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I talk about substance use a lot. BAL.UNM.edu
#addictionsci
Very proud of our
@projectechohq.bsky.social
program on alcohol use and mental health and the community of practice we have built over the last 3.5 years!
projectecho.unm.edu/story/the-ne...
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The New Mexico Alcohol Use and Mental Health ECHO: Building Communities For Supporting People in Recovery
The New Mexico Alcohol Use and Mental Health ECHO launched in 2022 to address the state’s high rates of alcohol-related illness and death. Participants from across the state meet online twice a month,...
https://projectecho.unm.edu/story/the-new-mexico-alcohol-use-and-mental-health-echo-building-communities-for-supporting-people-in-recovery/
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I would like to take a moment to congratulate
@drcolintmahoney.bsky.social
on the award he received yesterday, "Most likely to crash into
@joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social
's Cybertruck."
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The Addiction Science Defense Network is hosting a congressional briefing series, "Protecting Federal Leadership in Addiction Science and Public Health." The series will start on January 13th. Learn more and register here:
www.npscoalition.org/congressiona...
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Protecting Federal Leadership in Addiction Science and Public Health
The Assiction Science Defense Netowrk (ASDN) is hosting a six-part congressional briefing series on the urgent need for sustained federal support for addiction research, prevention, treatment, and rec...
https://www.npscoalition.org/congressional-briefings/protecting-federal-leadership-in-addiction-science-and-public-health?emci=f374274e-77d7-f011-8195-000d3a1d58aa&emdi=dec7489e-77d7-f011-8195-000d3a1d58aa&ceid=32689470
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We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!
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I will be reviewing applications for
@unm.edu
's Clinical Psychology as well as Diversity and Health Data Science Across the Lifespan PhD programs. Both deadlines are December 1!
psych.unm.edu/graduate/ind...
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Graduate Program Overview :: Department of Psychology | The University of New Mexico
https://psych.unm.edu/graduate/index.html
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Come work with us
@unm.edu
🤩
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Stephen King
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Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
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Dominique Baker
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Still waiting on 3 institutions to give their decisions...
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Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
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Applications are now open for our next cohort of the Data Management for Data Sharing workshop, funded by NIH! Come join us for 5 days of learning in Nashville next June! Learn more:
lnkd.in/p/gA_JAdmy
Apply:
datamanagementdatasharing.weebly.com/upcoming-wor...
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Upcoming Workshops
The 2026 Data Management for Data Sharing workshop will take place June 8-12th 2026 on Vanderbilt University's Campus in Nashville, TN. Applications for 2026 cohort are LIVE! Click here to...
https://datamanagementdatasharing.weebly.com/upcoming-workshops.html
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NPR
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Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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Ousted CDC director testifies on why she was fired
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
https://n.pr/4nyYZNx
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I would like for both
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to know that the groupchat we have combining our labs has been named “BAAALD” (ty
@karalink.bsky.social
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Proud of this one. Thanks
@apadivision50.bsky.social
!
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"wasteful grantmaking"
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Stops Wasteful Grantmaking
ENDING GRANT ABUSE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order stopping unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats from wasting taxpayer dollars
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-stops-wasteful-grantmaking/
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Great piece by
@noelvest.bsky.social
on the need for colleges and universities to prioritize sustainable funding to support students in recovery. "Over half of the programs we surveyed rely on school-level funding, often leaving them vulnerable to budget cuts."
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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College Shouldn’t Be a Relapse Risk: Why Collegiate Recovery Programs Deserve Sustainable Funding
Colleges and universities that are committed to fostering inclusive and supportive educational environments must prioritize sustainable funding for collegiate recovery programs, writes Noel Vest in a ...
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/college-shouldnt-be-a-relapse-risk-why-collegiate-recovery-programs-deserve-sustainable-funding/
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It's the guns.
www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
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UNM shooting: One dead, one injured; suspect at large
One person was killed and another injured in a shooting early Friday at the University of New Mexico.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_427e72f4-f95b-49d5-9e23-608eb8ad1a29.html
5 months ago
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Anthony Perillo, Ph.D.
5 months ago
Not too long ago there was bipartisan support for supportive “housing first” for people on the streets: it’s safe, humane, reduces crime, reduces hospitalization, & saves the community $. This ain’t it.
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📣 Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and Overdose and Reverse Gains
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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SOC Press Release 7-22-25.docx
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 24, 2025 – Chapel Hill, NC Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and O...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19aQsVLrUQLZdetvytpPt4BK8gVbY22EB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106258494578723080201&rtpof=true&sd=true
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⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here:
psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
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New Doctoral Degree Area :: Department of Psychology | The University of New Mexico
https://psych.unm.edu/news-events-jobs/news/item/new-doctoral-degree-area.html
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
5 months ago
Researchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼 analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions: 49% substantially altered 106 had "gender" switched to "sex" 15 logged/indicated change occurred 🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
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Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext
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5 months ago
Our final APA programming is out now! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Denver this year!
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Great resource from
@drugpolicy.org
drugpolicy.org/resource/pro...
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Protecting Federally-Funded Drug Research: An Advocacy Toolkit for Researchers
A toolkit that highlights stories of the lifesaving studies of drug researchers whose funding has been cut and how to fight back against funding cuts.
https://drugpolicy.org/resource/protecting-federally-funded-drug-research-an-advocacy-toolkit/
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Dr. Lucky Tran
6 months ago
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Kevin M. King
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Addiction destroys lives. And the current administration is dedicated to destroying the careers of scientists who seek to alleviate the pain and suffering of Americans with addiction. I cannot think of a more certain way to do this than by defunding training grants for early career scientists.
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Katie Witkiewitz
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Today our
@unm.edu
@casaa.bsky.social
T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/30/opinion/hhs-cuts-harming-american-health.html
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Thanks to KUNM for helping to spread the word about the devastating impacts of federal funding cuts on addiction prevention and treatment, especially for New Mexico.
www.kunm.org/public-healt...
@casaa.bsky.social
@apadivision50.bsky.social
@apadiv28.bsky.social
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Advocates say progress on the battle against addiction could backslide with federal funding cuts
For the first time in years, overdose deaths have been declining recently after reaching a peak of about 111,000 in 2022. However, advocates are worried about a backslide on that progress as federal g...
https://www.kunm.org/public-health-new-mexico/2025-06-13/advocates-say-progress-on-battle-against-addiction-could-backslide-with-federal-funding-cuts
6 months ago
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Congrats to
@jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social
who won APA's 2024 Research and Creative Works Leadership Award! I must say, UNM Psych is the place to be ✨
6 months ago
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7 months ago
Science is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it. If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science:
tinyurl.com/mcclintockle...
. Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
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Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...
https://forms.gle/WNeSpjFExcTyj63M7
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NPR story about the
#BethesdaDeclaration
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NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research
In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/09/nx-s1-5425466/nih-research-freedom-bethesda-declaration?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwY2xjawK0DLRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRVGZ3ZjFpQ0ZMYm84M0NCAR4Qpq6yxLC-6iFTDfBKldM_mLi9e4-ScjjhNwVWUfRzRDSBY1eLuiyi189L9A_aem_WhcjuM9Z1vz3csqDve2Zug
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APA Division 12, in collaboration with Division 50, is inviting letters of intent to evaluate psychological treatments for the Division 12 empirically supported treatments list (
div12.org/psychologica...
). We are offering evaluation teams two, $1,000 stipends to support this effort! Please share.
7 months ago
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Allie Sinclair
7 months ago
Big update to
scienceimpacts.org
: See the devastating impact of cancelled NIH grants across the country, and how losses at specific institutions ripple out to surrounding communities. This is all in addition to the future losses that would result from cutting funds for indirect costs of research.
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Brittany Charlton
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⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our
@aclu.org
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‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/devastated-and-hopeless-researchers-speak-out-on-funding-cuts
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Christine Call, PhD
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We also previously published a brief with
@scholars.org
summarizing our recommendations for clinicians in the Post-Dobbs era:
scholars.org/contribution...
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What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know to Protect Their Patients and Themselves in the Post-Dobbs Era
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling on the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, overruling Roe vs. Wade, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion and p...
https://scholars.org/contribution/what-mental-health-professionals-need-know
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Christine Call, PhD
7 months ago
Really proud of this paper and so grateful for the amazing team that wrote it! We discuss principles and guidelines for navigating clinical practice, research, and advocacy in the post-Dobbs sexual and reproductive health landscape for behavioral health disciplines.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/e9vwf_v2
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Jon Freeman
7 months ago
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up!
shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Scholars Strategy Network
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The
#WhiteHouse
is making cuts to addiction research and treatment programs. In this OpEd,
@cassie-boness.bsky.social
uses personal anecdotes & her research to write about how these cuts are putting addiction treatment and recovery in jeopardy. Learn more in
@abqjournal.bsky.social
. ⤵️
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OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk
I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of
https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/article_f8969951-a8ae-4d66-ad6c-3cb881ffef0a.html
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Science Homecoming
7 months ago
In New Mexico, overdose deaths are down 8% since 2021 thanks to life-saving tools made possible by federal science funding. But cuts to NIH, CDC, and SAMHSA will dismantle this progress. 🧪🏠
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Mary
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These cuts will be catastrophic. Worth reading.
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Matthew Facciani
7 months ago
Trump administration cancels PhD student’s funding who was studying the harms of the US opioid crisis because it fell under “diversity.”
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Nina C. Christie | PhD, MPH
7 months ago
Cassie said it best in yet another great piece in the ABQ Journal from addiction scientists: "We owe it to every person struggling with substance use, and their families, to act now to save the very infrastructure that saves families from unnecessary suffering." Check it out here:
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William Stoops
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NIH funded research at
@ukresearch.bsky.social
is critical to helping those affected by SUDs throughout the commonwealth and beyond!
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Research offers future beyond addiction
YouTube video by University of Kentucky Research
https://youtube.com/shorts/BTimGpQiki4?si=WM2nSZx4K8rj0BZU
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New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.
www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...
and in case you hit a paywall:
unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk
I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of
https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/article_f8969951-a8ae-4d66-ad6c-3cb881ffef0a.html
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Colin T. Mahoney, Ph.D.
7 months ago
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
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Stephen Jacob Smith
8 months ago
This is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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We're still collecting individual and organization signatures!!
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8 months ago
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Allie Sinclair
8 months ago
Another devastating blow for science funding in the U.S., withholding taxpayer money without Congressional approval.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2
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Don Moynihan
8 months ago
War on science
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Josh Marshall
8 months ago
White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths
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