Inviting submissions to a new special issue on precision and personalized treatment approaches led by @cherilev.bsky.social and @aaronjfisher.bsky.social! It’s gonna be a fantastic collection so send us your favorite new work :) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Are you working in the personalized treatment/ precision medicine space? If so my co-editors & I would love to review your work for a new SPECIAL ISSUE in Behavior Therapy on personalization in mental health. More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @depressionlab.bsky.social

New paper! We show how diet culture & weight stigma are baked into eating disorder treatment—leading to missed diagnoses in higher-weight people, BMI-based denial of care, thin-centric programs, and clinicians unintentionally reinforcing fear of weight gain. www.jandonline.org/action/showP...

This year saw almost a 50 percent decrease in funded grants on mental health. This is not okay. There is a literal mental health crisis in our country & instead of funding more work on cures we are cutting the amount of work in half. Our children will suffer from this. archive.is/2025.12.02-2...

I’m so honored to be awarded and to present our findings at the @abct-ssi-sig.bsky.social meeting!! So grateful for all of my mentors!! @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social @cherilev.bsky.social @laurenharris.bsky.social

Next, we have a clinical round table on inhibitory learning in exposure for eating disorders including our own @cherilev.bsky.social and Jamal Essayli (Imperial 12, Level 4).

THANK YOU to our amazing TRAC study participants! They have completed 77% of ecological momentary assessment surveys. This impressive completion rate will significantly enhance our ability to answer questions about suicidality and eating disorders! @redslabauburn.bsky.social

Join us in helping decrease food insecurity!

Come see us at ABCT! Say hi!

Come see @uofleatlab.bsky.social at @abctnow.bsky.social #abct2025

Consequences of Grant Termination in Clinical Trials. "The termination of clinical trial grants for reasons other than safety or efficacy is wasteful in terms of time and energy, scientific opportunity, and federal tax dollars." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A reminder that for every dollar invested in NIH research, ~$1.47 was returned. Investors who aren’t gluttonous pigs would do that deal every day, all day long. Cutting grants is like someone looting one’s stock portfolio (if privileged enough to have one).

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)