In 2024, 68 million Hispanics made up 20% of the U.S. population. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

First day of NLPA Summit at the U.S. Mexico border hosted by UTRGV. Grateful to have Michelle Silva as co-chair in organizing this event. 🎉🎊

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We hope to see you at the NLPA 2025 Summit in Texas. This year, you can choose to attend in-person or virtual. Register through the following link: ow.ly/nzsO50WWagM

Please share widely! Review starts 9/19. 🟧⬜️ 🟧⬜️

Its counseling and clinical psych Ph.D. program application season! If you are looking for potential mentors to apply to, check out the following resource: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Cynthia Navarro Flores and I will be reviewing applications for the counseling psychology PhD program @ UTKPsychNeuro (2026-2027 academic year). Lab webpage: tiny.utk.edu/thrivelab Apply: tiny.utk.edu/psycapply Apps are due by Dec 1st. Please help spread the word! 🙏🏼

Outstanding new paper on machine learning at AMPPS-- hit the virtual stands this summer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Reading the first round of discussion questions for my class and they are all criticizing the PHQ-9 as an outcome measure and talking about the weaknesses of ignoring individual symptoms when analyzing data

📢 We are hiring! The Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is inviting applications for two tenure-track positions in Counseling Psychology: Assistant Professor Assistant or Associate Professor Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172545

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

The Big Ten is airing a video advertisement defending higher education at its sporting events and on broadcasting channels. The effort comes after faculty leaders within the conference pushed their institutions to adopt a "mutual-defense compact."

🚨New pub🚨 Intersecting identities, different struggles: The effects of demographics on experiences of discrimination and mental health outcomes among college students in Texas doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 We are hiring! The Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is inviting applications for two tenure-track positions in Counseling Psychology: Assistant Professor Assistant or Associate Professor Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172545

#NLPA2025 Summit registration is open. Excited to soon learn from and be in community with other Latinx psychologist. If you haven’t already, consider attending this timely conference. Hope to see you in Texas! www.nlpa.ws/2025-confere...

Consider supporting the #NLPA2025 Summit, which will expand student access, support culturally grounded programming, and facilitate advocacy for Latinx mental health across the country. Sponsorship opportunities available through the link: www.nlpa.ws/2025-sponsor...

NLPA pre-conference registration now open for two great workshops! Hope to see you there! www.nlpa.ws/2025-pre-con...

Our department has a new name: 🟧⬜️🟧⬜️ artsci.utk.edu/new-name-ref...

Big life event! Nearly two weeks into being a girl dad. Barely slept but grateful that my wife and baby Sofía are healthy. Going to have to learn some new time management techniques. 👶🏻👨🏻‍🍼

Visitor on the deck today 🦅

🚨 New article with infographic! Kindly retweet! The full article is open-access and available here: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

🚨New pub🚨 Looking for a caregiver self-report measure of youth mental health support need and utilization? Our new paper evaluates the Caregiver Support Services Questionnaire within a sample of Latinx caregivers. The new measure is open access.🎉🎊 dx.doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Science is under siege. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escalated assault on science in America. #StandUpForScience actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

NLPA is seeking reviewers for conference proposals. Please consider volunteering through the following link: ow.ly/C9zT50W1FGK

NLPA PROPOSAL DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED! Consider submitting a proposal for this years Summit. 🎉🎊https://www.nlpa.ws/

Grateful to @lluaces.bsky.social and the Association for Psychological Science for the invitation to present my work on Latinx caregivers’ beliefs about the causes of youth mental health problems. Survived not loading presenter view and having to do the talk without notes. 🙏🏼🍾

The Trump administration’s claim that everyone is male or female goes against science, according to a researcher who has studied the claims of biological determinists.

Grateful to have been selected for the Research Development Academy through @UTKnoxville Office of Access and Engagement! This year, I was able to learn the hidden curriculum from the Faculty Success Program, met campus leadership, and got seed funding for my research. 🟧⬜️🟧⬜️

Career Advice | Grad School Doesn’t Stop for a Crisis Jessica M. Vélez offers advice on supporting trainees and yourself when the world is on fire. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3EAUVvv

Thanks to Kirsten Gonzalez and Marc Maley for throwing us a baby shower for baby Sofia! Grateful for the support for our friends and family. ❤️🍼👶🏻

🚨NLPA 2025 Summit - Call for proposals is live!🚨 Psychology at the Border: Addressing The Humanitarian Crisis via Psychological Science, Training, and Practice October 17-18, 2025 @ The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Please share! 🙏🏼 Link: whova.com/call_for_spe...

Read Parenting Practices and Substance Use in Mexican Children on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Read How Parenting Affects Childhood Substance Use in Mexico on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

New official @UTKnoxville assistant professor action figure! Tenure anxiety sold separately. 🍊

Read Identifying Barriers to Mental Health Services for Latinx Families on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

Read Risk Factors for Early Substance Use in Mexican Youth on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Read Mental Health Professionals in Puerto Rico Use Evidence-Based Therapies on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 We did a qual. study to understand how providers justified agreement/disagreement w the BPD diagnosis. TLDR: No differences based on SGM status of the vignette. BUT differences found were based on professional status. In Personality & Mental Health Doi: doi.org/10.1002/pmh....

🚨New pub🚨 Evidence-based practice among mental health professionals in Puerto Rico: Attitudes, knowledge, resources, and treatments. Thanks to @natgiraldosa and @CMNavarroFlores for their leadership on this paper!🎉🎊 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

"My diagnosis was transformative—but it brought bitter regrets. I grieved for the life and career that could have been had my ADHD been detected earlier. … But I also came to understand how ADHD has given me unique strengths." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/3RuK3lv

If you are a graduate student planning on preparing an NIH individual graduate (F31) or postdoctoral (F32) research fellowship proposal this summer, check out my FREE webinar on Succeeding at NIH Fellowship Grant Applications: smart-workshops.com/fellowships-...

Read Latinx Families’ Use of Telepsychology Services During the Pandemic on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid were especially impacted by the cuts announced on Tuesday.

Read Review of Mindfulness-Based Mobile Interventions: Current Methods and Future Directions on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Twenty Democratic attorneys general just filed a lawsuit challenging ED's recent layoffs.

Assessing the Damage After the Education Department’s Mass Layoffs The Trump administration’s deep cuts at the department hit some offices harder than others, but the effects will likely be felt by students, families and institutions across the country. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kO8wj7