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Jean Forney

@jeanforney.bsky.social
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Eating Disorder Researcher and Clinical Psychologist. Assistant Professor at Ohio University. she/her

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Neha J. Goel, PhD @nehajgoel28.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Hi folks! My collaborators at UNC and I are recruiting for a new research study focused on improving an eating disorders prevention program for South Asian women living in the United States! Please see the flyer for more details and share widely with anyone who may qualify!
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ABCT Eating Disorders and Eating Behaviors SIG @abct-edeb-sig.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
REGISTER NOW: The EDEB SIG is co-sponsoring a webinar with the BMED/IPC SIG on the implementation of ethical weight management interventions without promoting weight stigma. Help spread the word! @abctnow.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/TreatingEati...
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Jenny Grant Weinandy @jgrantweinandy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Beaten to posting about it but had a good time talking about sports betting and the impacts in Ohio with Spectrum News. There is a lot we are working on in Ohio to try to better support those with gambling problems and the TEA Lab is continuing to do work in this area.
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The best part of teaching might be getting to set aside time to read big picture articles like this one. Definitely worth a read! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Apps are due Monday!
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ABCT Eating Disorders and Eating Behaviors SIG @abct-edeb-sig.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The @abctnow.bsky.social EDEB SIG is hosting a webinar on single session interventions TOMORROW! Check it out and register here: abctedebsig.wixsite.com/abct-edeb-si...
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Events | ABCT EDEB SIG
Find upcoming SIG-sponsored events here, including virtual webinars and panels and in-person events at the annual conference.
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
In addition to our TT assistant professor position, we are also hiring an open rank position with our Clinical Child position. www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/postings/55336
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Open Rank Tenure Track Faculty (Clinical Child Psychology Focus)
The Department of Psychology at Ohio University invites applicants for an open-rank tenure-track faculty position within the Clinical Child Psychology Area of our American Psychological Association-ac...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Come join us in Athens! We are hiring a TT assistant professor in our APA accredited clinical psychology program at Ohio University.
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Kira Venables @kiravenables.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🌟The REPEAT Lab at VCU (PI: Dr. Annie Haynos) in Richmond, VA is hiring a clinical research coordinator! 🌟 We use various methods (fMRI, EMA, computational modeling) to study neurobiological mechanisms and treatment for eating disorders & other disorders of rigidity. Post will be open for 1 week! 🧠📊
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
How does exercise contribute to eating disorder maintenance? In our new Spotlight paper, we put forth a model about hypothesized physiological consequences of physical activity. 1/ doi.org/10.1002/eat....
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Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity as a Cause of Dietary Restriction in Eating Disorders
Objective The mechanisms that facilitate prolonged dietary restriction in eating disorders, particularly in the absence of binge eating, remain poorly understood. The activity-based anorexia model a.....
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Read this for lab meeting this week. Great paper. I really appreciated the thoughtful overview of interoceptive exposure for panic and it's mechanisms. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Proud to say "clandestine" is in the accepted version.
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How are food insecurity, intuitive eating, and binge eating related? @trezeppa.bsky.social found (non)reliance on internal hunger and security cues may account for the relationship between food insecurity and binge eating in college students. 1/4
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
To what extent do internalized weight stigma and thin ideal internalization overlap? Our recent paper suggests not too much and that eating disorder prevention programs might want to target both types of internalized bias. doi.org/10.1002/jclp...
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The Unique Associations of Thin‐Ideal Internalization and Internalized Weight Stigma With Body Dissatisfaction Across Body Sizes
Objectives The internalization of socioculturally influenced body ideals, including thin-ideal internalization and internalized weight stigma, is consistently associated with body dissatisfaction. H.....
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Misplaced something, tore apart my office, and found a letter from NIH in 1999 with a grant score shoved in the bottom of a drawer. Did life feel calmer in the days of paper correspondence?
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Does "feeling fat" reflect problems identifying emotions, problems attuning to bodily cues, or both? @naomighill.bsky.social found that poorer emotion differentiation is associated with feeling fat, only for women higher in eating pathology. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
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Redirecting
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Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Professor of Neuroscience Shelly Flagel from central Ohio 🦌: ‘In 2024, NIH grants brought $1B+ to Ohio, supporting 12,893 jobs & $2.7B in economic activity.’ She notes that while Ohio hasn’t beaten Michigan in football lately, it is winning in science funding. 🧪🏠
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Cincinnati CityBeat @citybeatcincy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“How is it that you want diversity of thought, but not diversity of people at these public institutions that would bring that diversity?”
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‘The Bill is Very Racist.’ Ohio House Democrats Question Republican Senator on His Higher Ed Bill
“How is it that you want diversity of thought, but not diversity of people at these public institutions that would bring that diversity?”
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
See you tomorrow in C-bus
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/03/2025
2 DAYS until we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! More information on local sites available at www.standupforscience2025.org ☀️ #standupforscience2025
Navy background with white text that says "2 days until stand up for science"
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT! ☀️ Bill Nye will be speaking at Stand Up for Science in D.C. on March 7th! More speaker announcements coming soon, stay tuned! 👀☀️
Image of Bill Nye, with text at the top of the image that says Speaker Announcement and at the bottom that says Stand Up for Science, March 7th, 2025 and a link to standupforscience2025.org.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 05/03/2025
75% of Americans oppose cutting funding for scientific research on cancer; only 12% are in favor of doing so. ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Po...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
See you in Columbus this Friday
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Please distribute widely! This is a great opportunity to receive a novel eating disorder treatment specifically tailored to the LGBTQ+ community and developed by an LGBTQ+ eating disorder research lab!
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Dr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ohio! Time to stand up! Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. Repost even if you're not in Ohio. Science benefits us all and it is in danger. We need to shout this message loud and clear. #standupforscience2025
Flyer for Stand Up for Science at the Ohio Statehouse, March 7, 2025, 12-3p. Science is for everyone. For more information or to get involved go to standupforscience2025.org
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Stephanie Zerwas @stephzerwas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Scientists, I love you. I love your passion. I am one of you. But we have to talk about *how* we communicate what’s happening. People won’t fight for “science” in the abstract. They’ll fight when they understand what they are losing. A quick guide: Not this, but this. 🧵
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Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD @fitzsimmonscraft.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📣I am hiring! Looking to hire a research coordinator to start in my lab later this spring/early summer to coordinate a new R01 in which we are aiming to optimize a CBT-based self-guided digital intervention for eating disorders! Apply here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... 1/n
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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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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Some great news on efforts to reduce infant mortality in Hamilton County, Ohio. www.google.com/amp/s/www.pb...
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The steps an Ohio county took to reduce infant mortality rates
When it comes to infant mortality, the United States ranks 54th in the world. That's about three times that of Japan, Singapore or Slovenia. Within the U.S., Ohio is in the bottom 25 percent of all st...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Reading gne Grilo & Pittman paper and commentaries for lab meeting. One thing that struck me- aren't these relative low restraint scores (especially pretreatment) and a very small increase in rigid restraint? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Exploring Dietary Restraint as a Mediator of Behavioral and Cognitive‐Behavioral Treatments on Outcomes for Patients With Binge‐Eating Disorder With Obesity
Objective To explore dietary-restraint as a mediator of binge eating and weight-loss outcomes within a randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and behavioral weight ...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Writing my first "theory"ish paper and hoping I don't have to cut the word "clandestine" in the final version.
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Still sinking in that my department voted for my promotion and tenure
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Wow. We just did our annual semester wrap up and my team ran over 110 in person study visits this semester. So proud of the team!
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Good mentorship lasts your whole career
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Driving by the old state hospital here in Athens (the Ridges) daily really centers the good and the bad in the history of psychiatry. It is also an incredibly beautiful building.
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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ok I made an #eatingdisorder starter pack- who did I miss? go.bsky.app/Fsn93mM
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We are hiring an experimental health psychologist. It's an exciting time here at Ohio University, with an active clinical and quantitative search, too! www.ohiouniversityjobs.com/postings/51432
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Assistant Professor, Experimental Health Psychology (Tenure-track)
The Department of Psychology at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Experimental Health Psychology beginning in August 2025. We seek...
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Always amazes me how much the body influences the mind. Turns out my contacts prescription was way too high. I feel so much more relaxed now that I am not constantly squinting.
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 12/11/2024
Reason two: There actually *are* other algorithms, they're called "feeds". E.g. "Quiet Posters" surfaces people who post infrequently. Maybe you don't want the mutual who posts one good thought a day lost among the terminally-online. Subscribe and they won't be! (3/3) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Finally an evidence-based fortune
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
What happens to gastrointestinal symptoms during outpatient therapy for bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders? We found that elevated post meal fullness and feeling full easily both decrease over treatment and follow-up onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 04/01/2024
Updating a book chapter and the dip in publications on the topic in 2020 is remarkable. Not surprising, but clearly there.
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Looking forward to connecting at my first (in person) ABCT in quite some time!
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
I'm hoping to recruit a new clinical psychology doctoral student with an interest in eating disorders and/or body image for Fall 2024. You can learn more about what is going on in my lab and what I look for in candidates here: ohio.edu/cas/labs/b-wel
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Tiffany A. Brown @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
📣😀Excited to announce I will be recruiting 1-2 Clinical Psych PhD students for the 2024 cycle. Students interested in ED prevention and treatment, body image, & LGBTQ+ healthare especially encouraged to apply! acceptlab.wixsite.com/acceptlab/gr...
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Tiffany A. Brown @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
📣Pending final approval for funding, Aaron Blashill & I anticipate hiring a fulltime postdoctoral fellow/project director on a NIH-sponsored trial to further develop and pilot test a novel psychosocial treatment for sexual minority adults living with an eating disorder.
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
I'm Jean Forney. My research interests include the role of GI symptoms, interoception, and weight history in eating disorder maintenance. I got in this area partially due to my interest in peer influences, which I continue to integrate into my work.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Haven’t seen one of these yet, so here’s a body image/eating disorder researcher roundup. Tag yourself or your friends, or introduce yourself and your work in the comments! 🧵
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Jean Forney @jeanforney.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
What does it mean that "Wiley" was in my wordcloud?
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