We've expanded eligibility for the EMBody Study! We are now recruiting individuals up to age 19 (rather than age 17) who have concerns about their body image or eating to participate in a study evaluating a brief, self-guided digital tool. Please share with your networks!

ACCESS Lab at WashU in St. Louis@access-lab-washu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our team at Washington University in St. Louis is conducting a study called the EMBody study to test a brief self-guided digital tool for teens who have concerns with their body image and their eating! Learn more here and please share: washu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thank you to The Hague/AED for having us at ICED 2026, and amazing work to our presenters @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social, @carlihowe.bsky.social, @jannahmoussaoui.bsky.social, and our Top 10 posters by @mariannamohr.bsky.social and @natgullo.bsky.social! We look forward to the next one 😊

Great time in The Hague at #ICED2026! Excited to share results from our trial of a digital aftercare intervention for anorexia nervosa and proud of the fantastic work presented by @access-lab-washu.bsky.social trainees. Always great to connect with colleagues and friends. See you in Phoenix!

Off to The Hague! Excited for all of the @access-lab-washu.bsky.social presentations at #ICED2026 and especially proud of @natgullo.bsky.social and @mariannamohr.bsky.social on both of their Top 10 posters! Excited to see many of my eating disorders colleagues and friends in the Netherlands soon! 🇳🇱

ACCESS Lab at WashU in St. Louis@access-lab-washu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are excited to see many of you at ICED next week! And major congrats to our two coordinators @natgullo.bsky.social and @mariannamohr.bsky.social on Top 10 Posters 🎉

Looking forward to Dr. Hannah Szlyk's talk TOMORROW at 12 pm CT! Please join us! Link to register below!

Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD@fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for the next @washu.edu mHealth Research Core Seminar featuring Dr. Hannah Szlyk discussing digital health, behavioral health equity, and community-engaged intervention development. 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20, 2026 ⏰ 12-1 PM CDT Register here! mhealth.wustl.edu/seminar/

New pub just dropped 📣🎉 Huge congrats to our own @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social, and Dr. Patty Cavazos-Rehg over at the Department of Psychiatry's Health Behavior Center!

Excited to share our new paper published today in Nature Human Behaviour! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We ran a large population-based RCT testing a coached digital program for anxiety, depression, & eating disorders in college students. Honored to be co-first author, alongside a super team 1/n

Population-based RCT of a digital cognitive-behavioural guided self-help intervention for anxiety, depression and eating disorders in college students - Nature Human Behaviour

A brief digital CBT self-help programme paired with screening improved mental health and service use among college students, offering a scalable way to support diverse populations and reduce symptoms ...

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Join us for the next @washu.edu mHealth Research Core Seminar featuring Dr. Hannah Szlyk discussing digital health, behavioral health equity, and community-engaged intervention development. 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20, 2026 ⏰ 12-1 PM CDT Register here! mhealth.wustl.edu/seminar/

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Please RT and share with your networks! We are recruiting teens with body image concerns for a study testing a self-guided digital tool. Reach out with any questions! @access-lab-washu.bsky.social

ACCESS Lab at WashU in St. Louis@access-lab-washu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our team at Washington University in St. Louis is conducting a study called the EMBody study to test a brief self-guided digital tool for teens who have concerns with their body image and their eating! Learn more here and please share: washu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The @access-lab-washu.bsky.social is proud to stand with the @edcoalition + 131 partners to strengthen the federal response to #eatingdisorders— expanding provider training, improving early identification, and advancing life-saving research. Read our letter to Congress: bit.ly/48AzCpk

Excited to share a new paper I co–first authored in @intjeatdisord.bsky.social 🎉 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We ran a 3-arm pilot RCT (N=148) testing a mobile app for teens w/ or at high risk for eating disorders, comparing self-help to guided self-help (GSH) and GSH+social networking

Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Mobile App for Teens With or at High Risk for Eating Disorders: A Three‐Arm Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Self‐Help, Guided Self‐Help, and Guided Self‐Help With a Social Networking Component

Objective Given the wide treatment gap for eating disorders (EDs) and that these problems often emerge in adolescence, novel tools, such as app-based interventions, are needed to prevent and treat E...

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We will be recruiting 1-2 research coordinators to join the Eating Disorders team at CHOP. Projects will include clinical trials and mechanistic studies to improve access to care and precision approaches to treating AN and ARFID in youth. Job ads are coming 🥳

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ALT: a group of men are sitting around a table with one of them saying one of us !

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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

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo ago

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

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

📣 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...

Research Technician II - Social Science - Psychological & Brain Sciences

Scheduled Hours 37.5 Position Summary This is a full-time research technician position to work on research developing and evaluating digital innovations for increasing access to evidence-based interve...

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📣 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...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Psychological & Brain Sciences

Position Summary Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at WashU in St. Louis, to work on department-funded res...

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📣 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...

Clinical Research Coordinator 608800 - MCV Main Campus, Virginia, United States

Advertising Summary: Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine is a premier academic medical center located in the heart of Richmond. Accounting for almost half of VCU’s sponsored rese...

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The conference (agreement between House and Senate) appropriations bill that includes HHS and NIH was released this morning. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit... 1/5

Committee Releases Conferenced Defense, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Bi...

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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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...

Leveraging Technology to Enhance Eating Disorder Treatment Outcomes

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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.

Toddler left paralyzed from flu-related disorder

Sara Lopez developed transverse myelitis, which disrupts the messages sent from the spinal cord to the rest of the body

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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/

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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

Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor

The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...

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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. https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/proposed-changes

Proposed Changes

View proposals approved by DSM Steering Committee. The proposed changes are posted for a 30- to 45-day public comment period.

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📣 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...

Research Assistant, UPMC

Apply for Research Assistant at UPMC

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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....

Detecting Eating Disorders From Social Media Content: What Has Been Done and Where Do We Go Next?

Objective Less than 20% of individuals with eating disorders (EDs) ever receive treatment, highlighting a need for scalable, innovative methods of identifying and providing support to individuals wi...

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Missourian here. Can confirm - voters passed paid sick leave with 58% and the GOP state legislature overturned it as soon as they could.

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Work harder and die

📣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...