make here.
Useful piece critically analysing American liberal centrist efforts to do positive masculinity politics. Can definitely see parallels with some of the moves that Blue Labour types make here.
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Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.
Rep. Thomas Massie: Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies. That’s why they’re trying to stop this.
(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)
(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.
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The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Daniel Trilling (@trillingual.bsky.social) spoke to dozens of BBC journalists to understand how the corporation came to symbolise the West's failure over Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Read his in-depth report:
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Read his in-depth report:
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Daniel Trilling (@trillingual.bsky.social) spoke to dozens of BBC journalists to understand how the corporation came to symbolise the West's failure over Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Read his in-depth report:
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Read his in-depth report:
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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Adam Curtis is pretty good at splicing random clips together to make a story maybe he should be put in charge of panorama now?
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Adam Curtis is pretty good at splicing random clips together to make a story maybe he should be put in charge of panorama now?
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
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
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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...