Hope it’s a meaningful #Veterans Day for ALL Veterans and #military families, as well as my colleagues who dedicate their lives and careers to provide clinical care, research, and other resources with and for these folks within the VA Health Care System. #VeteransDay2025 #VAServesAllWhoServe

Great programs and a phenomenal mentor! Highly recommend applying to her lab if you’re interested in her work!

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...

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...

Excited to launch our new web page: MPWRlab.com! Enormous kudos to oje of my incredible PhD students, @reaganfitzke.bsky.social, for designing and creating the site! Happy to have a new place to share info about our active studies & other updates. Check it out! @mpwrlab.bsky.social @unm.edu

Wow. Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury absolutely destroys Jake Tapper — who tries to advance a debunked Republican talking point about Trump cutting off SNAP.

UNM folks always doing big things! Great turnout by fantastic colleagues!

@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

Very cool paper! Happy I got to be a part of it!

Proud of my city! 👏

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Got licensed in the state of New Mexico this week! Now licensed both here and in Colorado as a #clinical #psychologist. Should probably do #PSYPACT next. Anyone gone through that process?

We like to have fun here. 😎 @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social

Thank you, @reaganfitzke.bsky.social! It looks great!

📣 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.

Dr. Brick is an amazing researcher and fantastic human! Definitely apply if you’re on the market and passionate about this work!

Great two days at the ICRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction. Got to present on combat sports betting, see Alex and @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social present their work on co-occurring alcohol use and sports betting, and was able to see Josh get his award!!! Gooooood weekend for the BAAAD lab 🐐🎰🎲

I got a vase

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

Long post ahead! I am very excited to be recruiting 1 to 2 #PhD students during this upcoming application cycle for Fall 2026 admission! The Clinical Psychology PhD program at The University of New Mexico (UNM) is absolutely stellar and accredited by both #APA and #PCSAS (Clinical Science model). 1/

My cup is full from another @istss.bsky.social conference in the books! Always amazing to see so many friends and colleagues that I normally only see on a computer screen, as well as 2 of my UCCS grad students! Wish I had gotten more pictures, but these are some of my favorite ones. #ISTSS2025

Thank you to all who came out to our SIG meeting yesterday! Whether you could make it or not, stay tuned for a survey to follow up on discussion regarding suggestions for facilitating increased membership and engagement in our SIG! #ISTSS2025

Celebratory F31 NoA beers courtesy of @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social

Over the moon is an understatement for how excited I am for @reaganfitzke.bsky.social! She is a brilliant PhD student in @mpwrlab.bsky.social & put together a phenomenal proposal & stellar mentor team w/ @jenread.bsky.social, @ericrpedersen.bsky.social, & Dr. Mark Prince. Can’t wait for her study!

Really enjoyed helping table for the @casaa.bsky.social at #ABQ Celebrates #Recovery Day! We talked to a lot of folx that stopped by & gave away all of our swag! Big shoutout to @matwmccool.bsky.social for helping organize the whole event! And kudos to the whole CASAA team that helped volunteer!

New Mexico just became the first state in the country to pass a law that provides free child care to everyone regardless of income! This is huge for our family with 2 in daycare and every other caregiver that struggles to afford childcare. Nice work, NM! www.nmececd.org/universal/

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

This is so awful and heartbreaking. Been throwing me off all day as I used to live right by this school and Minneapolis is a place I still call home. When does it stop? When do we finally do something to create a culture shift in this country to ensure responsible gun ownership?

It’s the little things in life that matter. I just got coffee on the way to campus and was jamming music in the drive thru. Pulled up and the cashier asked me, “are you the car playing Alanis Morisette?” I said yes and she told me to “turn it up!” 😎 #onehandinmypocket #theotherisdrinkingicedcoffee

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

Big shoutout to @brigittabeck.bsky.social, who successfully defended her thesis last week! She put together an excellent study focused on IPV-related #TBI and #health #risk #behaviors among #community #women. She’s also the first grad student thesis I’ve chaired from start to finish. Cheers, Britta!

Things I’ve learned since I moved to #Albuquerque: 1. People are very kind and friendly, both colleagues and strangers. 🤗 2. Roadrunners are way smaller than I thought; Looney Tunes lied to me. But super cool, regardless. 🐦 3. Turns out the desert is real hot in the summer! 🏜️ More to come…

Thank you! So glad I finally got to meet Max too!

This whole executive order is so awful with open efforts to institutionalize houseless folx. And this blatant effort to kill SAMHSA funding for harm reduction prevention and intervention efforts in it is also infuriating. Harm reduction saves lives, and it’s evidence-based. Period. Full stop.

Excited to be a secondary faculty member in this area! (I was hired primarily in clinical). UNM continues to be on the cutting edge of research, including this area’s emphasis on socioecological context and comprehensive approach to understanding human health and behavior. #sciencerules

Today was my last day at UCCS! Going to miss this view, this lab space, & my “Hills of Ireland” wall. The last 4 years have been formative in the early stages of my #academic career. I’ll miss my colleagues & students still there, but happy I get to still work with them from ABQ! Onward and upward!

Had a great time at @cpddorg.bsky.social in New Orleans! Definitely will be back. Also, I’m going to put this picture in my next #discounting talk. 😆 #CPDD2025

Heading to @cpddorg.bsky.social in New Orleans! Excited to see a lot of my colleague-friends (the best combo!), & eating shrimp étouffée, gumbo, & as many beignets as they can legally sell me. Hoping to find some brass music too! Can’t wait to hear the latest in drug addiction work! #CPDD2025

Took our kids to their first protest today in Golden, CO. Loved seeing folx reclaiming the American flag, trying to make it a symbol of patriotism in the fight against tyranny. Rather than how this administration has adopted it to symbolize hate. Power to the people! #NoKings #TrumpSkisInJeans

VERY excited that @reaganfitzke.bsky.social will be joining me @unm.edu! Sounds like there’s an amazing group of graduate students there already so she’ll fit right in!

I am thrilled to share I have officially accepted an offer for a TT Asst Prof of Clinical Psychology position at the U of New Mexico! SO excited to join their Dept and be an affiliate of CASAA too! I cannot wait to work with so many stellar faculty and students there! @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social

Very proud of my @mpwrlab.bsky.social students that won UCCS awards tonight for Outstanding Undergrad Student (Makenzie Baca), Outstanding PhD Student (@brigittabeck.bsky.social), & the Lee Becker Award (stats skills; Ellie McLane)! Big kudos to them and validation for all their hard work!

Grateful for this #HRSA GPE #grant I’m on as a Co-I, improving clinical training in treating #SUD in #integrated care. Co-led a didactic today on motivational interviewing #MI for #PhD students. These funds are essential for improving standards of #addiction care.

🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.

Great work, @reaganfitzke.bsky.social! This is why I tell you to always aim high for an oral presentation! You never know and this is a great study you put together. 📑 📚

If you’re looking for a stellar post-bacc position, here it is! Apply to work with an amazing team of RAs and graduate students, as well as a fantastic PI!

Yesterday, 3 of my MA students and 1 of my PhD students @brigittabeck.bsky.social gave an amazing symposium at #RMPA2025 in Denver! Had a packed room too! Then, my 2 Senior Honors Thesis students presented posters on their preliminary results at their first conference! Proud mentor over here. 😄

As always, had the best time presenting & connecting at #CPA2025! I’m very fortunate to work with amazing colleagues and PhD students. Also, now more than ever in my career, it felt esp. important to promote #addictionscience! See you all next year! @apadivision50.bsky.social