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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 06:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists identify 19 core dimensions of positive mental health in new consensus study
A recent study published in Nature Mental Health identifies a core set of elements that make up positive mental health, offering a standardized framework to define what it means to truly be well. By consulting experts across multiple disciplines, the research outlines nineteen specific dimensions, ranging from life satisfaction to social connection. The findings provide a foundation for creating more consistent strategies to support and measure psychological well-being in communities and workplaces.
Positive mental health encompasses more than just the absence of mental illness. It includes aspects of functioning effectively, feeling good, and connecting with others. High levels of mental well-being are associated with better recovery from stressful events, lower risks of chronic disease, and widespread benefits for society.
Despite its broad relevance, the exact definition of positive mental health varies widely depending on the field of study. Psychologists, public health officials, economists, and sociologists often use different terms and models to describe similar ideas, such as flourishing, thriving, or coping.
This lack of a shared vocabulary causes fragmentation in research and policy. When different organizations use completely different standards to define well-being, comparing research data or evaluating the success of public policies becomes incredibly difficult.
“Put very simply, there is very little agreement on what we mean when we say mental wellbeing, flourishing, positive mental health, or related terms,” said Matthew Iasiello, head of data and research translation at Be Well Co and postdoctoral research fellow at Adelaide University’s School of Biomedical Science. “These terms can all be used interchangeably, and each discipline defines them slightly differently, meaning that measures often focus on different things and evidence is hard to synthesize. This leads to confusion in the academic world, which also trickles into the ‘real world’ with governments and funders guessing about what to measure and where to invest.”
To address this inconsistency, researchers set out to establish a unified list of components that constitute positive mental health. Building a shared framework helps ensure that professionals across all sectors are aiming for the same targets when designing mental health interventions.
The researchers used a technique known as the Delphi method, which involves surveying a group of experts over multiple rounds to reach a consensus on a specific topic. The study recruited 122 prominent academics from 26 countries, representing 11 different disciplines. These fields included clinical psychology, psychiatry, public health, philosophy, nursing, and economics.
The experts had an average age of about 53 years and an average of nearly twenty years of experience in their respective fields. About 84 percent of the participants identified as Caucasian or European, and a majority resided in Western nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The response rate for the survey was approximately 10 percent of the invited academics, though the participating experts were highly cited in their disciplines.
In the first round of the survey, participants evaluated 26 potential dimensions of positive mental health drawn from previous scientific reviews. The experts rated each dimension on a four-point scale from irrelevant to essential. To be included in the final framework, a dimension needed to reach at least 75 percent agreement among the experts. Participants also had the opportunity to suggest additional components in open-text boxes.
In the second round, the experts reviewed the newly suggested dimensions and re-evaluated the items that had not yet reached a consensus. In the third and final round, the participants rated the approved dimensions to determine if they were primarily drivers that cause positive mental health or outcomes that result from it. They used a visual scale from zero to 100, where zero indicated a driver and 100 indicated an outcome.
The panel reached a consensus on nineteen distinct dimensions that constitute positive mental health. Six of these components achieved greater than 90 percent agreement for inclusion. These highest-rated components included meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, self-acceptance, connection with others, autonomy, and happiness.
Iasiello noted that the average person should understand “that positive mental health is broad. It’s more than feeling happy and more than simply not being unwell.” He added, “When we asked a large, cross-disciplinary panel of experts to agree, six dimensions stood out as near-universal: meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, self-acceptance, connection, autonomy and happiness. So if you want a fuller picture of how someone is doing, those are good places to look.”
Other dimensions that made the final list of nineteen included optimism, competence, engagement, calmness, vitality, and a sense of belonging. Rounding out the accepted framework were acceptance, achievement, activities and functioning, development, fun, self-congruence, and a sense of safety. The panel also agreed to exclude certain concepts altogether. For instance, avoidance coping, which involves attempting to ignore stressors, achieved only about 20 percent agreement and was excluded.
The experts debated the boundary between psychological and physical elements of well-being. Factors like physical health achieved only 62.8 percent agreement, and personal circumstances achieved only 62.5 percent agreement, meaning both failed to reach the 75 percent threshold for inclusion. This indicates a tendency among the experts to classify these physical and environmental factors as outside influences rather than core parts of mental well-being itself.
When categorizing the finalized components on the zero to 100 scale, the panel rated happiness and life satisfaction primarily as outcomes of positive mental health, with scores averaging near 74 and 72, respectively. On the other hand, elements like autonomy and a sense of safety were considered primarily as drivers that help produce well-being, scoring around 29 and 32 on the scale.
Differentiating these variables proved to be a challenging task. “Probably how difficult it was for our panel to separate ‘outcomes’ or ‘drivers’ of positive mental health,” Iasiello told PsyPost, regarding what surprised the research team. “The surprising finding was that most of the 19 included dimensions could be seen as both an outcome or a driver, depending on the research question or population. This points to the complexity of the topic!”
The feedback from the participants helped shape a new working definition of positive mental health. The updated definition emphasizes that positive mental health is a subjective experience of functioning well and feeling content. It also specifically notes that a person can experience positive mental health and take action to improve it even while managing a mental health condition.
This proposed taxonomy represents a starting point for standardizing the field, but it possesses built-in limitations. “The main misinterpretation is thinking that this work is a finished product,” Iasiello said. “This shared taxonomy aims to be a starting point towards reaching greater consistency in the field. Our panel was highly expert but heavily Western and English-speaking, so the taxonomy almost certainly carries a Western view of well-being, and concepts like the Japanese idea of ikigai may not sit neatly inside it.”
Concepts like ikigai, which broadly translates to a reason for being or a sense of purpose in everyday living, highlight how different cultures prioritize unique psychological traits. A panel consisting predominantly of academics from industrialized, English-speaking nations might overlook elements of well-being that emphasize communal harmony or spiritual connection.
The boundaries between the causes of mental health and the outcomes of mental health also remain highly complex. A factor like social connection can serve as a driver of well-being on one day and an outcome of a positive mood on the next. The dynamic interactions between these variables suggest that any standardized list will struggle to capture the fluid nature of human psychology in everyday life.
To address these gaps, the researchers have several goals for subsequent studies. “First, test the taxonomy well beyond a Western panel, and deliberately include non-Western concepts and the lived experience of groups often left out, such as people managing chronic illness,” Iasiello said. “Second, work out the structure, which dimensions act as drivers, which are outcomes, and how they nest together, rather than leaving them as a flat list.”
“Third, map positive mental health against mental illness, since the two aren’t just opposite ends of one line,” Iasiello continued. He also emphasized a desire for practical applications moving forward. “Alongside that, we want the science to reach real communities through partnerships between universities, councils, businesses, NGOs, and practitioners, so it gets tested where people actually live and work.”
The study, “A Delphi consensus study on the dimensions of positive mental health,” was authored by M. Iasiello, J. van Agteren, K. Ali, E. Kolovos, P. J. Batterham, F. Goodman, A. Jarden, T. B. Kashdan, M. Kyrios, L. G. Oades, D. Weziak-Bialowolska, and D. B. Fassnacht.
Below is the complete list of the components and their meanings as outlined in the study:
The Top Six Dimensions (Greater than 90% Agreement)
• Meaning and purpose: Having clear goals, a sense of direction, and a larger aim in life and/or the feeling that what we do is worthwhile, rewarding, and valuable.
•• Life satisfaction: The degree to which a person positively evaluates the overall quality of their life as a whole (i.e., how much the person likes the life they lead).
•• Self-acceptance: Experiencing different aspects of oneself (e.g., one’s body, personality, thoughts, and feelings) in a positive, tolerant, receptive, or non-judgmental way; experiencing positive self-worth.
•• Connection: Involving a feeling of belonging, mutual caring, love, and closeness to friends, family, and loved ones.
•• Autonomy: The perception that we have ownership over our behavior and choices, and the ability to express oneself.
•• Happiness: States that are characterized by moderate-arousal pleasant feelings, such as feeling happy, cheerful, and pleased.
•The Remaining 13 Dimensions
• Acceptance: The ability to self-reflect, identify what is within a person’s control, and accept what is outside one’s control.
•• Achievement: Having done something successfully, using one’s own efforts and skills.
•• Activities and functioning: Overall satisfaction with our activities and leisure, and our ability to undertake these tasks.
•• Belonging: The feeling of deep connection with social groups, physical places, and individual and collective experiences.
•• Calmness: States characterized by low-arousal pleasant feelings, like serenity and peacefulness.
•• Competence: Feeling and perceiving oneself as effective and able to overcome challenges and stressors, and achieve desired outcomes.
•• Development: Experiencing growth and improvement.
•• Engagement: Having an absorbing experience in which the individual is completely focused on the task at hand or experiencing a state of mindful awareness.
•• Fun: Experiencing light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; entertainment.
•• Optimism: Having a positive outlook on life, and positive expectations about the future.
•• Self-congruence: The perception that our actions and behaviors are compatible with our interests, values, and beliefs.
•• Sense of safety: The feeling of relative security in one’s daily life.
•• Vitality: States characterized by high-arousal pleasant feelings, such as feeling energetic and lively.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PositiveMentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #DelphiConsensus #MeaningAndPurpose #LifeSatisfaction #SelfAcceptance #Connection #Autonomy #Happiness #WellbeingFramework
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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists identify 19 core dimensions of positive mental health in new consensus study
A recent study published in Nature Mental Health identifies a core set of elements that make up positive mental health, offering a standardized framework to define what it means to truly be well. By consulting experts across multiple disciplines, the research outlines nineteen specific dimensions, ranging from life satisfaction to social connection. The findings provide a foundation for creating more consistent strategies to support and measure psychological well-being in communities and workplaces.
Positive mental health encompasses more than just the absence of mental illness. It includes aspects of functioning effectively, feeling good, and connecting with others. High levels of mental well-being are associated with better recovery from stressful events, lower risks of chronic disease, and widespread benefits for society.
Despite its broad relevance, the exact definition of positive mental health varies widely depending on the field of study. Psychologists, public health officials, economists, and sociologists often use different terms and models to describe similar ideas, such as flourishing, thriving, or coping.
This lack of a shared vocabulary causes fragmentation in research and policy. When different organizations use completely different standards to define well-being, comparing research data or evaluating the success of public policies becomes incredibly difficult.
“Put very simply, there is very little agreement on what we mean when we say mental wellbeing, flourishing, positive mental health, or related terms,” said Matthew Iasiello, head of data and research translation at Be Well Co and postdoctoral research fellow at Adelaide University’s School of Biomedical Science. “These terms can all be used interchangeably, and each discipline defines them slightly differently, meaning that measures often focus on different things and evidence is hard to synthesize. This leads to confusion in the academic world, which also trickles into the ‘real world’ with governments and funders guessing about what to measure and where to invest.”
To address this inconsistency, researchers set out to establish a unified list of components that constitute positive mental health. Building a shared framework helps ensure that professionals across all sectors are aiming for the same targets when designing mental health interventions.
The researchers used a technique known as the Delphi method, which involves surveying a group of experts over multiple rounds to reach a consensus on a specific topic. The study recruited 122 prominent academics from 26 countries, representing 11 different disciplines. These fields included clinical psychology, psychiatry, public health, philosophy, nursing, and economics.
The experts had an average age of about 53 years and an average of nearly twenty years of experience in their respective fields. About 84 percent of the participants identified as Caucasian or European, and a majority resided in Western nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The response rate for the survey was approximately 10 percent of the invited academics, though the participating experts were highly cited in their disciplines.
In the first round of the survey, participants evaluated 26 potential dimensions of positive mental health drawn from previous scientific reviews. The experts rated each dimension on a four-point scale from irrelevant to essential. To be included in the final framework, a dimension needed to reach at least 75 percent agreement among the experts. Participants also had the opportunity to suggest additional components in open-text boxes.
In the second round, the experts reviewed the newly suggested dimensions and re-evaluated the items that had not yet reached a consensus. In the third and final round, the participants rated the approved dimensions to determine if they were primarily drivers that cause positive mental health or outcomes that result from it. They used a visual scale from zero to 100, where zero indicated a driver and 100 indicated an outcome.
The panel reached a consensus on nineteen distinct dimensions that constitute positive mental health. Six of these components achieved greater than 90 percent agreement for inclusion. These highest-rated components included meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, self-acceptance, connection with others, autonomy, and happiness.
Iasiello noted that the average person should understand “that positive mental health is broad. It’s more than feeling happy and more than simply not being unwell.” He added, “When we asked a large, cross-disciplinary panel of experts to agree, six dimensions stood out as near-universal: meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, self-acceptance, connection, autonomy and happiness. So if you want a fuller picture of how someone is doing, those are good places to look.”
Other dimensions that made the final list of nineteen included optimism, competence, engagement, calmness, vitality, and a sense of belonging. Rounding out the accepted framework were acceptance, achievement, activities and functioning, development, fun, self-congruence, and a sense of safety. The panel also agreed to exclude certain concepts altogether. For instance, avoidance coping, which involves attempting to ignore stressors, achieved only about 20 percent agreement and was excluded.
The experts debated the boundary between psychological and physical elements of well-being. Factors like physical health achieved only 62.8 percent agreement, and personal circumstances achieved only 62.5 percent agreement, meaning both failed to reach the 75 percent threshold for inclusion. This indicates a tendency among the experts to classify these physical and environmental factors as outside influences rather than core parts of mental well-being itself.
When categorizing the finalized components on the zero to 100 scale, the panel rated happiness and life satisfaction primarily as outcomes of positive mental health, with scores averaging near 74 and 72, respectively. On the other hand, elements like autonomy and a sense of safety were considered primarily as drivers that help produce well-being, scoring around 29 and 32 on the scale.
Differentiating these variables proved to be a challenging task. “Probably how difficult it was for our panel to separate ‘outcomes’ or ‘drivers’ of positive mental health,” Iasiello told PsyPost, regarding what surprised the research team. “The surprising finding was that most of the 19 included dimensions could be seen as both an outcome or a driver, depending on the research question or population. This points to the complexity of the topic!”
The feedback from the participants helped shape a new working definition of positive mental health. The updated definition emphasizes that positive mental health is a subjective experience of functioning well and feeling content. It also specifically notes that a person can experience positive mental health and take action to improve it even while managing a mental health condition.
This proposed taxonomy represents a starting point for standardizing the field, but it possesses built-in limitations. “The main misinterpretation is thinking that this work is a finished product,” Iasiello said. “This shared taxonomy aims to be a starting point towards reaching greater consistency in the field. Our panel was highly expert but heavily Western and English-speaking, so the taxonomy almost certainly carries a Western view of well-being, and concepts like the Japanese idea of ikigai may not sit neatly inside it.”
Concepts like ikigai, which broadly translates to a reason for being or a sense of purpose in everyday living, highlight how different cultures prioritize unique psychological traits. A panel consisting predominantly of academics from industrialized, English-speaking nations might overlook elements of well-being that emphasize communal harmony or spiritual connection.
The boundaries between the causes of mental health and the outcomes of mental health also remain highly complex. A factor like social connection can serve as a driver of well-being on one day and an outcome of a positive mood on the next. The dynamic interactions between these variables suggest that any standardized list will struggle to capture the fluid nature of human psychology in everyday life.
To address these gaps, the researchers have several goals for subsequent studies. “First, test the taxonomy well beyond a Western panel, and deliberately include non-Western concepts and the lived experience of groups often left out, such as people managing chronic illness,” Iasiello said. “Second, work out the structure, which dimensions act as drivers, which are outcomes, and how they nest together, rather than leaving them as a flat list.”
“Third, map positive mental health against mental illness, since the two aren’t just opposite ends of one line,” Iasiello continued. He also emphasized a desire for practical applications moving forward. “Alongside that, we want the science to reach real communities through partnerships between universities, councils, businesses, NGOs, and practitioners, so it gets tested where people actually live and work.”
The study, “A Delphi consensus study on the dimensions of positive mental health,” was authored by M. Iasiello, J. van Agteren, K. Ali, E. Kolovos, P. J. Batterham, F. Goodman, A. Jarden, T. B. Kashdan, M. Kyrios, L. G. Oades, D. Weziak-Bialowolska, and D. B. Fassnacht.
Below is the complete list of the components and their meanings as outlined in the study:
The Top Six Dimensions (Greater than 90% Agreement)
• Meaning and purpose: Having clear goals, a sense of direction, and a larger aim in life and/or the feeling that what we do is worthwhile, rewarding, and valuable.
•• Life satisfaction: The degree to which a person positively evaluates the overall quality of their life as a whole (i.e., how much the person likes the life they lead).
•• Self-acceptance: Experiencing different aspects of oneself (e.g., one’s body, personality, thoughts, and feelings) in a positive, tolerant, receptive, or non-judgmental way; experiencing positive self-worth.
•• Connection: Involving a feeling of belonging, mutual caring, love, and closeness to friends, family, and loved ones.
•• Autonomy: The perception that we have ownership over our behavior and choices, and the ability to express oneself.
•• Happiness: States that are characterized by moderate-arousal pleasant feelings, such as feeling happy, cheerful, and pleased.
•The Remaining 13 Dimensions
• Acceptance: The ability to self-reflect, identify what is within a person’s control, and accept what is outside one’s control.
•• Achievement: Having done something successfully, using one’s own efforts and skills.
•• Activities and functioning: Overall satisfaction with our activities and leisure, and our ability to undertake these tasks.
•• Belonging: The feeling of deep connection with social groups, physical places, and individual and collective experiences.
•• Calmness: States characterized by low-arousal pleasant feelings, like serenity and peacefulness.
•• Competence: Feeling and perceiving oneself as effective and able to overcome challenges and stressors, and achieve desired outcomes.
•• Development: Experiencing growth and improvement.
•• Engagement: Having an absorbing experience in which the individual is completely focused on the task at hand or experiencing a state of mindful awareness.
•• Fun: Experiencing light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; entertainment.
•• Optimism: Having a positive outlook on life, and positive expectations about the future.
•• Self-congruence: The perception that our actions and behaviors are compatible with our interests, values, and beliefs.
•• Sense of safety: The feeling of relative security in one’s daily life.
•• Vitality: States characterized by high-arousal pleasant feelings, such as feeling energetic and lively.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PositiveMentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #DelphiConsensus #MeaningAndPurpose #LifeSatisfaction #SelfAcceptance #Connection #Autonomy #Happiness #WellbeingFramework
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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Scientists identify 19 core dimensions of positive mental health in new consensus study
A recent study published in Nature Mental Health identifies a core set of elements that make up positive mental health, offering a standardized framework to define what it means to truly be well. By consulting experts across multiple disciplines, the research outlines nineteen specific dimensions, ranging from life satisfaction to social connection. The findings provide a foundation for creating more consistent strategies to support and measure psychological well-being in communities and workplaces.
Positive mental health encompasses more than just the absence of mental illness. It includes aspects of functioning effectively, feeling good, and connecting with others. High levels of mental well-being are associated with better recovery from stressful events, lower risks of chronic disease, and widespread benefits for society.
Despite its broad relevance, the exact definition of positive mental health varies widely depending on the field of study. Psychologists, public health officials, economists, and sociologists often use different terms and models to describe similar ideas, such as flourishing, thriving, or coping.
This lack of a shared vocabulary causes fragmentation in research and policy. When different organizations use completely different standards to define well-being, comparing research data or evaluating the success of public policies becomes incredibly difficult.
“Put very simply, there is very little agreement on what we mean when we say mental wellbeing, flourishing, positive mental health, or related terms,” said Matthew Iasiello, head of data and research translation at Be Well Co and postdoctoral research fellow at Adelaide University’s School of Biomedical Science. “These terms can all be used interchangeably, and each discipline defines them slightly differently, meaning that measures often focus on different things and evidence is hard to synthesize. This leads to confusion in the academic world, which also trickles into the ‘real world’ with governments and funders guessing about what to measure and where to invest.”
To address this inconsistency, researchers set out to establish a unified list of components that constitute positive mental health. Building a shared framework helps ensure that professionals across all sectors are aiming for the same targets when designing mental health interventions.
The researchers used a technique known as the Delphi method, which involves surveying a group of experts over multiple rounds to reach a consensus on a specific topic. The study recruited 122 prominent academics from 26 countries, representing 11 different disciplines. These fields included clinical psychology, psychiatry, public health, philosophy, nursing, and economics.
The experts had an average age of about 53 years and an average of nearly twenty years of experience in their respective fields. About 84 percent of the participants identified as Caucasian or European, and a majority resided in Western nations such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The response rate for the survey was approximately 10 percent of the invited academics, though the participating experts were highly cited in their disciplines.
In the first round of the survey, participants evaluated 26 potential dimensions of positive mental health drawn from previous scientific reviews. The experts rated each dimension on a four-point scale from irrelevant to essential. To be included in the final framework, a dimension needed to reach at least 75 percent agreement among the experts. Participants also had the opportunity to suggest additional components in open-text boxes.
In the second round, the experts reviewed the newly suggested dimensions and re-evaluated the items that had not yet reached a consensus. In the third and final round, the participants rated the approved dimensions to determine if they were primarily drivers that cause positive mental health or outcomes that result from it. They used a visual scale from zero to 100, where zero indicated a driver and 100 indicated an outcome.
The panel reached a consensus on nineteen distinct dimensions that constitute positive mental health. Six of these components achieved greater than 90 percent agreement for inclusion. These highest-rated components included meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, self-acceptance, connection with others, autonomy, and happiness.
Iasiello noted that the average person should understand “that positive mental health is broad. It’s more than feeling happy and more than simply not being unwell.” He added, “When we asked a large, cross-disciplinary panel of experts to agree, six dimensions stood out as near-universal: meaning and purpose, life satisfaction, self-acceptance, connection, autonomy and happiness. So if you want a fuller picture of how someone is doing, those are good places to look.”
Other dimensions that made the final list of nineteen included optimism, competence, engagement, calmness, vitality, and a sense of belonging. Rounding out the accepted framework were acceptance, achievement, activities and functioning, development, fun, self-congruence, and a sense of safety. The panel also agreed to exclude certain concepts altogether. For instance, avoidance coping, which involves attempting to ignore stressors, achieved only about 20 percent agreement and was excluded.
The experts debated the boundary between psychological and physical elements of well-being. Factors like physical health achieved only 62.8 percent agreement, and personal circumstances achieved only 62.5 percent agreement, meaning both failed to reach the 75 percent threshold for inclusion. This indicates a tendency among the experts to classify these physical and environmental factors as outside influences rather than core parts of mental well-being itself.
When categorizing the finalized components on the zero to 100 scale, the panel rated happiness and life satisfaction primarily as outcomes of positive mental health, with scores averaging near 74 and 72, respectively. On the other hand, elements like autonomy and a sense of safety were considered primarily as drivers that help produce well-being, scoring around 29 and 32 on the scale.
Differentiating these variables proved to be a challenging task. “Probably how difficult it was for our panel to separate ‘outcomes’ or ‘drivers’ of positive mental health,” Iasiello told PsyPost, regarding what surprised the research team. “The surprising finding was that most of the 19 included dimensions could be seen as both an outcome or a driver, depending on the research question or population. This points to the complexity of the topic!”
The feedback from the participants helped shape a new working definition of positive mental health. The updated definition emphasizes that positive mental health is a subjective experience of functioning well and feeling content. It also specifically notes that a person can experience positive mental health and take action to improve it even while managing a mental health condition.
This proposed taxonomy represents a starting point for standardizing the field, but it possesses built-in limitations. “The main misinterpretation is thinking that this work is a finished product,” Iasiello said. “This shared taxonomy aims to be a starting point towards reaching greater consistency in the field. Our panel was highly expert but heavily Western and English-speaking, so the taxonomy almost certainly carries a Western view of well-being, and concepts like the Japanese idea of ikigai may not sit neatly inside it.”
Concepts like ikigai, which broadly translates to a reason for being or a sense of purpose in everyday living, highlight how different cultures prioritize unique psychological traits. A panel consisting predominantly of academics from industrialized, English-speaking nations might overlook elements of well-being that emphasize communal harmony or spiritual connection.
The boundaries between the causes of mental health and the outcomes of mental health also remain highly complex. A factor like social connection can serve as a driver of well-being on one day and an outcome of a positive mood on the next. The dynamic interactions between these variables suggest that any standardized list will struggle to capture the fluid nature of human psychology in everyday life.
To address these gaps, the researchers have several goals for subsequent studies. “First, test the taxonomy well beyond a Western panel, and deliberately include non-Western concepts and the lived experience of groups often left out, such as people managing chronic illness,” Iasiello said. “Second, work out the structure, which dimensions act as drivers, which are outcomes, and how they nest together, rather than leaving them as a flat list.”
“Third, map positive mental health against mental illness, since the two aren’t just opposite ends of one line,” Iasiello continued. He also emphasized a desire for practical applications moving forward. “Alongside that, we want the science to reach real communities through partnerships between universities, councils, businesses, NGOs, and practitioners, so it gets tested where people actually live and work.”
The study, “A Delphi consensus study on the dimensions of positive mental health,” was authored by M. Iasiello, J. van Agteren, K. Ali, E. Kolovos, P. J. Batterham, F. Goodman, A. Jarden, T. B. Kashdan, M. Kyrios, L. G. Oades, D. Weziak-Bialowolska, and D. B. Fassnacht.
Below is the complete list of the components and their meanings as outlined in the study:
The Top Six Dimensions (Greater than 90% Agreement)
• Meaning and purpose: Having clear goals, a sense of direction, and a larger aim in life and/or the feeling that what we do is worthwhile, rewarding, and valuable.
•• Life satisfaction: The degree to which a person positively evaluates the overall quality of their life as a whole (i.e., how much the person likes the life they lead).
•• Self-acceptance: Experiencing different aspects of oneself (e.g., one’s body, personality, thoughts, and feelings) in a positive, tolerant, receptive, or non-judgmental way; experiencing positive self-worth.
•• Connection: Involving a feeling of belonging, mutual caring, love, and closeness to friends, family, and loved ones.
•• Autonomy: The perception that we have ownership over our behavior and choices, and the ability to express oneself.
•• Happiness: States that are characterized by moderate-arousal pleasant feelings, such as feeling happy, cheerful, and pleased.
•The Remaining 13 Dimensions
• Acceptance: The ability to self-reflect, identify what is within a person’s control, and accept what is outside one’s control.
•• Achievement: Having done something successfully, using one’s own efforts and skills.
•• Activities and functioning: Overall satisfaction with our activities and leisure, and our ability to undertake these tasks.
•• Belonging: The feeling of deep connection with social groups, physical places, and individual and collective experiences.
•• Calmness: States characterized by low-arousal pleasant feelings, like serenity and peacefulness.
•• Competence: Feeling and perceiving oneself as effective and able to overcome challenges and stressors, and achieve desired outcomes.
•• Development: Experiencing growth and improvement.
•• Engagement: Having an absorbing experience in which the individual is completely focused on the task at hand or experiencing a state of mindful awareness.
•• Fun: Experiencing light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; entertainment.
•• Optimism: Having a positive outlook on life, and positive expectations about the future.
•• Self-congruence: The perception that our actions and behaviors are compatible with our interests, values, and beliefs.
•• Sense of safety: The feeling of relative security in one’s daily life.
•• Vitality: States characterized by high-arousal pleasant feelings, such as feeling energetic and lively.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #PositiveMentalHealth #MentalWellbeing #DelphiConsensus #MeaningAndPurpose #LifeSatisfaction #SelfAcceptance #Connection #Autonomy #Happiness #WellbeingFramework
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And finally, I ended the season chatting to Prof. Antonia Tzemanaki (University of Bristol), Dr. George Mylonas (Imperial College London) and Prof. Tom Vercauteren (King's College London) about how robotics and AI are transforming medicine - live at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. 🤖 🩺
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/06/26/episode-162-the-robot-doctor-will-see-you-now/ #Robots #Robotics #Live #AI #Autonomy #Clinical #ComputerVision #Diagnostics #Healthcare #HRI #Rehabilitation #Surgery #Teleoperation
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And finally, I ended the season chatting to Prof. Antonia Tzemanaki (University of Bristol), Dr. George Mylonas (Imperial College London) and Prof. Tom Vercauteren (King's College London) about how robotics and AI are transforming medicine - live at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. 🤖 🩺
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/06/26/episode-162-the-robot-doctor-will-see-you-now/ #Robots #Robotics #Live #AI #Autonomy #Clinical #ComputerVision #Diagnostics #Healthcare #HRI #Rehabilitation #Surgery #Teleoperation
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And finally, I ended the season chatting to Prof. Antonia Tzemanaki (University of Bristol), Dr. George Mylonas (Imperial College London) and Prof. Tom Vercauteren (King's College London) about how robotics and AI are transforming medicine - live at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. 🤖 🩺
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/06/26/episode-162-the-robot-doctor-will-see-you-now/ #Robots #Robotics #Live #AI #Autonomy #Clinical #ComputerVision #Diagnostics #Healthcare #HRI #Rehabilitation #Surgery #Teleoperation
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And finally, I ended the season chatting to Prof. Antonia Tzemanaki (University of Bristol), Dr. George Mylonas (Imperial College London) and Prof. Tom Vercauteren (King's College London) about how robotics and AI are transforming medicine - live at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. 🤖 🩺
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/06/26/episode-162-the-robot-doctor-will-see-you-now/ #Robots #Robotics #Live #AI #Autonomy #Clinical #ComputerVision #Diagnostics #Healthcare #HRI #Rehabilitation #Surgery #Teleoperation
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And finally, I ended the season chatting to Prof. Antonia Tzemanaki (University of Bristol), Dr. George Mylonas (Imperial College London) and Prof. Tom Vercauteren (King's College London) about how robotics and AI are transforming medicine - live at the Great Exhibition Road Festival. 🤖 🩺
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/06/26/episode-162-the-robot-doctor-will-see-you-now/ #Robots #Robotics #Live #AI #Autonomy #Clinical #ComputerVision #Diagnostics #Healthcare #HRI #Rehabilitation #Surgery #Teleoperation
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what part is FUD???
The part where you say:
Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor
This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.
for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!
To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.
The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.
how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?
We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?
But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.
But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?
But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.
Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?
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what part is FUD???
The part where you say:
Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor
This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.
for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!
To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.
The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.
how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?
We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?
But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.
But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?
But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.
Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?
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what part is FUD???
The part where you say:
Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor
This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.
for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!
To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.
The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.
how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?
We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?
But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.
But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?
But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.
Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?
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what part is FUD???
The part where you say:
Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor
This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.
for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!
To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.
The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.
how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?
We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?
But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.
But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?
But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.
Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?
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what part is FUD???
The part where you say:
Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
Your only rationale in the comic is that they are hosted on AWS. Which is a problem for a secure private messenger only for a protocol that is not designed to avoid leaking any sensitive data including the shape of the communication graph to an adversary with complete control over the server.
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor
This is misleading. The phone number in Signal is not used for message routing at all. It can be used to make you discoverable to contacts that were previously using the phone / SMS to connect to you. Being discoverable by your contacts is important for a private messenger because it gets you a big anonymity set quickly.
for a start, there is no single adversary that can observe the whole network, and switching from one relay to another and using several at the same time is easy, without losing your chats & data!
To take the two parts of this in turn: First, I would suggest you search for the term 'global passive adversary'. It's a core part of how any private messenger expresses its threat model. And, although a perfect global passive adversary doesn't exist, ones that monitor more than an entire country do exist.
The second part is the real problem. How many people are there on each relay? I don't need to monitor the entire network to see what a person is doing, I need to monitor the servers that they talk to, and who those servers talk to. That's a much weaker adversary (achievable by a huge number of potentially hostile entities). And the way that you defeat an adversary like this is to have a large anonymity set, so that correlations between messages arriving and leaving are hard.
how does signal, a central observer with access to all users' IP addresses is any better?
We know, from the results of warrants, precisely what can leak from Signal: the timestamp at which you joined the network and the timestamp at which the client last connected to the network. What can a warrant with your protocol deliver?
But if you're leaking things to a passive adversary that require an active compromise of another system then it doesn't matter if your system might be more resilient to an active attacker: an active attacker doesn't need to bother if people use your system. Just knowing which relay they talk to is already giving more data than a warrant against Signal delivers.
But it also highlights the problem with a lot of distributed messaging systems: You can easily turn a single point of failure into a lot of points of failure. If a relay is operated by someone malicious, how much of the network's traffic can they observe?
But, more importantly: you did not answer my question. You just attacked Signal. There are lots of things I dislike about Signal but you aren't even giving answers that tell me that you have solved the problems that they have solved, and you've got a design that introduces a load of hard problems that they don't have.
Maybe try talking about how you've actually solved some hard problems with security and privacy, rather than starting off with an attack on other projects and claiming that you're better than them?
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Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like #ArcaneChat
Keep the #family safe 💜✨
#OpenSource #European #Europe #android #aws #bigtech #amazon #diday
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Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like #ArcaneChat
Keep the #family safe 💜✨
#OpenSource #European #Europe #android #aws #bigtech #amazon #diday
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Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like #ArcaneChat
Keep the #family safe 💜✨
#OpenSource #European #Europe #android #aws #bigtech #amazon #diday
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Switching from #WhatsApp / #Telegram to #Signal is not a solution if you really care about #privacy, #resilience and #autonomy
all of them are centralized services and depend on phone numbers, which makes them easy to censor, the best services are the one that don't require any personal data at all to register, like #ArcaneChat
Keep the #family safe 💜✨
#OpenSource #European #Europe #android #aws #bigtech #amazon #diday
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I chatted to Ahti Heinla from Starship Technologies about their AI-powered delivery robots that operate independently on streets and pavements. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/29/episode-158-ahti-heinla/ #Robots #Robotics #Autonomy #Transport
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I chatted to Ahti Heinla from Starship Technologies about their AI-powered delivery robots that operate independently on streets and pavements. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/29/episode-158-ahti-heinla/ #Robots #Robotics #Autonomy #Transport
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I chatted to Ahti Heinla from Starship Technologies about their AI-powered delivery robots that operate independently on streets and pavements. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/29/episode-158-ahti-heinla/ #Robots #Robotics #Autonomy #Transport
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I chatted to Ahti Heinla from Starship Technologies about their AI-powered delivery robots that operate independently on streets and pavements. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/29/episode-158-ahti-heinla/ #Robots #Robotics #Autonomy #Transport
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I chatted to Ahti Heinla from Starship Technologies about their AI-powered delivery robots that operate independently on streets and pavements. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/29/episode-158-ahti-heinla/ #Robots #Robotics #Autonomy #Transport
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I chatted to Dr. Gavin Kenneally from Ghost Robotics about robot dogs for defence, security, and public safety. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/15/episode-156-gavin-kenneally/ #Robots #Robotics #Military #Autonomy #Defence #CyberSecurity
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I chatted to Dr. Gavin Kenneally from Ghost Robotics about robot dogs for defence, security, and public safety. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/15/episode-156-gavin-kenneally/ #Robots #Robotics #Military #Autonomy #Defence #CyberSecurity
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I chatted to Dr. Gavin Kenneally from Ghost Robotics about robot dogs for defence, security, and public safety. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/15/episode-156-gavin-kenneally/ #Robots #Robotics #Military #Autonomy #Defence #CyberSecurity
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I chatted to Dr. Gavin Kenneally from Ghost Robotics about robot dogs for defence, security, and public safety. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/15/episode-156-gavin-kenneally/ #Robots #Robotics #Military #Autonomy #Defence #CyberSecurity
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I chatted to Dr. Gavin Kenneally from Ghost Robotics about robot dogs for defence, security, and public safety. 🤖
https://www.robottalk.org/2026/05/15/episode-156-gavin-kenneally/ #Robots #Robotics #Military #Autonomy #Defence #CyberSecurity
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Meet #ArcaneChat
No phone numbers required for registration.
No strangers discovering and contacting your family members.
All your conversations end-to-end encrypted.
it is magic! ✨
#privacy #security #family #encryption #autonomy #europe #european #android
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Meet #ArcaneChat
No phone numbers required for registration.
No strangers discovering and contacting your family members.
All your conversations end-to-end encrypted.
it is magic! ✨
#privacy #security #family #encryption #autonomy #europe #european #android
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Meet #ArcaneChat
No phone numbers required for registration.
No strangers discovering and contacting your family members.
All your conversations end-to-end encrypted.
it is magic! ✨
#privacy #security #family #encryption #autonomy #europe #european #android
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Meet #ArcaneChat
No phone numbers required for registration.
No strangers discovering and contacting your family members.
All your conversations end-to-end encrypted.
it is magic! ✨
#privacy #security #family #encryption #autonomy #europe #european #android
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New blog post on hispagatos.org related to
our new ezine Autodefensa-digital number 1 volume 1 (Spanish)
created by @x3r0x read:
- https://hispagatos.org/post/autodefensa-digital/PD: some changes and updates also to our wiki:
- https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/documentos.md#ezines-fanzinesupdated the how to support our projects page and some git-email howtos as well
Thank you!
Happy Hacking
ReK2#hackerculture #descentralization #autonomy #autodefensa #hackers #hacking #Anarquismo #anarchism #freesoftware #hackerethics #StevenLevy
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New blog post on hispagatos.org related to
our new ezine Autodefensa-digital number 1 volume 1 (Spanish)
created by @x3r0x read:
- https://hispagatos.org/post/autodefensa-digital/PD: some changes and updates also to our wiki:
- https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/documentos.md#ezines-fanzinesupdated the how to support our projects page and some git-email howtos as well
Thank you!
Happy Hacking
ReK2#hackerculture #descentralization #autonomy #autodefensa #hackers #hacking #Anarquismo #anarchism #freesoftware #hackerethics #StevenLevy
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New blog post on hispagatos.org related to
our new ezine Autodefensa-digital number 1 volume 1 (Spanish)
created by @x3r0x read:
- https://hispagatos.org/post/autodefensa-digital/PD: some changes and updates also to our wiki:
- https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/documentos.md#ezines-fanzinesupdated the how to support our projects page and some git-email howtos as well
Thank you!
Happy Hacking
ReK2#hackerculture #descentralization #autonomy #autodefensa #hackers #hacking #Anarquismo #anarchism #freesoftware #hackerethics #StevenLevy
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New blog post on hispagatos.org related to
our new ezine Autodefensa-digital number 1 volume 1 (Spanish)
created by @x3r0x read:
- https://hispagatos.org/post/autodefensa-digital/PD: some changes and updates also to our wiki:
- https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/documentos.md#ezines-fanzinesupdated the how to support our projects page and some git-email howtos as well
Thank you!
Happy Hacking
ReK2#hackerculture #descentralization #autonomy #autodefensa #hackers #hacking #Anarquismo #anarchism #freesoftware #hackerethics #StevenLevy
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New blog post on hispagatos.org related to
our new ezine Autodefensa-digital number 1 volume 1 (Spanish)
created by @x3r0x read:
- https://hispagatos.org/post/autodefensa-digital/PD: some changes and updates also to our wiki:
- https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/documentos.md#ezines-fanzinesupdated the how to support our projects page and some git-email howtos as well
Thank you!
Happy Hacking
ReK2#hackerculture #descentralization #autonomy #autodefensa #hackers #hacking #Anarquismo #anarchism #freesoftware #hackerethics #StevenLevy
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Inside Ukraine’s Race To Build Autonomous Strike Capabilities
When Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he expected a quick victory rather than…
#Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #autonomy #BryanPickens #Russianforces #systems #YaroslavAzhnyuk
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Which Countries Have the Most #Academic #Freedom?
Key #Takeaways
> Globally, #university #autonomy is eroding. Since 2015, academic freedom has declined in 50 countries, while just nine have recorded improvements.
> The #US scores 0.40, placing it at a level similar to #Bhutan and #Thailand.
> #India has recorded one of the world’s sharpest declines in academic freedom since 2010.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which-countries-have-the-most-academic-freedom/
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Which Countries Have the Most #Academic #Freedom?
Key #Takeaways
> Globally, #university #autonomy is eroding. Since 2015, academic freedom has declined in 50 countries, while just nine have recorded improvements.
> The #US scores 0.40, placing it at a level similar to #Bhutan and #Thailand.
> #India has recorded one of the world’s sharpest declines in academic freedom since 2010.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which-countries-have-the-most-academic-freedom/
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Which Countries Have the Most #Academic #Freedom?
Key #Takeaways
> Globally, #university #autonomy is eroding. Since 2015, academic freedom has declined in 50 countries, while just nine have recorded improvements.
> The #US scores 0.40, placing it at a level similar to #Bhutan and #Thailand.
> #India has recorded one of the world’s sharpest declines in academic freedom since 2010.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which-countries-have-the-most-academic-freedom/
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Which Countries Have the Most #Academic #Freedom?
Key #Takeaways
> Globally, #university #autonomy is eroding. Since 2015, academic freedom has declined in 50 countries, while just nine have recorded improvements.
> The #US scores 0.40, placing it at a level similar to #Bhutan and #Thailand.
> #India has recorded one of the world’s sharpest declines in academic freedom since 2010.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which-countries-have-the-most-academic-freedom/
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Which Countries Have the Most #Academic #Freedom?
Key #Takeaways
> Globally, #university #autonomy is eroding. Since 2015, academic freedom has declined in 50 countries, while just nine have recorded improvements.
> The #US scores 0.40, placing it at a level similar to #Bhutan and #Thailand.
> #India has recorded one of the world’s sharpest declines in academic freedom since 2010.https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-which-countries-have-the-most-academic-freedom/
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I think that if obtaining money requires bureaucracy (jobs, business, bureaucratic financial aid), then spending money also requires me to enforce bureaucracy on myself. What do you think?
#capitalism #bureaucracy #systems #surveillance #money #control #freedom #autonomy #economy #justice #truth #awareness #exploitation #power #systemics
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I think that if obtaining money requires bureaucracy (jobs, business, bureaucratic financial aid), then spending money also requires me to enforce bureaucracy on myself. What do you think?
#capitalism #bureaucracy #systems #surveillance #money #control #freedom #autonomy #economy #justice #truth #awareness #exploitation #power #systemics
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I think that if obtaining money requires bureaucracy (jobs, business, bureaucratic financial aid), then spending money also requires me to enforce bureaucracy on myself. What do you think?
#capitalism #bureaucracy #systems #surveillance #money #control #freedom #autonomy #economy #justice #truth #awareness #exploitation #power #systemics
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I think that if obtaining money requires bureaucracy (jobs, business, bureaucratic financial aid), then spending money also requires me to enforce bureaucracy on myself. What do you think?
#capitalism #bureaucracy #systems #surveillance #money #control #freedom #autonomy #economy #justice #truth #awareness #exploitation #power #systemics
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The (Un)Necessary Births
Who holds the authority to define the "necessity" of a cesarean birth? While researchers, healthcare providers, journalists, public health authorities, and advocates from around the world routinely condemn high cesarean rates, the fact remains that biomedical guidelines and ideological norms always take priority over birthing women's authority in birth. Removing a woman's ability to dictate her own birth experience through denying her access to an elective cesarean exposes the illusion of informed choice and bodily autonomy for all women.
