I got the automated call to shelter in place 2,000 miles and two time zones away yesterday afternoon. I am heartbroken for my friends, colleagues, and former community at Brown University. My heart is with you all 🤍
🚨Model Checking for Vector Autoregressive Models 🚨
In a new preprint, @joranjongerling.bsky.social, @bsiepe.bsky.social, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, Lourens Waldorp and I provide a tutorial on model checking for Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models: osf.io/preprints/ps...
We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!
Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
UNM representing at National Science Network on Drug Abuse! @unm.edu @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @drtarab20.bsky.social
Hi all, the Morgan Sneed Memorial Scholarship honoring a late peer of mine at Colorado State University is close to becoming endowed. Please consider donating here!: give.colostate.edu/schools/Colo...
📣 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....
Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico
Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Balloon Fiesta is the greatest and it’s even more fun with friends and colleagues 🎈
💥UPDATE: I've got a (rough) website up! I am also looking for 1-2 graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows to join the team in Fall 2026!
Apply via @casaa.bsky.social for the T32 Fellowship or via @unm.edu psychology for graduate study.
Links to applications here: bricsslab.com/announcements
@casaa.bsky.social
Ready to join?
Apply here 👉 unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
DM me with questions — I’d love to hear from you! 💡 (5/5)
📍 Albuquerque is beautiful! if you love mountains, year-round sunshine, and hot air balloons, this is it ⛰️☀️🎈
📅 Full-time with benefits
🎓 Bachelor’s required
🚗 Local travel involved (4/5)
What you’ll do: 👇
⚫ Help me start up and manage ongoing studies
⚫ Conduct interviews, biospecimen collection, and laboratory sessions
⚫ Support recruitment, consent, and follow-ups
⚫ Work with REDCap + R
⚫ Contribute to manuscripts and grant submissions (3/5)
The role is ideal for someone who:
✅ Has a background in psychology, neuroscience, biology, or related fields
✅ Has experience with phlebotomy (or willing to learn)
✅ Interested in psychophysiology, wearable biosensors, and psych assessment
✅ Hopes to build skills before grad or med school (2/5)
🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)
Long post ahead! I am very excited to be recruiting 1 to 2 #PhD students during this upcoming application cycle for Fall 2026 admission! The Clinical Psychology PhD program at The University of New Mexico (UNM) is absolutely stellar and accredited by both #APA and #PCSAS (Clinical Science model). 1/
This is such an important study — I’m excited to be a part of it!
Had a great time at #cannabinoidgrc2025 !! Top notch science, great people, and I’m already looking forward to 2027.
Pumped to be here!!
Welcome to UNM @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social!!! So excited for you to join us!
Today our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵
We’re heading in to Day 2 of our pre-college summer course at Brown 🧬 🧠 Conducting Research at the Forefront of Science: Mental Health, Policy, and Social Implications of Cannabis Use in the U.S.
It’s always a blast teaching with @sarahathomasphd.bsky.social
@quincymbeck.bsky.social championed this work!
📣 Out now: Those with early life stress & psychiatric dx had ⬆️ rates of mtDNAcn compared to controls and compared to those with early life stress but 🚫 dx
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40517524/
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HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.
Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social
We’ve got quite the dream team!!
