🎉New publication alert! Check out our newest publication about AI & body image in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. And good news - it's open access so it's free for everyone to read!

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Super excited to share our new paper: (Clinical) Trials and Triumphs: Conducting Pilot Intervention Studies in Graduate School for the Treatment and Prevention of Eating Disorders, just published in the January 2026 issue of The Behavior Therapist @abctnow.bsky.social tinyurl.com/54u3remj

Writing is thinking

Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

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The first two hours this morning

This was my second year taking undergrads to ABCT, and got to say- highly recommend!! It’s so fun watching them crush their presentations, attend sessions with such enthusiasm, and fall in love with science. Thanks to everyone who was so kind and supportive at the poster sessions - they loved it!

Did you catch us at #abct2025 a few weeks ago? Our lab was lucky enough to send a few members to the Annual Convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. We had a great time presenting our three projects, making new connections, and exploring New Orleans!

ManuscriptCentral Wrapped!
In 2025, you submitted 5 papers
AND all got rejected 🎉
You spent 💯 minutes in total trying to submit your papers!
You reviewed for 10 journals that would never publish your papers ❤️

Got a salary supplement as part of an award for mentoring - funded by university alumni/donors. Had 40.2% of it taken for fringe 🫠

Second BEAM lab grad student just defended her thesis! 👏

Had a grant cancelled? Funding cut? Tell the team at @never-know.bsky.social “what we’ll never know”, or follow their account to hear the research that we could have learned - but won’t. 🔥

Time for another alumni spotlight - meet Riya! Riya was one of our OG lab members who helped get the BEAM lab off the ground. She graduated in fall 2024 - while we miss her presence in the lab, we're SO proud that she's crushing it in optometry school!

Time to meet another member of the BEAM lab - everyone say hi to Charlotte! 👋 Charlotte has been a member of the lab since we started and will be joining the team on our upcoming trip to the ABCT conference in New Orleans to present some of her recent research!

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New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases.

Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Please join us in congratulating BEAM lab member, Isabella “Izzy” Eckert, who successfully defended her undergrad honors thesis last week! Izzy crushed her defense last Friday and then turned around and presented it again on Monday at the Clemson Media Forensics Hub. We are so proud!

Time to meet another BEAM lab member! Say hi to Elle, one of our current undergraduate students! 👋 Elle has been with us since the beginning - she was one of the first undergrads to join the lab back in January 2024 and has stuck around this whole time - we're so grateful to have her on the team!

Time to meet another member of the BEAM lab team! Say hi to Loren, one of our current grad students! 👋Loren is currently working hard on her thesis, which just received IRB approval this week! 🎉

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.

And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!

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Eating disorders in boys and men: A research roundup In this research-based piece, we provide an overview of eating disorders in males, including the latest available data and summaries of studies to help inform news coverage of this underreported issue...

The Journalist’s Resource piece, “Eating disorders in boys and men: A research roundup,” quotes STRIPED + collaborator Dr. Jason Nagata. journalistsresource.org/home/eating-... @hsph.harvard.edu @alliancefored.bsky.social @naseemmiller.bsky.social @jasonmnagata.bsky.social

New pub just dropped! Also, how good is this infographic that one of my lab undergrads made?? I’m obsessed (and biased 🤷‍♀️)

Our first alumni spotlight! Say hi to Julia👋, one of the first undergraduate members of the BEAM lab! We miss her presence in the lab, but are so happy to see her thriving in her masters program at @vanderbilt.edu

Title of Project: Examining school-based body image interventions in Africa and/or Latin America Start Date: January, April or October 2026 Application Deadline: 20th October 2025 For more information including how to apply please see: PhD advert BIRES studentship

PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth.
Please share with your students.

#PsychSciSky
#Anthropology

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Meet the BEAM lab's first ever grad student, Alexis Lamere! Alexis has been here since the beginning, starting her masters program in 2023 after completing her bachelors degree at @montanastateu.bsky.social. We're thrilled that Alexis decided to stick around and is now working on her PhD with us!

Internship List (updated 6.22.23).xlsx

It exists! Though its a bit outdated. Its maintained by @abct-edeb-sig.bsky.social

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Join us for a trip down memory lane (aka academic year 2024-2025)✨

My lab is now on BlueSky and Instagram!

We're proud to share our BEAM lab statement of purpose!

We're kicking off a new series - meet the team! First up, the director of the BEAM lab, Dr. Brooke Bennett (@bbennettphd.bsky.social) She's an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clemson University and a proud alumni of @uhmanoa.bsky.social

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: