WTF. This is HORRENDOUS news, and horribly misguided. Clinical science is science.

Wow… the explicit exclusion of clinical psych after people have already been working so hard on their applicants is awful. Anyone in/applying to clinical psych programs still planning to apply this year?

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

So excited for this!! Feel free to comment any questions you would like us to answer :)

Upcoming webinar for EDEB sig members on Single Session Interventions for body image and disordered eating! Speakers are @bburnettephd.bsky.social, @hoff-phd.bsky.social, and @ariellesmith.bsky.social. Register here: abctedebsig.wixsite.com/abct-edeb-si...

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 Congrats to Arielle Smith & the team on their recent paper in Behaviour Research and Therapy! Their study tested a digital, single-session body image intervention for LGBTQ+ youth. Read it now👇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796725001317?via%3Dihub

Hello world! We are building *personalized* feeds to help you make sense of research discussions on BlueSky! Pin our first feed below, which shows posts about papers from accounts you follow! Follow this account for more updates! bsky.app/profile/pape...

Thanks to @theresagaff.bsky.social for highlighting the devastating impact that terminated #eatingdisorder grants will have on Americans - including our work on LGBTQ-affirmative therapy for EDs @ajblashill.bsky.social

Seeking eating disorder book recs! 📚 I’m interested in books that take an intersectional or structural view of EDs and treatment systems. For example, I’ll be rereading Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca Lester which I loved. Anyone read A Hunger So Wide and So Deep?

The 5th International Single Session Therapies Symposium is in ONE MONTH! Our lab is excited to host ~200 attendees from 17 countries. Register here! sites.northwestern.edu/sst5/register/ Bonus: I'll be 9 months pregnant during SST5. Will there be 201 attendees by the end?? Register to find out 😅

Shout out to Arielle Smith @ariellesmith.bsky.social from the Lab for Scalable Mental Health {@jschleiderphd.bsky.social} who is sharing the promise of highly scalable, digital single-session interventions for eating disorders in the eMHIC webinar next Thursday! Check it out: tinyurl.com/mwx3xhtu

Join us on Wednesday May 14th at 5 PM CT for an awesome webinar about improving eating disorders treatment with the help of technology! 1 week away woooohoooo! We rehearsed today and there’s going to be lots of good stuff!!! Register: webinars.emhicglobal.com/eating-disor...

PSA to deactivate your X account if you haven’t already!! Any advice on how to deal with this ridiculousness from X? My account got hacked 2 months ago and I’ve tried multiple routes to regain access and deactivate it.

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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:

Super excited to talk about important research and lived experiences with the eMental Health International Collaborative and Consortium for Research in Eating Disorders in a few weeks! Registration is open! webinars.emhicglobal.com/Eating-Disor...

Education and intellectual debate are deeply held Jewish values. Coming after universities in the guise of fighting antisemitism is NOT consistent with Jewish values. It’s a thinly veiled attempt of this fascist admin to stifle the free discourse that counters their disinformation. #JewsforHigherEd

We (almost all American Jews) didn't ask for this and we see the long term damage it will do to both higher education and us.

As a professor & a Jew I’m sick to my heart about the attack on Columbia—which is a) escalation of the war on all of higher ed; b) Jew-washing fascism, with the intention of inciting more antisemitism, which in turn will be used as cover for more fascism.

Great turn out today at Chicago’s #StandUpForScience, despite the snowy/drizzly weather 😄

Rain (or snow) or shine, my PhD cohort is down to #standupforscience

13 years ago today, I presented my first scientific poster. 2 years later, I experienced a mental health crisis. Today, I am still a scientist. My research is on youth mental health. I #standupforscience because we need to do this research, and we especially need to help our most marginalized youth.

My Twitter/X is HACKED and I can't get into it. Please report it (@Arielle_C_Smith). I haven't even used it in months because of how much that platform sucks now :/

📣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

Excited to share I've officially been awarded my first R01! We'll be spending the next 5 yrs conducting a study I'm super excited about--optimizing a self-guided digital CBT-based chatbot intervention for eating disorders for maximum effectiveness and efficiency and then aiming to disseminate! 1/n

So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!! Check out the ToC! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

First quarter of my PhD classwork ✅! So excited for the next month of focusing on research and then taking some time off for the holidays!

Bluesky needs a bookmark button! How else am I supposed to add to my endless “save for later” backlog when I come across a cool paper shared here?!

Yesterday, we said goodbye to our precious family dog, Lailah. She was a central part of my life for 13 years. She'll live on in my memories, and funny enough, also in a research article + an ED prevention chatbot. I'll always smile thinking about Lailah helping someone's body image in a small way.

Alex Janin at the Wall Street Journal wrote this excellent piece about GLP-1s and children. Definitely worth a read if you are invested in public health, weight stigma, eating disorders, nutrition, and/or weight loss. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Ok I think I am done with what Twitter has become. I loved using it for my professional development, so does anyone have tips to get my Bluesky feed set up for clinical psych? I've heard about starter packs but don't really know what is going on 😅

It’s done 😅. Huge thanks to everyone who read my materials and supported me along the way! Who knows what will happen, but I’m proud of myself for taking on the challenge of applying.

The Lab for Scalable Mental Health is hiring a FT Research Coordinator! Work on NIH-funded and nonprofit-/industry-partnered research to make mental health care scalable & accessible WHERE: Chicago [2-3 days/week WFH] WHEN: ASAP! for 2+ yrs Search Job 48813 at careers.northwestern.edu to apply!