Molly Robbins

Frontiers | Associations between weight stigma and mental well-being among people in romantic relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model investigation BackgroundRomantic relationships are primary sources of mental well-being, including life satisfaction. Stigma not only has adverse effects on individual men...

New Publication! I'm proud to have worked on this study my first two years in grad school. Our dyadic study (287 couples!) shows that internalized and anticipated weight stigma don’t just affect your mental well-being, they affect your partner’s, too.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Thank you so much, we are big fans of your work! @katerinaldi1.bsky.social ❤️

yes

We knew that they would do this, and it still hurts.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Sometimes being able to offer a moment of compassionate human connection and grace, and sometimes even a hug, while working in HLOC ED treatment is the greatest privilege and honor ❤️ I try to collect these moments in my brain for future moments when the inevitable burnout or disillusionment sets in🔥

I read this to the tune and cadence of Guns and Ships from Hamilton and it gave me a crumb of joy on this fine Saturday 🎶 @jasmineforus.bsky.social

@phaedralonghurst.bsky.social thank you!!! I am so glad it is finally out there for the world to use 🥹😅

It's hereeee! My very first first-coauthored paper (that's a mouthful) with @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social is published and we could not be more excited 🥹
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kew~6BgRu...

This was a really lovely paper by @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social and @katerinaldi1.bsky.social exploring weight related terminology preference and better understanding the 🔗 between how folks describe themselves, weight stigma, and disordered eating. Kudos on an excellent first pub!

I am so grateful to have this paper out there, and beyond honored to work with @katerinaldi1.bsky.social - my research partner and friend extraordinaire ❤️😍 We were supervised by Dr Paula Brochu and Dr Janell Mensinger ❤️

Our findings suggest that fat-related and weight-neutral terms may be associated with more positive outcomes, and challenge advocacy and requirements for person-first medicalized language that pathologizes body size.

In Sample 2, preferring medicalized terms was associated with lower critical health awareness and higher weight controllability beliefs.

In Sample 1, folks recovered from EDs were more likely to choose “fat” than those currently struggling. Those who pref “fat” had the highest body appreciation+ critical health awareness, lowest eating disorder symptoms, lowest weight bias internalization, and lowest weight controllability beliefs🔥

Our two very different samples had this in common: they did NOT want to be referred to with person first language, despite the obesity world championing the use, and some journals even requiring it! Woah!

Importantly, we deviated from previous research that focused only on convos recommending weight loss in medical settings, + often asked thin(!) participants. We know, for better or worse, people refer to bodies outside of that limited 👀 context, so it’s important to expand the scope of the samples!

Words are heavy: Weight-related terminology preferences are associated with larger-bodied people’s health behaviors and beliefs Clinicians and researchers may struggle with appropriate terminology when discussing body size. Pathologizing larger bodies has led to use of medicali…

I am so excited to share my first publication, a labor of love! My co-1st author @katerinaldi1.bsky.social and I examined weight related terminology preference within two samples of folks in larger bodies🥰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Watching match day results roll in, knowing I will be in y’all’s shoes next year like 🎉🫣🥹😳

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

A flattened stop sign on grass

This stop sign on the NIH campus is somehow apropos. What, the law used to exist here?

FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS provides funding for HIV/AIDs care, maternal health, and community health centers. Today some employees arrived at work to find their access revoked. Terminated without even being notified. Total number affected unknown.

@alt-hhs.bsky.social

Opinion | Censored Science Can’t Save Lives Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.

"The recent barrage of administrative decrees will only serve to demoralize health workers, stifle innovation, compromise clinical trials, delay the development of new treatments and harm our patients."

Incredible, courageous piece in the NYT ⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

Update- I somehow only printed the odd pages of the exam??!?Inner stressed high schooler me came back REAL QUICK. But we printed the even pages and the students weren’t mad 😅

TA’ing for a stats class is the coolest thing ever as someone who used to call herself “not a math person.” Today, students have their midterm exam- I’m bringing munchkins & smiley faces/encouragement written on their homework assignments. My inner stressed high schooler w/a mean teacher? Healed ✅

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

Ok this is a life hack I can get behind 🫡🫡🫡

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.