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I haven’t said much publicly about the podcast I’ve done with BBC Sounds & the great Georgia Catt yet. But it’s a creepy story about how creepy technology is used to creep out a young woman, my former stepdaughter, Hannah. But that’s only the beginning 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sta…

Clinical trials reveal that some antidepressants are over 100% more effective than placebo, while others barely outperform it. The largest meta-analysis (Cipriani et al., 2018) compared 21 antidepressants in 116,477 patients, revealing striking differences in efficacy and

Today I'm launching a survey to support research I'm doing with MOPAC on when and why victims withdraw from the criminal justice system. If you reported to the police but then decided (or felt pushed) to drop out / disengage, have your voice heard 👇 londonvoice.org.uk/victimattrition

Just a thought, maybe less wastefulness, the idiocy of doge is so simply demonstrated theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Bansky 👇

What is the most important factor in attracting government funding for criminal justice interventions? Certainly evidence doesn't seem to be that important.

Bank of Ireland to pay €350,000 over alleged data breach that saw woman stalked breakingnews.ie/ireland/bank-o… via breakingnews.ie

What happened to Hannah is horrifying. Set against Carole Cadwalladr’s understanding of this world,it’s chilling. ‘what was happening to Hannah was private,mediated by tech,targeted to her phone. And Hannah also used tech to mask the truth’ The Observer theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…

💡TAKE PART IN NEW RESEARCH 💡 If you are a young adult who wishes to share their experience please complete the anonymous survey - uws.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey?t… #stalking #stalkingawareness #bullying #harassment #takepart

Programme now finalized for RCPsych’s Risk Assessment training event. Register here: rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confere…

New paper!! On risk assessment for violence. Super thread 👇 - interesting and novel findings on what clinicians made of risk score and why. Relevant to suicide risk assessment, esp in psychosis.

Unreal levels of incompetence and lack of security theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Qualitative work in our new paper interviewing carers found that they were generally positive about using structured tools for risk assessment - it provided a more open and transparent to consider safety planning and other risk management cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I’m sorry what the actual?

NEW Video-recorded cross-examination should help victims. But could it lead to fewer convictions? A bitter row has broken out between experts, barristers, ⁦Ministry of Justice⁩ & Victims’ Minister ⁦Alex Davies-Jones MP⁩. My story for ⁦⁦The Observer⁩ search.app/hjsCYjomAM2sMp…

Same for suicide risk, where the assessment itself can be part of treatment. It’s not about prediction - it’s more about identifying risk factors and collaborating, where possible, on addressing them. And other benefits as explained in our OxSET paper: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e…

Be interested to hear you thoughts, I Benjamin Spivak theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a… I am deeply sceptical from a data viewpoint

Our Centre is launching the Safer futures fund. A philanthropic initiative to support emerging professionals in the forensic behavioural sciences. It will also feature a talk by professor Clive Ruggles. An expert who is reknowned for his public campaigning to end stalking.

Interesting but not sure how helpful a separate label is cyberstalking is stalking. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust urges anyone affected by the BBC documentary 'To Catch a Stalker' to call the National Stalking Helpline on 0808 802 0300 to speak to a specialist independent stalking advocate about your safety.