Shruti Kinkel-Ram, M.A.

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Bsky research friends! Does anyone have resources or examples of an F32 or K08 project that has proposed using existing data in addition to proposing a novel study? Any help is appreciated!

This week I started my new position as a T32 NHLBI Postdoctoral Research Scholar through University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Training Program! So excited to receive this specialized training on cardiometabolic research and eating behaviors!

Congrats Molly!!!

Aah thank you so much! I'm so excited you'll be presenting as well! It was great to see you at ICED!

Congrats!

Also in the spirit of normalizing rejection - I also had several symposia rejected, including other research studies on weight stigma and suicide research among trans and gender diverse youth. I still think that research is so important and worth doing, but rejection is a ubiquitous part of academia

In the spirit of continued excitement and passion for sharing more on fat justice and anti fat bias efforts in the eating disorder space - so excited that our clinical roundtable on this was accepted at @abctnow.bsky.social #ABCT2025 this year! @connorelbe.bsky.social @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social

#ICED2025 was one for the books! I was so excited that we had a full house for our panel on weight stigma, “feeling fat” across the size spectrum, and eating disorders. A great chance to connect/reconnect with other scientists and practitioners that care about eating disorder advocacy!

All of my symposia were rejected this year 🫠 but just when I was reaching radical acceptance about finally having a conference I can kick back and just go to talks I had a clinical roundtable accepted

Sadly they ended up being double booked haha, but they will be presented Friday 5/30 at 2:30pm! :)

We also found that individuals with worse interoception reported increased urges to binge eat as well as restrict. Overall, we found evidence that weight neutral approaches would be extremely helpful in disordered eating treatment settings and interoception is a promising treatment target

Testing Interoceptive Dysfunction as a Mediator of the Relation Between Weight Stigma and Disordered Eating Interoceptive dysfunction could be one mechanism that facilitates the weight stigma-disordered eating association. Hence, the aim of this study was to…

My dissertation study is now out *open access* at Appetite! We found that individuals with binge eating symptoms who were randomly assigned to be exposed to weight stigma engaged in *less* caloric consumption - many implications for social identity threat!

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Congrats!

My co-interns and their passion for their research are always inspiring to me! @laurenlaifer.bsky.social's new paper finds that both maternal and paternal factors across the perinatal period influence toddlers' emotion regulation. Definitely sharing this with all the dads in my life ❤️

So excited to hear that my dissertation paper was accepted at Appetite!! Stay tuned for when the paper is in press to read more about how experiences of weight stigma contribute to both binge eating and restriction risk 👀

Aah just seeing this, congrats Wes!

I have no doubt they likely used AI and certain search terms to identify these grants. It's insulting to the researchers who spent so much time compiling these grant submissions in order to get funding.

Last Friday, 1,000 more NIH biomedical research projects were defunded with no notice

Here’s a word cloud of canceled grants, based on their titles

Just more evidence that we need to take discrimination and research on marginalized groups seriously if we want to tackle suicide prevention

Our new paper finds that (sadly and unsurprisingly) race-related stress and dissociation symptoms are related to increased suicidal ideation among Black US Americans after controlling for cumulative trauma load:
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Yay welcome to the Subaru fam!!!

📣 Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA) @repsummerlee.bsky.social will speak at the Stand Up for Science rally in #Pittsburgh 🔥

Join us to stand up for facts, research, and the future TOGETHER!

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📢 Join us for the Stand Up for Science rally in Pittsburgh! We are bringing together a lineup of speakers from different backgrounds, who will share how science has made a difference in the world and in their own experiences.

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AUBURN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH STUDY VIRTUAL EATING DISORDER TREATMENT FOR LGBTQIA+ INDIVIDUALS The ACCEPT Lab at Auburn University is recruiting for a study evaluating a new virtual (Zoom) treatment for eating disorders that is specifically developed for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. This study will occur over the span of 9 months and is completely voluntary and confidential. YOU MAY QUALIFY IF YOU: Are 18-65 years old Identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or asexual Are experiencing problems with eating or body image (619) 594-1785 PRIDE@AUBURN.EDU Scan this QR code with your smartphone camera, Snapchat OR go to https://aub.ie/pridestudy EARN UP TO $250 L G B T Q A + IN E-GIFTCARDS

Please distribute widely! This is a great opportunity to receive a novel eating disorder treatment specifically tailored to the LGBTQ+ community and developed by an LGBTQ+ eating disorder research lab!

Thank you!

Troubling:
Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators.
PLEASE SPEAK UP!
Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans!
www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...
Tell others to do the same!

Thanks, Beth! So glad our paths can continue to cross! :)

This is so disheartening to hear... #VAResearchMatters

Thanks, Julia!!

Thank you, JJ!! I hope you are well and enjoying your faculty position!!