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Molly Robbins

@drmollyinprogress.bsky.social
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🧠Clinical psych PhD student studying the intersection of eating disorders and weight stigma 𖦹 recovery advocate 𖦹 yoga instructor 𖦹 she/they

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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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...
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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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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Thank you so much, we are big fans of your work! @katerinaldi1.bsky.social ❤️
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Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
yes
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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We knew that they would do this, and it still hurts.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
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.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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🔥
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@phaedralonghurst.bsky.social thank you!!! I am so glad it is finally out there for the world to use 🥹😅
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Katerinaldi1 @katerinaldi1.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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...
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Megan Meyer, MPH, RD (she/her) @megannomnom.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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!
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I am so grateful to have this paper out there, and beyond honored to work with @katerinaldi1.bsky.social - my research partner and friend extraordinaire ❤️😍 We were supervised by Dr Paula Brochu and Dr Janell Mensinger ❤️
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Our findings suggest that fat-related and weight-neutral terms may be associated with more positive outcomes, and challenge advocacy and requirements for person-first medicalized language that pathologizes body size.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In Sample 2, preferring medicalized terms was associated with lower critical health awareness and higher weight controllability beliefs.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In Sample 1, folks recovered from EDs were more likely to choose “fat” than those currently struggling. Those who pref “fat” had the highest body appreciation+ critical health awareness, lowest eating disorder symptoms, lowest weight bias internalization, and lowest weight controllability beliefs🔥
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Our two very different samples had this in common: they did NOT want to be referred to with person first language, despite the obesity world championing the use, and some journals even requiring it! Woah!
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Importantly, we deviated from previous research that focused only on convos recommending weight loss in medical settings, + often asked thin(!) participants. We know, for better or worse, people refer to bodies outside of that limited 👀 context, so it’s important to expand the scope of the samples!
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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...
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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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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Watching match day results roll in, knowing I will be in y’all’s shoes next year like 🎉🫣🥹😳
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/02/2025
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This stop sign on the NIH campus is somehow apropos. What, the law used to exist here?
A flattened stop sign on grass
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/02/2025
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...
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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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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/02/2025
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
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/02/2025
"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...
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Opinion | Censored Science Can’t Save Lives
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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 😅
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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 ✅
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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/02/2025
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ok this is a life hack I can get behind 🫡🫡🫡
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yesss the disconnect between academics who theorize and write about systemic barriers with simultaneously zero awareness of how their own biases exist and perpetuate these inequalities is astonishing sometimes ☹️
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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/02/2025
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: scim.ag/4hOUuvx
SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
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Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD @alvazquezphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It is ALL so devastating. For science, for inclusion, for medicine, for security, for higher education, for all of us.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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.
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Aubrey Hoffer, PhD @hoff-phd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“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.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hey so! This is troubling!
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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
PhD level research scientist opening! Please apply!
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EveLikesBooks @evelikesbooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hey all, it doesn’t hurt Trump when you make jokes about his body size but it sucks for your fat friends to hear what you think of us. There’s nothing wrong with being fat. There’s everything wrong with being a fascist shitbag #fatliberation
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Chevese Turner @chevee.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I share my journey post-eating disorder so that others can find hope and providers can prepare clients in recovery to continue to navigate diet culture, traumas, interpersonal issues, biological make-up, etc. Recovery changes how we navigate, not whether or not we navigate life.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The crunchy snow back home has reminded me how much I miss the cold and seasons and such❄️ 1.5 more years in FL… phew.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I fly home tomorrow, which means today is all about tidying up paper edits on the big revise and resubmit, so I can stay off my computer as much as possible for the next week! Feeling very grateful for our supportive and thorough reviewers who volunteered their time and expertise ❤️
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
the academic urge to nod encouragingly at flight attendant giving safety demonstration
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
So excited!
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
“we can maximize our impact on public health as scientists—reducing the harm associated with weight-loss interventions, moving away from a harmful focus on weight, and fostering a more inclusive, health-focused approach” LOVE THIS 🎉🎉🎉
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
#iced2025 here we gooo!!!! The countdown starts now!
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Aubrey Hoffer, PhD @hoff-phd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
i have met so many people, especially women, who are intelligent, talented, and complex, yet dedicate so much of their energy and time to something as boring and distracting as weight loss. imagine if we thought growing our minds was as important as shrinking our bodies.
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Yes please! And be sure to come to the weight stigma and social justice meeting :)
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Molly Robbins @drmollyinprogress.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
YAY!!!! See you there!
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