How may abuse in childhood contribute to an elevated risk for such a wide range of maladaptive health outcomes in adulthood? This study focused on impairments in fear learning processes (i.e., discerning between fear and safety signals in one’s environment). #psychscisky Free to read this week!:

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

It's that time of year again. My universal line in recommendation letters: Please note that I do not provide ratings for unvalidated recommendation questions; please rely on the evaluation in this letter.

BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.

In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

New paper led by @drlynam.bsky.social on the need for more training in and engagement with open science practices in clinical psych programs. It has been difficult to make progress due to a variety of barriers, including students working in labs uninterested or hostile to these approaches.

Seems like a good time to be working on a [checks file] T32

As I am going over old blog posts, here is a nice blog by @bwroberts.bsky.social on qualities in graduate students that, in his opinion, lead to a successful career in academia. Still very good advice. pigee.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/a...

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

🚨Calling all health psychologists! Submit to the Special Issue of BSAM on Protocols & Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology + share this call widely to support a more open & transparent culture aimed at improving the rigor & reproducibility of our research! Call for submissions:

➡️Special issue for protocols and data notes at @bsamjournal.bsky.social - any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine welcome! If a protocol was peer reviewed by a funder, it may be eligible for rapid review 👀 Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026. Details: journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

squid game season 1: the juxtaposition between schoolyard games and top-down death is a direct but useful metaphor for the inherent violence needed to sustain a class system under capitalism squid game season 3: we gave them knives so they can stab each other with knives

Have you checked out the overview of articles in the June issue of BSAM? Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Apply to be the Society for Health Psychology Postdoctoral Representative (2025–2026) and help shape the future of postdoc support within the SfHP. Be a voice for trainees, create programming, and grow community connections. 🗓Deadline: July 31, 2025 👉 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kentucky “alumni” reunion at #arp2025 @jdmiller.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social @dsamuel.bsky.social

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on: - Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices - Development of homophobia in childhood - Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities - Structural explanations & stereotypes 👋!

We've learned a lot more about the principal drivers of age-related diseases in the past few weeks. And the leads to a unified model to put it all together. (open-access) erictopol.substack.com/p/the-driver...

Why is socioeconomic status used in every introduction to factor analysis. I can hardly think of a worse thing to measure using factor analysis than SES

📣 It's been a minute, but wanted to hop on here to let folks know that I'll be offering the Quant Methods for Meta-analysis workshop again this year (July 7th-8th; smart-workshops.com/meta-info). Check out the link to get a feel for what we'll cover, but I also have some info below 👇 1/3

🧪 Since now there's round 3 of NSF grant terminations, it is yet *again* a good time to repost this. So far has been an every Friday thing for the past 3 weeks...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers. 1/n .

🌍 On this Earth Day, we recognize the critical importance of addressing climate change and the importance of health psychology & behavioral medicine rising to this moment. Please take time to read (and widely share) this call to action to better face the biggest challenge of our time.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

🗣️ Please share this call widely to support early career opportunities for folks in biobehavioral medicine, health psychology, or related disciplines! The ECEB is a great way to gain experience that is often not emphasized in grad or postdoctoral training. #healthpsych #affectivescience #psychscisky

Deadline extension! Now you can apply for the Early Career Editorial Board until May 1.

You can follow along with members of our Early Career Editorial Board through this starter pack: go.bsky.app/7wdxZUn

Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb

Journals have been so captured by metrics like impact factor and time-to-decision that they can't even conceive of the idea that scholars might choose a journal based on how good it is! For example, do the editors and reviews provide good feedback, have good judgment, and do they have integrity?

Keep posted: we’ll be advertising two fully funded PhDs soon on (1) inequalities, poverty and suicide risk and (2) suicide risk in agricultural communities

How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging? An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

If you're interested in joining the ECEB and attending #SBSM2025Seattle, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about the experience!

What were the death tolls from pandemics in history?

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

We built in the US the best scientific industry in world history and it is dying. Fixing just the damage done since Jan 20 would take years. Maybe a decade. The program staff, SROs, and brilliant talent is not coming back.

Ready to kick off #SBSM2025Seattle with this #betterposter in the Wednesday night session! #personality #cognition #PNI #psycsky #geronsky

I guarantee that color cost at least $200 at the owl salon.

And now a new handle as well! Be sure to tag us using our new handle (@bsamjournal.bsky.social) to highlight any research, funding opportunities, or anything else. We're excited to grow and engage with our scientific community on this platform as Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine 🦋🫶🏼

Program officers are experts in their field who can help applicants understand the scientific priorities of an institute. This muzzling of program officers, which keeps them from doing their jobs *which they were hired to do* is shameful.