I was heartbroken to learn of the passing of Dan Stein, a renowned leader in global mental health and an exceptional, kind mentor. I am grateful for the opportunity to have trained with him. Thinking of all who knew and loved him.

We just launched our new study (my 1st at Duke @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social 🎉)! The project aims to understand how socioenvironmental and daily stress influence risk for PTSD after trauma. 🧠 #Neuroscience #TraumaResearch

At our BEES Lab journal club today, Clinical Research Specialist Grace Rowland shared 3 papers on the psychological & neurobiological effects of sexual trauma — including her recent review with @nateurneuro.bsky.social: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39006552/ 🧠📚 #JournalClub #Neuroscience #TraumaResearch

We’re looking for a #postdoc with expertise in #psychiatry, #epidemiology, #neuroscience, or #publichealth. Based at Stellenbosch University, you’ll join our international and multidisciplinary team studying how environmental factors shape PTSD risk in South Africa! Apply today!

🚨 Calling #trainees in #psychiatry and #neuroscience.. Join the @sobp-org.bsky.social Trainee Working Group (part of the Education Committee) and help us plan early career events at the annual meeting! This is a 3-year term starting Jan 2026 - send me an email/DM to learn more!

Cape Town was incredible as always🇿🇦 Reminiscing over photos from the @ibroorg.bsky.social + @wellcometrust.bsky.social #NCAMH seminar. Grateful for the chance to connect with new colleagues who are making #mentalhealthresearch more inclusive and impactful! @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social

A great 1st day of the @ibroorg.bsky.social + @wellcometrust.bsky.social #NCAMH event in Cape Town 🇿🇦 This cohort represents 15 different countries! 🌎 Excited to accelerate #mentalhealthresearch and plan the 2026 launch of an African Exposome Network! @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social

Delighted to support this program and to welcome the inaugural cohort of the African Neuroscience, Neuroethics, and Society short course this month! dana.org/article/a-ne...

Congrats to Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Kate Webb on her new #ClimateChange & #GlobalMentalHealth award to support her collaborative work in S. Africa on how air pollution affects inflammatory & gut microbiome biomarkers & mental health outcomes, funded by Duke Global Health Institute. 🌟 Kate Webb, PhD

Looking forward to sharing new findings and catching up with some of my favorite folks in Baltimore! @istss.bsky.social

Delighted that our project establishing a collaborative platform for research on environmental factors (exposome) and mental health outcomes in South Africa has received a @ibroorg.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social #NeuroscienceCapacityAcceleratorForMentalHealth award!

After a competitive selection process, we are thrilled to announce the 2025 IBRO-Wellcome Neuroscience Capacity Accelerator for Mental Health grantees! Congratulations to all awardees 🎉 Discover the selected projects here: ibro.org/grant/neuros... @wellcometrust.bsky.social #MentalHealth #NCAMH

Let's start the weekend with another episode of the DPN Deep Dive! This one summarizes work by @nateurneuro.bsky.social & @brainstorm12.bsky.social‬ et al showing that trauma exposure may disrupt more basic visual processing which may contribute to PTSD symptom development youtu.be/GiKJl3YDZv0...

Federal funding plays a critical role in supporting life-saving research. In the recent APA Div56 newsletter, we outline how Trump policies place trauma research at risk and emphasize the importance of collective action. apatraumadivision.org/spring-2025-...

Harvard has launched their lawsuit. It’s a good one. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

In exciting news (for me), we demonstrate a structural covariance network of early visual cortex previously identified in recent trauma survivors is associated with PTSD symptoms in a mega-analysis of the ENIGMA-PTSD dataset. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint with @nateurneuro.bsky.social and the AURORA study team. We find that residential segregation is associated with alterations in hippocampal microstructure and threat reactivity through increased exposure to PM2.5 and NO2. Public health 🤝 neuroscience. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Trying to preprint more, starting with some of our work looking at reactivity to visual stimulation in recent trauma survivors. Findings suggest trauma exposure may induce acute changes to non-affective stimulation. w/ @irosso.bsky.social & @brainstorm12.bsky.social doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Thanks BBC for highlighting our recent work in this video! www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

Finally left the other place... Hi, I'm Kate! 👋 I'm a #newAssistantProfessor in #Psychiatry at Duke University. Our lab (The BEES Lab) conducts research to determine how socioenvironmental factors influence the development of stress and trauma-related disorders and the utility of biomarkers.