New Publication! I'm proud to have worked on this study my first two years in grad school. Our dyadic study (287 couples!) shows that internalized and anticipated weight stigma don’t just affect your mental well-being, they affect your partner’s, too. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Thank you so much, we are big fans of your work! @katerinaldi1.bsky.social ❤️

yes

We knew that they would do this, and it still hurts.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Sometimes being able to offer a moment of compassionate human connection and grace, and sometimes even a hug, while working in HLOC ED treatment is the greatest privilege and honor ❤️ I try to collect these moments in my brain for future moments when the inevitable burnout or disillusionment sets in🔥

I read this to the tune and cadence of Guns and Ships from Hamilton and it gave me a crumb of joy on this fine Saturday 🎶 @jasmineforus.bsky.social

It's hereeee! My very first first-coauthored paper (that's a mouthful) with @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social is published and we could not be more excited 🥹 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kew~6BgRu...

This was a really lovely paper by @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social and @katerinaldi1.bsky.social exploring weight related terminology preference and better understanding the 🔗 between how folks describe themselves, weight stigma, and disordered eating. Kudos on an excellent first pub!

I am so excited to share my first publication, a labor of love! My co-1st author @katerinaldi1.bsky.social and I examined weight related terminology preference within two samples of folks in larger bodies🥰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Watching match day results roll in, knowing I will be in y’all’s shoes next year like 🎉🫣🥹😳

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

This stop sign on the NIH campus is somehow apropos. What, the law used to exist here?

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS provides funding for HIV/AIDs care, maternal health, and community health centers. Today some employees arrived at work to find their access revoked. Terminated without even being notified. Total number affected unknown. @alt-hhs.bsky.social

"The recent barrage of administrative decrees will only serve to demoralize health workers, stifle innovation, compromise clinical trials, delay the development of new treatments and harm our patients." Incredible, courageous piece in the NYT ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

Update- I somehow only printed the odd pages of the exam??!?Inner stressed high schooler me came back REAL QUICK. But we printed the even pages and the students weren’t mad 😅

TA’ing for a stats class is the coolest thing ever as someone who used to call herself “not a math person.” Today, students have their midterm exam- I’m bringing munchkins & smiley faces/encouragement written on their homework assignments. My inner stressed high schooler w/a mean teacher? Healed ✅

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

It is ALL so devastating. For science, for inclusion, for medicine, for security, for higher education, for all of us.

I counted the number of times that words from the NSF flagged words list were included in my final dissertation document, and the answer is 1530.

“she’s always struggled with her weight.” did she? or was she struggling with existing in a body that is constantly dehumanized and demeaned by those around her? was she struggling to make her body conform to a standard it could never meet? the struggle is rarely about the weight itself.

Hey so! This is troubling!

PhD level research scientist opening! Please apply!

Hey all, it doesn’t hurt Trump when you make jokes about his body size but it sucks for your fat friends to hear what you think of us. There’s nothing wrong with being fat. There’s everything wrong with being a fascist shitbag #fatliberation

I share my journey post-eating disorder so that others can find hope and providers can prepare clients in recovery to continue to navigate diet culture, traumas, interpersonal issues, biological make-up, etc. Recovery changes how we navigate, not whether or not we navigate life.

The crunchy snow back home has reminded me how much I miss the cold and seasons and such❄️ 1.5 more years in FL… phew.

I fly home tomorrow, which means today is all about tidying up paper edits on the big revise and resubmit, so I can stay off my computer as much as possible for the next week! Feeling very grateful for our supportive and thorough reviewers who volunteered their time and expertise ❤️

the academic urge to nod encouragingly at flight attendant giving safety demonstration

So excited!

“we can maximize our impact on public health as scientists—reducing the harm associated with weight-loss interventions, moving away from a harmful focus on weight, and fostering a more inclusive, health-focused approach” LOVE THIS 🎉🎉🎉

#iced2025 here we gooo!!!! The countdown starts now!

i have met so many people, especially women, who are intelligent, talented, and complex, yet dedicate so much of their energy and time to something as boring and distracting as weight loss. imagine if we thought growing our minds was as important as shrinking our bodies.

Happy Friday!!! It’s here If you work in the #eatingdisorder or #weightmanagement space I hope you will read our new commentary in IJED And because I think this concluding paragraph is 🔥🔥🔥 🔥 posting it below authorservices.wiley.com/api/pdf/full...

An apt meme making rounds

"I'm going to finish this manuscript before Christmas!"

“I have too many books” -judgemental -boring -implies impulse-control issues “The books... they have me.” - mysterious - occult - implies you are at the mercy of a library of books that have gained sentience and are holding you hostage #readingcommunity

We are hiring summer interns! Come work with my team and I and learn a lot about #eatingdisorders Please resky (is that what we call it? 😂)

🎉 this sounds exciting, can’t wait to read!

When fascism arrives in America it won’t know how to spell it.

banned books make great holiday gifts.

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

i love the idea of “wellness” but so much of the “wellness” community is just commercialized anti-fat bias. you can be a peaceful, self-actualized, wise person in a fat body. thinness is not a prerequisite for enlightenment.

Excited to share our infographic and social media toolkit based on our ( @sambedard.bsky.social @cherilev.bsky.social @uofleatlab.bsky.social & Project HEAL) recent paper on barriers to eating disorder treatment access! Check out the social media toolkit here: www.theprojectheal.org/reportedbarr...