Leslie Brick

UNM representing at National Science Network on Drug Abuse! @unm.edu @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @drtarab20.bsky.social

Morgan Sneed Memorial Scholarship Support the Morgan Sneed Memorial Scholarship!

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...

Influence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Daily-Level Trajectories of Opioid Use Among Trauma-Exposed Individuals in the Community Who Use Opioids Objective: Individuals who use opioids are at elevated risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The objective of this study was to examine the influence of PTSD diagnosis on opioid use outcome...

📣 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....

little girl on shoulders holding a sign with bluey and bingo that reads "blue and bingo say no kings only healers" and a second sign to the right that reads, in rainbow letters, "protest is patriotic"

photo of protestors lined up carrying American flags and protest signs, facing away from the camera

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

Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals

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 🎈

Logo for the Biomarkers of Risk, Cannabinoids, Substance Use, and Stress (BRiCSS) Lab.

💥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

Research Scientist 1 (CASAA) SummaryUnder direct supervision, the Research Scientist 1 will work on research projects with the Brick Lab at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, a...

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!

Early life stress, psychiatric conditions, and mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) in medically healthy young adults - PubMed Increased rates of mtDNAcn among individuals with ELS+Psych, but not among those with ELS-Psych, compared to Controls indicates that observable effects of ELS may only occur in the presence of psychia...

📣 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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A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.

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!!

New research reveals shared genetic link between endometriosis and Research published in the journal Human Reproduction reveals that women with endometriosis are at a significantly higher risk for developing a range of autoimmune, autoinflammatory, and mixed-pattern

Women with POTS are 4 times more likely to have endometriosis. both conditions have a devastating lack of awareness, effective treatments & punitive time to diagnosis.

Endometriosis sufferers often need multiple surgeries, and Dysautonomia can & does complicate the recovery.

Quick diagnosis is key

NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities. scim.ag/4ikYp2T

4. Working with super efficient and productive colleagues is fun and rewarding @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @gemmawallace.bsky.social @rachnaiyer.bsky.social and Alexa Raudales

3. While this was an applied study, data characteristics (like missing data patterns in ESM studies, distributional properties of variables, and timing of dynamic processes) likely impact the conclusions we come to. More work is needed here (lmk if you want to collaborate 🙂)