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... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @roryoc.bsky.social

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. 🔗 eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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 the generations that suffer loneliness the most www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🆕Please share 10th Suicide and Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum, 11-12 June 2026 Call for Abstracts: Closing date 27th March 2026 suicideresearch.info/10th-suicide...

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”

"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

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. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFcG...

🆕Please Share! 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...

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: open.spotify.com/episode/5CDG... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUk0...

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

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)

I've been working on follow-up to When It Is Darkest, after a hiatus. When I published When It Is Darkest, I did so without an agent. But I think that an agent would really help for book #2. If you're an agent or know an agent who might be interested in representing me, please get in touch. 🙏

Following WHO call that we can no longer be silent I tweeted this in May. Thousands more innocent people killed since then (inc 17,000 children since Oct 2023) & hostages remain incarcerated. But still, people with voices & power to make this devastation end remain silent. My heart breaks 💔

Keep posted. I had a great conversation with Harry Corin- for his new podcast Question The Default. Harry lost his dad to suicide when he was 12. We chat all things suicide prevention and mental health. Drops in the autumn.

Such a powerful and emotional film about the impact of suicide on a family - as they embark on a journey to talk about and make sense of their loss. A tough but important watch. Available on Netflix

Irish people ain’t designed to run in this heat ☘️🏃☀️

I thought The 1975 rocked it @daryloconnor.bsky.social less convinced 🤔 #Glastonbury

It was great to host @hinzeverena.bsky.social at SBRL this week and to hear more about her important work on chronic pain and suicide and self-harm among youth

#WorldRefugeeDay is a moment to stand in solidarity with refugees globally. Our new podcast episode explores refugee mental health & suicide risk with host, Professor Rory O'Connor & special guests, Muzafar Ali & Prof Nicholas Procter. Listen: ow.ly/BCpK50WcwTG

Please share! New partnership with RSABI. Fully funded PhD scholarship (UK students only): Towards an enhanced understanding of suicide risk among those from agricultural backgrounds. Supervised by me and @katierobb.bsky.social Closing date: 21st July 2025 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Jeez, really felt that, ~80% humidity 🏃

We had a wide ranging conversation about such an important topic #WorldRefugeeDay

A glimmer of hope that humanity can still prevail at NIH www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Does anyone know why “invalid handle’ has appeared on my profile and what to do to resolve it?

The genius of Jarvis Cocker and Pulp! #Glasgow

It was great to meet with @nicholasprocter.bsky.social from Adelaide earlier today at SBRL to discuss a new joint project.

Spent today recording a 5 episode TV series on suicide called Great Minds for South Korean TV. Pretty intimidating list of past guests: Paul Nurse, Jo Malone, Richard Dawkins, Ken Loach, Paul Krugman, Steven Pinker, Judith Butler… Pleased to record in Humanities Lecture Theatre with its C17th pews

Huge thanks to all of our delegates, from 14 countries, who joined us over the past 2 days at the 9th Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers’ Forum. And personal thanks to all the SBRL team who worked so hard to make the event such a success 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Huge thanks to all of our invited speakers at the 9th Suicide & Self-harm #EMCRF2025 today in Glasgow, who were fantastic: Louis Appleby led us off with his excellent keynote followed by brilliant talks by Rosie Allister, Jack Melson and Molly McCarthy- really inspirational!

I really loved Frankfurt. So much so that I wrote a wee poem about going for a run on Wednesday…

Huge congratulations to @mareike.bsky.social who won poster award at the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment conference 2025 in Frankfurt 🎉

More great work from @mareike.bsky.social at European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment conference 2025 in Frankfurt

Ahead of seeing @robbiewilliams at the weekend, just watched Better Man. Jeez, sooo good!

A Psychological Approach to Understanding & Preventing Suicide (Free Training) We’ve developed a suite of learning modules funded by NHS Education Scotland. The aim of these modules is to get to the heart of this most tragic of human outcomes. suicideresearch.info/resources/#n...