You may initially find this R package name #e1071 a bit peculiar, but wait until you realize that it was named after the room at TU Wien, where the package was developed. Now, the name seems to be the perfect place to honor the scientific work and camaraderie happening there.

Happiness is not about reaching your goals. It's about aligning your goals with your values. Progress without purpose is empty. Achievement without impact is fleeting. Success is most rewarding when it serves the people and principles that matter to you.

Mental well-being is a lifelong journey, and a treasure hunt map can make it less daunting. So happy to stumble upon the Mental Health Seek and Find mural on my lunch stroll. It’s created by Amanda Lederle CreateBeing with the support of CAMH and partners.

A study of 25,252 Swedish twins indicates that adverse childhood experiences associated with elevated risk of adult psychiatric disorders notwithstanding considerable familial (genetic & early environmental) confounding revealed through MZ/DZ comparisons. ja.ma/4a2h9jW

NEW VIDEO Special guest 🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 joins us at the The Royal Society to look at some priceless books from their collections 📖 🎥: youtu.be/Ip2RRTeTGOQ

About 30% of adolescents with depression who are at near-term risk for self-harm or suicide are not detected via PHQ Item 9. Those screened in primary care or with past inpatient hospitalizations with a mental health diagnosis are more likely to be missed. ja.ma/3Uxm1IY

Controlling for genetic and environmental confounding, study revealed 21-41% of mental health conditions in Australia are attributable to child maltreatment. Over 1.8 million cases & 184,000 DALYs could be prevented if child maltreatment was eliminated. ja.ma/4brnohT

Just registered for the 2024 Compute Ontario Summer School sessions. Looking forward to learning advanced computing and using supercomputers SciNet HPC!

NEW PAPER: Suicide prevention over the past decade. Prof Keith Hawton University of Oxford & Prof Jane Pirkis University of Melbourne reflect on progress & challenges on suicide prevention globally since @TheLancetPsych was first published in 2014. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Look what arrived in my mailbox today, Stephen S. Morse & Dustin Duncan! Super excited to dive into it! Twitter: If you are at all interested in COVID, pandemics, or the interplay between society & health, get yourself a copy of The Social Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic!

If you win a Nobel Prize you are entitled to the single greatest treasure on a University campus, the highest marker of status and comfort in the academic realm, the single thing all humans crave… *checks notes* …a slightly better parking space.

The Canadian Happiness Report with Anthony McCanny and Population Well-being Lab is out! Here we included a section about youth well-being and mental health. Learned so much from the talented Anthony who brings his passion and knowledge of measurement to the project

Happiness researchers have found that Canadians’ expectations of their lives don’t measure up to reality – a growing sentiment over the past decade, especially among those under 30. Read more: bit.ly/4eRNCLZ

Do you really want feedback? Or just someone to say you were right? Most of us view feedback as personal insults. Feedback is free advice. If you want to improve your writing you need to get feedback. #acwri

My first article is out, with Phyllis Lun, Mei Yang, Kenith Chan, & Felix Cheung (Population Well-being Lab). We examine wellbeing in Afghanistan during the final stages of the Afghan War and find it dropped to the lowest ever recorded after the war ended. Read here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Following the end of the war in Afghanistan, the country’s mean “life satisfaction” score reached the lowest ever reported from 1946 to 2022, new research finds. scim.ag/4mwiBlH

Thrilled to share that our new paper on subjective well-being in Afghanistan is out in Science Advances! It sheds light on the enduring psychological toll of war—reminding us that the human cost of conflict often persists long after the fighting stops.

Following the end of the war in Afghanistan, the country’s mean “life satisfaction” score reached the lowest ever reported from 1946 to 2022, new Science Advances research finds. scim.ag/3FiL8L0