When one ruler holds too much power — king or dictator — people’s needs often come second. Bad decisions, corruption, and silence about problems can lead to hunger or even starvation. Places where leaders are accountable and people can speak up are far less likely to have food insecurity.

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.” Gov. Andy Beshear

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Hey. Fat people also deserve food. Fat people using snap benefits deserve to eat guiltfree. Going without will not make them instantly skinny, and in some cases, like those with diabetes, not eating on a set schedule can exacerbate health problems. Being fat does not equal laziness or weak morality.

Mental health is so important for virtually every avenue in life and this includes nutrition. Suffering from mental health disorders will also greatly impact the way one eats. Not supporting this is very upsetting. #beh353 @beh353.bsky.social

🦊 REDS lab will be accepting a grad student for Fall 2026. Folks interested in eating disorders and/or suicide are encouraged to apply! See here for more details: www.redslab.org/join-the-lab

400 million dollars To destroy the White House I’m over here thinking about how that amount of money could fund over 200 million scientists to cure diseases

Happy "No Kings" Day! I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.

Once again it’s looking like my grant won’t get reviewed next week. It is impossible to do science in this environment.

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

I am reading a reviewing a grant that is 278 pages long. People who think scientists and universities are getting "easy money" from the #NIH clearly know nothing about science.

The drain this hostile political propaganda is putting on our mental health must not be underestimated. We're constantly bombarded with division & hatred headlines. We're supposed to keep calm & carry on but we're only human & it's so hurtful. We've got to up the kindness & solidarity. No other way.

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief: Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

Sometimes you have to celebrate the good news, despite all the bad. 🍾🥂

SO excited to be able to get exposure therapy into the hands of more therapists who work with clients with eating disorders!

The @nsf has also decided that clinical psychology is not eligible for NSF. This is a crock of 💩 Clinical psych (actually clinical science) is a RESEARCH degree. Let’s just completely not support research training in mental health then. Bad bad bad bad decision

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

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.