🎉 @phablab-pitt.bsky.social 🤝 @sbm.org OED SIG 🎉

So proud of our lab’s research specialist @abbyregal.bsky.social who won the Outstanding Trainee and Conference Theme Abstract Awards from the @sbm.org Women’s Health Sig for her poster on the relationship between domains of food insecurity and prenatal mental health!! 🤩🤩 She’s gonna do big things!

The PHAB Lab took on The Society of Behavioral Medicine's (@sbm.org) annual conference last week in Chicago! Here is a thread of the accomplishments of our wonderful team members!

Find our lab @phablab-pitt.bsky.social at #SBM2026 in Chicago later this week! We’d love to connect with you about all things related to perinatal eating, food insecurity, and cardiovascular health! @sbm.org

It’s me! 🥰 Thanks @psychiatry.pitt.edu for covering our group’s work!

I am so beyond proud of our REACT team and their collaborative efforts on our project to develop a measure of community-engagement in research. Thank you @unm-ce.bsky.social for championing us!!!

Congratulations to our Research Specialist, Abby Regal, whose abstract titled “Associations between the Four Domain Food Insecurity Scale Scores and Mental Health Outcomes in a Pregnant Sample” was selected by SBM's Women’s Health SIG as an Outstanding Abstract from a Student/Trainee!

I’ve been on a social media hiatus for…a while. But just logged back on and am so grateful to my lab for the support!!

So, like, how are people publishing articles now that the new NIH public access policy has gone into place if your institution doesn’t have an agreement with the journal? Where are we getting these thousands of dollars for open access fees?? And on a K budget??? 🙃🙃🙃

Our paper with guidance for mental health researchers, clinicians, and advocates in the current era of abortion restrictions is officially published online. This paper is for everyone, including folks who don’t actively study or treat reproductive mental health. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/NZWIK...

If you are less than 17 weeks pregnant and live in the Pittsburgh, PA area, you may be eligible for this study! Scan the QR code or click the link to complete a 5-minute screening survey to see if you are eligible to participate! redcap.link/SPHEREscreener

Are you pregnant or trying to become pregnant? The Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline has clinicians available to talk no matter where you are. Keep their contact handy in case of need. BUT if you live in a red state, we recommend first downloading and using the StartPage browser.

STRIPED’s Ariel Beccia speaks out in Theresa Gaffney’s new STAT piece on how eating disorder research is being gutted under the Trump admin. $2.7M in NIH grants already cut. Read more: www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e... @hsph.harvard.edu @albeccia.bsky.social @statnews.com

Pittsburgh friends! Want to watch some cool circus arts while also talking about mental health? Sign up for this FREE event happening this Saturday from 4-6:30pm at Iron City Circus Arts!! www.ticketleap.events/tickets/iron...

Cuts to research grants don’t just impact researchers, they impact whole communities. My sister-in-law’s Pittsburgh-based nonprofit focused on STEM programming for kids (Assemble) has taken a hit, as have many other afterschool programs 💔 www.publicsource.org/federal-fund...

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...

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...

SNAP-Ed, the nutrition education arm of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps) is at risk of being cut. This would have devastating effects for food insecurity, nutrition, and health. Call your reps today. Here's a script: thefoodtrust.org/wp-content/u...

Please pass along the word to anyone looking for an research coordinator position! This is a perfect post-bac position for someone interested in adolescent eating behaviors and/or acceptance-based interventions! epyz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Today, many more NIH grants were terminated including many focused on HIV prevention -such as the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) research program focused on adolescents & young adults living with or placed at risk for HIV. This is necropolitics.

1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:

my NIH grant was terminated today - the grant that pays my rent and my bills and my loans and my health insurance - because I study how to improve the lives and wellbeing of queer people #episky #medsky

Want to assess eating & weight attitudes in pregnancy? Check out the @phablab-pitt.bsky.social’s PEA-Q! Big shoutout to my amazing co-first author @rileyjouppi.bsky.social and our mentor @michelevine.bsky.social who led the initial development of this measure! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you are less than 37 weeks pregnant, this study may be right for you! Scan the QR code or follow the link to complete a 5-minute screening survey to see if you are eligible to participate! redcap.link/amplifyround2

If you are less than 17 weeks pregnant and live in the Pittsburgh, PA area this study might be right for you! Scan the QR code or follow the link to complete a 5-minute screening survey to see if you are eligible to participate! redcap.link/SPHEREscreener

Interested? Follow the link to complete a 5-minute screening survey and see if you're eligible to participate! redcap.link/ephectstudy

Our lab, the Perinatal Health and Behaviors (PHAB) Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, just joined Bluesky! Follow us - info about our current work coming soon 🥰 @phablab-pitt.bsky.social