📢 New publication! Our latest article in Prevention Science identifies four clusters of state correctional systems and proposes tailored, data-driven strategies for each to prevent suicide in jails and prisons. Check it out! rdcu.be/fwtD2 #SuicidePrevention

ICYMI: Carla Ibled, 'The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection' - analyses how Friedrich Hayek’s market order operates through a series of disciplinary and biopolitical technologies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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New publication alert! 🚨 We analyzed the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt (SA) and ideation (SI) across 13 traits using large-scale GWAS. We found shared loci implicating neurodevelopmental, immune, and metabolic pathways, with distinct signatures for SA vs SI. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

Time to retweet. No change in suicide rates in our study with data from Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland (some studies did find associations). Another null-finding that was not so easy to publish until some editor decided to have it reviewed. academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

New Publication Alert! 🚨 Why do suicide rates rise in the spring and decline in the fall? I argue that those at risk of suicide also face higher risk of dying from other causes, so fall/winter mortality from flu and heart attacks generate lower suicide rates. rdcu.be/fabXs

Something exciting is coming soon, stay tuned 😉

And thus, suicide may be understood as a conditioning mechanism, operating on society to alleviate unlivable conditions: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Psychological Aposematism: An Evolutionary Analysis of Suicide - Biological Theory

The evolutionary advantage of psychological phenomena can be gleaned by comparing them with physical traits that have proven adaptive in other organisms. The present article provides a novel evolution...

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Caroline Roodhouse@daddyblackbird.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One suicide impacts far more than one life. Research suggests at least 135 people are affected. Change starts with conversation. Let’s challenge stigma, prioritise mental health, and remember that suicide prevention is everybody’s business. #DaddyBlackbird #ChangingTheNarrative #WSPD2025

I posted this to reddit, it received a lot of attention before being removed by mods (?) I guess the uncomfortable realities presented were too much for them.

Awais Aftab@awaisaftab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What Do We Owe the Insufferable? When mental illness exhausts our emotional capacities www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we...

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...

The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory

Biological Theory -

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No one has actually done any effective anaylsis to-date to see if the suicide rate has increased with the inception of AI. Before AI, people died by suicide. Now that AI is extremely prevelant, it is easy to blame it for problems that have always existed in our society.

Rose Broderick@rosebroderick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The announcement is deceiving. OpenAI is funding grants w/ budgets "between $5,000 and $100,000." That's like throwing a penny at a tornado. OpenAI is facing lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT drove ppl to delusions and suicide — and this is their answer? You can't do research with such a paltry sum.

Congrats to Amanda on publishing one of her thesis papers! 🥳 @sarahevictor.bsky.social 📰 Between Urges and Actions: Unpacking Affective Dynamics in NSSI 📰 Get your copy! authors.elsevier.com/c/1m5ih_8RBg... @abct-ssi-sig.bsky.social @iasr-suicide.bsky.social @suicideresearchsym.bsky.social

The COVID natural experiment suggests something very different. Suicide rates increase with declining death rates coming out of the flu season. When death rates are disrupted, suicide rates are also disrupted: osf.io/preprints/ps...

University of Michigan News@umichnews.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Beyond sneezing & itchy eyes, high pollen seasons are now linked to significant rise in suicide risk. #UMich researchers found 7.4% increase in deaths, suggesting the physical discomfort of allergies may trigger deeper more dangerous despair, an overlooked factor in suicide prevention.myumi.ch/e3peA

Higher suicide rates often coincide with longer life expectancy. On their own, they are not necessarily a sign of societal decline. For instance, the drop in suicide rates during COVID does not imply that the pandemic was a time of joy or prosperity. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Why do suicide rates increase in the spring and decrease in the fall? Insights from an empirical evaluation of Stengel's social hypothesis on suicide

PDF | In 1952, the psychiatrist Erwin Stengel hypothesized that suicide becomes rarer in times when the value of life within a society is lower, when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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The NYT article is well balanced. Even researchers who examine the sensitive issue of direct causation in suicide would find too little here to justify placing blame on any single factor. It’s an interesting case, but I don’t expect the lawsuit to be successful.

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Imagine the IRL version of this. AI body cam on a SWAT officer assesses threat level of a target in a split second and has the officer kill the target before the officer could ever react. youtu.be/9alJwQG-Wbk?...

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You’re Not Weak — You’re Wired to Feel This Way

“If every suicidal thought was a small death, how many lives have we already lost — quietly, invisibly, inside our own minds?”

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The problem may be worse than it looks. Higher mortality rates suppress suicide rates—likely because deaths from other causes preclude later suicides. Rural areas have higher mortality. So how much higher are suicide rates there, after adjusting for this? osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Daily Yonder@dailyyonder.bsky.social · last yr.

According to researchers, suicides are a “persistent public health crisis,” compounded in rural areas by a number of socio-economic and healthcare access issues. Effective solutions will have to be tailored to specific communities.

🌟New publication!🌟 Feasibility and Acceptability of a Brief Intervention for Youth Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Pediatric Primary Care Providers It was great to be part of the team on this project. I’m excited about continuing this work! @cmpinciotti.bsky.social #suicideprevention

Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 @leilyb.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advance suicide research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

I totally broke a ChatGPT guardrail today:

A new piece in @psypost.bsky.social on our recent study published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. Check it out!

This feels a bit like when your child does something amazing and you feel like you want to take the credit but can't really. My new book Alchemy: An Illustrated History has arrived, and it looks *gorgeous*.

This is amazing. 🪶 www.science.org/content/arti...

Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds

Beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded to follow the feeders

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It’s kinda wild how psychologists will just keep developing “paradigms” targeting estimands that are less and less plausibly empirically identified, because somehow that’s the epitome of rigorous theorizing (tm)

Matti Vuorre@matti.vuorre.com · last yr.

@shuhbillskee.bsky.social, Niklas Johannes & I finally submitted our critique of a "new paradigm" in social media effects research for peer-review at Meta-Psychology. If you're interested in reviewing, please submit a review to open.peer.reviewer@gmail.com or e.g. prereview.org, or reply here.

Can I list Coffee as a co-author?

1/7 PREPRINT UPDATE – I’ve overhauled my paper looking at correlations between suicide rates and death rates, examining Stengel’s theory that suicide becomes rarer when the value of life within a society diminishes, when death is common. #suicidology osf.io/preprints/ps...

A multi-model relationship detection method to assist with naïve exploration of high-dimensional data: Wiley, James Christopher; English, Simon; Church, Kinsey; Ward, Richard A; Flowers, James; Chamoun, Céline

Suicide Cultures and the Sociology of Suicide, University of Edinburgh 6-7th May 2025 blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult... Sociologically inclined + working on suicide? You can apply to hang out with @annamueller.bsky.social + @sethabrutyn.bsky.social and the #suicidecultures team for 2 days

On January 14, 2025, the CDC released an easy to use dashboard for mapping injury, overdose and violent death (homicide, suicide), in the USA. You can sort by state, county, census tract. GREAT RESOURCE for local grants! Hope new admin doesn't shut it down. Please share. #SuicidePrevention #SWTech

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence Dashboard

Explore local, state, and national data on deaths from drug overdose, suicide, and homicide.

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Suicide risk is double in people with chronic pain. What can be done to reduce this risk? In our EJP paper, we found mental defeat a significant predictor of future suicide risk in people with chronic pain 🧪Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...