Finally got around to finishing the personal website I started…years ago 🙃… Better late than never! laura-dadamo.github.io Feel free to check it out to learn about my work! I’m always looking for new collaborators 😊

Yesterday I defended my PhD surrounded by all the people who made the past 5 years possible 💜 What a journey!

Excited to share a new paper I co–first authored in @intjeatdisord.bsky.social 🎉 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We ran a 3-arm pilot RCT (N=148) testing a mobile app for teens w/ or at high risk for eating disorders, comparing self-help to guided self-help (GSH) and GSH+social networking

Grateful for a fantastic team with whom this work was conducted including Patty Cavazos-Rehg, Erin Kasson, Hannah Szlyk, @ariellesmith.bsky.social, @lauradadamo.bsky.social, Daphne Lew, Denise Wilfley, and the late Barr Taylor.

Chicago here we come!!! I’m so thrilled to have matched at Rush University Medical Center, my top choice, for my clinical psychology residency! Looking forward to this exciting year! 😊

New paper out in Psychiatric Clinics of North America by @carlihowe.bsky.social @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social and myself on the state of the literature on using technology to improve eating disorder treatment outcomes! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

People with eating disorders often post about their symptoms on social media📱 Can AI help detect markers of ED risk in online spaces & connect users to evidence-based support? Social media platforms already use automated tools to flag harmful content, but these systems usually aren’t transparent.

Update: my F31 was reinstated - I received the NOA for year 2 today. There is a lot of fighting left to do, but I'm grateful for everyone who has been working to defend diversity in science, and for this opportunity as a trainee to do this work ❤️

Just here to reiterate that @isrii.bsky.social is my favorite conference! Had an amazing time, as always, connecting with this inspiring community, including my fellow #digitalhealth EMCRs 🤩🌊

Year 2 of my NIMH F31 was supposed to have started yesterday. An award that I was proud to have funded on the first submission (13th percentile), which supported my dissertation research on eating disorders in adolescents, and which funded my tuition, stipend, and health insurance for the past year.

Are you an early career researcher planning to attend #ISRII13? We've planned some awesome events for ECRs - stop by connect with us! @isrii.bsky.social

Looking forward to having a timely discussion on the use of tech in care for eating disorders! Join us this Friday at 12 ET!

Come join our team! Working with Steph is the best. This is a great opportunity for folks interested in studying eating behavior in teens 🤗

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

Just received word that our post-bacc RA position at the UPenn Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab should go live this week. Will post the link when it does but, for now, here' s a link with the description. Please repost + share with your team! tinyurl.com/ycyzmmdx

if you're mad about the NIH cuts (and you should be), this is an *amazing* resource to help with calling your reps and talking to the media: www.nihforamerica.org #episky #medsky

ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️ #LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

my NIH grant was terminated today - the grant that pays my rent and my bills and my loans and my health insurance - because I study how to improve the lives and wellbeing of queer people #episky #medsky

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Still awestruck from watching my partner @drrachitsharma.bsky.social of Drexel University’s Environmental & Occupational Health Dept defend his dissertation so masterfully yesterday. Could not be more proud of you Dr. Sharma! 🎓 #phdone

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Philly standing up for science today! 🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬 #standupforscience2025

Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

APA is compiling stories of how researchers are impacted by the executive orders. Share your story here to help them advocate for you! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

📣I am hiring! Looking to hire a research coordinator to start in my lab later this spring/early summer to coordinate a new R01 in which we are aiming to optimize a CBT-based self-guided digital intervention for eating disorders! Apply here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... 1/n

I must not be wording this right. Lemme try again. There is only one (1) office (not even an institute) at the NIH dedicated to women’s health research. That office is now being dismantled, with only a bland landing page remaining on their website. This is a five-alarm fire! orwh.od.nih.gov

With such an amazing team (and study branded sweatshirts!) running my dissertation hardly feels like work! So lucky to get to work with this crew 💜 @jannahmoussaoui.bsky.social @bellaprusci.bsky.social @madelinenavea.bsky.social @carolinemartin.bsky.social

NIH is funding my dissertation on how moment-to-moment social experiences and moods can lead teens to engage in disordered eating. This will help us create better supports for them ❤️

👩🏻‍🔬 I'm recruiting for my dissertation study! 📱 We're recruiting teens ages 14-19 who experience binge eating and are willing to complete daily surveys on their phones. 👩‍💻 Teens interested in participating can complete an interest survey: redcap.drexel.edu/redcap/surveys… 📢 Please spread the word!

Most people with eating disorders never receive treatment, and those who do often don’t get evidence-based tx. Although many MH providers would be interested in providing this sort of care, specialized training in EBTs for EDs is not accessible for most providers.. (1/n)

Excited to share our systematic scoping review of psychological interventions for internalized weight stigma, now in the Journal of Eating Disorders! doi.org/10.1186/s403...

Loved talking at #ABCT2024 about the online platform we built to scale training in CBTgsh so that providers in areas/settings that typically lack access to training workshops in EBTs (eg community mental health settings) can learn to treat eating disorders & have a platform to deliver tx on!

A great symposium this morning at #ABCT2024 on innovations for scaling access to #eatingdisorders treatment highlighting incredible work by Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, Laura D’Adamo, @ariellesmith.bsky.social, and Jorge Palacios.