Excited to share my first President’s Column for the @apadivision50.bsky.social. In it, I discuss our 2025 theme: The Science of Lived Experience. I also reflect on leadership in a time of rapid change and share invitation for colleagues. Hope you’ll read it: addictionpsychology.org/soap-box/202...

Legit one of the best people out there. Super educational episode.

Did you catch out latest episode featuring Dr. Jalie Tucker & Dr. Katie Witkiewitz? It is never too late! Give it a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/56wM...

Check out this new episode of the Addiction Psychologist. In it, Drs. Tucker and Witkiewitz discuss how the reciprocal relationship between a person and their environment influence an addiction recovery attempt.

In what can only be described as excellent timing, the National Matching Service Website is down for routine maintenance. Stay frosty out there psychology internship applicants.

Is it too late for caturday? Meet our new edition - Beans

Love this time of year

This is such a great episode!

The most important thing to know about the Rorschach is that Hermann Rorschach was an absolute smoke show

As a millennial, I reject the concept of work-life balance. Balance is a state where opposing forces are equal and that’s often not possible in the work-life relationship. I strive for work-life harmony where the different parts of my life, though unequal in size, combine to create a unified whole.

Really excited to share the results from our recent Randomized Clinical Trail of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for those in early SUD recovery just published in JAMA Psychiatry led by the intrepid David Eddie. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Of course his name is Bowser

Legitimately stunned to learn I’ve been awarded G. Alan Marlatt Mid-Career Research Award by the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group of ABCT.

The second of our openings in the Clinical Program at Colorado State is now online. This one is for an Assistant Professor with an open research area. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166...

This paper is an absolute triumph.

Anyone interested in suicide risk assessment and how substance use fits into that process should listen to this episode of the Addiction Psychologist with Dr. David Rudd. In it, he covers the basics about suicide and best practice for clinical care. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

The first of our openings has posted. This search is for an associate or full professor with tenure who’s interested in succeeding me as Director of Clinical Training. Research area is open. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Harsh but fair

I'm legit still surprised when someone says they listen to the show.

The call for submissions to the 2026 World Congress of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies is out. This meeting only happens every 3 years. This one is the US and I will be serving the Substance Use Track Leader. Consider submitting something. wccbt2026.org/wp-content/u...

The Alien franchise

Relatedly, we will have two searches for new faculty in the Psychological Clinical Science Program this fall - one at the Assistant Professor level and another at Associate or Full Professor level. Ads forthcoming.

I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...

I’m updating the impact factors for the journals I’ve published in as part of my tenure application and every single one has gone down by at least 1.0 since 2023. Did they change the formula or something?

Did I hear some say they need more cat photos? Behold, Lil Mew Mew

Legit learned so much from this episode. Highly recommend giving it a listen as this is rapidly evolving area that will require some base knowledge for researchers, clinicians, and policy makers.

New episode of The Addiction Psychologist (@addpsychpodcast.bsky.social) just dropped. Dr. Molly Bowdring discusses the recent popularity of nonalcoholic beverages that mimic alcoholic beverages but that have zero or low alcohol content. I learned a lot from this. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I am being attacked

Absolutely shook to learn I’ve been awarded the 2025 Distinguished Early Scientific Career Contributions by the Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social

My rule is I don’t work on them until I can read them and not become incandescent with rage. Typically that takes until about a week out from the deadline for resubmission. It genuinely helps.

It’s that time of year where folks are updating their syllabi. There are some great tools to make this easier. This one helps you outline the dates. Highly recommend wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmaker/

Good gravy…we are cooked

Legit one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. Highly recommend. Grateful for a @aliciaandrz.bsky.social post that put me on to it.

I was just saying this to someone about the reporting coming out of the alligator alcatraz visits. Every jail and prison in America is like this where you sleep on the floor in an over crowded cell using the toilet paper roll as a pillow and drink water from the top of the toilet.

Respectfully, the gov is mistaken. Nobody is suggesting we eliminate addiction from our lexicon. Sub use disorder is a clinical diagnosis. Addiction is a conversational term that lacks the specificity to be useful clinically. They’re just different. The terms to get rid of are abuse, dirty/clean.

🚨 NEW EPISODE OUT 🚨 PTSD vs. SUD - what should be addressed first? This week, we spoke with Dr. Sudie Back, of the Medical University of South Carolina, about the intricacies of co-occuring conditions and promising avenues for simultaneous treatment! Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7d44...

Listening to the COPE episode of The Addiction Psychologist podcast and want to learn more about PTSD and SUD treatment sequencing? Check out this episode with Dr. Debra Kaysen and some of the underlying research as well as other treatment adaptations for this community

Newest episode of The Addiction Psychologist (@addpsychpodcast.bsky.social) just dropped. In this episode, Dr. Sudie Back discusses Prolonged Exposure for Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder and PTSD (COPE). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We have strayed far from the path. Also, I could be into it.

I’ve realized that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is actually the train.

I am so burned out right now I’ve leveled up to a new status I didn’t previously know was possible. I’m calling it - “burn it down”

Hot take - The field forces early career folks to give credit for their ideas away to senior people by requiring them to have mentors/senior people on their grants.

🤯 In a wild full circle moment, I was just contacted by Norcross and Sayette, as part of my role as DCT, to fill out my program’s entry in The Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology 🤯

Our newest pub is out! Here, we used EMA to examine the moment-to-moment association between drinking and subsequent problems, and if emotional functioning changed the strength of this prospective relationship among a hazardous drinking sample of young adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Grateful to discover I’ve been awarded a Colorado State University Career Impact Recognition. This is a student or peer nominated award. I’m not sure who nominated me, but if you’re out there, thank you!

🚨Spoiler alert: This episode has a tremendous real play between Drs. Sam Acuff and Bill Miller. Worth listening just for that!! 🚨 @samuelacuff.bsky.social

Struggling to get your Monday started? 😴 Kickstart your day with this episode on Motivation Interviewing with Dr. Bill Miller to learn about how people move from ambivalence to action, and why that may be a key tool in addiction treatment. Listen Here: open.spotify.com/episode/2Xal...

😂😬😭🤓 Bout to send off my tenure dossier to the Chair. Next stop, external reviewers. I’m fine. You’re fine. We’re all fine.

You need cat photos you say?