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:
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
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.
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.
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
! ✨
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
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"
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).
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. 🥹
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! 🎉🎉
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. ✨🎉
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! 🎉🎉
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.
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:
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).
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)
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 🥴
@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.
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.
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.
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:
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 🤣
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.
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:
✨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.
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 😂)
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.
@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
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.
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.
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.
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😭🥺
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
“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:
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.”
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.
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!)
🚨 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.
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.
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).
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"
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
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”