Richard Thwaites

Richard Thwaites

@thwaites.bsky.social

NHS CBT Therapist/Clinical Psychologist Cumbria, UK Views own. tCBT Editor-in-Chief @BABCPJournals https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-cognitive-behaviour-therapist

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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

"Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses 'a national security threat to the UK', according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence."

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3 days ago
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Power and the sound of silence—A blog by Roger Kline Roger Kline, Research Fellow at Middlesex University Business School, explored the literature on patient safety and speaking up, arguing that staff being able to raise concerns safely and effectively ...

My latest blog as an introduction to a review of the literature on speaking up and the NHS.

www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur...

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Ernst Haas

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Saul Leiter

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2 weeks ago

Read the full paper here too!

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2 weeks ago
Lake District stile in the mist

@lakesstiles.bsky.social

Misty Lord's Seat stile today!

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3 weeks ago
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

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1 month ago
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

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Just going to leave this here

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It’s known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world’s boldest musicians? In a park keeper’s lodge in Barrow-in-Furness, Full of Noises has hosted the likes of Julia Holter and Lonnie Holley – and is a model for why arts funding matters

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

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Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

www.ft.com/content/5bba...

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Palantir and NHS: BMA to tell members to limit use of tech system Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says. The unio...

#BMJExclusive: Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says
https://bit.ly/3OnZxcG

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Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

Palantir. Agents for the IDF and for ICE. Now we know how they got huge NHS contracts. Time they were removed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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2 months ago
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Morning all.

Photograph by Daniel Meadows. Workington, Cumbria, 1974.

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1 year ago
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Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, by Yvette Earl. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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L'aquarium

Harry Gruyaert

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Sergio Larrain

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3 months ago
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What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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2 years ago
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Changing the culture of peer review for a more inclusive and equitable psychological science - PubMe... Peer review is a core component of scientific practice. Although peer review ideally improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what types of research are published and cited a...

How we are evaluated by others has critical consequences for our careers. Decisions about publications, grants, promotions, & tenure depend on input from peers

But there are numerous documented biases in peer review. We review these biases & call for a better way forward

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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Les éléphants gris vert

Harry Gruyaert

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3 months ago

happy birthday!!!

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3 months ago
Spotify – Web Player

There's no place better than the woods to help you feel relaxed. But if you go too often you can feel like a weirdo. So why not stay indoors for a bit with one of my unique Guided Meditations. It's better than being arrested.

open.spotify.com/episode/09rg...

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3 months ago

It was certainly unique, i reached new levels of relaxation when the urination finally ended. And then the aha moment. Thank you!

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3 months ago
The Pope speaking into a microphone in a way that makes him look like he’s singing

And you may find yourself living in an Apostolic Palace
And you may find yourself in a city that's inside Rome
And you may find yourself behind the glass of a large Popemobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful cassock, with designer shoes
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

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tCBT New Paper: A phased approach for using CBT with adult survivors of human trafficking

Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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3 months ago
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8 | What is Racial Trauma? Podcast Episode · Talkative with T · 04/10/2024 · 27m

Racial trauma is the emotional, psychological, and physical harm caused by discrimination, racial violence, and inequity.
On the podcast "Talkative with T" I explored what it is and why it matters.🎙️
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...

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3 months ago

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

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4 months ago
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Saul Leiter

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4 months ago

Great to see this out from Claudia and colleagues…

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Cloud on the Cumbrian fells above my studio in Hartsop

Watercolour on Two Rivers paper
450x320mm
#ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor

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