It's that time of year! (responding to a an email thread and getting seven out of office emails, even though everyone is clearly checking and responding to emails)

As our last EDEB-sig related event on this Friday evening, we have a clinical round table on fatphobia in eating disorder treatment with @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social, @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social, Ally Duvall, @connorelbe.bsky.social, Paula Brochu, and Zachary Souillard in Strand 13, Level 2!

If you’re at #ABCT2025 come see our clinical round table on Dismantling Anti Fat Bias in Eating Disorder Treatment in Strand 13! @connorelbe.bsky.social @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social @allyduvall.bsky.social

One of my favorite college professors at my Alma mater Centre College asked me to guest lecture for one of her seminars and she assigned one of *my* research articles for discussion 😭 What a full circle moment, small liberal arts schools will always have a special place in my heart ❤️

Sosososo excited to serve on the editorial board of Eating Behaviors! I’m so honored to experience this milestone in my academic bucket list!

Research from Scott Griffiths at #EDRS showing that more toxic ED content is delivered to people with #eatingdisorders. TikTok prioritizes time spent watching videos over actions like liking videos - so folks w/ EDs get more toxic content even if they aren’t interacting directly

Day one of #EDRS2025 in sunny/rainy Orange County ☀️🌧️ and my first as an EDRS member!! Becoming a member this year was definitely one of my #imadeit moments as an eating disorder researcher and I can’t wait to learn with and from so many amazing researchers!

You can tell I am in grant writing mode because tell me why I used the term "procedural exactness" in a casual text with a friend (in my defense she is a ceramics artist and I will argue it is an important skill in her field!!)

After 6 long years, 30+ scientific publications, 2000+ clinical hours, 40+ presentations, countless cups of coffee, and a wealth of love and support, I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology! So proud to be the first doctor in my family and excited for what the future brings 🌟 #PhDone

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

Bsky research friends! Does anyone have resources or examples of an F32 or K08 project that has proposed using existing data in addition to proposing a novel study? Any help is appreciated!

This week I started my new position as a T32 NHLBI Postdoctoral Research Scholar through University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Training Program! So excited to receive this specialized training on cardiometabolic research and eating behaviors!

In the spirit of continued excitement and passion for sharing more on fat justice and anti fat bias efforts in the eating disorder space - so excited that our clinical roundtable on this was accepted at @abctnow.bsky.social #ABCT2025 this year! @connorelbe.bsky.social @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social

#ICED2025 was one for the books! I was so excited that we had a full house for our panel on weight stigma, “feeling fat” across the size spectrum, and eating disorders. A great chance to connect/reconnect with other scientists and practitioners that care about eating disorder advocacy!

My dissertation study is now out *open access* at Appetite! We found that individuals with binge eating symptoms who were randomly assigned to be exposed to weight stigma engaged in *less* caloric consumption - many implications for social identity threat! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My co-interns and their passion for their research are always inspiring to me! @laurenlaifer.bsky.social's new paper finds that both maternal and paternal factors across the perinatal period influence toddlers' emotion regulation. Definitely sharing this with all the dads in my life ❤️

So excited to hear that my dissertation paper was accepted at Appetite!! Stay tuned for when the paper is in press to read more about how experiences of weight stigma contribute to both binge eating and restriction risk 👀

Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles

Our new paper finds that (sadly and unsurprisingly) race-related stress and dissociation symptoms are related to increased suicidal ideation among Black US Americans after controlling for cumulative trauma load: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

📣 Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA) @repsummerlee.bsky.social will speak at the Stand Up for Science rally in #Pittsburgh 🔥 Join us to stand up for facts, research, and the future TOGETHER! 📢 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... Please repost 🔈🔊🔉 @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience

📢 Join us for the Stand Up for Science rally in Pittsburgh! We are bringing together a lineup of speakers from different backgrounds, who will share how science has made a difference in the world and in their own experiences. The speakers include…🧵(1/3)

Please distribute widely! This is a great opportunity to receive a novel eating disorder treatment specifically tailored to the LGBTQ+ community and developed by an LGBTQ+ eating disorder research lab!

Troubling: Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators. PLEASE SPEAK UP! Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/... Tell others to do the same!

Thrilled to share that I have accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with the Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine T32 program at the University of Pittsburgh after I graduate with my PhD this summer! I am so excited to continue my journey at Pitt Psychiatry! www.cvbm.pitt.edu/about-our-pr...

An RSVP link for the STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PITTSBURGH RALLY is now available! Please RSVP and Repost!! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... Pittsburgh let’s go! 💪🏼♥️ @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpforScience2025 #StandUpforScience

Our open access paper using network analysis to examine eating disorder symptoms among military members is out in Behavior Therapy! We found that body dissatisfaction, overexercise, binges, and diet pill use were central across multiple time points: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dismayed at attacks on LGBTQ people atm and very glad I get to at least work to get more affirmative care out in the world. Giving a workshop on LGBTQ-affirmative CBT in a couple of weeks! Come if you want to learn more about how to support queer people through all of *waves hands* this

Our paper on discrimination, sleep problems, and social pain minimization among Black Americans is out in Behavioral Sleep Medicine! Across 4 different studies, we found that discrimination and minimization/invalidation of pain led to sleep problems: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To the other clinical psychologists and trainees out there with families that are completely invalidating of mental health and the merits/importance of psychological science… I see you and hope we can make it through holiday season with our own sanity intact

If anyone is wondering how holiday season/visiting family is going, my dad just tried to convince me that we should somehow continue saying “commit” suicide instead of “died by” in order to communicate how serious it is??? And yes he knows suicide is one of my main research/clinical topic areas 🙃🙃

For anyone in #suicideprevention who uses the Safety Planning Intervention, we've updated the safety plan template to include 988 and also made a Spanish language translation of the template available. You can find both forms here:

#iced2025 here we gooo!!!! The countdown starts now!

Excited to present two SIG panels at #ICED2025 related to weight stigma and disordered eating with my fabulous collaborators including my amazing weight stigma SIG co-chair @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social!

Can’t believe my internship cohort and I are wrapping up our first quarter at Western Psychiatric Hospital/Pitt Psychiatry! I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to take on this journey with! @iriskayichat.bsky.social @delaineywescott.bsky.social @laurenlaifer.bsky.social @emmanuel

Seems like my old post is getting some traction with new followers. With just 10 days left, here's a reminder that I will be reviewing PhD applications in social-personality psych for my lab at UIC. Details & research priorities are on my lab website. Please let you students/ lab managers know!

I created a starter pack for Eating Disorders Research. No clue what I am doing, but maybe this will help us find each other in the great migration. #eatingdisorders go.bsky.app/SQwbxH5

The concept of starter packs is such a game changer for this platform - I am having such a great time reconnecting with researchers from *the bad place* that have successfully migrated over here!

So honored to receive the @abct-edeb-sig.bsky.social Diversity Research Award and get the opportunity to share some of my research at the EDEB SIG meeting! We found longitudinal associations between body dissatisfaction and body mistrust among Black US Americans @abctnow.bsky.social #AcademicSky

That’s a wrap @abctnow.bsky.social! Loved getting to reunite with friends old and new at #ABCT2024! One of the best parts of academic conferences is getting to learn with and from people who are so passionate about what they do! #AcademicSky

OVER THE MOON to have matched for APPIC internship at my DREAM site! Before applications I was so sure I wouldn’t even get an interview at WPH, so I am speechless now. I’m so proud of my fellow applicants regardless of the outcome. You are all amazing!

I could not be more thrilled for @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social who matched at Western Psychiatric Hospital! An amazing outcome for a truly amazing clinical scientist and person!

🚨After 2+ years of work, our sys review on the relationship between weight stigma & disordered eating has finally been published!!! Thank you to @drhunger.bsky.social & @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social for the buckets of support & encouragement on this labor of love ❤️ tinyurl.com/wsdesr

How I wanted Thanksgiving week to go vs how it went because I’m tied to my email and phone until APPIC Internship application season is done

It was an incredible experience to chair a symposium for the first time at #ABCTseattle2023! @connorelbe.bsky.social Benji Shephard Zach Soulliard Emma Austen and Rachel Flamer did such an amazing job and I learned so much! The future of this field is bright!

I’m presenting 3 symposia presentations this #ABCTseattle2023! If you happen to be at all 3, you deserve a cookie lol. 1st up on Saturday: our research on discrimination, social pain, interoceptive deficits & suicidality among a sample of Black Americans at 2:30 in Skykomish 604

Highly recommend getting to your conference destination a day early to explore the city before the presentations kick off! Seattle is a beautiful city #ABCTSeattle2023

SO thrilled our Weight Stigma and Social Justice SIG Panel on The Impact of Weight Stigma on Eating Disorder Treatment and Outcomes was accepted to next year's ICED conference! Excited to present with @bekurban.bsky.social @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social Mari Thomeczak, Erin Harrop & Sarah Sullivan!

Has the “is calculus useful” discourse made it to Blue Sky yet?

Running a marathon may be impressive but the REAL test of strength is single handedly carrying a grocery trip to Costco up three flights of stairs as a short woman (I am said woman, please clap)