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James Wiley

@jamescwiley.bsky.social
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Statistician | Independent researcher | interests include evolutionary biology, suicide, psychology, and philosophy of science. Opinions expressed are my own. ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-573X

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Conor Hammersley, PhD @conorhammersley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just noticed my PhD thesis, On Feirm Ground: Exploring and Supporting Male Farmer Mental Health in Rural Ireland, is now up online. To my knowledge, it is the first PhD thesis in Ireland to focus specifically on farmer mental health. research.thea.ie/handle/20.50...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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There Is No Measurement Error in Biology - Biological Theory
Biological Theory - Measurement error is usually construed as the deviation from a true value. But measurement in organismal biology typically is a complex, multi-step process, and living systems...
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Sean M. Mitchell, Ph.D. @drseanmitchell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
1/5 📄 New publication, now #OpenAccess! 🔓 We surveyed 171 pediatric health care providers across Texas to examine their training, confidence, and current practices related to youth suicide prevention. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2379... #SuicidePrevention #YouthMentalHealth
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Rural and Non-Rural Pediatric Health Care Providers’ Youth Suicide Prevention Beliefs, Attitudes, Training, and Practices
A substantial number of youth experience suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and those living in rural areas are at even greater risk. Pediatric health care providers tend to be the first point of con...
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Corbin J. Standley, PhD @corbinstandley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 New publication! Our latest article in Prevention Science identifies four clusters of state correctional systems and proposes tailored, data-driven strategies for each to prevent suicide in jails and prisons. Check it out! rdcu.be/fwtD2 #SuicidePrevention
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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 18/07/2026
ICYMI: Carla Ibled, 'The ‘Optimistic Cruelty’ of Hayek’s Market Order: Neoliberalism, Pain and Social Selection' - analyses how Friedrich Hayek’s market order operates through a series of disciplinary and biopolitical technologies. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Gabriel R. Fries, Ph.D. @friesgabriel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New publication alert! 🚨 We analyzed the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt (SA) and ideation (SI) across 13 traits using large-scale GWAS. We found shared loci implicating neurodevelopmental, immune, and metabolic pathways, with distinct signatures for SA vs SI. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Time to retweet. No change in suicide rates in our study with data from Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland (some studies did find associations). Another null-finding that was not so easy to publish until some editor decided to have it reviewed. academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New Publication Alert! 🚨 Why do suicide rates rise in the spring and decline in the fall? I argue that those at risk of suicide also face higher risk of dying from other causes, so fall/winter mortality from flu and heart attacks generate lower suicide rates. rdcu.be/fabXs
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Something exciting is coming soon, stay tuned 😉
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
And thus, suicide may be understood as a conditioning mechanism, operating on society to alleviate unlivable conditions: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Psychological Aposematism: An Evolutionary Analysis of Suicide - Biological Theory
The evolutionary advantage of psychological phenomena can be gleaned by comparing them with physical traits that have proven adaptive in other organisms. The present article provides a novel evolution...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I posted this to reddit, it received a lot of attention before being removed by mods (?) I guess the uncomfortable realities presented were too much for them.
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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...
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The Importance of Biological Theory - Biological Theory
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
No one has actually done any effective anaylsis to-date to see if the suicide rate has increased with the inception of AI. Before AI, people died by suicide. Now that AI is extremely prevelant, it is easy to blame it for problems that have always existed in our society.
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Sean M. Mitchell, Ph.D. @drseanmitchell.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Congrats to Amanda on publishing one of her thesis papers! 🥳 @sarahevictor.bsky.social 📰 Between Urges and Actions: Unpacking Affective Dynamics in NSSI 📰 Get your copy! authors.elsevier.com/c/1m5ih_8RBg... @abct-ssi-sig.bsky.social @iasr-suicide.bsky.social @suicideresearchsym.bsky.social
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The COVID natural experiment suggests something very different. Suicide rates increase with declining death rates coming out of the flu season. When death rates are disrupted, suicide rates are also disrupted: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Higher suicide rates often coincide with longer life expectancy. On their own, they are not necessarily a sign of societal decline. For instance, the drop in suicide rates during COVID does not imply that the pandemic was a time of joy or prosperity. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Why do suicide rates increase in the spring and decrease in the fall? Insights from an empirical evaluation of Stengel's social hypothesis on suicide
PDF | In 1952, the psychiatrist Erwin Stengel hypothesized that suicide becomes rarer in times when the value of life within a society is lower, when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The NYT article is well balanced. Even researchers who examine the sensitive issue of direct causation in suicide would find too little here to justify placing blame on any single factor. It’s an interesting case, but I don’t expect the lawsuit to be successful.
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Imagine the IRL version of this. AI body cam on a SWAT officer assesses threat level of a target in a split second and has the officer kill the target before the officer could ever react. youtu.be/9alJwQG-Wbk?...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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You’re Not Weak — You’re Wired to Feel This Way
“If every suicidal thought was a small death, how many lives have we already lost — quietly, invisibly, inside our own minds?”
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The problem may be worse than it looks. Higher mortality rates suppress suicide rates—likely because deaths from other causes preclude later suicides. Rural areas have higher mortality. So how much higher are suicide rates there, after adjusting for this? osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Sean M. Mitchell, Ph.D. @drseanmitchell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🌟New publication!🌟 Feasibility and Acceptability of a Brief Intervention for Youth Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Pediatric Primary Care Providers It was great to be part of the team on this project. I’m excited about continuing this work! @cmpinciotti.bsky.social #suicideprevention
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 @leilyb.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advance suicide research: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I totally broke a ChatGPT guardrail today:
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Benjamin Zubaly @bzubaly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A new piece in @psypost.bsky.social on our recent study published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. Check it out!
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This feels a bit like when your child does something amazing and you feel like you want to take the credit but can't really. My new book Alchemy: An Illustrated History has arrived, and it looks *gorgeous*.
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is amazing. 🪶 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds
Beaks have grown longer and larger, and ranges have expanded to follow the feeders
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 29/05/2025
It’s kinda wild how psychologists will just keep developing “paradigms” targeting estimands that are less and less plausibly empirically identified, because somehow that’s the epitome of rigorous theorizing (tm)
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Can I list Coffee as a co-author?
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
1/7 PREPRINT UPDATE – I’ve overhauled my paper looking at correlations between suicide rates and death rates, examining Stengel’s theory that suicide becomes rarer when the value of life within a society diminishes, when death is common. #suicidology osf.io/preprints/ps...
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NEP-ECM: Econometrics @repec-nep-ecm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A multi-model relationship detection method to assist with naïve exploration of high-dimensional data: Wiley, James Christopher; English, Simon; Church, Kinsey; Ward, Richard A; Flowers, James; Chamoun, Céline
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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Suicide Cultures and the Sociology of Suicide, University of Edinburgh 6-7th May 2025 blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult... Sociologically inclined + working on suicide? You can apply to hang out with @annamueller.bsky.social + @sethabrutyn.bsky.social and the #suicidecultures team for 2 days
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Call for papers and participation: Suicide Cultures and the Sociology of Suicide (6th-7th of May 2025) – Suicide Cultures: Reimagining Suicide Research
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Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW @jbsinger.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
On January 14, 2025, the CDC released an easy to use dashboard for mapping injury, overdose and violent death (homicide, suicide), in the USA. You can sort by state, county, census tract. GREAT RESOURCE for local grants! Hope new admin doesn't shut it down. Please share. #SuicidePrevention #SWTech
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Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence Dashboard
Explore local, state, and national data on deaths from drug overdose, suicide, and homicide.
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Suicide risk is double in people with chronic pain. What can be done to reduce this risk? In our EJP paper, we found mental defeat a significant predictor of future suicide risk in people with chronic pain 🧪Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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John Gunn, PhD @jgunniii.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New to Bluesky! I am a #suicidologist and Assistant Professor #Psychology. I am interested in understanding why people die by #suicide and #criticalsuicidology.
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Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW @jbsinger.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Academic pressure and stigma intensify youth mental health challenges. @annamueller.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social's work reminds us that systemic solutions, not just individual interventions, are needed to support young people. #SuicidePrevention #Sociology #SocialWork
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Social Roots of Youth Suicide: Interview with Anna Mueller, PhD
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Christianity stigmatizes suicide and sexual deviance. Ive argued that stigma is a flexible deterrent that can be applied to any behavior. I have no specific interest in religion, but I do believe it is the indirect causal driver here and that a wealth of research supports this osf.io/preprints/ps...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Easy solution, just don't apply for funding.
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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This was the follow up to the essay on classical theory being a dead-end. At this point, I began rethinking the logic of theory at the grad level. It is impossible. Is it a survey of the field? A specialization that requires knowing certain debates? #sociology sethabrutyn.com/2020/01/08/w...
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What Is the Point of Sociological Theory?
This morning, I will be embarking on graduate contemporary theory for the eighth time in my career. Every year, it has evolved – sometimes quite significantly – making me the guy who wo…
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
1. Preprint update: presenting new data analysis supporting Stengel’s hypothesis that suicide rates decline when societal value of life decreases, such as during periods of higher mortality. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Osiris Rankin @osirisrankin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I created a feed for people who are interested in suicidology, or research on suicide, self harm, and related topics. It also tends to pick up other public reports, like newspaper articles, and job postings, which feels like more of a feature than a bug. bsky.app/profile/did:... #suicideresearch
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The struggle between individuals and society, culminating in suicide, is as old as humanity. Shakespeare captured this in Romeo and Juliet, where the lovers' deaths forced feuding families to reconcile. To break this cycle, we must understand it. This is my focus. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Psychological Aposematism: An Evolutionary Analysis of Suicide - Biological Theory
The evolutionary advantage of psychological phenomena can be gleaned by comparing them with physical traits that have proven adaptive in other organisms. The present article provides a novel evolution...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
1/ New preprint: "Do regional suicide rates predict reproductive fitness in individuals with mental health conditions?" A theory-driven hypothesis explored with limited data. Analysis will continue as more data become available from statistical agencies. osf.io/preprints/os...
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Thorn-Seshold Lab @thornsesholdlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Stigma against mental illness encourages suicide. Stigma against suicide discourages suicide. How do we reconcile these findings? Here's my take: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Sean M. Mitchell, Ph.D. @drseanmitchell.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
I started a suicide and self-injury research starter pack! Please share, and let me know if you’d like to be added! 😊 go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Been thinking about how the consciousness of deceased loved ones can live on in our minds via theory-of-mind, and whether reflexive understanding of this can provide a social incentive for suicide. In looking for related research, I found this interesting paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How people perceive the minds of the dead: The importance of consciousness at the moment of death
Immortality is thought to be achieved through heroic deeds, reincarnation, and the afterlife. The present studies reveal an alternative path to transc…
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
🤔 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Call to review ‘cancel culture’ in universities after student takes own life
Alexander Rogers’s body was recovered from the River Thames in January
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James Wiley @jamescwiley.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I conducted a pilot study, examining a hypothesis from one of my earlier papers. “Do regional suicide rates predict reproductive fitness among those with mental health conditions?” I plan to continue analysis as more data become available. Happy to receive feedback. osf.io/preprints/os...
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Michela Massimi @michelamassimi.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Weekend spent to finish my slides for the PSA Biennial Meeting in New Orleans. My President’s Address will be on Sat 16th at 6pm on the topic of ‘Local Knowledges and the Right to Participate in Science’ — this is based on recent work I did with the UN for this report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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A/HRC/55/44: Right to participate in science - Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki
In her report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, emphasizes the importance of an inclusive approach to the right to science. She r...
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Kristen Syme @kristensyme.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
My new theory paper w/ Dan Balliet accepted to Psych Review, “Fitness Interdependence Underlies Cooperation across Human Ecologies” osf.io/preprints/os...
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