I love, love, love hyper local news/politics/goings on. Chapel Hill made a big change this year for leaf collection requirements. People are feeling things 🍂. @triangleblogblog.bsky.social is on the case: triangleblogblog.com/2025/11/01/p...

it's letter writing season in my field. Just my opinion here, but write your recommendation letters the way you'd want to read them. I get so bored with such standard, dry letters from recommenders. It's hard work, but tell us the story behind why we should be enthusiastic about your person!

local news. we need more support for our local news sources.

no child should have to face scary thoughts of suicide on their own. yes, it’s sad that young kids have them. But it’s our job to figure out how to help. I’ve got a few studies going to do just that. First look at this work here: news.unchealthcare.org/2025/10/unc-...

Are you accepting PhD applications in Clinical Psychology for Fall 2026 (U.S.)? If so, please consider adding your name to the document linked in the comments. Our hope is to help reduce the load on applicants. Please share widely and on X! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

my newborn and my toddler are both napping at the same time for the first time, and maybe this is nirvana?

reminder, big corporations and brands don't love you. they love your money. happy pride. =)

I grew up in the western foothills/southern piedmont of NC. As soon as I saw the news of Helene, I knew the devastation in these small towns just to our north was inevitable. This is the one of the best pieces of journalism I have read in recent memory. incredible, heartbreaking stories. read this.

I am so fortunate to be supported by the incredible Foundation of Hope in North Carolina. FOH pledged to raise 5 Million dollars in 5 years to support the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program in UNC Psychiatry. It only took 2.5 years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_T9...

exciting new cluster hire of assistant professors across departments at UNC Chapel Hill to advance substance use disorder discovery and treatment. One will be in my department (psychiatry). Come work with us: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/299...

How NC voters on the Griffin List (or anyone worried about their future vote) can update their voter file Please share with everyone in NC you know triangleblogblog.com/2025/04/05/h...

EMA research friends, I recall seeing some #discourse on here about slidey bars for response options resulting in more variability for frequency items in daily surveys. Did I dream this in my head? Can someone send link if I didn’t imagine this?

hey folks! I'm hiring research coordinators at UNC Chapel Hill in the Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). the position includes working on our Social Motivation Study examining preteen suicide risk. Please apply by mid-April here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...

Pretty good publicity for signal tbh

it's particularly cruel to be cancelling training series grants from NIH. Those training years were some of my most uncertain, and the training grants (F, K series) provided stable funding at the time. We will be losing tremendous scholars because of this.

Conversion therapy is ineffective, dangerous, and linked with suicide attempts. Don’t ever let them tell you otherwise.

What a week, huh?™️

Our new paper examines whether asking children as young as 5 about suicide is safe, feasible, and acceptable—an early step in our groups broader effort to build a full developmental model of youth suicide risk. Stay tuned for more from our group. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And if sometimes the primal scream needs to dominate…that’s fine. It’s fine. 🫠

Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. If you need to mix in a primal scream from time to time, that’s okay too. Seems fitting.

you know who's great at managing lots of uncertainty? high-achieving, anxious academics.

Incredible.

In case you want to grab the CDC's Suicide Prevention Resources for Action while it's still here: www.cdc.gov/suicide/pdf/... A lot of careful work went into this document from my colleagues.

it's hard to tell the scale from this photo, but these are tiny little picnic tables for tiny little humans, and it made me smile today. you should see them too. li

Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat.

I grew up in rural North Carolina and am a first generation college student. I attended UNC Chapel Hill as an undergraduate, and I just received my letter confirming my tenure at UNC. Surreal is putting it mildly. I am honored and humbled and determined to be a good steward of science.

Your Thursday self-care: open.spotify.com/album/2UJwKS...

In the midst of all this *gestures as broadly as humanly possible*, this is good: www.ncchildrens.org/nc-childrens... I am excited to see NC become a national leader in youth health and well-being. Two world class universities joining to care for youth. This is good.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

rest assured that we will lose promising scholars because of this. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Your Friday assignment is to listen to Cowboy Carter from start to finish. Go.

a tea set for my desk at work will fix everything, right?

Save us, Nice Mushrooms. Save us.

lean into the things that help you feel light, even for a few seconds. Your morning coffee. Your kid running into your arms for a hug. A snuggle from your pet. A favorite food. A walk around the block.

I am hiring for a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill in Child and Adolescent Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program (CHAAMP). The successful candidate will work on my NIH funded program of research on suicide risk among preteens. Please share. Deadline 1/31! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/290...

We're hiring a postdoc in child clinical and I'm on the search committee. USU is a great place. Come join us! Open to clinical, school, and counseling grads. careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8722/ps...

A fitting way to send off 2024. 🌈 Beech Mountain, NC

It's officially "let's handle that after the holiday break" time. Kindest regards.

Southern Season was a gem. This article made me miss it even more. www.theassemblync.com/culture/food...

Send toddler teething tips. 😵‍💫

Look, if we just all decide it’s already the holiday break we can just not work this week. Who’s in? It’s has to be everybody. So, great! Glad you’re joining me.

2009 men’s basketball national championship as a senior undergrad and then bonus 2017 men’s basketball championship as a postdoc.

This is 🤌

Wow. @npr.org has picked up the story www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...

the reaction button/feature in outlook is WILDLY unhelpful.

Vito, a pug from Chapel Hill, N.C., beat out more than 1,900 dogs representing more than 200 breeds and varieties that competed in this year's National Dog Show. www.wunc.org/2024-11-28/v...

Outlook said “this can wait until after the holiday”.

Our group's latest paper shows how childhood adversity shapes brain development with age. Deprivation slows age-related decreases in cortical surface area in cognitive regions, while threat exposure leads to age-related increases in socioemotional regions. Read more: shorturl.at/rtMST

Thanks to everyone that's finding us here today! We are starting out small but growing fast. We're looking forward to building a community

These are my favorite morning swims, though the sprint from the water to my towel after is 🥶🥶🥶