Concept Album

Stuck in the middle with you. ST-läkare. PhD.

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

Drömde att jag var ihop med en cyklops. Kände mig jättefördomsfri.

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

@glands @samhaselby That he recommended a little kid to read Barbarians at the gate is the funniest part, though.

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

Alla borde lära sig crawla. Man känner sig som en glidande vattengud.

[UnHerd @unherd]

Michel Houellebecq, France’s most celebrated living novelist, has devoted his career to chronicling the spiritual exhaustion of the West and the crises of modernity.

Now, as France prepares to vote on whether to legalise euthanasia, he delivers an impassioned plea for life exclusively for UnHerd. Assisted dying, he argues, marks the moral apotheosis of a species apparently set on its own destruction.

‘It is true that I have devoted myself to examining the symptoms of the suicide of the West and the rise of nihilism,’ he writes. ‘But I do not recall ever having rejoiced in any of it.’

Read more ⬇️

https://t.co/cDCYxF2rec

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

Tyvärr bakom betalvägg, och jag håller inte med om allt Houellebecq skriver, men det är en fantastisk text. Tror jag ska ägna semestern åt att läsa om alla hans böcker. Igen. https://t.co/rrAW4WBYqx

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

@VinAmbleNaess Jag trodde länge på blank slate-teorin. Var säkert över 20 innan jag började tro mina egna ögon.

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

Har skrattat i tio minuter åt Shkrelis försök att få Brian Johnson att förstå basal medicinsk metodologi. Ur led är tiden, och det är kul.

[Martin Shkreli @MartinShkreli]

Brian, for the love of god, you cannot take a health database, click 'sort' and think that the top 5 drugs patients who survive longer happen to be taking are causal to the benefit those patients received. 500k is actually not a large cohort for a database, needs alpha correction, was very unlikely to be prespecified, etc. that's why no one is impressed with these studies and they're published in trash journals.

this study showed a slight increase in CV events with PDEs vs placebo
https://t.co/y3AbyTFHUU

the mechanistic rationale is not there and your explanation is terrible. ALL PDEs metabolize cAMP/cGMP, thats why they are phosphodiesterases. are you suggesting we should inhibit all PDEs?!

by the same logic we should all be taking ERAs too. why not ARBs and ACEs? screw it i'll take inhaled treprostinil too. might extend my life. then i'll run SQL queries on health databases until i see a 'signal', bonferroni may roll in his grave but i will be vasodilated.

[horse @horsetwting]

you couldn't be more wrong. i have psychosis

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

Jag är 280 sidor in i Your name here av Helen DeWitt. Jag har fortfarande ingen aning om vad det är jag läser, vad som händer eller om medförfattaren ens existerar (tvivlar på det, en kvinna som DeWitt skulle aldrig samarbeta på en bok). Är den bra? Ingen aning.

[Awais Aftab @awaisaftab]

This is a well-thought-out and gracefully executed article by @AlanLevinovitz. Given the sensitive subject matter, I was a bit worried as I started reading it but Alan does an excellent job and brings a clear-eyed thinking to the subject that has been sorely lacking. I admire his integrity and courage in saying what needs to be said.

PS. The overblown reactions I’ve seen on social media are disconnected from the actual contents and claims of the article.

PPS. Its unfortunate that the story is paywalled; I was able to read it through my Apple News subscription.

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

@default_friend Pale Fire.

[UnHerd @unherd]

JK Rowling mansplained, by Sarah Ditum (@sarahditum)

What happened to JK Rowling? If only there were some kind of primary source that could tell us why she became interested in the clash between trans activism and women’s rights — say, a first-person essay.

But alas, the archive is silent. It must be, because why else would two male podcasters have taken it upon themselves to solve this supposed mystery?

This week, the ‘Origin Story’ podcast, hosted by indistinguishable journalists Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey, bravely shouldered the burden of analysing Rowling over the course of two episodes.

Do they succeed? Not remotely. But they do offer a fascinating insight into what happens when a certain kind of progressive man becomes radicalised by Bluesky.

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/FQG6I59mww

[Awais Aftab @awaisaftab]

When patients ask, “What disorder do I really ‘have’?” the honest answer is usually more interesting and messier than a single label. I wrote for the @nytimes on what I wish people understood about diagnoses and the nature of mental health problems.

https://t.co/ua2g6PzeAZ

[Concept Album @rockstyrelsen]

En av mina största filmupplevelser. Jag kan omotiverat börja skratta för mig själv när jag kommer att tänka på Mein liebster Feund, när som helst.

[Jonas Klang @jklang]

Här är en ny, svensk forskningsstudie som publicerats i den vetenskapliga tidskriften The Lancet, som genom jämförande data från Sveriges olika regioner kan påvisa samband mellan antalet slutenvårdsplatser för psykiatri, och antalet fullbordade suicid (självmord).

Detta gäller perioden 2015-2024, när antalet psykiatriska vårdplatser minskade från 30,6 per 100 000 invånare, till 24,2.

Den statistiska slutsatsen är: ju fler vårdplatser, desto färre suicid.

Problemet som alltid med sådana här studier är såklart svårigheten att otvetydigt påvisa kausalitet, d v s att två fenomen verkar följas åt inte nödvändigtvis är samma sak som att det ena leder till det andra.

Men resultaten ter sig ändå så pass robusta, att antal slutenvårdsplatser per capita rimligtvis behöver vara en relevant faktor när man talar om suicidförebyggande arbete, tillgänglighet för medborgarna, avvägningar kring besparingsåtgärder, och målbilder kring hur framtidens psykiatriska vård ska se ut.

Vad tänker ni?

[Muhammad Aadil, MD @m_aadil]

“If not psychiatry, then what other social institution will take responsibility for a person’s well-being in such a state? The church may have, at one point. Hard to believe they will do so now, and hard to believe that the public will tolerate it even if they try. If you strip away psychiatry without replacing it with something, you do not get liberation. You get neglect, incarceration, homelessness, or a burden displaced onto family members. The alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization in our current social world are not freedom and spiritual community. They are the emergency room, the jail, and the street.”

—- Psychiatry at the Margins @awaisaftab

Excellent article

[James Vincent @jjvincent]

was in the hospital earlier getting a shoulder check-up, and we'd been talking about the gym for joint health, and as the dr is rotating my arm to find the weak points, he says, with the air of a monologuing bond villain, "are you familiar with the term looksmaxxing, mr vincent?"

[Sally Satel @slsatel]

Very good review of a very good book https://t.co/gY6koLoPbD

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Female autism v male autism

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Of all words of tongue and pen,

The saddest are,

"In mice"