When you wait +4 months for a Rejection decision from a journal, and where the new set of reviewers are complaining about things you edited for a previous set of reviewers 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ There needs to be a better way! Shit Academics Say

Come and join our team! Open post for a research analyst to assist on a project examining the impact of cannabis legalization on forensic service users in Ontario. recruitingsite.com/csbsites/camh/…

1/2 New paper (with Roland Jones Stephanie Penney ) summarizing the relationships between psychosis and homicide after 2 new studies being published. Time trends find that psychosis associated homicide is different from general ppn homicide (in most countries). journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SB9WHPA…

For male academics (who are 4x more likely to have a partner at home doing domestic care), the start of the COVID pandemic was a publishing boon. Of the 45 most prolific medical journal authors (60+ papers) during the 1st 18 months, just 5 were women. bmj.com/content/381/bm…

Our newest paper in J American Academy of Psychiatry and Law looking at prevalence and risk of stalking in forensic service users. Calls for the use of specialized risk tools and increased awareness of the this issue in forensic psychiatry. jaapl.org/content/early/… Sandy Simpson CAMH CAMH Research

Excellent episode from David Speigelhalter on risk that was repeated on BBC radio 4 last week - contribution big data, importance of using probabilities (esp 39 mins onwards), who makes best predictions, value of combining human judgement w/ stat models: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

CAMH’s Dr. Stephanie Penney has been awarded a landmark grant through the CIHR National Women’s Health Initiative for her work to support the mental health of incarcerated women by addressing urgent care gaps for this underserved population. MORE: camh.ca/en/camh-news-a…