Welcome to the first SBSM SIG social media takeover, brought to you by the Psychosocial Well-Being and Health SIG! For the next month, we’ll be highlighting the amazing contributions that many of our members are making to our field. We can’t wait to share them with you!

Honoured to do this for Jeremy Grimshaw - a giant of the implementation science & evidence integration movements. Wonderful collaborator, promoting the importance of understanding human behaviour & applying theory to these fields. Thank you Jeremy!

Garry Richardson pays an emotional final farewell as #R4Today sports presenter - 50 years to the day since he started at the BBC. Hear highlights of his career here ⬇️

Meet our new Chair Heather Connolly Heather Connolly

Article Highlight: New study examined associations between depressive symptoms and mortality among people living with and after cancer. Read the findings here: doi.org/10.1097/PSY.00…

Hot off press & presented at #EHPS2024 ▶️Loneliness assoc w poorer sleep & daily stress ▶️Loneliness has indirect effects on sleep thru prior-day stress & hassles (& vice versa) ▶️Interventions shd target modifiable risk factors such as sleep & stress iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

For too long, suicide has been shrouded in silence, stigma and misunderstanding By starting the conversation, we can change the narrative on suicide Suicide prevention is our collective responsibility, and together, we can create a world where every life is valued and supported

New PhD opportunity based in Leeds: Green Spaces in Healthy Ageing: Use, Environmental, Seasonal and Individual Influences on Health in Deprived Areas findaphd.com/phds/project/g…

Here's a selection of 7 studies which have focused on the psychology of suicide risk in different contexts: 1. Men: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-05… 2. Young People: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37196933/ 3. Personality Disorder: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… 4. Loneliness: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 5.

Not done? No problem! For the first time ever, you can now submit in-progress or to-be-completed studies for the SBSM Annual Meeting! More at: 2025 Call for Abstracts - Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (thesbsm.org)

Great work by Kamala Harris. A strategy well executed. Such a delight to see Trump riled, rambling & frequently on the ropes :-) Not to mention Taylor Swift's brilliantly timed post-debate Harris/Walz endorsement!

Landed in Warsaw this morning - mass celebrations of this line in particular

Yep. This pretty much says it all. The MAGA eejits are running scared

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

Are you interested in improving the long-term development and life chances of children born into disadvantaged communities? Do you have an interests in food and nutrition, physical activity, language and cognitive development, or childhood and disability? jobs.leeds.ac.uk/MHPSY1133

The iterative development and refinement of health psychology theories through formal, dynamical systems modelling: a scoping review and initial expert-derived ‘best practice’ recommendations tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"He spread vicious rumours about them eating cats and dogs, playing to bigotry, racism and xenophobia like he always does." John Legend on Donald Trump's baseless allegations about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, the town where he was born #Newsnight

Wonderful day of presentations and discussions at the School of Psychology for our Liverpool-Leeds collaborative meeting! Thank you to everyone who came and we look forward to the next meeting in Liverpool and building on existing collaborations between our groups!

I remain focused on the American people—while my opponent remains focused on himself. Watch our new ad:

Excellent work Snow Patrol - “The Forest is the Path” is really great. It’s been a good two weeks or so, also with the release of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’s brilliant new offering “Wild God”.