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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Got an absolute stacked week with talks at NIDA and APA. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…

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Toddler's Giant Jenga Collapse

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

They usually happen in 3s, right?

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Last, but definitely not least, I want to express my love and gratitude to my wife and daughter, who have been my rocks during this relatively late life odyssey through academia.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Somehow, a scrub who spent a lot of his early life making objectively questionable decisions has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Turns out a little passion, good mentors, supportive colleagues, amazing students, and a lot of coffee can take you pretty far. Feeling grateful today.

Letter granting a promotion to Associate Professor with tenure.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

lol. I just took that be really bad at high school then drop out and get a GED years later approach

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Honored that @samuelacuff.bsky.social and I received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Public Interest Award from @apadivision50.bsky.social for @addpsychpodcast.bsky.social. Big thanks to our guests who helped the show rank in the top 3% of all podcasts last year (Listen Notes, 2025).

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have never felt so seen. Also, I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ours is certainly still being held hostage

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Nope. My data are from clinical populations and they didn’t consent to that use of their data. I might be alone, but I feel strongly that’s it’s my duty to protect the data they give me. Also, as an early career researcher, I need to ensure the data are still usable for my program of research.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

But then he rises again tomorrow

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🚨 New episode alert 🚨 The Addiction Psychologist just dropped a new episode on GLP-1s. In it, Dr. Joseph Schacht discusses what these compounds are, how they work, their potential to treat substance use disorders, and the current state of the science. Really insightful and balanced conversation.

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Dr. Joseph Schacht - Can We Leverage GLP-1s for Substance Use Disorder? by The Addiction Psychologist

GLP-1s have rapidly increased in popularity, Due to their seemingly remarkable ability to facilitate weight loss. These findings have led to increased interest in understanding whether GLP-1s might be...

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Happy burnout season to all that celebrate

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Cannabis use was associated with decreased negative affect (NA) and this decrease varied as a function of how intense pre-use NA was and CUD symptoms, such that reduction is NA were largest when the pre-use NA was lower- and higher-than-average, but only really for those with severe CUD.

This figure presents the association between NA at the previous moment (horizontal-axis) and NA at the next moment (vertical-axis) as a function of cannabis use between those two moments, and between-person differences in CUD severity (two-panels). steeper slopes signify a stronger autoregressive effect between NA assessments across time. As shown in the figure, cannabis use was associated with decreased NA after use (i.e., the distance between the two lines at any given level of NA), and this effect was most pronounced when the previous moment was characterized by particularly lower- or higher-than-average NA (i.e., lines are father apart at low and high levels of previous moment NA) but only for those high in CUD symptoms (i.e., 6 or more symptoms; right panel). Low CUD Symptoms= -1 SD. High CUD Symptoms= +1 SD. CUD M = 4.4 (SD = 2.0).

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Cannabis use was associated with a marked increased in post-use positive affect (PA) and the strength of this increase varied as a function of how intense PA was prior to use, such that the increases in PA were largest when the previous moment was characterized by lower- and higher-than-average PA.

This figure presents the association between PA at the previous moment (horizontal-axis) and PA at the next moment (vertical-axis) as a function of cannabis use between those two moments. Steeper slopes signify a stronger autoregressive effect between PA assessments across time. As shown in the figure, cannabis use was associated with increased PA after use, reflected in the distance between the two lines at any given level of PA, and this effect was most pronounced when the previous moment was characterized by particularly lower- or higher-than-average PA (i.e., lines are father apart at low and high levels of previous moment PA). As previous moment PA approach a person’s average, the effect of cannabis on PA was diminished (i.e., lines are closer together toward the mean).

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

To accomplish this, we study tested whether cannabis use disrupts the stability of acute and momentary affect across time (i.e., pre- and post-use) among youth, resulting in reduced NA or increased PA and if such shifts varied as a function of pre-use emotional intensity and CUD severity using EMA

This figure represents the breakdown of the lagging structure and how the various data sources were organized for estimated models. The dashed line represents the autoregressive effect during non-use moments (n = 967). The solid lines represent the autoregressive effect during use moments (n = 424). Ns are the number of observations for that pairing.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Excited to share our newest publication. Here we test a central hypothesis in cannabis use, does use alter a person's emotions in a theoretically expected way, and if so for whom and under what conditions is that observable. We found that cannabis use was linked to complex changes in emotions.

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The effect of cannabis use on the time course of positive and negative affect in the daily life of youth

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Highly recommend giving this one a listen once it drops.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Congratulations to all the clinical and counseling psychology students that matched yesterday!! A special shoutout to the students that I advise who matched: - Cianna Piercey matched @ Brown - Bethany (Bags) Gray matched @ Brown - Maggie Mataczynski matched @ New Mexico VA Big day for our group!

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Once more unto the breach. Sending all the internship applicants in clinical, counseling, and school psychology positive vibes on this match day eve. I live and die with applicants on this journey every year. May the odds ever be in your favor.

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a man speaking into a microphone with the words it 's so exciting

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Great episode with one of the field’s great people

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

And frankly profession wide competencies

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I really think it is time we reimagine the role our leaders have.

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

From what I can tell, they pushed everything back, ostensibly because of the shutdown. Grants would typically be reviewed in late Feb and March, as the standard deadlines state for cycle III, aren’t being reviewed until late April, after the cycle I deadline.

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