Frida Kahlo born 6th July 1907: "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
Leslie Brick
@lesliebrickphd.bsky.social
substance use/cannabis and trauma/stress + genetics/epigenetics + statistics + r programming. associate professor at unm and casaa. views are my own.
Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.
MATILDA
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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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NPP and Member in the News: Repeated teen cannabis use may disrupt dopamine-related brain development, MRI data suggest bit.ly/4xlugcI Check out the original @npp-journal.bsky.social article at bit.ly/4dY3saO
#CPA2026 Attendees! Come see our talk tomorrow (5/1) from 1:45pm - 3pm “Context Counts…” in Century AB to hear about cutting edge methods for assessing substance use. Dr. Mark Prince, Dr. Margo Hurlocker, and I are all excited to present our work & hope to see you there! @apadivision50.bsky.social
Many of today’s #cannabis products are manufactured to create addiction. Thank you to Dr. Jonathan Avery for speaking with me about the misconceptions we often hold about cannabis and the importance of understanding its impact on the brain 🧠 🎙️ Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FLs...
🔔Attention Prospective Grad Students! 🔔 I have an open slot to accept a graduate student to join my lab fall 2026 at @casaa.bsky.social ! I am accepting Psychology students in either Cognition, Brain, and Behavior or Diversity and Health Data Science tracks. bricsslab.com
My Website - Announcements
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New Research Alert! 🚨 Our findings highlight the link between negative emotion differentiation and negative affect inertia & variability during EMA among adults at high risk for suicide. w/ the best team @sarahevictor.bsky.social @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social (and others not on Bluesky)
Emotion Differentiation and Dynamics Predicting Suicide Outcomes in High‐Risk Adults
Objectives Negative emotions have been well studied in relation to suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs); however, little research in these areas have been informed by affective science frameworks ...
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I got the automated call to shelter in place 2,000 miles and two time zones away yesterday afternoon. I am heartbroken for my friends, colleagues, and former community at Brown University. My heart is with you all 🤍
🚨Model Checking for Vector Autoregressive Models 🚨 In a new preprint, @joranjongerling.bsky.social, @bsiepe.bsky.social, @sachaepskamp.bsky.social, Lourens Waldorp and I provide a tutorial on model checking for Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models: osf.io/preprints/ps...
We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!
Katie Witkiewitz@katiew.bsky.social · 9mo agoResearch Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Research Assistant Professor in Personalized Medicine for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder
Seeking applicants for a Research Assistant Professor faculty position at the University of New Mexico on an NIH funded grant evaluating personalized ...
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UNM representing at National Science Network on Drug Abuse! @unm.edu @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @drtarab20.bsky.social
Hi all, the Morgan Sneed Memorial Scholarship honoring a late peer of mine at Colorado State University is close to becoming endowed. Please consider donating here!: give.colostate.edu/schools/Colo...
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Support the Morgan Sneed Memorial Scholarship!
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📣 New Pub 📣 Studied PTSD and opioid use across 60 days in people in the community who use opioids and have a history of trauma. 75% met criteria for current OUD 67% met criteria for current PTSD www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Influence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Daily-Level Trajectories of Opioid Use Among Trauma-Exposed Individuals in the Community Who Use Opioids
Objective: Individuals who use opioids are at elevated risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The objective of this study was to examine the influence of PTSD diagnosis on opioid use outcome...
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Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico
Excited to share recent collaborative work led by Hayley Thorpe published in Molecular Psychiatry: Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Genome-wide association studies of lifetime and frequency of cannabis use in 131,895 individuals
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Balloon Fiesta is the greatest and it’s even more fun with friends and colleagues 🎈
Laura C. Ornelas, PhD@lcornelas.bsky.social · 10mo agoCoolest department ever! UNM Psych faculty and grad students at Balloon Fiesta 🤗 @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social @katiew.bsky.social
🚨 Position Alert! 🚨 I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)
Long post ahead! I am very excited to be recruiting 1 to 2 #PhD students during this upcoming application cycle for Fall 2026 admission! The Clinical Psychology PhD program at The University of New Mexico (UNM) is absolutely stellar and accredited by both #APA and #PCSAS (Clinical Science model). 1/
Had a great time at #cannabinoidgrc2025 !! Top notch science, great people, and I’m already looking forward to 2027.
Today our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵
We’re heading in to Day 2 of our pre-college summer course at Brown 🧬 🧠 Conducting Research at the Forefront of Science: Mental Health, Policy, and Social Implications of Cannabis Use in the U.S. It’s always a blast teaching with @sarahathomasphd.bsky.social
📣 Out now: Those with early life stress & psychiatric dx had ⬆️ rates of mtDNAcn compared to controls and compared to those with early life stress but 🚫 dx pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40517524/
Early life stress, psychiatric conditions, and mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn) in medically healthy young adults - PubMed
Increased rates of mtDNAcn among individuals with ELS+Psych, but not among those with ELS-Psych, compared to Controls indicates that observable effects of ELS may only occur in the presence of psychia...
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HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈 Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them. Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure. grant-watch.us/nih-data.html @rcmedphys.bsky.social
Women with POTS are 4 times more likely to have endometriosis. both conditions have a devastating lack of awareness, effective treatments & punitive time to diagnosis. Endometriosis sufferers often need multiple surgeries, and Dysautonomia can & does complicate the recovery. Quick diagnosis is key
New research reveals shared genetic link between endometriosis and
Research published in the journal Human Reproduction reveals that women with endometriosis are at a significantly higher risk for developing a range of autoimmune, autoinflammatory, and mixed-pattern
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After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities. scim.ag/4ikYp2T
NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them
Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors
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