Hello everyone!

A friend of mine, Dr Alastair Cockburn, wrote this *very important* paper. This reading is a must to work in the field of suicide prevention. It highlights many of the problems of using AI and prediction tools in clinical settings.

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I successfully defended my Habilitation today, and was honoured by the committee’s positive feedback. I am very grateful for my colleagues, collaborators and students at the University of Bern who made this a very rewarding journey.

A recent study in American Psychologist marks the most comprehensive review of #loneliness interventions in more than a decade and highlights the need for scalable, evidence-based solutions. Read the press release from the APA 🔗 https://bit.ly/4nJU0tj

Don't miss our upcoming webinar: Queer Lives and the Politics of Categories. In this webinar, Dr Kevin Guyan shares insights from his book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion.

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netECR (International Network of Early & Mid-Career Researchers in Suicide & Self-Harm; an independent, intl. network of early-career and mid-career researchers working in or contributing to the field of self-harm/suicide research) moves to Bluesky (1.691 followers on X)

Bluesky @netecr.bsky.social

Intervening on a central node in a network likely does little given that its connected neighbors will "flip it back" immediately. Happy to see this position supported now.

"Change is most likely [..] if it spreads first among relatively poorly connected nodes."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very interesting and (at least for me) surprising findings in this study where #fathers seem to be at higher risk of suicide attempts during perinatal periods.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Commission sets out 12 key recommendations, including:
💡 Decriminalise self-harm
🤝 Co-produce care with lived experience
🪷 Invest in culturally adapted interventions
📊 Improve global data & monitoring

Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/Y2DSzn3

Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone:

Healthcare
Economy
Prices

There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally:

Immigration

It’s actually very sad to see that risk prediction has never gone away, despite so much evidence demonstrating how awful we are at predicting suicide and its related outcomes. This is an incredibly important piece of work that we should all read.

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Don't miss the upcoming IASP/ IASR Research Webinar chaired by Professor Chan Lai Fong.

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Extremely important work by Matt Spittal, @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social and other colleagues published this week!

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