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(it’s Bo-ness) Psychologist + Research Assistant Professor @UNMCASAA and @UNMPsychDept interested in substance use + harm reduction. 🪴🤟🏼🌵🌈 #AcademicMom x3

Albuquerque, NM
Joined September 2016
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 months
I will be reviewing applications for the ⁦ @UNMPsychDept ⁩ clinical psychology PhD program this fall. Our lab is currently in an exciting period of growth, and we are looking for applicants interested in substance use to join us! More here:
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
5 years
I brought my 3mo old to our annual conference this last week. I’ve grown accustomed to negative responses regarding my status as a graduate school parent (esp having 2 kids), so I tend to expect the worst. I’m happy to say, however, that everyone was incredibly supportive
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Someone recently implied me having kids in grad school must have been unplanned and went on to state “but it worked out ok!” Let me assure you my children were very planned. Graduate students are allowed to have children. Don’t make assumptions.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
Baby girl Boness joined us yesterday 😍💛
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
Started my Saturday with an acceptance on a manuscript that was previously rejected 4 times 🙃🎉
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
MY DISSERTATION WAS ACCEPTED AT PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN 🥳 preprint coming soon
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
People who use substances do not deserve to die.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
How you holding up parents? GIFs only.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Friends don’t let friends follow/like/RT the holistic psychologist
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
Occasionally I email my undergraduate mentors and instructors to give them updates (nearly 10 years after I graduated). It's amazing how much of an impact they had on my research and career. Don't underestimate your influence on undergraduate students.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
I said "no" today, please clap.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
6 months
I am beyond thrilled to share that I have accepted a tenure-track position in the @UNM Psychology Department ( @UNMPsychDept ) starting this fall. Even more exciting is that I will retain a half time appointment at @UNMCASAA ! ✨
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Passed the EPPP 🥳✅
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Thank you for everyone’s kindness 😭 at the beginning of this year I had to retract a first author paper because our team found an error in our raw brain images that, when corrected, significantly changed our results. I worried about my competence and perhaps more scary, that my
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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I'm so excited to share the preprint for my accepted manuscript: "The Etiologic, Theory-Based, Ontogenetic Hierarchical Framework of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Translational Systematic Review of Reviews"
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
MY DISSERTATION WAS ACCEPTED AT PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN 🥳 preprint coming soon
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Journalists, I am once again begging you to stop calling people addicts and substance abusers.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
6 months
I’m begging ya’ll to stop asking your students to interview a professor for their class assignments
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
I'm so thrilled to announce that I won the @SCPdiv12 Distinguished Dissertation Award in Clinical Psychology! 🎉 The manuscript received an R&R that I'm currently working on so I hope to be able to share it with you all very soon (journal doesn't allow preprints, sadly).
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
I’m a licensed psychologist 🥺
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
About to be out of the office for a while 👶🏼
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Started out the morning with some amazing news - my K08 "Measurement and Multimethod Validation of Alcohol Use Disorder Etiologic Mechanisms" from NIAAA is officially funded! I am beyond grateful and indebted to everyone that helped me get here. 🥹
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
I’m thrilled to announce that next fall I will be starting a postdoc position at the @UNM Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, And Addictions with the brilliant @KatieWitkiewitz ! Feeling very fortunate as this has been a dream of mine for MANY years + we get to head back west! 🎉🎉
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
In a wonderfully surprising change of events, I will be joining @UNM 's Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions as a Research Assistant Professor this September. I am beyond grateful and so excited to get to work with such a fabulous team. ✨🎉
@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
I’m thrilled to announce that next fall I will be starting a postdoc position at the @UNM Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, And Addictions with the brilliant @KatieWitkiewitz ! Feeling very fortunate as this has been a dream of mine for MANY years + we get to head back west! 🎉🎉
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Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
I learned earlier this week that one of my papers is in the top 10 most downloaded papers of 2023 across all APA journals 🥹😭
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
In case it needs to be said, don’t ask your research coordinators (or really any other team members), to refill your water for you.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Stop telling early career academics they can’t have research careers if they also want to live their lives 🙃
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
Annoy a psychologist in one tweet.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
After both my kids I had experiences where colleagues told me they hadn't invited me to collaborate on a project because they wanted to protect my time. This inadvertently penalized me for being a mother.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
5 years
I am thrilled to announce that I matched at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh for internship!
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Cassie Boness, PhD
11 months
My son lost his first tooth tonight and this letter to the tooth fairy is just… 🥹
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 months
We have EXCELLENT research supported treatments for PTSD.
@christianamusk
Christiana Musk
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Now is the time for women and survivors of trauma to demonstrate support for breakthrough healing treatments that will help 13 million Americans living with PTSD. Read my @TIME article and please share swiftly and widely:
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Can’t stop thinking about this study + how it relates to my own experiences. Education is often viewed as liberation (from various things). For me it has also isolated me from the people, places, and things I grew up around (while still feeling out of place in academia).
@HyunJoonPark10
Hyun Joon Park
2 years
Inside academia, lower-SES (vs. higher-SES) students experienced difficulty making friends and had a hard time understanding others/being understood by others. Outside academia, lower-SES students perceived less understanding from their family and lost contact with friends. (4/6)
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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What’s cool is studying psychology for over 15 years and then having to go back and relearn content from my high school psych class (that I haven’t used since) to pass the EPPP 🥴
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
@ravenscimaven I’m so sorry, this is horrific. When I had my miscarriage, my OB asked me a few weeks later “it’s been a few weeks… so you’re getting over this right?!” Like no lady I’ve been depressed crying on the floor for weeks now.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
According to grandma I’m ruining my chances for a “real job.” 🤷🏼‍♀️
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
I was apparently presented an award last night at a ceremony I wasn’t even invited to?!?! 😆😆
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Shoutout to the reviewer that left this comment on a recently accepted paper: "I would be eager to reference this work in my own research going forward and think it serves as a great example for future measurement development research in many ways." 🥺 Such comments go far.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
It’s my first day as an assistant professor @UNM ! Here’s some Twitter v. reality for you.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
10 months
@ballerbrittt About ten years ago they sent me these beautiful hand painted mini canvases of each of my animals and we still have them 🥰
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Someone recently asked me if I ever get tired of thinking about addiction and the answer is that I’ve never known any different. I’ve had to think about addiction as long as I can remember. This isn’t a “hobby” or “interest” for me that I forget about outside of my work hours.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
It's critical that we all read and reflect on this piece by Dr. Roberts regarding his experiences at Perspectives on Psychological Science which are a mere symptom of larger issues in the field related to racism and white supremacy:
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Today George Koob “told me a story” about how he developed his model of the addiction cycle at my POSTER and I… need to tell you all because my husband doesn’t understand this moment fully 🤣
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Here's my submitted comment if it is helpful to anyone: There's so much more that could have been said but only so much time in a day 🙃 Please consider submitting a formal comment if you haven't already! Comments are due April 27th.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Writing up my "preaddiction" comment
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Today is a very good day 🥺
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Refreshing eRA Commons after my third cup of coffee
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
11 months
I feel fairly strongly that faculty shouldn't be tweeting about grad school applicants, no matter how vague.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
I'm thrilled to share this preprint with you all. This was a labor of love authored by scholars around the US under the leadership of @ChardeeGalan . It is forthcoming at JCCAP. A Call to Action for an Antiracist Clinical Science:
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
✨I will be reviewing applications for @UNM 's clinical psych PhD program this cycle! Those w/ interests in addiction etiology and precision medicine, mixed method approaches (including advanced statistical methods), measurement, and community engagement would be a good fit.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
Successfully defended my dissertation this afternoon! 🥳 Thanks to my committee: @kennethjsher , @JoAnaDChase , @edgarmerkle , and Denis McCarthy! (and apologies to my committee for the accidental screen shot that I'm now posting on the internet 😂)
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
PROFESSIONALS DO NOT NEED TO CONCEAL TATTOOS. I. Am. Here. For. This. Can’t wait to read.
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Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg
3 years
So excited to finally share our paper on tattooed mental health professionals/psychologists out in @APA_Journals Professional Psychology today! @shannahdutrisac #MentalHealth #PsychTwitter #tattoos
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
I will never forget what it was like being a therapist in 2020.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
It’s my last day of internship so I guess I’m officially PhD now? What a ride.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
I don't even remember all the places I applied for graduate school 😂
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
I know many of us have been waiting for this news. @DrNadiaChaudhri touched me deeply this last year and I'm a better scientist, mom, and human because she graciously shared her life with all of us.
@Krista_BH
Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein
3 years
@DrNadiaChaudhri passed away yesterday evening, having reached the end of her road with ovarian cancer. She leaves behind her Sun and Moon, a loving extended family, colleagues and students, friends around the world, and so many others who have been touched by her & her story 1/n
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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Yes I saw that piece from The Atlantic. No, stigmatizing drug use and people who use drugs is not an effective intervention. Nor will it solve the overdose crisis, etc. Society needs to put in the work to confront their internalized loathing of people who use drugs.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Well that resonated. For the record, grad students, you are adults and I support your autonomy to make the decisions you see fit for yourself in grad school.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Being a woman is feeling the need to change the time and route of your daily dog walk to avoid the strange dude that seems to be following you 😒
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Harm reduction saves lives.
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
We're saying goodbye to our old friend Helo this afternoon 🥺 He has been with us through graduate school, getting married, pregnancy loss and two kids, COVID, and moving for internship and then my job. We'll miss him.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
I am incredibly honored to have won the @MizzouGradEd dissertation award during one of the hardest years of my adult life. The award really represents so much for me and the plaque arriving today was perfect timing😭🥺
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Me disappearing into my grant writing hole until 10/12 passes
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Dose 1 ✅✅
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Convinced my husband to take some new headshots for me today 🥳 can't handle the serious one 🤣
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Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
Feeling immensely grateful for my psychiatrist colleges who have taken the time to actually understand what my training and skill set is as a psychologist (hint: it’s not what’s represented here)
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
continued to believe in my work as a scientist despite it. Anyways, the Psych Bull paper is a huge win but my path here has not been linear or full of success. Sometimes we have to silence the self doubt and just keep moving forward.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
“Are you reading my mind?”
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
I'm really disappointed in this take. First, it implies treatment is always the end goal - that is, that treatment is necessary for everyone with substance use disorders to recover. Yet, the data shows that many people recover without formal treatment.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
Is having boys really just bleaching the pee off the bathroom floor on the daily?
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
This year @PsychScience @CheriLev and I are chairing a panel on navigating motherhood in psychological science and academia. We'd love to hear what types of questions you'd want to have answered by a panel from a range of different career stages, backgrounds, etc.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
This is a dystopian nightmare.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Happy Mother’s Day ( @RSAposts throwback). It’s my greatest joy to be both a mom and a psychologist.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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I just FINALLY submitted a meta-analysis I started in 2016 😬
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Cassie Boness, PhD
6 months
I just received the NOA for my K08 administrative supplement!! I'm very grateful. ✨
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
I’m taking a @coursera on science communication and WHY isn’t this part of psychology training?! Science communication engages so many psychological principles that we already learn about in our training.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
I legitimately cannot take on learning a new platform right now ya'll so you can find me here until the end
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Cassie Boness, PhD
1 year
Perhaps women over achieve because they’re told they have to in order to be taken seriously 🙃
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@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
11 months
Do you hold identities underrepresented in psychology? Are you looking for additional professional mentorship on topics like career development, manuscript development, grant writing, or navigating the academy? If yes, consider signing up for PUMP! Visit:
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
We all deserve to come home regardless of the time we run.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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“I’ve met people who see me as both a parent and an academic, rather than forcing me to act like a part of myself doesn’t exist.” Thanks to @mothersinsci for inviting me to share a bit about my journey as an academic mom:
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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I'm a whole psychologist and am still regularly SHOOK by the power of validation. So simple yet so profound for healing.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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Here’s your annual reminder that you shouldn’t get mental health information from THP
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Jo Luehmann
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@sheologian Why did I go to the comments? 😬🤦🏽‍♀️😱
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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Started the morning with a paper acceptance 🥳
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
Baby at a poster session! Very engaged participant.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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The Boness Crew made it to Disney!
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Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
When I was pregnant with my second son in graduate school a tenured male faculty member gestured towards my pregnant stomach and told me I should “lay off the cheeseburgers.”
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
I find the clinical PhD v MD/DO comparison that happens on this app so exhausting. It’s also a major barrier to collaborative, multidisciplinary care. Perhaps we should stop centering ourselves and put that energy into serving our patients and communities.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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A man on the internet recently told me “it’s not like you have a PhD.” Folks, I defended my dissertation in June. Don’t be this person.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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Then and now 😭😭
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Baby's first @RSAposts . I occasionally stumble upon this photo and it's always 😭 (both because this kid is almost 4 and because I'm so relieved to be on the other side of grad school!)
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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My husband’s job provided us with dinner for tonight *just because* and I’m now (more than ever) wondering why I wanted to be academia.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
It’s a beautiful day to stop assuming that people who use substances are liars ☀️
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Cassie Boness, PhD
3 years
Thrilled to announce I was rejected from a big award today
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
🚨 I am so excited to share that I am now one of the co-medical directors (alongside Drs. Jasen Christensen and Sara Doorley) of a new @ProjectECHO on alcohol use and mental health launching TOMORROW.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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I want to be transparent and share that these last few months have been very hard on me. I am feeling the tension of celebrating professional wins while grieving some tough things in my personal life at the same time. It felt important for me to share that with you all.
@Cassie_Boness
Cassie Boness, PhD
4 years
I'm so thrilled to announce that I won the @SCPdiv12 Distinguished Dissertation Award in Clinical Psychology! 🎉 The manuscript received an R&R that I'm currently working on so I hope to be able to share it with you all very soon (journal doesn't allow preprints, sadly).
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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It lives in print at last!!! 😍
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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I'm so excited to share the preprint for my accepted manuscript: "The Etiologic, Theory-Based, Ontogenetic Hierarchical Framework of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Translational Systematic Review of Reviews"
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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Celebrating 10 years of marriage today 💕
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Today’s POTUS cannabis pardon is HUGE. It’s ok to be critical and want more but it’s still huge.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
2 years
Me, the whole time I’m in Florida.
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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1. Survived 2. Survived with no childcare 3. Survived with no childcare and a cross country move and a dissertation defense and a new job (internship) and one income and isolation and.... survived
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Cassie Boness, PhD
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Honored that our paper on CBT for substance use disorder was among the top 10 most read in the first half of 2023 🥹 “APA’s 89 journals published more than 5,500 articles in 2023. Here are the top 10 most read”
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