Margaret Crane, PhD

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There were 51% as many new R01s in FY25 as in FY24.

Note the large increase in RF1 multi-year awards.

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After a rollercoaster of a year of delays from NIH disruptions (literally the length of a pregnancy), it is such a relief to have this promotion processed. It’s incredibly exciting to be entering into this new stage of my professional career and my personal life this month.

Pregnant person smiling in front of the Brown Bear statue at Brown University

Some professional and personal announcements!

I’ve been promoted to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University!

We’re also expecting our baby boy later this month!

Appendix has a list of what skills were modeled in each book. A few of our favorites books:
-Sam Wu is Not Afraid Series by Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang
-King of the Bench: No Fear! by Steve Moore
-Worry Warriors Series by Marne Ventura and Leo Trinidad
-Fuzz the Little Sheep Series by Inger Maier

We found:
-Characters modeled 2.39/8 practices
-Cognitive strategies (60% of books), exposure (46%), and labeling body sensations (42%) were the most frequently modeled
-Perhaps unsurprisingly, books written by mental health professionals modeled more skills.

Children’s Literature on Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Content Analysis Children’s literature can teach life lessons and effective coping strategies, and can be a way to disseminate practice elements (i.e., building blocks…

Like using children's books to teach kids about emotions? Check out our publication! We reviewed children's books on anxiety to identify how often characters modeled evidence-based practices. See the appendix for a list of what skills were modeled in each book

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The second of our openings in the Clinical Program at Colorado State is now online. This one is for an Assistant Professor with an open research area.

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166...

APCs are particularly brutal for trainees and ECRs whose grants have too small of budgets to accommodate unexpected open access fees (e.g., F‘s, T32s, K’s)

How are folks handling this change in NIH open access policies? Submitting to journals that comply with the new NIH policy for immediate release without requiring an open access fee?

Strange trend for researchers to be aware of: participants are using Chat GPT to respond to open-ended questions at the end of surveys. Be sure to look for common indicators of GenAI before coding qualitative data (e.g., numbered lists, double asterisks, etc.)

Assistant or Associate Professor, Child Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Penn State Psychology is hiring in Child Clinical!
Assistant or Associate Professor

*This is a 2nd position*
We're also hiring in quant-computational.

Q's app process: PsychApplications@psu.edu
Q's position: clh39@psu.edu, Cynthia Huang-Pollock

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Congrats! This is so exciting!

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

This is a fantastic resource for students applying to clinical/counseling programs this cycle: A list of PIs, organized by areas of research, accepting students!

Please share widely!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

It is a wild time to be an NIH funded researcher. This grant has been pending since December 2024 (submitted June 2024). I am incredibly grateful for the mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who supported me through this rollercoaster of a year.

I'll be working with a dream team of mentors - A. Rani Elwy, Alex Dopp, Aaron Lyon, Bo Kim, David Mohr, Will Aldridge, and Joshua Kemp.

We hope to learn about how digital mental health organizations, mental health providers, intermediary organizations, and purveyor organizations scale their impact.

he goal is to help organizations balance priorities, including implementing evidence-based interventions, being financially sustainable, and providing equitable access to care. The project will use human-centered design and qualitative/mixed methods.

notice of award for an NIMH grant

Over the moon to announce that I received the Notice of Award for my #NIMH K08!

This 5 year project will adapt a tool to help implementation and mental health organizations with strategic financial planning.

Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States About the Department/College The Department of Psychological Sciences is located on the Flagstaff Mountain Campus of Northern Arizona University (NAU), situated at the base of San Francisco Peaks. NAU...

Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested!

careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...

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Hi all! It looks like I *will* be able to take a new student this year! If you are interested in perinatal mental health, cognitive bias, and/or cats, apply to work with me at UVM! :)

Oh you want to address health disparities, decrease chronic illness, alleviate mental health problems, decrease maternal and infant mortality, and prevent diabetes/cancer/dementia/heart disease??????

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

Looking at grant reporter, it seems like the NIMH is focusing on issuing NOAs for grant renewals. In August, they issued 393 NOAs, of which only 23 were for new projects

Total NOAs: reporter.nih.gov/search/-raDb...
NOAs for new projects: reporter.nih.gov/search/9PUrD...

The House discretionary budget bill is now out for FY26, including a proposed *slight boost* in NIH funding & many other components that will take time to unpack.

Bill text:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

A few key points including IDC analysis in a provisional 🧵

House LHHC bill is out. Lots of hits to HHS, but the top line number for NIH is 1% decrease, mostly due to cuts ARPA-H. This seems like a huge rejection of the president's budget request.

If this is turning into a battle, then the researchers’ possible counter is to normalize updating preprints and CVs with “accepted at journal x” as sufficient for getting publication credit and not pay the fees.

In this episode of Science in Translation, Sara Becker, PhD, discusses steps taken to make dissemination and implementation training more accessible to investigators while intentionally bridging the gap between what we know and what we do — bit.ly/4lMxVZS

The first of our openings has posted. This search is for an associate or full professor with tenure who’s interested in succeeding me as Director of Clinical Training. Research area is open. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

The Society for Implementation Research Collaboration is hosting SIRC City Chicago at 5 p.m. on September 10 at Midwest Coast Brewing Company. The free event aims to foster social connections in the broader implementation community. Non-members are welcome partiful.com/e/oxk9xB225q...

👋Join us for SIRC CITY: San Diego — a social gathering for implementation researchers, students, professionals, and anyone interested in implementation science.

Wed, Sept 3, 2025 | 4:00 PM
New English Brewing – San Diego Brewery

RSVP here ➡️https://partiful.com/e/AfjRfOpEZAHicEWCdXlD
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