“Financial incentives may drive for-profit hospitals to turn away more complicated patients… hospitals can save on staffing and other costs if they admit healthier patients and avoid patients with the most severe psychiatric needs — a tactic [Dr. Zhu] called ‘cream-skimming.’”

Excited to share the publication of our book: “Addressing Minority Stress and Enhancing Resilience with Diverse LGBTQ+ Clients” Filled with rich case examples, clinical dialogue, and strategies for supporting LGBTQ+ clients in therapy! For more info: tidd.ly/4qI0QC0 Code for 20% off: SPRAUT

Interested in using the PCL-5 to measure PTSD symptoms in your EMA study? We conducted item analysis to examine item thresholds & discrimination parameters & examined DIF across daily surveys www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New Pub 📣 Studied PTSD and opioid use across 60 days in people in the community who use opioids and have a history of trauma. 75% met criteria for current OUD 67% met criteria for current PTSD www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When “OCD” is used as an adjective, it trivializes and invalidates the real suffering and courage of people living with this serious and debilitating condition.

📣 New Pub 📣 We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

Thank you to the welcoming graduate students in @stresslab.bsky.social (@hodiana.bsky.social + a few Blueskyless folks!) for curating this lovely waiting area outside my office. Grateful to belong to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social’s phenomenal team 🤗

In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.

This is good. www.audible.com/pd/B0DVCZZTF...

Awesome series of EMA talks chaired by STRESS Lab postdoc @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social and lead by STRESS Lab alum (Emmanuel Thomas and Alexa Raudales) and current members (Noam Newberger)

So proud of Alexa Raudales for being the recipient of the @istss.bsky.social Outstanding Student Achievement Award

STRESS Lab is @istss.bsky.social Come meet us and see some of our current work!

Huge congratulations to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social and @heatherschatten.bsky.social, along with the whole team, on this new R01!! Can’t wait to support and contribute to this important work ahead with @stresslab.bsky.social!

Proud to empower our community through naloxone distribution on IOAD. Community engagement is more than research; it's action. @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social (and many others!)

Big news! @universityofri.bsky.social just secured its first-ever NIH T32 grant! This T32 will bring together Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Life Sciences to train the next generation of scientists to tackle complex health challenges like addiction. www.uri.edu/news/2025/09...

Lovely new neighborhood views ☺️

New paper published in Psych Trauma: Sexual Orientation-Related Victimization and Posttrauma Reckless and Self-Destructive Behaviors among Trauma-Exposed Sexual Minority Adults psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

Important piece by Drs. @jaepuckett.bsky.social and Paz Galupo theconversation.com/our-trans-he...

For many reasons, including the relentless attacks on science and academia, it’s been challenging for me to access joy lately. And yet, I know how important it is to savor moments like this.

More than ever, scientists must amplify evidence-based work. Captured some of our scientists-in-training sharing their research @universityofri.bsky.social College of Health Sciences Research Night.

📣 Newly posted position to support several of our grants 📣 We will conduct an initial review of applications on 5/1. This is perfect for someone who is looking for research experience prior to applying to PhD programs in Clinical Psychology. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... The Job ID is 22298

I’m having many conversations with friends and colleagues related to feeling powerless. I wanted to share a concept from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) that I think is worth highlighting, especially when we fear there may be consequences for standing up/standing out: Alternate Rebellion.

A significant shift in incentive structures within training sites, universities, and licensing/accreditation bodies seems necessary. A move from cost-savings to trainee well-being.

Devastating news 😔

New open access paper out in Sexuality & Culture: A Qualitatively-Informed Approach to Examining the Construct Validity of Alcohol-Involved Sexual Violence

“Acceptance is the only way out of hell.” - Dr. Marsha M. Linehan

Today, especially, I’ve been reflecting on how to continue engaging in toward moves in a way that makes life worth living. I’m choosing to focus on: - Seeking refuge in supportive communities - Disengaging from those actively committed to misunderstanding

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🚨 check out our new paper in JAMT where we use i3 and minority stress theory as guiding frameworks to examine sexual and gender minority college students likelihood to perpetrate sexual violence according to levels of perceived intoxication

With @drrodebaugh.bsky.social’s listserv announcement yesterday, the cat is out of the bag! I’m looking forward to my term on the APCS Executive Committee as a Member-at-Large and to working together with all of the constituent partners to advance #PsychologicalClinicalScience 🙌

Glad to see our paper out now in JAMT: Examining differences in sexual violence perpetration likelihood by perceived intoxication among sexual and gender minority college students www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Grateful to have collaborated on this meta now out in PSOGD 🙏🏼 Associations between antibisexual discrimination from heterosexual versus lesbian/gay sources and bisexual people’s depression, anxiety, and psychological distress: A systematic review and meta-analysis. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

1 in 4 children experience maltreatment. Our meta-analysis on long-term implications for interoception: Emotional abuse is negatively related to interoceptive accuracy. Child maltreatment – most notably emotional maltreatment – is negatively correlated with body trust. A 🧵

First paper with soon-to-be STRESS Lab postdoc @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social 🥳

Excited to share our (@nicoleweiss.bsky.social and my) first co-authored paper now published in the European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation! Posttrauma reckless and self-destructive behaviors among trauma-exposed sexual orientation and gender diverse adults www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to translate some of our early findings with this most recent grant! www.uri.edu/news/2024/12...

As a psychology intern this year, I’m amused by how excited I get to spend Friday nights writing 😅

Committed action isn’t always comfortable in the moment, but it’s often the path to creating a life that is experienced as worth living.

Some findings presented at ABCT this year — * masculine ideology significantly moderates the relation between childhood maltreatment and both experiential avoidance and distress * men with ⬇️ levels of abuse and ⬆️ endorsement of traditional masculine norms report the greatest distress

Might make an ABCT FOMO starter pack tbh

Hey folks, www.smart-workshops.com is doing its first ever CYBER MONDAY SALE!! For 24hrs on December 2nd, use the code CYBER24 for 50% off all recorded workshops. Treat yourself. Use the term break to brush up on methods! Courses: www.smart-workshops.com/workshops Please share and retweet! 🙏

He’s got it made.

Hey alcohol folks going to RSA! I’ve got some data on loneliness and drinking among women—could be fun for a symposium on drinking and social factors or something in that domain. Anyone interested in participating or looking for folks wanting to present?

Hi folks, doing another introduction since this app has caught traction recently: Currently a predoctoral intern at VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System/Northampton VA & a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at UW-Milwaukee And incoming postdoc at the University of Rhode Island :)

Important work! Understanding Onset, Dynamic Transitions, and Associated Inequality Risk Factors for Adverse Posttraumatic Neuropsychiatric Sequelae After Trauma Exposure psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10....

I have a joke about central tendency, but it’s a mean one.

Let’s bring #followfriday to Bluesky. What early career folks should I be following doing research on trauma/PTSD?

Interesting paper by my better half, led by Helen Minnis, on an integrative view on adverse exposures www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I am seeking introductory resources on conducting hierarchical linear modeling (ideally in Mplus) for my dissertation analyses. If you have any recommendations for resources that you found helpful when first learning HLM, I would be so grateful!

New ordinal scale just dropped ⬇️

New paper out with @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social and @dwoesterle.bsky.social and Lindsay Orchowski! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....