James Morris

🚨New publication (open access): '(Mis)understanding alcohol use disorder: Making the case for a public health first approach' Big thanks to amazing co-authors @Cassie_Boness @RobynBu91236532 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

For more on how language matters in alcohol and drug harm discussions, read this blog by @jamesmorris24 alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/news/news/not-…

@FiveGuysUK Five Guys BLT - 0/10. Bacon incineration level 100/10.

Paper is open access or thread on bsky bsky.app/profile/jamesm…

New paper: 'Problem Recognition as A Discrete Concept for Change Processes in Problematic Alcohol Use' We review problem recognition of risky/harmful drinking its potential for advancing research & intervention link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Very pleased this has had some decent reach. I didn't know what to expect but I just hoped to increase understanding around this complex subject and possibly help to reduce stigma in some small way.

@SHAAPAlcohol / @SARNalcohol Alcohol Occasionals 2025: Call for abstracts Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 For more information, please see here: bit.ly/3DND2ZA

Really enjoyed this conversation with @jamesmorris24 - it covers lots of my favourite topics: drinking and identity; the history of alcohol control movements; moral values and attitudes to alcohol among others..

New episode! 🎙️ Culture, politics & drinking with @jamescnicholls buzzsprout.com/1275176/episod…

Just here again to say join us here instead.. for obvious reasons bsky.app/profile/jamesm…

Elsevier is one of the largest, most hated and most influential academic publishing companies in the world. How it started & how it's going A thread🧵

What does that all mean? You as a researcher pay to get access to your own work! You as a researcher review works of others for Elsevier journals for free! And if you want free access to your work, you pay about 1 month salary for one article! So, Non Solus (not alone)? We as researchers in the current academic publishing scheme are all alone. We or the society pays for a company to get rich. Elsevier has made significant contribution to science and knowledge acquisition, absolutely. But it is far away from altruistic goals for a global community but a raw and complex global company with monetary goals. The current system is INSANE, paying for your own article 6k$, just because you want everyone to get access to it? That's not open access, that's giving those who already have enough more advantages! And since when are we all ok that the state or societies (universities, libraries) pay a company to get access to works from their own faculty? When have we lost our pride and support for our researchers? The academic publishing scheme must CHANGE🙏 Thank you for reading the thread and happy to receive comments...

I'm now on Bluesky - anyone else there who wants a follow? bsky.app/profile/jamesm… X is so weird/rubbish now and tend to get zero interaction when I post now. Sigh.

@CKOWork Thanks Chris, appreciate you saying that! Yes I think relapse is very embedded within disease models and the abstinence violation effect. Also not well defined eg below. However appreciate it is highly recognised and has no single term substitute jsad.com/doi/abs/10.152…

@jamesmorris24 Thanks for the repost Dr Morris. I’m a big fan of your work. Would you have preferred ‘return’? I suppose relapse feeds into the alcoholism model.

Although I'm not keen on the term 'relapse', this is important research and terminology choices are often complex.. so please take part if relevant:

@DrJessTaylor @JDaviesPhD But aren't many people labelled 'anti-pyschiatry' actually anti-medicalization of distress etc, but still think 'psychiatry' has an important role? Or perhaps the term is seen as too embedded in a medical model to be revalued in that way

@JDaviesPhD Reclaim it. What’s wrong with being anti- a set of theories that marginalise and harm people? If the best they have is saying ‘so and so is anti-psychiatry’ because we want trauma-informed, anti-medicalisation of human distress then they better pull their socks up lmfao

Increasingly, the label 'anti-psychiatry' is being weaponised by professionals to silence dissent - misrepresenting genuine concerns as irrational or extreme. This misuse marginalises harmed patients & tries to shut down critical debate. 👇 madintheuk.com/2020/02/callin…

@paulnovosad Are you able to summarise briefly what you say about genetics in this please!?

We address genetics, bias in prize committees, contributions to society outside of the sciences, among others. I’ll post another thread on some of these in a bit. 28/27

Since we have 125 years of prize data, we can ask whether we have gotten any better at creating access for brilliant people from less elite backgrounds. These graphs show the father income and education ranks over time. 13/N

Stephen Jay Gould’s concern is as important today as it was in 1980. Brilliant people, with the potential to make world-changing scientific discoveries, are living and dying in poverty, without ever getting the chance to nurture their talents. 26/N

@bushontheradio People who wait to be asked to move their bag from the seat next to them on a packed train (often signalling resentment when doing so)

I've decided to draw a series of pictures chronicling the worst types of public behaviour. Any others I should draw?

Exciting stigma research opportunity 👇

@DrEmilyNicholls @UniOfYork @UoYSociology Congrats Emily!!

It's official! Today marks my first day as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York Celebrated with flowers and food of course ☺️ @UniOfYork @UoYSociology