Melissa Nance

Couldn’t be happier for you!!! My favorite person going to my favorite place ❤️❤️❤️

Your seasonal reminder that @drshireenrizvi.bsky.social has DBT valentines cards on her website 🤣 www.shireenrizvi.com/resources

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Good news: I've completed the qualitative interviews for my F31/diss project. Bad news: transcription checking and analysis are on hold while I turn my house upside down looking for my air pods.

I'm finally recruiting for my dissertation! If you know anyone who is recently postpartum, send them my way!

We’re happy to share that the #SAA2026 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 30 January. Don’t miss the opportunity to submit your abstract! @ambulatory-assessment.org @univie.ac.at univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/submission

This is easy to fix by getting another pair of cat socks, and feels critical to me

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Today is the 13th anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, which resulted in 26 deaths, 20 of them 6 and 7-year-olds.

That we did not limit access to guns after Sandy Hook, once and for all, makes the deaths at Brown University all the more heartbreaking. We must end this now.

Can’t wait to celebrate with you 😈

10/10 recommend. Ryan is a great mentor and ND/south bend is very livable. And this is coming from someone who’s very critical 😂

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Opportunities Interested in the neuroscience of addiction? We are recruiting at all levels!! Reach out to Dr. Baranger – dbaranger@mcw.edu Postdoctoral fellows/Senior Scientists: Please send an email conta…

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

On Trump, autism and tylenol:

A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim

“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”

There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Picture of two cats napping in the sun

Any opportunity for a cat picture…

Shoutout to to my cats, my partner, and my mentor @rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social who put up with so much through this process 😅

Screenshot of a Notice of Award for a project titled Combining ecological momentary assessment and qualitative methods to construct a theoretical model of acute alcohol use and non-suicidal self-injury

Feeling proud, excited, and truly relieved to have gotten a notice of award yesterday for an F31!

I’m so proud 🥲

Would be so fun!

‼️Applying to graduate school in #psychology? Check out our Google Drive with prerecorded workshops, example statements, email templates, and additional resources including Psychin’ Out’s free mentorship program and information for international students! drive.google.com/drive/mobile... share widely

I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...

Not too long ago there was bipartisan support for supportive “housing first” for people on the streets: it’s safe, humane, reduces crime, reduces hospitalization, & saves the community $. This ain’t it.

The first rule of homelessness policy is that it must be cruel.

The second rule is that it must be expensive.

The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail."

God forbid we just provide basic shelter.

American Psychological Foundation released a call for applications for crisis funding to support early career researchers who had grants terminated. Looks like a great opportunity!

ampsychfdn.org/funding/dacf/

...housing first cut veteran homelessness by half & was developed because requiring abstinence had failed, but sure, fine, the cruelty is obviously the point...

The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836