The quote, “May your desires for a more beautiful and loving world be met by your willingness to act on behalf of those desires,” in the center with a background picture of nature.
Such a moving quote by @lisaolivera.bsky.social 💛
Congratulations, Robyn!! So well deserved! I can’t wait to read the outcomes of this critically important and scalable work.
So proud of the persistence and growth each of you has demonstrated throughout this #APPIC interview season. It has been a privilege to witness your journeys and to mentor alongside @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @stresslab.bsky.social 💛
📣 Join our team
We are hiring 4 research assistants to support work across three grants: 1. EMA and biosensor to predict return to use, 2. Mobile app for co-occurring PTSD-OUD, 3. EMA and biosensor to understand timing and mechanisms underlying alcohol use and suicide.
Apply and share widely!
A season for softening.
“Financial incentives may drive for-profit hospitals to turn away more complicated patients… hospitals can save on staffing and other costs if they admit healthier patients and avoid patients with the most severe psychiatric needs — a tactic [Dr. Zhu] called ‘cream-skimming.’”
@allysnblckbrn.bsky.social
Excited to share the publication of our book: “Addressing Minority Stress and Enhancing Resilience with Diverse LGBTQ+ Clients”
Filled with rich case examples, clinical dialogue, and strategies for supporting LGBTQ+ clients in therapy!
For more info: tidd.ly/4qI0QC0
Code for 20% off: SPRAUT
Congratulations to you and Carmen!! The abstract reads as a breath of fresh air and I’m looking forward to digging into this paper.
Interested in using the PCL-5 to measure PTSD symptoms in your EMA study?
We conducted item analysis to examine item thresholds & discrimination parameters & examined DIF across daily surveys
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📣 New Pub 📣
Studied PTSD and opioid use across 60 days in people in the community who use opioids and have a history of trauma.
75% met criteria for current OUD
67% met criteria for current PTSD
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I appreciate your consideration and think the context is so critical. When “OCD” is casually used to describe quirks or traits like being meticulous etc. it can diminish the real distress and impairment associated with the disorder
When “OCD” is used as an adjective, it trivializes and invalidates the real suffering and courage of people living with this serious and debilitating condition.
📣 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.
Thank you to the welcoming graduate students in @stresslab.bsky.social (@hodiana.bsky.social + a few Blueskyless folks!) for curating this lovely waiting area outside my office.
Grateful to belong to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social’s phenomenal team 🤗
In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.
Awesome series of EMA talks chaired by STRESS Lab postdoc @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social and lead by STRESS Lab alum (Emmanuel Thomas and Alexa Raudales) and current members (Noam Newberger)
So proud of Alexa Raudales for being the recipient of the @istss.bsky.social Outstanding Student Achievement Award
STRESS Lab is @istss.bsky.social Come meet us and see some of our current work!
Huge congratulations to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social and @heatherschatten.bsky.social, along with the whole team, on this new R01!!
Can’t wait to support and contribute to this important work ahead with @stresslab.bsky.social!
Congratulations, Reagan!! 🥳👏🏼 this is a big deal!
Proud to empower our community through naloxone distribution on IOAD. Community engagement is more than research; it's action. @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social (and many others!)
Big news! @universityofri.bsky.social just secured its first-ever NIH T32 grant!
This T32 will bring together Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Life Sciences to train the next generation of scientists to tackle complex health challenges like addiction.
www.uri.edu/news/2025/09...
Lovely new neighborhood views ☺️
Special thanks to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social, @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social, & @stresslab.bsky.social co-authors (Noam Newberger and Stephen Coutu) for collaborating on this paper!
These findings are preliminary and need to be replicated using longitudinal designs. However, findings point to potential intervention and prevention implications.
More frequent lifetime occurrences of sexual orientation-related victimization were indirectly associated with greater past-month posttrauma RSDBs via greater trauma symptoms due to discrimination, and, in turn, greater emotion dysregulation.
Specifically, we tested a model examining the serial roles of trauma symptoms due to discrimination and emotion dysregulation in the association between sexual orientation-related victimization and posttrauma RSDBs.
