Still time to complete this survey on farmer mental health.

Important piece in last weeks NYT, highlighting how the failure to address the problems farmers experience creates a dangerous vacuum in our culture, and increasingly in our politics.
And worryingly how the far right across Europe sense an opportunity.
nytimes.com/2024/03/31/wor…

We are looking for farmers to complete this really important survey on mental health. Click on the link here bit.ly/farmersmentalh… or scan the QR code below.

.UCD School Ag & Food UCD Psychology & South East Technological University are hiring for the exciting 'Farming Minds' project. 👨‍🌾💙
👉Post Doc Researcher 48 months UCD
👉Post Doc Researcher 24 months SETU
👉Research Assistant 48 months (0.3 FTE) UCD

ucd.ie/agfood/newsand…

One aspect missing from this is how gender (masculine) stereotypes are also very dangerous for young men themselves. Suicide was the biggest killer of men aged under 25 (in Ireland) over a five-year period from 2019 cso.ie/en/releasesand…

'Improving the mental health of farmers: what types of remote support are acceptable, feasible, and improve outcomes? A feasibility RCT' — Read it on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/37…

Gillian O’Sullivan: Suicide stats underline the importance of farmers minding our mental health independent.ie/life/gillian-o…

Two exciting positions in RCSI School of Population Health to work with Barbara Clyne and the amazing team in Public Health & Epidemiology, highly recommend applying

Funded PhD: 'Masculinity in post-revolutionary global Ireland, 1923-1968' iasil.org/2024/01/schola…

Tomorrow's Saturday read:

'Even though I was the guy with a stammer, I was always determined to have my voice. I would never have been shut up too easily.'

Former Tipp hurler Timmy Hammersley reflects on the highs & lows of his career and why nothing is a lost cause

📢 Just out with Sara Kohlbeck, PhD, MPH Sarah Ruszkowski: A scoping review of research designs used to study #sucide in #agriculture along with a discussion on what is missed by prevailing lit review approaches doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

The rates of suicide are between x3.5 and x6 higher among men than women depending on age range according to new American Institute for Boys and Men research
CDC does not mention this gender gap in its work on Suicide Disparities.
A shocking and shameful omission:
aibm.org/research/male-…

Important piece by Fintan O'Toole: laying out the myths about male immigrants in Ireland today and how they compare to their Irish migrant counterparts in England in the 1960s
irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

James Joyce died on this date in 1941.

Lord Derwent, the British Minister in Zurich, said something profound at the funeral:

'George Moore is gone; Yeats is gone, and now James Joyce. But of one thing I am sure – whatever the rights and wrongs of the relations between Ireland…

Male Suicide: Patterns and Recent Trends is a critical read for mental health providers, teachers and anyone who plays a mentorship role in the life of a boy or man.

aibm.org/research/male-…

Great to see the GAA campaigning with Women's Aid Ireland on this
‘It can be your mother or your daughter’ - Women’s Aid launches ‘Stand Strong’ campaign against domestic violence independent.ie/irish-news/it-…

Celebrations again today as more PhD graduations took place in SETU. Congratulations to all who graduated this week. 🥳

Change, connection and community: A qualitative exploration of farmers' mental health
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Piece I wrote (two years ago) for the Irish Farmers Journal about the murder of Moll McCarthy and the wrongful state execution of Harry Gleeson.
An excavatoin to recover Harry's remains from Mountjoy prison is due to begin this month.

farmersjournal.ie/life/features/…

Can you guess what happens when young men are kicked off Medicaid?
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They are more likely to commit a crime

Why?

In part, because they lose mental health services

'expanding Medicaid eligibility ...is a cost-effective crime-reduction policy'

elisajacome.github.io/Jacome/Jacome_…