Ireland winning goal and end of match with Irish commentary

Great article on the spread and impact of gambling in the USA in @psychologytoday.com. Thanks for inviting me to contribute. www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/... @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com

Super interesting work using health admin records by @simondymond.bsky.social and colleagues, looking at gambling-related suicide - especially good on use of services and opportunities for interventions www.kcl.ac.uk/news/researc...

Latest output, 'Adapting in times of crisis: how social media marketing of gambling changed in response to major shifts in the gambling landscape', led by Scott Houghton and featuring @shwardle.bsky.social and fantastic colleagues. Read it here: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

My GREAT Centre colleague, Jamie Torrance, has written this piece about the worrying rise in influencer-led gambling on livestream platforms theconversation.com/why-people-a...

The team at the GREAT Centre continue to have a productive year. Check out our latest publications, most of which are open-access, here: greatcentre.org/outputs

Was great to share findings from the CONGAM project on contingency management for gambling harm at the #EABCT conference in Glasgow with @fieldmatt.bsky.social @carolagetty.bsky.social @clinpsych.bsky.social and to compete with Comic Con for attendees! 🦸‍♂️

Job Alert!!! We are looking for a motivated postdoc to join a 3-year BBSRC funded project led by my colleague Carl Stevenson (I’m coPI). This multi-disciplinary project will combine in vivo heart rate monitoring and optogenetics with behavioural testing (fear and active avoidance) in rats.

Bringing behaviourism back from the Devil’s Island. Marking the 40th anniversary of B.F. Skinner’s Distinguished Visitor’s Address at the @bpsofficial.bsky.social annual conference at Swansea University. @simondymond.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... #histpsych

ACTIVATE: Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a digital health, smartphone-based app to reduce harmful gambling and PTSD symptoms among veterans: Read the final report here milgam.org/2025/07/30/a... Funded by Office for Veterans' Affairs in 2023 as part of an independent research initiative.

Yet another sad case of lives ruined by gambling harm leading to a custodial sentence. It took ages to bring the case due to the need for forensic accountancy, but where were the industry checks on this extended and unusual expenditure?

Another new output, this time a little rant in International Gambling Studies: 'Crisis? What crisis in UK gambling policy reform?' dymondlab.org/wp-content/u...

New paper: Just out in npj Digital Medicine, 'A scoping review of routinely collected linked data in research on gambling harm' eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Last 20 places available for Glasgow’s Current Advances in Gambling Research Conference, June 16-17th. Register now to avoid disappointment. cagrconference.org/cagr-2025/ @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @arobertslincoln.bsky.social @liberoacademica.bsky.social @greoinsights.bsky.social

Policy makers need to invest in research to understand the link between problematic gambling and suicide rather than extrapolating from one international study igamingbusiness.com/sustainable-...

Great to see the Centre for Military Gambling Research (milgam.org) cited in this debate in the House of Lords questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... #impact

Latest paper from the 'harmed Forces' series: A qualitative analysis of the experience of gambling harm and accessing support among United Kingdom Armed Forces personnel link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am thrilled to share this call for papers with you at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. @cassie-boness.bsky.social and I, alongside @aidangcw.bsky.social, are looking for proposals on the science and practice of behavioral addictions research. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Cheat?

Also, where are the behaviour analysts dealing with these common childhood behaviour problems?! Too busy focusing on the tails of the distribution

“Big toilet project”? “Potty shaming”? Nappies being too darn good? Didn’t we fix toilet training back in the 70’s with Azrin and Foxx’s Toilet Training in Less Than a Day? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Spring had finally sprung on this morning’s run around Gower. What a place to live, work, and run.

Wrapped up a busy trip to @haskolinn.bsky.social with a chat to TV news about gambling harm and the recent, welcome announcement of the introduction of gambling blocks by some Icelandic banks.

Nautholsvik beach, just behind @haskolinn.bsky.social, on a drizzly day in late-Feb saying it as it is. 🐳

Honoured to meet the President of Iceland, Halla Tómasdóttir, at our seminar on social media and addiction at @haskolinn.bsky.social. Well-attended, community focused event with excellent input and discussion.

Essential supplies secured, thanks to PhD student’s (Jack) trip to the People’s Republic of Cork #chalkitdown

Our response to the NICE guidelines on gambling-related harms and how our funding is trying to answer some of the research gaps identified in the guidance. afsg.org/2025/02/04/n...

What ever happened to toast racks?

Loot boxes, tech law and regulation, and the interconnections between gaming and gambling. This month's Member Spotlight interview with @leonxiaoy.bsky.social has it covered. afsg.org/2025/01/22/l...

Article title of the day www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The AFSG board and GREO met in Lincoln this week to develop our five year strategy. We’re taking our support for research to minimise gambling related harms to the next level. @afsguk.bsky.social @simondymond.bsky.social

🚨 New paper: “Attribute Conditioning is Insensitive to Cue Competition and Is Not Predicted by the Big Five Personality Traits” published in @spspnews.bsky.social with @simondymond.bsky.social, Katie Kiely, Alex Bradley & @markhaselgrove.bsky.social. Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Gower. Otherworldly, as ever.

In Moyes we trust (again)*. *And for two seasons.

Wow, 5 million calls made from BT pay phones in 2022, and if a kiosk isn’t used once a week for a year, it may get the chop. Fascinating piece on a ln important service and cultural experience we need to retain.

UKRI R4RI flexible CV-template thing: I am not a fan.

In Iceland, on Christmas Eve, people give each other books so they can spend the evening drinking cocoa & reading. It’s called, Jolabokaflod, the Christmas book flood. I’ve never been more in love with Iceland than I am right now ♥️♥️

A career goal achieved: finally made it on to the editorial board of JEAB. Been reading it since 1993, published my first two papers there, and now I get to give something back with the aim of bringing the top-quality work found in JEAB to a wider audience.

Ireland in 2027. The contracts align. ✨

A disgusting, cruel and unnecessary decision made by a caretaker government following extensive lobbying by Hvalur’s powerful owner. End whaling now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CAGR 2025 (Glasgow, June 2025) has opened its call for papers. If you have new and emerging research in gambling studies and gambling harms, get your submissions in by 5PM GMT Jan 30th. cagrconference.org/call-for-pap...

Paul Watson should be released and the focus instead move to Japan’s cruel new whaling mothership and to stopping whaling.

Munster lads won it there

I truly hope we will see a reversal of Brexit and a return to EU membership, in my lifetime at least. Whether or not it can happen within a first or second Labour term remains to be seen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jordie Barrett running the water for Leinster. He’s injured, obviously, but there’s such an abundance of riches there that it’s not even clear where he fits in the team. Hey ho.

Gambling research starter pack. Comment for edits! This was super helpful for other fields. go.bsky.app/24JJyHX

Oh, not that Goldie.