I will be reviewing applications this fall for the clinical psychology PhD program at Boston University. Consider applying if you're interested in adolescent substance use, peer and family relationships, and developmental psychopathology. Lab website: sites.bu.edu/summitlab/

I'm reviewing applications for Notre Dame's clinical psych PhD program this fall! If you like daily-life processes, studying drugs, and talking about pizza, consider applying! Lab website: spiel-lab.nd.edu

Studying Processes in Everyday Life (SPIEL) Lab

Explore the Studying Processes in Everyday Life Lab at Notre Dame! We study real-time behaviors using mobile devices like smartphones. Research alcohol, substance use, pain, and more.

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New out in Addiction, we wrote an editorial about negative affect and drinking in daily life. It talks a lot about ice cream. @sammeisel.bsky.social @samuelacuff.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Kitten Enjoys Ice Cream

ALT: Kitten Enjoys Ice Cream

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Come on, @nytimes.com. You can print 2k words (w/o a single hyperlink to a scientific study) saying psych meds are overprescribed, hitting all the beats you'd expect in a B- student paper (Szasz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) without one mention of psychotherapy? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/m...

We're hiring in Charleston, SC! Join MUSC's Youth Collaborative and support cutting-edge research on adolescent brain development and youth substance use. Including the large-scale ABCD Study. Responsibilities include neuroimaging, data collection, recruitment, and community outreach. #Hiring

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

We are hiring a post-bac! Come join the SPIEL lab on our journey of studying substance use in daily life! We are also in the midst of a clinical trial testing a tailored alcohol intervention for people in opioid treatment. It's a busy time! populationanalytics.nd.edu/resources/ca...

Career Opportunities

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Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Awards Interested in applying for the Enoch Gordis Research Recognition Award? Attend the information webinar on Tuesday, DECEMBER 9th at 12:00 pm Central Visit bit.ly/Gordis2026 to register by December 7th. Zoom link will be emailed on December 8th.

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

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✨✨ I will be reviewing applications for the University of Minnesota psychology PhD program this fall! Information for potential applicants can be found on my lab website: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu/join-lab Please spread the word!

I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...

Clinical Science

Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology offers graduate programs in cognitive, clinical, developmental, and quantitative psychology, joint doctoral programs in peace studies and in computer science / en...

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Just heard a @springernature.com journal is requiring authors to pay for open access (~$5k) to submit an invited paper if they want to be compliant with the new NIH policy. If that's how Springer is planning to handle things going forward, I know of a number of journals I will no longer submit to.

I am hiring a clinical research assistant for a project on adolescent cannabis use that will use MRI 🧠 and behavioral tasks 🎮 More information is available in the link below, and applicants can send a CV and cover letter to me. Please share—thank you! tinyurl.com/msn8h2ce

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

Check out our new paper on the acute effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol on computational measures of neurocognitive processes 😃 Thanks to senior author Natania Crane & coauthors @AlexWeigard, @pshrink, K. Luan Phan, Harriet de Wit, & Heide Klumpp www.frontiersin.org/journals/ado...

Frontiers | Acute effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol on computational measures of neurocognitive processes are related to recent cannabis use among adolescents and young adults

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The peer-reviewed NIAAA journal, Alcohol Research: Current Reviews, and all of the previously open access papers published in the journal have been removed from the web. arcr.niaaa.nih.gov/about-arcr

Very excited to share our new pub where we ran 7,680 unique models exploring associations between adolescent alcohol use and emotional problems! bit.ly/4gGIP1o

Our new study out today in JAMA: US schools from 2008-20: ✅ Mental health education: 83.8% → 89.8% ✅ Suicide prevention: 70.1% → 81.8% ✅ Teacher training for mental health: 36.1% → 67.7% But substance use prevention training? Still stuck at ~45% #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Trends in School Mental Health and Substance Use Education

This study examines trends in school programming related to mental health and substance use and teacher professional development across US middle and high schools from 2008 to 2020.

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I will be reviewing applications for the clinical psychology PhD program at Boston University. For detailed information about the SUMMIT Lab's research and the criteria we use to evaluate applicants please see sites.bu.edu/summitlab/

I am hiring a research technician for the SUMMIT Lab at @bostonu.bsky.social. This position is a great fit for anyone interested in adolescent substance use, EMA, or caregiving relationships and considering applying to graduate school. bu.silkroad.com/epostings/in...

Hellooo Bluesky! I am trying to grow my tiny lab at Vanderbilt and am recruiting 1-2 postdocs who will help me tackle addiction heterogeneity. Please reach out if interested! All reposts are appreciated! www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/posi...

✨I will be reviewing applications for UNM's clinical psych PhD program this cycle! Those w/ interests in addiction etiology and precision medicine, mixed method approaches (including advanced statistical methods), measurement, and community engagement would be a good fit.

I am so excited I finally got to team up with the brilliant @sammeisel.bsky.social on this piece: "Beyond Mediators: A Critical Review and Methodological Path Forward for Studying Mechanisms in Alcohol Use Treatment Research". Preprint of submitted paper: psyarxiv.com/xar6y/

Just posted a preprint on a new measure – The Parenting Styles Circumplex Inventory (PSCI). This measure combines dimensional and typology approaches to capturing parenting styles. Much thanks to Nolan Ramer, Chis Hopwood, and Craig Colder for all their help with this paper. psyarxiv.com/fjk5n/

Im a clinical psychologists researching why teenagers use substances and how we can improve substance use treatments for teens from a developmental perspective. I’m particularly interested in the roles of parents and peers in teen substance use and treatment.