Archive for October 2025

Billionaire Peter Thiel insists that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and his portfolio of data mining and political bets puts that belief into practice. His is a program of authoritarian control disguised as innovation.

Evaluating patient characteristics and trends of avoidable emergency department visits: Informing community health services to reduce emergency department utilization

Empirical and Theoretical Overlap and Distinctiveness of Perceived Burdensomeness and Suicidal Ideation

Far-right narratives of online groups: A systematic review of recent cross-disciplinary research.

Cost-effectiveness of specialized trauma care: A systematic review

Therapeutic doublethink: Making a case for the acceptability of unrealistic optimism in patients at end-of-life

The Generations and Gender Survey: a cross-national longitudinal resource

Northern Ireland

Decrease in alcohol-specific deaths [Scotland]

Is Vietnam turning against LGBTQ+ rights?

DW | M Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty

After years of steady progress on LGBTQ+ issues, Vietnam’s sudden cancellation of Pride events has raised fears that the ruling Communist Party is retreating into a more repressive stance.

Arousal grows up, arousal goes down. Emotion regulation, trait anxiety, rumination and worry as predictors of recovery time after mental imagery

Settler colonialism or a hybrid case? Dimensions of colonization in Cyprus and Turkish Cypriot–settler antagonism

Reducing mathematics anxiety among Nigerian students using rational emotive behavior therapy: A randomized control trial

Ethical perspectives on pre-hospital triage mechanisms among Swiss healthcare stakeholders during times of medical resource scarcity: A qualitative study

The positivity effect is robust to health and social content in ambiguous scenario interpretation.

My playbook: Psychotherapy role expectations, relational trauma, and trauma-spectrum mental dysfunctions in community mental health service users in Hong Kong.

NIHR: Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC) (Cohort 12) ) (Closes: 20 Nov)

Social work’s quiet heroes walk alongside families in crisis

The Post | supplied

As life in Auckland becomes tougher for many families, social workers say it has never been more important to provide help, writes Grenville Hendricks (above), the social services general manager for Presbyterian Support Northern.

Immigrant women, domestic and family violence and the state: A contextual global analysis of the United States and Australia

Self-reported health experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the 2021 Australian population census

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey: selected findings from waves 1 to 23

Pre-implementation findings on the barriers and potential solutions to initiate same-day antiretroviral therapy among people who inject drugs in Malaysia

The Shelter Gap

Montana Free Press | T Bridge/Independent Record

Part 2 of The Shelter Gap, a three-part series examining barriers to buying, renting and building homes on reservation land and highlighting the community benefits of secure housing. Above: A landscape on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, with the Bear’s Paw Mountains in the distance.