Katelyn smiling and holding a sign saying "I matched! at Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke University School of Medicine" with a University of Montana logo.
Notification of Duke match
Congratulations to my first PhD advisee, Katelyn Melcher, on matching at Duke for pre-doctoral internship! They're SO fortunate to have you join them and I'm so excited to see all you continue to do! 🎉 🥹 @umontana.bsky.social
The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time."
Line in the sand.
It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit.
Disrespectfully, the rest of us.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The Auburn Eating Disorders Clinic provides affordable, evidence-based treatment to kids, teens, & adults who would otherwise go without. 💙
We need your help to keep funding our 2nd clinician + client scholarships:
📌 tigergiving.org/campaigns/tr...
I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
what a crew 👏🏻👏🏻
My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️🌈
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
Heads up! APA is urging anyone who cares about health and science to let their reps/senators know now that they should oppose the admin's murder budget.
Easy to do here: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...
APA is plugged in. If they say NOW, listen! #StandUpForScience
Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental health conditions & they often become chronic.
Yet Trump’s HHS is cutting eating disorder research & the MAHA report doesn’t mention them.
This isn’t just suppressing science - it’s a decision that will cost lives.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/e...
Saving the best for last! Come swing by during the last session of #ICED2025 today where I will be sharing the findings from my thesis project about risk and protective factors for adolescent’s engagement in disordered eating.
Lede lab conference presentation schedule: Embracing the “In-Between” of Lived Experience and Professional Work Educational Session | Thursday, May 29 @ 10 AM CT, Conference Rm 9 Panelist: Katelyn Melcher, M.A.; Body Image and Disordered Eating Experiences Among Youth with Juvenile Arthritis Presenter: Katelyn Melcher, M.A. Paper Presentation | Thursday, May 29 @ 1 PM CT, Conference Rm 14; “You Have No Grit:” A Qualitative Exploration of Barriers to Eating Disorder Care in the Rural US Presenter: Caitlin Martin-Wagar, Ph.D. Paper Presentation | Thursday, May 29 @1:45 PM CT, Conference Rm 3-4; A Population and Clinical Lens of the Impact of Oppression-Based Trauma on Eating Disorders SIG Panel Co-Chair: Caitlin Martin-Wagar, Ph.D. Educational Session | Friday, May 30 @ 3:30 PM CT, Conference Rm 10 Rural Barriers to Eating Disorder Treatment: A Professional Lack of Knowledge Presenter: Sarah Attaway, M.A. Paper Presentation | Friday, May 30 @ 4:45 PM CT, Conference Rm 13 Training Impacts Clinician Perspectives on Routine Outcome Monitoring in Higher Levels of Care Presenter: Taylor Penwell, M.A. Paper Presentation | Friday, May 30 @ 4:45 PM CT, Conference Rm 3-4
Looking forward to learning and catching up with folks at #ICED2025 in San Antonio! 🤠Here is our lab presentation schedule. Thanks for the graphic @taylorepenwell.bsky.social !
A week ago I got to celebrate being the first person in my family (including my husband’s side) to get a graduate degree!! I’m incredibly thankful for my family that flew out to celebrate & the family and friends who joined the ceremony via zoom. Here’s to 3 (or 4) more years until the last one!
Yay go Ash!!
An image of all agency and program eliminations proposed for HHS. Reach out to altCDC for an accessible version or filterable PDF. The alt-text box does not fit all the text contained.
🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀
We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget.
Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share.
The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx
@alt-hhs.altgov.info
@altfda.altgov.info
Montana's anti-trans bathroom ban is BLOCKED by the courts.
The judge finds that the ban was "motivated by animus" and that it showed no evidence that it protects safety and privacy.
We’re so excited for the incredible Ash @ashlinnpeters.bsky.social to join us!! ☺️🏔️
if you're mad about the NIH cuts (and you should be), this is an *amazing* resource to help with calling your reps and talking to the media: www.nihforamerica.org
#episky
#medsky
1/x My NIH grant that would collect data to help *prevent suicidal thoughts and behaviors* among LGBTQ+ people was terminated today, along with many other LGBTQ+ focused grants. These terminations make no sense scientifically. Here's why:
I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.
First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)
bsky.app/profile/rebe...
Thank you @chrislhayes.bsky.social for covering what's going on here in Montana.
Since picking up 10 seats in November, MT Dems have made incredible policy progress in the House. And the relationships we've built across the aisle have brought our colleagues along with us. 💪
youtu.be/wMR-F58Hb5o?...
I was happy to #standupforscience2025 yesterday. And of course, I have been thinking about things I didn't have a chance to say.
Like because of the chaos at NIH (and the freezing of funding), how my team has been waiting for NOAs for two non-competing renewals since mid-January.
1/
Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people
Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Flyer for stand up for science 2025 rally at the university of Montana on march 7, 2025 at noon at the oval.
Missoula: Stand Up for Science rally is happening at The Oval at UM on Friday 3/7 at noon! I’ll be at a conference in NM so I’ll miss it but I’ll be in joining in solidarity from the Santa Fe rally! ✊🏼
I am so excited to share my first publication, a labor of love! My co-1st author @katerinaldi1.bsky.social and I examined weight related terminology preference within two samples of folks in larger bodies🥰 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
📣I am hiring! Looking to hire a research coordinator to start in my lab later this spring/early summer to coordinate a new R01 in which we are aiming to optimize a CBT-based self-guided digital intervention for eating disorders! Apply here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... 1/n
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
🥰thankful to have such a smart, impressive, and caring mentee! @taylorepenwell.bsky.social Not to mention you rocked it even with such a busy semester. It’s been so fun seeing your new clinical skills grow, too! 👏🏻👏🏻 rest well deserved!!
If you have anything to do with conducting, publishing, or reviewing qualitative research, read this perfect new paper: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
Clarke et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback.