New Publication! I'm proud to have worked on this study my first two years in grad school. Our dyadic study (287 couples!) shows that internalized and anticipated weight stigma don’t just affect your mental well-being, they affect your partner’s, too. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Associations between weight stigma and mental well-being among people in romantic relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model investigation

BackgroundRomantic relationships are primary sources of mental well-being, including life satisfaction. Stigma not only has adverse effects on individual men...

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Thank you so much, we are big fans of your work! @katerinaldi1.bsky.social ❤️

April Smith, PhD@aprilrosesmith.bsky.social · last yr.

What a fantastic panel by the Weight Stigma and Social Justice SIGs at #iced2025. Your work and stories are so impactful.

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We knew that they would do this, and it still hurts.

Queer Kentucky@queerkentucky.bsky.social · last yr.

Conversion therapy will be allowed in Kentucky and transgender Kentuckians will no longer have gender-affirming health care covered by Medicaid after lawmakers overrode Beshear’s veto of HB 495 Thursday afternoon. queerkentucky.com/follow-along...

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Sometimes being able to offer a moment of compassionate human connection and grace, and sometimes even a hug, while working in HLOC ED treatment is the greatest privilege and honor ❤️ I try to collect these moments in my brain for future moments when the inevitable burnout or disillusionment sets in🔥

I read this to the tune and cadence of Guns and Ships from Hamilton and it gave me a crumb of joy on this fine Saturday 🎶 @jasmineforus.bsky.social

Jasmine Crockett@jasmineforus.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war! How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

It's hereeee! My very first first-coauthored paper (that's a mouthful) with @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social is published and we could not be more excited 🥹 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kew~6BgRu...

This was a really lovely paper by @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social and @katerinaldi1.bsky.social exploring weight related terminology preference and better understanding the 🔗 between how folks describe themselves, weight stigma, and disordered eating. Kudos on an excellent first pub!

Molly Robbins@drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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...

Words are heavy: Weight-related terminology preferences are associated with larger-bodied people’s health behaviors and beliefs

Clinicians and researchers may struggle with appropriate terminology when discussing body size. Pathologizing larger bodies has led to use of medicali…

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Watching match day results roll in, knowing I will be in y’all’s shoes next year like 🎉🫣🥹😳

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

This stop sign on the NIH campus is somehow apropos. What, the law used to exist here?

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns

The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

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The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS provides funding for HIV/AIDs care, maternal health, and community health centers. Today some employees arrived at work to find their access revoked. Terminated without even being notified. Total number affected unknown. @alt-hhs.bsky.social

"The recent barrage of administrative decrees will only serve to demoralize health workers, stifle innovation, compromise clinical trials, delay the development of new treatments and harm our patients." Incredible, courageous piece in the NYT ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

Opinion | Censored Science Can’t Save Lives

Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.

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Update- I somehow only printed the odd pages of the exam??!?Inner stressed high schooler me came back REAL QUICK. But we printed the even pages and the students weren’t mad 😅

Molly Robbins@drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · last yr.

TA’ing for a stats class is the coolest thing ever as someone who used to call herself “not a math person.” Today, students have their midterm exam- I’m bringing munchkins & smiley faces/encouragement written on their homework assignments. My inner stressed high schooler w/a mean teacher? Healed ✅

TA’ing for a stats class is the coolest thing ever as someone who used to call herself “not a math person.” Today, students have their midterm exam- I’m bringing munchkins & smiley faces/encouragement written on their homework assignments. My inner stressed high schooler w/a mean teacher? Healed ✅

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Chris Muravez@chrismuravez.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

It is ALL so devastating. For science, for inclusion, for medicine, for security, for higher education, for all of us.

I counted the number of times that words from the NSF flagged words list were included in my final dissertation document, and the answer is 1530.

“she’s always struggled with her weight.” did she? or was she struggling with existing in a body that is constantly dehumanized and demeaned by those around her? was she struggling to make her body conform to a standard it could never meet? the struggle is rarely about the weight itself.

Hey so! This is troubling!

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2y ago

This is not business as usual. It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant. Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.

PhD level research scientist opening! Please apply!

Eating Anxiety Treatment Lab@uofleatlab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in joining our team as a Ph.D.-level Research Scientist?! We're looking for a mission-driven, team-oriented, experienced clinical scientist who is excited about taking on a collaborative leadership role. (1/6)