Hello from our Albuquerque balcony.

Come work with us @unm.edu 🤩

Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Being a postdoc with @casaa.bsky.social has been a FABULOUS experience! Consider applying! I'm happy to chat about my time if anyone has questions

Friends, if you have the means to donate to a local food pantry financially via online giving, I highly encourage you to do that. But I don’t want to discount the importance of actually showing up at the pantry, even if it is just to drop off food. (1/5)

We have at least TWO postdoctoral fellowship openings on our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 NIAAA Training Grant, best consideration date for applications is Nov 15 2025. Join our phenomenal community and enjoy incredible quality of life in beautiful New Mexico. casaa.unm.edu/training/ins...

Can't miss episode! Thanks for sharing your expertise, @katiew.bsky.social and Dr. Tucker!

Check out this new episode of the Addiction Psychologist. In it, Drs. Tucker and Witkiewitz discuss how the reciprocal relationship between a person and their environment influence an addiction recovery attempt.

It is always such a treat to chat with @noahemery.bsky.social and @samuelacuff.bsky.social on my favorite podcast! Extra special to have the opportunity to share the genesis of our new work on the topic of recovery. Here's the paper that we discussed on the show! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yay!!!! NM ❄️!!!

UNM representing at National Science Network on Drug Abuse! @unm.edu @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @drtarab20.bsky.social

@lcornelas.bsky.social crushing her talk at the 25th National Science Network on Drug Abuse conference at @universityofmiami.bsky.social! Incredible and important work on #GABA, #endocannabinoids, traumatic #stress, and #alcohol use in animal models. #NSNDA2025 #addictionscience #trauma @unm.edu

Strong doom scroll and dumpster fire vibes lately, so here's a pic of Mandy cat in full roar after seemingly taking out Rosie dog*. *No animals were harmed in the making of this image. Mandy and Rosie were both sleepy and Mandy is mid-yawn.

Our experimental alcohol administration study on the tension reduction hypothesis has been published in Addiction! 🎉 See preprint thread below for a summary :) Https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70213

My competing renewal application was not reviewed last week. 🤬😭 A huge shout out to you and all reviewers of the cancelled NIH study sections. You all did the tremendously hard work of review. As time passes meetings will be even more challenging. Thanks for your service - we appreciate you!

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

#portlandoregon 🇺🇸🌈💚 #frogsoverfascists 👊🏼🐸

No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico

Sometimes Fridays are for balloons too

Fridays at Balloon Fiesta 😍🤗 thanks @katiew.bsky.social for the video!

Coolest department ever! UNM Psych faculty and grad students at Balloon Fiesta 🤗 @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social @katiew.bsky.social

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨 I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

💥UPDATE: I've got a (rough) website up! I am also looking for 1-2 graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows to join the team in Fall 2026! Apply via @casaa.bsky.social for the T32 Fellowship or via @unm.edu psychology for graduate study. Links to applications here: bricsslab.com/announcements

More from the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta yesterday morning. #AlbuquerqueBalloonFiesta #BalloonFiesta

My partner Stephanie and I had a fantastic time at our 1st Balloon Fiesta! Woke up at 3:15 am to catch Dawn Patrol and Mass Ascension! Even got to witness @unm.edu Psych faculty @lcornelas.bsky.social & @katiew.bsky.social and the rest of the Besos Amigos team launch Amore! #BalloonFiesta2025 #ABQ

In @katiew.bsky.social’s words, “Sundays are for balloons” 🎈 🩵

Absolutely amazing balloon fiesta day!! Made the full NM experience complete with a close call with a western diamondback rattlesnake during balloon retrieval. 🐍😬 @lcornelas.bsky.social @davidleyphd.bsky.social

Saturdays in Albuquerque NM are for 500+ balloons. @lcornelas.bsky.social

Superstitious beliefs when gambling may be more relevant in driving irrational beliefs and decision-making than otherwise thought, according to an article in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Read a summary from the lead author: https://bit.ly/4moGoTj @katiew.bsky.social @apadivision50.bsky.social

@katiew.bsky.social 1st NM SNOW for the year!!!

Talking to European colleagues about the state of science and life in the U.S. at ESBRA was both depressing and validating. @matwmccool.bsky.social gave a phenomenal talk and ❤️ shoutouts to @cassie-boness.bsky.social by @pierremaurage.bsky.social and to Tori Votaw by George Koob!

A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).

New Mexico is an amazing place and so proud of the efforts to support public health.

'SARG researcher @ambercopeland.bsky.social secures major Wellcome funding to model how context influences alcohol consumption' | | @sarg-scharr.bsky.social sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/s...

New semester starting tomorrow and genuinely SO excited to be teaching our graduate regression course again. In lieu of even more prep I spent the weekend hiking and ballooning. And it was amazing. Work-life balance. With emphasis on life. Weekends are for balloons!

“Saturdays are for balloons” quote attributed to @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social. Missed you Josh! 1st time on the crown line (with guidance from Holly and @lcornelas.bsky.social)

📣 Registration is open for the NHSN 25th Annual Scientific Conference! 🗓️ Oct 23–25 | 📍 Univ. of Miami Theme: ¡Sí Se Puede! The Power of Community & Innovation in Hispanic Health Research 🛎️ Deadline: Oct 15 the-nhsn.org/conference/a...

All of you using LLMs to optimize your workflow

Vacation is great, but the incredible friends who support you on vacation are priceless! Sometimes it takes a village for an anxious dog. Huge thanks to @lcornelas.bsky.social, and @cassie-boness.bsky.social for being so amazing. 😻 🐕🐾❤️ and thanks to Amazon for same day dog bed delivery. 🤦‍♀️

The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million — not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed — according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray. "Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yes—Congress has your back", she says.

Welcome to ABQ and UNM @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social!! La Cumbre for the win @katiew.bsky.social! And that’s my dog Max, refusing to look at the camera 🙄

Call these 14 senators. Thank them for supporting #NIH. Remind them that supporting NIH is meaningless if NIH cannot function. This stay would: 1) Enable censorship of science. 2) Disrupt NIH’s ability to fund any research.

This is absolutely horrific for science and for early career rising stars in our field. And for those of us with terminated grants that were for a moment reinstated, here is a timeline of the extra labor, pain, and hardship imposed by this chaos (cruelty seems to be the point):

The UNM @casaa.bsky.social NIAAA T32 training grant has been renewed, finally! We will be sharing info about a postdoc opening soon. Until then, thanks to all of the comments of solidarity and hope for our training program. We are thrilled to keep training brilliant alcohol researchers.

⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...

2025 just sucks ya'll. It just sucks. Everything is complicated and has gotten brutally harder for so many people. To those who make life easier for folks, thank you. You will be remembered. To those who deliberately make life more difficult for folks, you will also be remembered.

Fridays are also for balloons! Besos Amigos flight with @lcornelas.bsky.social @davidleyphd.bsky.social Missed you @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social

Absolutely gutted. Will do everything in my power to support @unm.edu trainees and @casaa.bsky.social. We are a powerhouse here at UNM that does incredible groundbreaking alcohol research. We will continue to keep fighting for what is right. #VamosLobos

Addiction destroys lives. And the current administration is dedicated to destroying the careers of scientists who seek to alleviate the pain and suffering of Americans with addiction. I cannot think of a more certain way to do this than by defunding training grants for early career scientists.