Incredible data blitz presentation at #srs26 from @cmcurran410.bsky.social !

@carterjillian.bsky.social rocked out her Data Blitz presentation at #srs26!

Looking forward to these and other great #srs26 talks!

What a great start to #SRS2026! Loved the Data Blitz talks, especially @kefancathywu.bsky.social's!

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So thrilled for @oclancy.bsky.social, who was just awarded the Auburn University Outstanding Doctoral Student award! Congratulations on this well deserved recognition, Liv!

I could not be more proud of my supervisees, Rachel and Kristin, for penning this incredible op-ed piece about increasing Auburn University's funding of the Auburn Eating Disorders Clinic: aub.ie/oyfdWL. Give it a read, it is 🔥🔥🔥

Social pain minimization mediates weight discrimination’s effects on interpersonal well-being in the workplace - Brielle N. Johnson, Gargi Sawhney, Jonathan W. Kunstman, 2026 Workplace weight discrimination is pervasive and negatively impacts employees and organizations. Yet, little is known about the psychological processes linking ...

When employees experience weight discrimination, it doesn’t just affect outcomes, it also affects whether they feel heard and taken seriously.
New research from AU highlights emotion invalidation as a key mechanism linking stigma to workplace harm.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Me at 8. Years later, my dream of opening an eating disorders clinic came true. At the AEDC, we are expanding access to care & training the next generation of therapists. We have 1 MORE DAY to reach our fundraising goal. If you’re able to support/share, it truly makes a difference:
aub.ie/26TGDAEDC

Improve Eating Disorder Care Access - Tiger Giving Day This Tiger Giving Day, the Auburn Eating Disorders Clinic (AEDC) is raising $10,000 to fund a graduate student clinician-in-training who will provide life-changing care to children and families who mi...

Dear Friends & Colleagues, reaching out about a cause close to my heart. I co-direct a nonprofit clinic providing affordable eating disorder care across AL. We’re fundraising through 3/25 to sustain care & expand scholarships. If you’re able to give or share, I’d be so grateful:
aub.ie/26TGDAEDC

ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…

Super interesting design and findings, though I suppose not that surprising!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Making care accessible: Inside Auburn’s low-cost eating disorder clinic - The Auburn Plainsman Auburn Eating Disorders Clinic (AEDC), the newest clinic at the Psychological Services Center, is expanding access to mental health care by providing empirically based, low-cost treatment for a d...

Access to eating disorder care shouldn’t depend on ability to pay.

We opened a low-cost clinic at Auburn to help close that gap. I'm grateful for this feature highlighting the work:
www.theplainsman.com/article/2026...

More to come with Giving Day on March 25.

Research builds in the best ways. I presented our RISE interoception intervention 2+ years ago in CO, and Liz Atwood immediately saw the potential for youth. She ran with the idea & led this project adapting RISE for school-based health centers. Now the paper is out! psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

I currently solicit 4-6 suggestions from authors and of course use the references to come up with other ideas. But it seems no one is available to take on reviews outside of their board duties, which I get, since I'm generally in the same boat.

These days finding a single reviewer feels like finding a unicorn, so I can only imagine what it must feel like to find three for a paper...But seriously, I am starting to feel at a loss for getting folks to review. Any suggestions?

Connecting the dots between interoceptive sensibility, anxiety sensitivity, and eating disorder symptoms among individuals who engage in exercise for weight or shape purposes Individuals who engage in maladaptive exercise for weight/shape reasons are at high risk for eating disorders (EDs). Disrupted interoceptive sensibili…

Congrats to @ryleelusich.bsky.social on this paper! Among individuals who exercise for weight/shape reasons, noticing bodily discomfort emerged as a key bridge to body dissatisfaction and desire to lose weight.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are getting excited for #SRS2026! Come check us out!

Mostly b/c it gets at the idea of "do you love learning for learning's sake", but also b/c it sounds really cool.

This reminds me of why I think my mentor (Thomas Joiner)'s question to incoming grad students is one of the greatest ever: Do you want to live the life of the mind?

In case you didn't know, I have the best lab ever. Here they are surprising me with cake pops. I'm so thankful to get to work with them every day, including my birthday. Thank you, REDS lab!

Congratulations to @rachelfrietchen.bsky.social and @mbillmanmiller.bsky.social on successfully passing their General Doctoral Exams!!

First Body Advocacy Movement (BAM) group of the semester was a great success thanks to @laurenpictor.bsky.social's leadership!

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HUGE congrats to @laurenharris.bsky.social on submitting her K23, "Glycemic variability and interoceptive attention as proximal predictors of eating disorder symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa and Atypical Anorexia"!!!

My at 8:01 having secured slots

Me at 7:59 ahead of 8:00am summer camp registration for my kids

Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore.

In better news: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Although I wish this had happened sooner, I'm beyond grateful the protection is finally there.

Four Decades of Psychological Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge‐Eating Disorder: A Meta‐Regression of Changes in Abstinence Rates Over Time Objective Earlier meta-analyses showing low rates of abstinence in treatments for bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge-eating disorder (BED) have spurred growing efforts to improve outcomes. In response, ...

Wow. No evidence of improved outcomes for the treatment of bulimia or binge eating disorder over the past FOUR decades. We must do better. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Our lab group is discussing the role of AI in writing and research tomorrow, with the hope of creating lab specific guidance. If any folks have already created something like this already and would be willing to share, we'd love to see what you've come up with!

Great goals. Hope you feel better soon!

Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services. The cuts could total as much as $2 billion.

And it just keeps getting worse: www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...