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Leslie Brick

@lesliebrickphd.bsky.social
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substance use/cannabis and trauma/stress + genetics/epigenetics + statistics + r programming. associate professor at unm and casaa. views are my own.

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Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs @jsadjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Longitudinal Investigation of Sexual Minority Stress, Community Connectedness, and Alcohol use and Problems among Sexual Minority Young Adults (just accepted in @jsadjournal.bsky.social) by Karen L. Alvarez, Lauren R. Grocott et al. @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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A Longitudinal Investigation of Sexual Minority Stress, Community Connectedness, and Alcohol use and Problems among Sexual Minority Young Adults: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs: Vol 0, No ja
Objective: Sexual minority (SM) people face a heightened risk for alcohol use relative to heterosexual people. SM people experience stressors related to their stigmatized identity that increase their ...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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."
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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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.
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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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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ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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
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Colin T. Mahoney, Ph.D. @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#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
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Yasmin Hurd, PhD @neurovoice.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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...
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🔔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
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My Website - Announcements
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Lizzie Hoelscher @ehoelscher.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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)
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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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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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 🤍
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Jonas Haslbeck @jmbh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🚨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...
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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!
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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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...
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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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Laura C. Ornelas, PhD @lcornelas.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
UNM representing at National Science Network on Drug Abuse! @unm.edu @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social @drtarab20.bsky.social
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Reagan Fitzke @reaganfitzke.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
📣 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....
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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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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
little girl on shoulders holding a sign with bluey and bingo that reads "blue and bingo say no kings only healers" and a second sign to the right that reads, in rainbow letters, "protest is patriotic" photo of protestors lined up carrying American flags and protest signs, facing away from the camera
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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico
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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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...
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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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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Balloon Fiesta is the greatest and it’s even more fun with friends and colleagues 🎈
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 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)
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Colin T. Mahoney, Ph.D. @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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/
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Had a great time at #cannabinoidgrc2025 !! Top notch science, great people, and I’m already looking forward to 2027.
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Laura C. Ornelas, PhD @lcornelas.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Welcome to UNM @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social!!! So excited for you to join us!
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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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. 🧵
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📣 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/
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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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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/06/2025
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
A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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
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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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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/04/2025
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
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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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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Excited to share that our S-GIMME paper is out! This was a fun foray into idiographic networks that we wanted to share, but has left me with many methodological questions. doi.org/10.1002/jts....
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Heterogeneity across idiographic network associations among emotion dysregulation, alcohol use, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and intimate partner violence
Nearly half of women in the United States experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, which is linked to deleterious sequelae related to health outcomes. To better understand these ...
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Figure 1 should be part of every research design course. ✅
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STRESS Lab @stresslab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New to Bluesky! Will have a post a day introducing us and our work. We are in the Department of Psychology @universityofri.bsky.social & Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social. We use community-engaged and culturally responsive methods to inform treatments for PTSD and SUD web.uri.edu/stress/
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Director Nicole H. Weiss, Ph.D. Overview The STRESS Lab is directed by Dr. Nicole Weiss in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island. Research in the STRESS Lab is funded by the N...
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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs
Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, …
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Conor McDonough @conormcdonough.com · 05/04/2025
This is what democracy looks like in Providence, RI #handsoff @indivisibleri.bsky.social @indivisible.org @alexagagosz.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @tednesi.bsky.social @globeri.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social @nancyklavin.bsky.social
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Early results from our study looking at cannabis use among acute trauma exposed young adults presented by the amazing @gg296.bsky.social #CPA2025 #AddictionPosters2025 @apadivision50.bsky.social
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts
A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.
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Kathleen Hughes, PhD @kathmhughes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social
Dear Developmental Colleagues,
I’m a developmental psychologist, Associate Professor (Teaching), and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. I specialize in social emotional learning, peer relationships, and children’s media.  
On March 25th, a developmental psychology graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts was abducted by the United States government. Rumeysa Ozturk is a PhD student in Child Study & Human Development with a focus on prosocial development and children’s media. She is from Turkey and was studying in the USA on a student visa. Her visa was revoked when she participated in political letter writing asking Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide. This political activity made her a target. 
No peaceful political activity should ever lead to unlawful detainment. The Palestinian-Israel conflict is heartbreaking. My spouse and child are Jewish, we lost an Israeli family member on October 7th, 2022. I’ve seen increases in anti-semitism on university campuses in the past two years, but I know and I acknowledge that the majority of protestors are not hateful, and they want peace and human rights. 
Rumeysa Ozturk is one of us. Therefore, I am calling on leaders in Developmental Psychology to stand up for Ozturk, to pressure academic societies such as SRCD, SRA, & ISSBD to release a statement regarding her unjust abduction. We need to shine a spotlight and put international pressure on this abduction to help ensure her safety and release. Please also consider writing your political representatives. Ozturk has been relocated from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Her lawyer has lost contact with her in the past day. Our efforts can make a difference during these critical days. 
Sincerely,
Kathleen Hughes, PhD
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Undergraduate Program Director
University of Calgary
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
📣 I’m a little behind on announcements, BUT I’m thrilled to share: this Fall I’ll be joining the amazing folks at @casaa.bsky.social and @unm.edu. I’m beyond grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to a new chapter with lots of ☀️ and 🌶️!
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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Bravo, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! Thank you to the members who crafted this important statement. @drglitterbear.bsky.social sbn.org/news/news/wh...
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. 
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’m having many conversations with friends and colleagues related to feeling powerless. I wanted to share a concept from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) that I think is worth highlighting, especially when we fear there may be consequences for standing up/standing out: Alternate Rebellion.
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Zach Kunicki (He/Him) @statszach.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Next week, QSP will be hosting Dr. Mashu Yang to talk about MNAR data in EMA designs! Come distract yourself for an hour and learn about this important topic for EMA researchers -- register here: bit.ly/3XPShbx
A flyer showing a headshot of Dr. Yang, the title of her talk, and the time (March 19 from 12-1pm) of her talk.
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Yesterday was windy and chilly but it didn’t stop us from standing up in Providence for @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I have had a TON of people asking how they can help...here is what would help us the most right now: SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE SHARE! Tell us why you #standupforscience2025! Send flyers to your colleagues and labs! Change your bluesky banner! Tell your professional orgs and departments!
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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Need a distraction this week? Join the Quantitative Sciences Program with the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior on 2/12 at noon Eastern ✅ Register: bit.ly/40loXtQ
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Jess Peters, PhD @jrpeters.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Most large research universities have negotiated indirect rates of ~60%. This may seem like a lot, but that money pays for so much including offices/lab space, lab equipment that’s not specific to a given study, research administration staff, costs to run an IRB and so so much more. 1/x
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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:
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