End of the semester lab photo drop! REACH Lab research assistants have been busy with outreach presentations, conferences, and preparing for graduation! @virginiatech.bsky.social @atobar.bsky.social

Come join us at @casaa.bsky.social in beautiful New Mexico! This is a paid PhD position in the UNM Dept of Psychology to work with an amazing scientist and mentor. Were you thinking of applying to Psych PhD programs next year? You can still apply now to start in Fall 2026! Please repost!

Leslie Brick@lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔔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

Members of the REACH Lab helped kickoff Sexual Assault Awareness Month #SAAM at #VirginiaTech on the Drillfield today! Learn more about sexual violence stats, resources, and ways to get involved at: www.nsvrc.org

🚨NEW PUB: It is feasible & acceptable to pair portable breathalyzers with EMA of IPV among young adults with a history of aggression & heavy drinking. >90% compliance with greater responsiveness to breathalyzers as the evening progressed despite intoxication! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The feasibility of integrating remote breath alcohol monitoring into ecological momentary assessment of intimate partner violence among young adults with a history of heavy drinking and aggression

Aims We examined the feasibility and acceptability of pairing portable breathalyzers to assess field alcohol use with mobile ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to assess intimate partner violence...

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Check out our new paper using EMA to show that specific cannabis modalities are associated with momentary changes in subjective drug effects, which have been previously linked to sustained and problematic use. Thanks to co-authors @mayamatlack.bsky.social & @ebansell.bsky.social

Delighted to share my Roanoke Times article on alcohol-facilitated partner abuse ⬇️ Under the influence: How alcohol fuels partner abuse roanoke.com/opinion/colu...

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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Check out my former post-bac making big waves at #APSGlobal!!

Emily Sjafii@emilysjafii.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’m so proud to share our poster at #APSGlobal that highlights #neurodiversity research & decolonial methodologies used beyond Western contexts, that tend to not get as much visibility internationally. Feel free to view the presentation/poster & share your thoughts! Links below:

📣 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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🔍 New Research Alert 🔍 Do protection orders really reduce reoffending in intimate partner violence cases? I just co-authored a new open-access study that tackles this question in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

'As Time Goes By': The Effectiveness of Protection Orders in Reducing Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism - Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

This study investigates the effectiveness of protection orders in reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) recidivism. Protection orders are legal measures imposing restrictions on aggressors to prevent them from approaching or contacting their victims. These legal measures have seen rapid international expansion in recent years. However, understanding the extent to which they work remains an ongoing challenge. To contribute to this debate, we employ Cox standard proportional hazards models and Prentice–Williams–Peterson gap-time models for recurrent events using a new dataset, which includes comprehensive registry data from an entire cohort of more than 6000 aggressors sentenced for at least one IPV crime over a five-year period, followed for at least four years. Our findings unveil an initial, average adverse effect of protection orders on recidivism. This effect becomes non-significant after excluding breaches of the orders and after controlling for judges’ tendency to impose these measures on high-risk offenders. Moreover, we observe that the effects of protection orders vary over time: While there is an adverse immediate impact of holding an order, a positive temporal cumulative effect counteracts it after a few months.

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We’re excited to invite you to an upcoming free virtual session: Dissemination Methods that Work: Supporting Policymakers’ Value and Use of Research 
Register here: bit.ly/4gEHOrB

Prolonged Exposure Therapy, or PE, helps clients overcome traumatic memories through structured exposure activities - both in session and in daily life. For more info about PE and other PTSD treatments visit: https://strongstartraining.org/evidence-based-treatments/ #PTSD #MentalHealth #Trauma

🐤Promise you this is one you'll want to say you were a part of... Help us get our 'ducks in a row' and IMPEACH AND REMOVE THAT DANG QUACK!!!! 📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆 Link here: tinyurl.com/sufsci

Check out this new paper by student author Hannah Sawyer!

Emma Lathan-Powell, PhD@emmaclathanphd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My lab’s 1st PhD student publication is here! Check it out in Violence Against Women: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... congrats to Hannah Sawyer, and shout out to @dramandagilmore.bsky.social 🤩

Newest episode of The Addiction Psychologist (@addpsychpodcast.bsky.social) just dropped. In this episode, Dr. Sudie Back discusses Prolonged Exposure for Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder and PTSD (COPE). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Dr. Sudie Back - Prolonged Exposure for Substance Use Disorder and PTSD

Podcast Episode · The Addiction Psychologist · 07/14/2025 · 1h 17m

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You belong in psychology! The Diversifying Psychology Workshop is designed to support students from historically excluded and underrepresented backgrounds. Learn how to navigate the application process and connect with faculty and students. 📅 Aug 16 | Free & Virtual 🔗 tinyurl.com/DivPsychWork...

Help inform our understanding of college sexual assault prevention and intervention for Latina student, and get paid for your insights! Please share widely to help with Allison’s dissertation 😊

Allison Tobar-Santamaría@atobar.bsky.social · last yr.

I am looking for participants to join a community advisory board for my dissertation (VT IRB 25-454)! Compensation is provided. Please scan the QR code or reach out to me for questions. @virginiatech.bsky.social

New blog post! Let's say you've measured two variables repeatedly and want to investigate how one affects the other over time. Here are some recommendations for how to do that well. www.the100.ci/2025/06/25/r...

Reviewer notes: So you’re interested in “lagged effects.”

In some fields, researchers who end up with time series of two variables of interest (X and Y) like to analyze (reciprocal) lagged effects between them. Does X affect Y at a later point in time, and d...

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The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

We're excited to announce a new Travel Award opportunity! We are offering a $200 award to a GS&ECP Section member (graduate student or early career professionals) presenting their research at the upcoming 2025 APA Convention! Details attached - 7/15 deadline! Questions? Feel free to reach out!

@drandreahoward.bsky.social, hold my beer.. Latent class growth models are worse than useless, and we've known this for more than 20 years. (See Bauer 2007)

Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · last yr.

i’m not going to write a thread today about problems with latent class growth analyses nope nope NOPE i won’t do it

📱 Want to know when to schedule your #EMA / #ESM beeps for the highest completion rates? ⏰ Timing matters: some moments during the day and week are more receptive than others. See: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants. It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates. Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.

Check out Emily rocking it at @psychscience.bsky.social!! Undoubtedly the first of many more to come for this brilliant force to be reckoned with! 🎉

Emily Sjafii@emilysjafii.bsky.social · last yr.

Finally attended my first ever conference as a post-bacc researcher and presented my work on how different forms of social support buffer depression symptoms in those exposed to FOV. I'm immensely grateful for my PI's incredible mentorship throughout this process! #APS25DC @meaganbrem.bsky.social

As an Academic Swiftie, I am delighted that the title of my first solo-authored pub incorporates TS lyrics 🪩🫶 But in all seriousness, feeling more jealous than usual proximally preceded young adults’ intimate partner violence perpetration. Jealousy ≠ love, y’all. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

REACH Lab undergrads Ella Reitmeier, Noa Croitoru, and Julia Krugh in action at the VT Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research & Creative Scholarship Conference! @virginiatech.bsky.social

REACH Lab at Roanoke Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ raising awareness about and sharing resources for partner violence and sexual assault @emilysjafii.bsky.social #PRIDE