📣 Reminder: I'm accepting applications for a PhD student to join my lab in Fall 2026, and the deadline to apply is January 1, 2026! More info can be found at graduate.catalog.tcu.edu/colleges/eng...

“The termination of the National Institutes of Health-funded study “Structural Racism as a "Third hit" on kidney outcomes of Black individuals with APOL1 risk alleles” wasn’t just a bureaucratic decision—it was a gut punch to communities like mine. Robert Sanchez, MPS www.ajkd.org/article/S027...

Interested in studying PNI and stress across developmental stages? Join my lab! We conduct fun research! 🔬 🧠

Prevention and intervention for inflammation-associated transdiagnostic psychopathology: A role for clinical psychologists: https://osf.io/qysa2

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First personal & lab milestone: Very first IRB has been submitted!!! Yay!! 🎊

Submit your symposia proposals for the #PNIRS2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans! This year's meeting theme is Modifiable Risk Factors Across the Lifespan. More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org

In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Join us on 10/16 for a FREE virtual Fireside Chat with 2025 Gold Medalists for Impact in Psychology, Drs. Lyn Abramson & Lauren Alloy! For nearly 5 decades, their work has shaped the understanding of mood disorders and the cognitive and biological processes behind depression & bipolar disorder. 🌟

On today’s list of unexpected PNI lab activities - I hurriedly walked through the halls of the bio department to find an occupied lab and ask for tin foil to wrap a lightsensitive solution… (It was 10% FBS with RPMI-1640 if anyone is curious)

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas. More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

I am barely on this app, because of *gestures wildly* life, the universe, and everything, but I should announce that I plan to review apps for clinical psychology PhD admissions this cycle! Please read my website for more info! www.sarahevictor.com/contact

I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall. Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply. More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...

Slowly becoming one with PBMC isolation and LPS challenge protocols (fancy way of saying I’m looking at immune markers)! I am happy at my new university and labs!

I am excited to share that I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware. Feel free to share! ☺️

Our new paper in JG:PS is out! In a sample of over 3100 older adults assessed each year for 12 years, loneliness & sense of purpose were unique predictors of cognitive decline, though past research has underestimated the reciprocal nature of this relationship. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs. This is egregious.

New from my lab, lead by stellar grad student Elizabeth Marsh (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I decided to stop pursuing admission to clinical psychology PhD programs - a thread 🧵 Since I was 16 years old, I imagined myself as a clinical psychologist. However, my plans changed.

In PhD lab training news: I learned how to draw blood today! YAY! Did I hit the vein? No, womp womp

I highly recommend you apply to Dan’s lab! He’s a great mentor and you’ll get the chance to do some cool PNI research! 🔬

I’ve moved and I start my PhD program 12 days! I love college so much I haven’t left in 6 years (ignoring last year’s gap)! 🐸 💜🤍 Some snaps of TCU:

After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out: Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines With a legit superstar team Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵

I’m feeling more anxious about moving half way across the country than starting my PhD program! I fear I’ll be yelling at drivers for majority of the trip! 😵‍💫 Does anyone have audio book or podcast recs?

💫 REPEAT lab hiring a research coordinator💫 The Research on Excessive Persistent and Emotion-based Actions and Traits (REPEAT) Lab in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University is recruiting to fill a Clinical Research Coordinator position. Posting will close in 1 week!! 1/7🧵

I’m so excited to start my PhD program in a few weeks but also in disbelief that I’ll never have apply to PhD programs again. I can’t believe I get to do the training and research I’ve been dreaming about!

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

Someone put this up at my RA job and I thought “who taped up this duck?” 🦆 🐇

f/t paid postbac RA position w/ my wonderful friends at Pitt - @jamielarsh.bsky.social - cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072

We wrote this piece to draw more attention to the connection between stress and cognitive aging. More research on this connection is important, as there are things that can be done to manage stress and decrease our risk for dementia. theconversation.com/chronic-stre...

Doing the writing ❌ Thinking about the writing ✅

So excited to see this work by @miriforbes.bsky.social et al digging into a data-informed approach to re-organizing the DSM live (authors I know on BSky tagged at end of post). Brief 🧵of appreciation 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am thrilled to announce that I will be pursuing my PhD in Experimental Psychology at Texas Christian University in the Stress, Health, and Development Lab with @michelleachen.bsky.social ! Here’s to many more years studying inflammatory responses to life and social stressors! 🍾🎉

Just published in JoPACS! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40323898/ What is urgency and how should we best assess it in the moment? A thread 🧵 1/n

Our team member Stefanie Hirsch just published her first paper! 🎉 The protocol describes an ecological momentary music intervention for stress reduction in chronically discriminated against Turkish immigrant women. Curious? Follow this link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjo... #openaccess

Undeterred by US funding cuts, behavioural-health researcher Jason Flatt studies how dementia affects people from sexual and gender minorities. Read the latest article in Nature’s Changemakers series. 🧪

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1. This took me 6 minutes. 2. Why do we have to explain that SIDS IS BAD and preventing preventable baby deaths is absolutely worth the money???

Doctoral student Miranda Wood explores the flaws of the clinical psychology admissions process and the challenges prospective students face when applying for a spot in the coveted program. #AcademicSky

If you applied to a Clinical or Non-Clinical Psychology PhD this cycle, you probably saw brutal acceptance rates. But here's the thing- those numbers don’t tell the full story. Let’s break down the hidden factors behind PhD admissions. 🧵 1/3 (Acc. rate graphs on 3/3)

An especially fun read if you love to study inflammatory responses to acute stress (like me!): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’d like to plug in some fully-funded master’s programs in experimental psychology. Going to one really helped me determine if I should commit to clinical psych PhD programs!

🎙️Exciting News! Starting next week, we will begin sharing regular updates about the PNIRS annual meeting as we count down to June! 💡Use #PNIRS2025 and tag us @pnirs.bsky.social! In the meantime, check out the President (Prof. Lucile Capuron)’s Message here: pnirs.memberclicks.net/president-s-...

New paper in print @ JoPaCS! 1st registered report 1st study published w/ data I collected 🧵on the Anger Incentive Delay Task as a reward-salient stressor that is more synergistic to many reward-focused theories of health than the TSST 1/12 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic cognitive process Review by Michelle L. Moulds & Peter M. McEvoy go.nature.com/4jgZ5Id

*Link fix* Adding a post-doctoral scholar to my new lab @health.oregonstate.edu! Possible foci: #personality, #selfregulation, repetitive thought, cognition, pain, inflammation, immunological #aging. More info: health.oregonstate.edu/directory/suzanne-segerstrom #PsychSciSky #PNI #healthpsych