Daryl O’Connor
@daryloconnor.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology, University of Leeds. Views are my own. Editor, Cogent Psychology. Associate Editor, Biopsychosocial Science & Medicine.
Laboratory for Stress & Health Research https://sites.google.com/site/doconnorlab/
Laboratory for Stress & Health Research https://sites.google.com/site/doconnorlab/
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Our paper, that we worked hard to produce before the second wave, estimated that 21,000 excess deaths were caused by the 1 week delay in lockdown.
The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Our paper, that we worked hard to produce before the second wave, estimated that 21,000 excess deaths were caused by the 1 week delay in lockdown.
The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The paper was held up & eventually rejected by the Lancet. By the time it came out it could only offer a post mortem.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing @claudiahammond.bsky.social about her excellent forthcoming book, Overwhelmed. The interview will be published soon in The Psychologist (& the book on 1st January 2026).
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November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing @claudiahammond.bsky.social about her excellent forthcoming book, Overwhelmed. The interview will be published soon in The Psychologist (& the book on 1st January 2026).
canongate.co.uk/books/5261-o...
canongate.co.uk/books/5261-o...
Congratulations to Scotland. What an amazing final 30+ mins of football!
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Congratulations to Scotland. What an amazing final 30+ mins of football!
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November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Final episode of the series of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. Fancy hearing about benefits of self-affirmation for health, or why the more often you see a health campaign, the less your brain engages with the message? Now, tomorrow at 21:30 or on demand :-)
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November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Final episode of the series of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. Fancy hearing about benefits of self-affirmation for health, or why the more often you see a health campaign, the less your brain engages with the message? Now, tomorrow at 21:30 or on demand :-)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Beautiful Sunday morning run in Sefton Park, Liverpool. Always great to be back in the city of my alma mater :-).
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Beautiful Sunday morning run in Sefton Park, Liverpool. Always great to be back in the city of my alma mater :-).
NEW: Emotional exertion & symptom exacerbation in Long COVID (LC)
▶️ Daily stress & worry are distinct factors linked to fluctuations in same-day & next-day LC symptoms
▶️ Stress showing strongest assoc—consistent w patterns of post-exertional symptom exacerbation
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▶️ Daily stress & worry are distinct factors linked to fluctuations in same-day & next-day LC symptoms
▶️ Stress showing strongest assoc—consistent w patterns of post-exertional symptom exacerbation
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November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
NEW: Emotional exertion & symptom exacerbation in Long COVID (LC)
▶️ Daily stress & worry are distinct factors linked to fluctuations in same-day & next-day LC symptoms
▶️ Stress showing strongest assoc—consistent w patterns of post-exertional symptom exacerbation
academic.oup.com/abm/article/...
▶️ Daily stress & worry are distinct factors linked to fluctuations in same-day & next-day LC symptoms
▶️ Stress showing strongest assoc—consistent w patterns of post-exertional symptom exacerbation
academic.oup.com/abm/article/...
Early early morning run with only the moon for company :-)
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Early early morning run with only the moon for company :-)
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Acne drugs for schizophrenia?
Opposer's Loss Effect?
Mental Health impact of Asylum Hotels?
And maybe a little bit of Traitors talk if you're lucky!?
All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4
Tue 9.30
Wed 21.30
Or catch up on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Opposer's Loss Effect?
Mental Health impact of Asylum Hotels?
And maybe a little bit of Traitors talk if you're lucky!?
All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4
Tue 9.30
Wed 21.30
Or catch up on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Acne drugs for schizophrenia?
Opposer's Loss Effect?
Mental Health impact of Asylum Hotels?
And maybe a little bit of Traitors talk if you're lucky!?
All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4
Tue 9.30
Wed 21.30
Or catch up on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Opposer's Loss Effect?
Mental Health impact of Asylum Hotels?
And maybe a little bit of Traitors talk if you're lucky!?
All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4
Tue 9.30
Wed 21.30
Or catch up on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Could the 'cortisol cocktail' really lower your stress levels?
My view “I'd like to see the evidence".
A useful & informative piece by BBC Food which also covers cortisol, stress & diet
www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...
My view “I'd like to see the evidence".
A useful & informative piece by BBC Food which also covers cortisol, stress & diet
www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...
Could the cortisol cocktail really lower your stress levels?
So, could this drink actually help lower your stress levels?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Could the 'cortisol cocktail' really lower your stress levels?
My view “I'd like to see the evidence".
A useful & informative piece by BBC Food which also covers cortisol, stress & diet
www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...
My view “I'd like to see the evidence".
A useful & informative piece by BBC Food which also covers cortisol, stress & diet
www.bbc.co.uk/food/article...
Who’d have thought it?
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Roger Stevens Building voted the city’s favourite building of the last 60 years.
It has “elegance and sculptural quality”.
Impressive outcome :-)
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@universityofleeds.bsky.social Roger Stevens Building voted the city’s favourite building of the last 60 years.
It has “elegance and sculptural quality”.
Impressive outcome :-)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leeds Uni lecture theatre block voted best city building
Leeds' Roger Stevens Building was chosen from a shortlist of 10, all built between 1965 and 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Who’d have thought it?
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Roger Stevens Building voted the city’s favourite building of the last 60 years.
It has “elegance and sculptural quality”.
Impressive outcome :-)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@universityofleeds.bsky.social Roger Stevens Building voted the city’s favourite building of the last 60 years.
It has “elegance and sculptural quality”.
Impressive outcome :-)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thoughtful commentary by Janet Tomiyama “Behavioral medicine in the GLP-1 era”
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#GLP #weightloss #obesity #stigma
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#GLP #weightloss #obesity #stigma
Behavioral medicine in the GLP-1 era
How should researchers and clinicians in behavioral medicine think about GLP-1 medications, which are soaring in popularity? This commentary discusses the
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November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Thoughtful commentary by Janet Tomiyama “Behavioral medicine in the GLP-1 era”
academic.oup.com/abm/article-...
#GLP #weightloss #obesity #stigma
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#GLP #weightloss #obesity #stigma
A lovely November 5th walk through the park earlier listening to updates on the democracy in action from Virginia, New Jersey, New York City & California :-)
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A lovely November 5th walk through the park earlier listening to updates on the democracy in action from Virginia, New Jersey, New York City & California :-)
Happy Halloween:-) 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Happy Halloween:-) 🎃
Want to hear more about whether trigger warnings work? Or research on discrimination and systematic inflammation? What about the health benefits of kindness? Check out the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Should we be using trigger warnings?
We interrogate growing evidence that suggests trigger warnings aren’t working as intended.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Want to hear more about whether trigger warnings work? Or research on discrimination and systematic inflammation? What about the health benefits of kindness? Check out the latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Some random views around Leeds: Hepworth & amazing staircases :-)
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Some random views around Leeds: Hepworth & amazing staircases :-)
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Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
Great blog Brent!
Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014? A question that made us blog again: Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014?*
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Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014?*
Brent W. RobertsA.J. WrightLena RoemerCavan Bonner Recently Burn-Murdoch reported in the Financial Times (FT) that since 2014 conscientiousness was in a “free fall” in younger p…
floggingpvalues.blog
October 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Great blog Brent!
We’re advertising two lectureship positions. Come join us. It’s a great place to work. Deadline is 9th November jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology
Are you passionate about furthering your research career in a research-intensive Russell Group University? Are you committed to delivering a first class learning and teaching experience? The School is...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We’re advertising two lectureship positions. Come join us. It’s a great place to work. Deadline is 9th November jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
The line-up for today’s Global Psychology Talks looks great — featuring a broad and diverse range of topics that reflect the richness of our discipline
October 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The line-up for today’s Global Psychology Talks looks great — featuring a broad and diverse range of topics that reflect the richness of our discipline
Assembly House Annual exhibition. A fantastic space supporting early career artists in Leeds. Lovely Saturday morning visit 🙂.
October 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Assembly House Annual exhibition. A fantastic space supporting early career artists in Leeds. Lovely Saturday morning visit 🙂.
Delivering a Global Psychology Talk tomorrow afternoon should be fun :-)
October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Delivering a Global Psychology Talk tomorrow afternoon should be fun :-)
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Our new comprehensive #openaccess book on #DigitalPublicHealth is now available online: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
We present current interdisciplinary research and concepts on digital technology for population health including legal & ethical issues, challenges and engineering perspectives.
We present current interdisciplinary research and concepts on digital technology for population health including legal & ethical issues, challenges and engineering perspectives.
Digital Public Health
This open access book gives an overview of the core issues in digital public health, such as prevention, population health, and health systems.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Our new comprehensive #openaccess book on #DigitalPublicHealth is now available online: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
We present current interdisciplinary research and concepts on digital technology for population health including legal & ethical issues, challenges and engineering perspectives.
We present current interdisciplinary research and concepts on digital technology for population health including legal & ethical issues, challenges and engineering perspectives.