8/ side note: @clarissaong.bsky.social and @cherilev.bsky.social will be reviewing apps for our Clinical Psychological Sciences program at UofL 🤗 check out their websites to see if you might be a good fit. I’m lucky to benefit from their mentorship and to be a part of a supportive department 💖

Excited this one is getting out there! A thread/teaser🧵

If the annual food insecurity survey is canceled - the US has no way to monitor how often this experience is happening. 1 in 5 children in Kentucky are food insecure (do not have enough to eat). This is a 48% rise in two years.

Raising the H-1B visa fee to $100,000 risks shutting off the pipeline of highly trained physicians, especially in rural and underserved communities. The AMA stands ready to work with the administration and our partners in medicine to exempt health care workers from this policy.

Exciting news! A new paper has been accepted in Behavior Therapy: Congrats to @clarissaong.bsky.social, @claireecusack.bsky.social, and @cherilev.bsky.social on this important contribution! #PersonalizedTreatment #NetworkTheory #EatingDisordersTreatment

@rachelbutler.bsky.social and I just submitted final versions of our books- Facing Eating Disorder Fears in the Treatments that Work series Step by step exposure manual coming soon!!! 15 years in the making and I am SO excited to get this out there. @uofleatlab.bsky.social

2025 at an eating disorder conference and folks are still saying things like “they restrict their food and hopefully do lose weight” Sigh #weightstigma

State wide epidemiological survey Almost 50% of middle schoolers are trying to lose weight This is NOT okay

I had 3 grant rejections & a rejection for president of an eating disorder organization but I got to share our work with over 100 people - so I’ll count that as a win #academiatherollercoaster @ivanzhula.bsky.social @uofleatlab.bsky.social

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Knowledge exchange on Monday on breakthrough #eatingdisorder treatments. Hope to see you there!

This highlights how interconnected mental health disorders can be. It made we question why exposure therapy isn’t used more. Both EDs and anxiety/OCD have ritualistic patterns and fears. I think it is time to separate diagnosis and rely on the underlying mechanisms that overlap with e/o.

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 city is now sharing know your rights info and other resources here: bit.ly/fafochicago

I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.

Good thread on the NIH budget currently making its way thru Congress…please contact your rep to voice your support

These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Do you know what 100% of school shootings have in common? It’s not trans people, white men etc GUNS (Hint: the guns are the problem)

✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Update on this: at least one other person funded through the same mechanism as my terminated grant had their grant restored. So I officially call bullshit on their supposed reason for terminating my grant.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

It’s official. September 6th. From all across this nation. We march in D.C. Join us.

🚨We are hiring a full-time Research Scientist/Research Assistant Professor who will oversight of the EAT Lab digital treatment research team, serving as a liaison between the clinical and data science teams to translate evidence-based psychological interventions into accessible digital tools.

Defend Public Health’s Report, Improving the Health of Americans Together (IHAT) was released today. When I asked here what you all thought would improve the health of Americans, this was most frequent response. #IHAT #IHATnotMAHA

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

So now Wiley journals are requiring US based authors w/ nih funding to pay the open access charges, while nih says it will no longer allow article charges on nih grants Make it make sense Guess I won’t be publishing in Wiley journals 🤷‍♀️ @altnih4science.bsky.social

Wow

Year 2 of my NIMH F31 was supposed to have started yesterday. An award that I was proud to have funded on the first submission (13th percentile), which supported my dissertation research on eating disorders in adolescents, and which funded my tuition, stipend, and health insurance for the past year.

We need your email power to support Dept of Agriculture! USDA is opening a 30-day public comment period on the Department's reorganization plan now through Aug. 26, 2025. Say yes to SNAP! Say yes to Research! Say yes to conservation! To submit feedback, please email [email protected].

Spent the afternoon in a Youth Mental Health Leadership meeting w/ the goal to make mental health care accessible for ALL in Louisville I love my work I hate the American systems that make it so hard to do It’s frustrating to imagine how many less kids would struggle if not for these systems

#NIH PIs, start emailing Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and tell them what you are experiencing. CC Dr. Jon Lorsch and your ICO Director of Extramural Activities. Get them to talk with each other. #defendresearch

IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

new pub alert ⚠️ did you know that there are currently no evidence-based eating disorder interventions that provide explicit guidelines for treating co-occurring AN/AAN and suicidality? in this new (open access) article, we demonstrate how idiographic networks could be used to address this gap.

EAT lab in the APA news! Dr. Levinson shared the impact of funding cuts on our work in APA’s series “Psychological Science, suspended”. @cherilev.bsky.social Read below! nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

While some colleagues in blue states are having grants reinstated - we are still living this nightmare. This is not okay. www.apa.org/research-pra...

No news on NIH yet because that's a different appropriations subcommittee. But the House is currently scheduled to markup NIH's budget during the week of July 21. See here: appropriations.house.gov/schedule

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Brilliant work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team and Michelle Craske - always a fun time when I get to learn from experts :)

***NEW ARTICLE*** Story time: my third year of my PhD I worked at an anxiety clinic doing intensive exposure therapy My fourth year I started working at an #eatingdisorder clinic Two major impacts from these experiences 🥇EDs were SO similar to OCD/anxiety 🥈why werent EDs treated w exposure?

🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/ @hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by @whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e

I am so lucky to work with these brilliant folks! @ivanzhula.bsky.social

Let’s be real. The republicans care very little what their constituents, who are real people, care about They do not care about democracy They just want to ensure they remain in power

Everything he does is unlawful. But does it even matter at this point?

What is the most revisions to a paper you’ve ever gotten? I’m Working on a *FOURTH* round of revisions and I will never submit to this journal again… Caveat- revisions did improve the paper originally but at this point it’s just 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫