📣 New Pub 📣 We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

Most of the crew @istss.bsky.social (@nicoleweiss.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social @reina-kiefer.bsky.social) plus a few of our alum (@melissarschick.bsky.social and @atobar.bsky.social)

My 3-year-old is also very proud of herself for trying her first doughnut this morning. She’s been doing oral immunotherapy for a milk allergy since just after her 1st birthday, and this was a very exciting win!

The best kind of news to wake up to! So grateful to learn that my Loan Repayment Program award has been renewed for a third year by NIDA. These types of programs are life-changing for early career folx, and have enabled me to pursue a career in research (even if it isn’t the most lucrative option).

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

Shared on my personal accounts, but this feels professionally relevant too. April is C-section awareness month. Every now and then some discussion pops up online about whether c-sections “count” as birth, whether they’re an “easier” way to deliver, and all other kinds of nonsense.

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

As of last week, I’m on leave for the next few months soaking up all the snuggles I can from this tiny one - work can wait ❤️

So bummed to be missing #CPA2025 this week, but can’t wait to follow along here!

🚨New pub🚨 We examined concordance of emotion-dependent risk-taking in the lab (via emotion induction & BART) & real-world (via EMA). Participants were more likely to drink alcohol, use cannabis & illicit drugs, & have condomless sex during elevated neg and pos emotions 1/

I am recruiting a postgraduate research associate to join my lab at Yale starting this summer! This would be an ideal position for a graduating senior looking for hands-on research training in preparation for applying to grad school. Please share with your amazing students!

So grateful to the NIH Loan Repayment Program - just in time to ring in 2025, my federal student loans show a $0 balance. Keeping my fingers crossed for my renewal application to work down my private loans, but having some loan burden off my shoulders is an incredible relief.

I'm looking to form a standing community advisory board to partner on work being done in my lab. Folks who have done this, please drop tips, advice, and recommended readings on best practices!

The Department of Psychology at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology with a research focus on addiction science beginning August 2025. Please see complete job posting at: apply.interfolio.com/157629

I’m going to set this up as an auto-reply to emails (sorry to all the people who have experienced the high end from me lately - I’m trying!)

#APA2025 will be held in Denver this year! The programming theme is “Bridging the Gap: Digital Innovation in Addiction Psychology.” Div50 wants to see your amazing submissions! 📢 Please spread the word! Submissions are due by January 8: convention.apa.org/proposals

📢 #postdoc alert!! Join our IPV-CIRE team (shorturl.at/7x3oY) for a 2-yr research fellowship: quality mentorship and training, meaningful and impactful work, interdisciplinary team, and protected research time. Please share widely! 💞 #AcademicSky #IPV #ImpSci #teambasedscience #violenceprevention

We ran out of space in the first Addiction science starter pack so heres a second one! go.bsky.app/GQ31XUx

Bit of a boom of followers this morning, so thought I’d do an introduction! I’m an Assistant Professor at Yale funded by a NIDA K23 to combine EMA and wearable biosensors to predict substance use among individuals who have experienced trauma.

I’ve finally gotten with the times and made the shift over here from the bad place. Please drop the addiction science folks I should be following!