ICYMI: @richsimpson95.bsky.social, Clara Swedlund, and I pop up in the latest edition of @psychmag.bsky.social. where we talk about the December Sport & Exercise Psychology conference. (Even better, elsewhere @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social features in a piece about creativity and communication)

Privileged to be interviewed alongside my wonderful @bps-dsep.bsky.social colleagues in @psychmag.bsky.social as we discuss the future of Sport Psychology and the DSEP Conference taking place this December!

Never tire of this beautiful place 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️⛳️

The emails sent: Emails received ratio has been grossly outmatched this month. There must be an email aether where my emails go to die... 😞

Abstract submission remains open for #DSEP2025. Join us in Leeds on the 2nd & 3rd December, and share your research or applied experience! www.bps.org.uk/event/divisi...

Short story time 📚 What has Pandora's box got to do with the DSEP Annual Conference? 👀 Register for DSEP 2025, submit an abstract, and let's explore and find out together! @bps-dsep.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric...

This is exciting. Now I can do the whole "Here's my card" act 😃

When you get to peer into someone else's life...a friend, work colleague, family member, whoever they are... they disclose or share a challenging experience with you: do you see them or do you see you? 📧 [email protected]

🚨 DSEP 2025 Abstract Submissions and Registration is now LIVE 🚨 @bps-dsep.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric...

@bps-dsep.bsky.social #DSEP2025 👀👀👀

Etched on Harvard's Dexter gates are "Enter to grow in wisdom" and "Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind". It elegantly reflects a wonderful day I had visiting Harvard 🙏 A huge thank you to the Human Flourishing Program for the opportunity to deliver a talk on sport for flourishing 🌸

An emotional day at MIT. I kept looking for traces and I found them. Hugh C. Simpson, Master of Science and Doctor of Science, and research assistant in the chemical engineering department at MIT 1949-1954. The work he did here set up his groundbreaking work, which led to an OBE in 1994.

The Preparation for AY 2025/26 begins! As a part of our PSY6033 Sport Psychology in Context module, I am looking for interested parties (practitioners, researchers, trainees, PhD students) who would be keen to contribute to this 'spotlight' initiative. 👇

I have just written a paragraph or two on well-being that is made sense of somewhat through Looney Tunes... How has your day been?

Enthusiasm is never wasted. We are very bad at recognising that but it's true. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric...

We will have all heard the phrase "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all". What if I have something nice to say? Even to those who caused me ill-will? What difference could this make, to their life or my own, through practicing kindness and compassion? A quote to consider...

The mechanics of the world do appear to operate in mysterious ways. Looking forward to visiting Boston this summer, seeing family, finding footprints left by my grandfather, and connecting with/delivering a talk to colleagues from the Human Flourishing Programme at Harvard University!

📢 CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS 📢 We are looking for 4x student volunteers to support DSEP 2025 👀👌 🗓 Please e-mail a cover letter and CV to [email protected] by Friday the 30th of May. @bps-dsep.bsky.social

📢 DSEP 2025 UPDATE 📢 Conference Theme 😍 Conference Values ❤️ Conference Venue 👌 Save the Date: 2nd-3rd December 2025 🗓 More announcements and updates to follow 👀 @bps-dsep.bsky.social #DSEP2025

Crazy that this is the last week of teaching for the academic year. By the end of this week, I won't be in a classroom teaching until next September 😮

The Empty Jar of Well-Being! www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric...

What significance or meaning could I possibly extract from an empty jar? 👀 Read more here: www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric...

Very appropriate and timely.

Really happy to see this paper published today! We identified best practices to promote researchers' mental health in emotionally demanding research. Thank you to all involved in this project, especially the participants for their invaluable expertise! 🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1748...

Impostor syndrome is a paradox: -Others believe in you -You don't believe in yourself -Yet you believe yourself instead of them If you doubt yourself, shouldn't you also doubt your judgment of yourself? When multiple people believe in you, it might be time to believe them.

My quest to reach inbox net zero fails for yet another day ☹️

The takeover continues... 🤓 A week of teaching positive psychology 🌱👌

Recollecting a fond memory of using my inner Marvel geek to express my well-being ideas during my PhD. Makes me proud looking back that I was brave enough to speak about my ideas in this quirky way... If only I had the chance to re-do this: The gauntlet would be so different!😆

www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric... If you could be guaranteed pleasure or positive affect at all times, would you choose it? It's a tempting offer isn't it? We desire pleasure and positives, but does that mean we should disconnect ourselves to other experiences? ✉️ [email protected]

Looking forward to a good conversation! Final calls 👇 Open Meeting: Well-Being in Sport, Performance, and Exercise Research Group (Monday 17th 7pm). Please e-mail r.simpson@leedstrinity for the link and share with any networks you think would be interested and would like to join!

We're recruiting Canadian student-athletes to do an anonymous 20-min survey about well-being in university sport. It would mean a lot if you could share this invitation & participate if you're eligible. Participants can enter a prize draw for 1 of 2 $100 Amazon gift cards lnkd.in/gKux-wCr

A great day delivering a workshop on practicing self-compassion to students! Negativity biases, positive psychology, strength spotting, virtue awareness, compassionate thoughts on a postcard, and human flourishing (I promise I did not bore them with conceptual debates or philosophy... too much) 🤓 ✍️

Well-being matters... or does it really? Are we in danger of becoming a dystopian well-being world? Another reason why clarity and agency in defining what well-being means is so key. 📧 [email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ric...

Sensational Duhan! Some hope 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

One of those research days, where three sentences equals a writing victory 😫

NEW SL Sport Psychology position at NTU. If you specialise in applied sport psychology and have experience as a qualified/registered sport psychology practitioner, please consider applying. Deadline to apply is Friday 21st February. Please share. vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Really looking forward to this event! I’m sure that Dr Simpson will be an excellent chair 😀

Anyone aware of any journals that accept book reviews? I may have some written pieces to get out there...

Pleased to announce a date for an open meeting (online) of the renewed Well-being in Sport, Performance, and Exercise Research Group Please drop me an e-mail if you're interested in attending or share with/tag others who may be! 📧

Your #DSEP2025 Conference Committee 😍 Alongside #DSEP2025 co-chairs, Richard Simpson and Alban Dickson, we are honoured to welcome our committee team: 👏 Clara Swedlund 👏 Dan Martin 👏 Anna Leishman 👏 Ryan Pelling Our team is here to serve you: our DSEP community. #DSEPChat

Absolute honour to serve alongside this amazing group. Like many endeavours, this is a huge group effort. We welcome ideas, input, and inspiration from any members of the @bps-dsep.bsky.social community to help make the #DSEP2025 conference a success. We are here to serve.

The renewal of WBinSPEX? Get in touch if interested! 📧 [email protected] www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

This sounds strange to say, but does anyone else ever find areas of psychology/sport psychology cringey? Call it "the ick" maybe... (though that word itself gives me the ick) but all the surface level stuff that people think sport psychology is about would probably top the list...

My most recent well-being thought of the day: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... Check it out! One day, BlueSky will allow videos over 2.5 minutes!

My commute home ❄️

There's no way of phrasing this in a way that feels like it isn't a copy and paste job from one of those "psychology says" accounts but... I hope all of you in academia who have returned to work this week are being kind to yourselves. You've got this!📝 #Marking #Research #Academia #ECR