Please join us on 11th May as part of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

🆕 Registration is now open for the 10th Anniversary Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers’ Forum, 11-12 June, Glasgow 2026.

Also we’re still accepting abstracts (closing date: Fri 27 March)

We look toward to welcoming you to Glasgow in June.

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Should have posted ages ago…new paper adding further temporal evidence on the relationship between gambling and suicidal ideation. www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

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Reflecting on our MQ & Academy of Medical Sciences Call to Action for Mental Health paper at start of COVID, Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu & Peter Jones led new paper on policy & public health implications for mental health after COVID-19.

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Thanks for sharing Jon…sadly I don’t think I have any grey hair left 😅

“All is quiet on New Year's Day” #U2

Happy New Year!
1/1/26

The surprising truth about who the loneliest generations are Conversations around it often focus on the elderly. But by some measures, people in their 20s are the loneliest group in Britain

The surprising truth about the generations that suffer loneliness the most

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026

Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026

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Who were the Bondi beach shooting victims? What we know Authorities say two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were among the victims.

This is utterly heartbreaking and despicable.

My thoughts are with everyone affected and with my Jewish friends and colleagues everywhere.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am delighted that Penguin Michael Joseph will be publishing my next book.

Excited to be working with my editor Corinna Bolino and agent Jessica Killingley on this.

Publication in 2027.

Op-ed from @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social, President of Royal Society of Edinburgh:

“For the sake of Scotland’s colleges and universities whatever party gets the keys to Bute House in May should waste no time commissioning a review….The next Scot Gov must not shirk the challenge”

Top UK scientist says research visa restrictions endanger economy Prof Sir Paul Nurse says the UK is

"One of Britain's most distinguished scientists, Prof Sir Paul Nurse, says the government is "shooting itself in the foot" with its visa system for science researchers."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A real team effort!

I had a lovely few days at 11th International Congress of Clinical & Health Psychology in Children & Adolescents in Malaga.

I was also delighted to receive the AITANA 2025 Lifetime Career Award for mental health research and suicide prevention.

Huge thanks to all collaborators near and far 🙏🏻

Reaching 100,000 people through DBI is truly remarkable. 10s of thousands of people in distress have received immediate compassionate support. I’m incredibly proud to be part of this world-leading initiative, which is transforming how we support people in their moments of greatest need

Www.dbi.scot

Entrevista Rory O'Connor YouTube video by Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche

In advance of 11th Intl Congress of Clinical & Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents next week, I spoke with Jose Pedto Espada about the IMV model, current challenges and opportunities in suicide prevention and strategies for effective public health action.

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Save the Date: 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 #EMCRF2026

Check back for details in due course: www.suicideresearch.info

delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Designing Research That Saves Lives with Professor Nav Kapur

Our NCISH Director Professor Nav Kapur spoke with @roryoc.bsky.social for a @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social podcast episode about designing research that saves lives.

This episode is available in both audio and video format:

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The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore YouTube video by MQ Mental Health Research

This is superb - thank you @sjblakemore.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social -- The Teenage Brain Explained with Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore youtu.be/xy7jkcSl8to?... via @YouTube

This is #WorldMentalHealthDay2025

Nurturing our mental health can start with something as simple — and as powerful — as a breath.

“Artist Shanty”

Inspired by a walk through the artist shanties in Bismore Park, Hyannis Port, Cape Cod recently.

This amused me this morning.

Don’t quite understand what it actually means though 😅

#CommuterChat

Thanks Ann 🙏🏻

If you are attending #eabct2025 today, consider coming to my keynote, Lomond Auditorium at 12-1.

“Love Is The Cure”

I was inspired by a walk along De Sleutelbrug (The Keybridge) in Amsterdam on Sat.

I stumbled across simple but powerful message on bridge: Love Is The Cure.

Perhaps if more people in the world embraced this - more love & less hate - the world would be a happier, safer place.

Huge congratulations to Dr Yawen Zheng who successfully defended her PhD earlier.

Thanks to the examining team Pooja Saini, Ruchika Gajwani & Jessica Fish

Jonathan Evans and I are proud supervisors 🎉🎉🎉

*pleased to be able to join post-viva remotely from Schipol airport 😅

If you're still at #ICBM2025, I am speaking about three recent studies in the last session starting at 3.30pm

Important piece on future of suicide prevention in US

‘Dismantling research programs, training mechanisms, & international collaboration does not improve efficiency; rather it eliminates the very systems needed to develop innovative, cost effective interventions.’

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40671474/

🆕 Following requests from authors, we have increased the word limit for all regular papers in Archives of Suicide Research to 5,000 words (Introduction, Methods, Results & Discussion)