Missourian here. Can confirm - voters passed paid sick leave with 58% and the GOP state legislature overturned it as soon as they could.

📣Super excited for #ICED2026 in The Hague, the Netherlands 🇳🇱! 🌷Our Scientific Planning Committee is putting on amazing #eating #disorder content! Abstracts due 10/22! www.aedweb.org/aed-events/i...

Interested in a career in digital mental health, but not set on a clinical psych degree? Check out Dartmouth's PhD programs in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences and Health Policy and Clinical Practice. geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/qbs/ geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/tdi/academic...

The @abctnow.bsky.social EDEB SIG is hosting a webinar on single session interventions TOMORROW! Check it out and register here: abctedebsig.wixsite.com/abct-edeb-si...

Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told. In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.

We are still recruiting for a postdoc for my lab! This person will play a key role in a new R01 optimizing a self-guided digital intervention for #eatingdisorders. There will be ample opportunities for publishing, contributing to grants, mentoring, etc. Apply by 10/31 for priority consideration.

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓. And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Looking forward to speaking at the Eating Disorders Research Summit on October 2nd and my second visit to the wonderful folks in Fargo at Sanford Health! Register to join us online (or in person)!

Proud of @natgullo.bsky.social & my grad student Carli Howe on great posters at #EDRS2025 in Newport Beach! Really inspiring mtg centered on harnessing machine learning, algorithms, & AI to improve EDs outcomes. Can’t wait to see all my EDs colleagues & friends in the Netherlands next for #ICED2026!

I will be recruiting at least 1 PhD student for the Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Psychopathology (SCRAP) Lab at WashU in STL this application cycle! ☀️⏰😴 Read more about our current projects here: sites.wustl.edu/scraplab/

Come join us in Athens! We are hiring a TT assistant professor in our APA accredited clinical psychology program at Ohio University.

Four years after Medicaid was expanded in Missouri: what do we know? 1. Enrollment has met expectations 2. Uninsured dropped significantly 3. Financially not a burden to state budget 4. Reduced out of pocket costs to recipients 5. Improved financing for hospitals 6. Some implementation challenges

Delighted to have @mcpoliti.bsky.social speak on Mon 9/15 at 12 pm CT for our next @washu.edu mHealth Research Core seminar series! Dr. Politi will be speaking about her work creating visual key information pages for informed consent and the impact. Register here: mhealth.wustl.edu/seminar-page/

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't know how many died W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid? RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that W: How can you be that ignorant?

RFK Jr. has said many times that the CDC has failed to address the chronic disease “epidemic”, yet he ignores the root causes—poverty, lack of education, lack of access to healthcare.

Some news on GRFP…

Do you ever feel like social media affects your body image? Women aged 18-26 living in the United States are invited to take our social media intervention! Click this secure link to take our interest survey: neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #Research #SocialMedia

Participate in a new PAID study with the EAT Laboratory. Join a study testing a self-guided, digital #disorderedeating intervention for women! Eligible participants can receive up to $120 in e-gift cards in compensation.

Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc to work on a newly-funded R01 aiming to optimize a digital intervention for #eatingdisorders and contribute to other research in this space! Remote candidates may be considered. Start spring/sum 26 (or sooner!). Pls share! wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

Pls comment on this NIH RFI on limiting allowable publishing costs by 9/15. osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form... This is completely in conflict w/ the other new mandate that we must have our research be OA immediately (and publishers like Wiley not allowing submission to PMC immediately if we don't pay)..

Awesome time @isrii.bsky.social #ISRII13 the past few days in San Diego sharing our work on a digital tx for lower-income ppl with EDs, participating in a panel on AI in clinical science training, receiving the 2025 Translational Impact Award, and spending time with amazing friends and colleagues!

Tomorrow SCOTUS quietly decides if Trump administration can illegally cut grants tied to DEIA. This and today's bombshell announcing no new NIH grants is an orchestrated assault. We need to scream from rooftops.

This will be very very bad and hugely detrimental, please contacted your elected officials asap

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

This is extremely bad: “expect placement by political appointees.” This is Lysenkoism, politics controlling science, and we know how it ends: with the death of science. “For successful science, reality must take precedence over politics, for Nature cannot be fooled.”

🌟The REPEAT Lab at VCU (PI: Dr. Annie Haynos) in Richmond, VA is hiring a clinical research coordinator! 🌟 We use various methods (fMRI, EMA, computational modeling) to study neurobiological mechanisms and treatment for eating disorders & other disorders of rigidity. Post will be open for 1 week! 🧠📊

Great opportunity for dissertation funding for clinical science PhD students who expected to have funding to complete their dissertations and now don't. Please check it out and share with your networks (and please volunteer to review if you can!).

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

“In an unusual act of public protest, more than 340 scientists and staff at the National Institutes of Health today released a statement charging NIH officials and their superiors with politicizing science.” www.science.org/content/arti... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration

Our lab joined @edcoalition and 213 orgs urging Congress to take bold action: fund $5M for SAMHSA training/awareness, $750K for HHS research, and eating disorders prevention/education in School Wellness Policies. United for change—read our letter: bit.ly/3TeWzGA #EDAwareness

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Had a great time at #ICED2025 in San Antonio last week! It was an honor to present in the wildcard plenary about our work harnessing tech for screening & prevention of #eatingdisorders! Loved seeing so many mentees present their work and also catch up with many dear friends and colleagues!

Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic. Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them. This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives. www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...

Please do this RIGHT NOW, takes 30 seconds if that!

When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

RFK Jr. is now taking COVID19 vaccines away from people who are pregnant. Infection during pregnancy increases the risk severe disease and potentially preterm birth. The CDC itself lists pregnancy as a condition that puts people at risk for severe disease. The science doesn’t support this.

More nonsense from Secretary Kennedy Kaitlan Collins asked Kennedy if he stood by his earlier comment that people should not be taking medical advice from him, even though his job involves communicating health guidance and recommendations based on his department’s expertise. 1/n

Check it out! Great position w/ my wonderful colleague @rebecca-cox.bsky.social in WashU Psych & Brain Sciences! This is a super opportunity for anyone looking to pursue grad school in clinical psych, especially in the areas of sleep, circadian rhythms, & psychopathology! STL is pretty great too!

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

Please make a comment on this NOW (they are due tomorrow). We can't let NIH and NSF POs and division directors become political appointees--this will completely destroy science.

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Baldwin to RFK Jr: "Is funding for Alzheimer's research centers DEI? Because you're holding up $65m for 14 of those centers in 9 states, including UW Madison. Is funding for cancer centers DEI? Because you're holding up $47m in cancer center support grants at 9 cancer centers in 8 states."

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All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot

Just the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (the dept that is supposed to, you know, "protect the health of the US people") saying he can't give medical advice... truly unbelievable

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Hi, it's me, a younger scientist, not feeling supported