The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy
Posts by Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD
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Join 3 free upcoming trainings from the Missouri Eating Disorders Council:
🌍 Eating Disorders in Child Welfare Context (Apr 17)
💉 GLP-1s & Eating disorders (Apr 21)
🧠 CBT-E Essentials (Apr 23–24)
Questions: 360EDtraining@wustl.edu
#EatingDisorders #MentalHealth #ClinicalTraining
Good luck! You got this! I never forgot the Super's Rainbow term but have no idea what it is 😂
📣 Hiring a research coordinator to work on a foundation grant testing a self-guided digital intervention for teens at high risk #eatingdisorders, as well as on a variety of other projects in the lab! Ideal start date in June! Apply by 4/1 for consideration wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
📣 Hiring a research coordinator to work on a foundation-funded grant testing a self-guided digital intervention for teens at high risk #eatingdisorders, as well as on a variety of other projects in the lab! Ideal start date in June! Application link to come ASAP but email with interest in meantime!
Postdoctoral Job Opportunity #2: The NIA-funded Aging & Development T32 training program at WashU in St. Louis is now accepting applications for a postdoctoral fellow.
psychaging.wustl.edu
Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science.
wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
📣 Please help me in spreading the word that my lab is hiring a Clinical Research Coordinator to work on projects investigating the mechanisms of eating pathology in adolescents and young adults (AYAs)! Priority review will begin Friday, 1/30. vcujobs.com/jobs/clinica...
The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning.
www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...
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Congrats!!
New paper out in Psychiatric Clinics of North America by @carlihowe.bsky.social @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social and myself on the state of the literature on using technology to improve eating disorder treatment outcomes! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sara Lopez is a 2-year old who is paralyzed due to a rare complication from the flu.
Her mother then did something very brave. She said she had not to gotten Sara vaccinated against flu, and is imploring parents not to skip the shot.
RFK Jr. removed the flu vaccine for recommendation for kids.
Delighted to have @skhalsa.bsky.social speak on
Thurs 1/22 at 10 am CT for our next @washu.edu mHealth Research Core seminar!
Dr. Khalsa will be speaking about a very timely issue--how researchers can ethically harness AI to advance their science.
Register here: mhealth.wustl.edu/seminar-page/
UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties:
spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557
EATING DISORDERS RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS:
APA is proposing changes to the eating disorder severity indicators. Now is the time to have YOUR VOICE heard about the continued use of BMI in assessing AN severity and more.
www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/d...
📣 Exciting news - the lab is growing! I'm hiring a Research Assistant to join the lab to work on translational research examining neural mechanisms underlying binge eating and eating disorders! If you or anyone you know might be interested, please pass along! 🐀🧠 careers.upmc.com/job/22707636...
Check out our spotlight paper in @intjeatdisord.bsky.social with great coauthors @jannahmoussaoui.bsky.social @shirisharvit.bsky.social @stephanie-manasse.bsky.social @kristinalerman.bsky.social @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social and others not on bsky! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Go Arielle!! :) Great write-up!!
Missourian here. Can confirm - voters passed paid sick leave with 58% and the GOP state legislature overturned it as soon as they could.
📣Super excited for #ICED2026 in The Hague, the Netherlands 🇳🇱! 🌷Our Scientific Planning Committee is putting on amazing #eating #disorder content! Abstracts due 10/22! www.aedweb.org/aed-events/i...
Interested in a career in digital mental health, but not set on a clinical psych degree? Check out Dartmouth's PhD programs in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences and Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/qbs/
geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/tdi/academic...
The @abctnow.bsky.social EDEB SIG is hosting a webinar on single session interventions TOMORROW! Check it out and register here: abctedebsig.wixsite.com/abct-edeb-si...
Several scientists have received letters from the NIH director disinviting them from their positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding, I'm told.
In July, I reported that NIH staff were told to select members aligned with Trump administration priorities.
We are still recruiting for a postdoc for my lab! This person will play a key role in a new R01 optimizing a self-guided digital intervention for #eatingdisorders. There will be ample opportunities for publishing, contributing to grants, mentoring, etc. Apply by 10/31 for priority consideration.
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!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Looking forward to speaking at the Eating Disorders Research Summit on October 2nd and my second visit to the wonderful folks in Fargo at Sanford Health! Register to join us online (or in person)!
Proud of @natgullo.bsky.social & my grad student Carli Howe on great posters at #EDRS2025 in Newport Beach! Really inspiring mtg centered on harnessing machine learning, algorithms, & AI to improve EDs outcomes. Can’t wait to see all my EDs colleagues & friends in the Netherlands next for #ICED2026!
Based on guidance from WashU and others my understanding now is that journals cannot force us to pay open access fees to comply with this policy. You can just submit the paper after acceptance to PMC.
I will be recruiting at least 1 PhD student for the Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Psychopathology (SCRAP) Lab at WashU in STL this application cycle! ☀️⏰😴 Read more about our current projects here: sites.wustl.edu/scraplab/