OMG this was 30 years ago!! What a beautiful reunion yesterday – but the queen Lauryn Hill was deeply missed there! What a film!!

#ShinyApps are so so useful! It's a great way to standardise work and make people lives much easier. This package makes use of the DiagrammeR R package to develop a customisable flow diagram that conforms to PRISMA 2020 standards. Really great! eshackathon.org/software/PRISM…

Do you like the idea of working with daily life (ESM/EMA) & public health data to understand suicidal thoughts & behaviours, & working in Leuven & Melbourne? I'm hiring a new #PhD student to work with me, Gudrun Eisele, Ginette Lafit 💚 @[email protected] (Center for Contextual Psychiatry) & Angela J Clapperton (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)!

The first article of my PhD is out The Lancet Global Health Suicide-related internet use is present across all age groups of mental health patients who died by suicide: not just a problem in young patients sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Huge thanks to my supervisors NCISH

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

I'll be here 👇 on February 6th! #NHS #ColleagueSuicide #PostventionGuidance

Sadly, Elon is wrong about Dan being right. Remission rates have not been shown to be 80% in clinical trials. This is why the FDA advisory voted 9:2 that efficacy has *not* been demonstrated. Doesn’t mean we should not continue to study the topic, but let’s not lie to people.

⭐️Open Research Summer School ⭐️ Rounding off a whole day on error detection, Ian Hussey will be talking about ERROR! Grab your in-person ticket for Monday. Otherwise, there's plenty of spots for remote viewing! Register here: tinyurl.com/49x793yf

In 2025, the field of exercise science will 'celebrate' 20 years of contemporary HIIT/SIT research, starting with the famous paper by Burgomaster et al. (2005) in JAP (now cited in ~1,500 studies in Google Scholar, ~600 studies in Scopus). The study famously showed 100%

Today!!!

I'm really excited to share a pre-print I'm so proud of... Introducing the Deep Computational Text Analyser (DECOTA)✨ 📰 osf.io/preprints/psya… The first open-access tool to automatically analyse free-text data! When compared against human analysis... (🧵1/6)

I am very proud of this paper, which proposes a systematic method for testing whether theories putatively explain empirical phenomena. Congrats to the whole team, thanks to Noah van Dongen for pulling it over the finish line. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

🆕The Scottish statistics for 2023 show a 4% increase in suicide deaths compared to 2022. The suicide rate in males was more than 3 times that for females. Rates in the most deprived areas were 2.5 times as high as those in least deprived areas in Scotland. Every single

Amazing to see Prianka Padmanathan's work published: "Development of a Brief Intervention for Emergency Department Attendees Presenting With Self-Harm and Co-Occurring Substance Use Problems" Link: doi.org/10.1027/0227-5… Looking forward to seeing the next developments!

"The global burden of suicide mortality among people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and extension of estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Blood, sweat, and tears indeed! New systematic review from Center for Contextual Psychiatry, led by Julie Jns, & with Glenn Kiekens & Marieke Jaeken, and me. We looked at #ExperienceSampling /#EMA studies of the relationship between interpersonal processes & #SelfHarm thoughts & behaviours. Society for Ambulatory Assessment

Very proud of my brother Saarim Aslam for having his first paper out, which I had the honour to be part of, alongside Paul Salkovskis! – Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.… – Availability: Open access

New national suicide figures are published today in a series of reports. Headline message from Office for National Statistics (ONS) is a rise in 2023, the highest rate since 1999. But, taken together, the reports tell a more complex story. Short 🧵