R01 funded. Exhale.
Normalizing rejection: Submitted 1st R01 in Feb 2019 & then nearly every cycle after. 6 unique proposals & lots of resubmissions. More scores in 30s than I can remember. Funded R01 was 6th submission of idea. I cried when I saw 2nd percentile
Lessons learned:
🚨🚨 EMA and Emotion Regulation Researchers 🚨🚨
We developed momentary measures to assess difficulties regulating negative emotions (mDERS) and difficulties regulating positive emotions (mDERS-P).
📣 Clinical Psych Applicants 📣
I'm recruiting one student to join
@URI_StressLab
for fall 2023!
My basic research uses EMA & wearables to clarify emotions in PTSD-SUD. My treatment studies develop/evaluate culturally responsive, trauma-informed approaches for SUD.
RT/Share!
Excited to share I've been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Shout-out to
@MTTull
/
@LabPert
for giving me a chance all those years ago; Tami Sullivan for showing me what it looks like to be a strong & successful academic mama &
@URI_STRESSLab
for unwavering support/love
Really excited about this one! Main findings from the lab portion of my K23. Emotion dysregulation (self-report & HRV) predictive of craving & beh risk-taking following pos (not neg or neutral) emotion induction 🧵
So (!!!) excited to learn that my
@PsychinOut
mentee received an offer for a clinical psychology PhD program. Grateful to this community for providing programming and resources to underrepresented applicants who are pursuing PhD programs in psychology.
Proud mentor moment!! Last week
@ReinaKiefer_
received an initial score of 20 on her F31; today,
@AlexaMRaudales
learned that she got a score of 11 on an F31 using EMA to study the intersections of PTSD, opioid use, & suicide. Very excited to see this important work come to life!
1/ As someone who uses EMA to study emotions and substance use, I honestly worry about some of the messaging I've seen around this paper. What was my takeaway? We need to do a better job capturing these causal relations -- our methods need to improve. It was not that these causal
Updated our preprint to the newest version which has just been accepted at Psychological Bulletin 🥳 many thanks to my amazing group of 67 co-authors from whom I learned so much collaborating on this meta-analysis project 🙏
@apadivision50
@RSAposts
The cat's out of the bag -- excited about this new R21 (with
@LeslieBrickPhD
and
@NicheaS
) that will leverage intensive longitudinal data to evaluate dynamic and idiographic processes among PTSD symptoms, positive emotions, and alcohol use
Whew -- second F31 awarded to my lab (
@URI_STRESSLab
) this week (and 4/4)! So freaking proud of you
@__EDThomas__
and grateful that you trusted me to guide you at the very start of my career. Let's get to work!!
Exciting news! I received an F31 from
@NIAAAnews
!! I'll use EMA to examine depression, racial stress, & alcohol among Black adults in the community. Very excited for this next step! Tremendous shoutout to the absolute best major professor
@NHWeissPhD
&
@URI_STRESSLab
for support!
📣 We are Hiring 📣
We are looking to add a research assistant
@URI_STRESSLab
to assist with a new NIH grant that uses intensive longitudinal data and idiographic methods to study PTSD symptoms, affect, and alcohol use.
Apply here:
1st pub from active R34 w/
@NicheaS
! In partnership with one First Nations community, we are developing & evaluating a culturally-grounded alcohol intervention targeting historical trauma. This paper details the 1st step: focus groups w/ community members, elders, health workers
Excited to learn that I will be chairing an
@ABCTNOW
symposium on the use of novel daily methodologies to study suicide and NSSI with Alexa Raudales! Other presenters include
@DrAnxious
,
@HeatherSchatten
, Lauren Haliczer, & Elizabeth Velkoff.
Ups/downs academia are real. Tough start to wk w/ 2 disappointing R01 reviews made better by student accepting PhD offer + really promising scores for R21 on pos emotion dampening via alcohol in PTSD & student F31 on emotion-dependent sex assault risk perception during alc intox!
Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology
@universityofri
is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in clinical psychology with expertise in neuropsychology/clinical neuroscience
5a/ Don't give up. I heard this again and again -- part of being successful with grants was being persistent. There were times I wanted to quit. The rejections hurt. At times, I felt tremendous jealousy over the successes of my close friends and colleagues.
Incredibly grateful to have been selected as a recipient of this mentoring award! I have been fortunate to mentor some amazing scholars who have made mentoring truly enjoyable.
Huge congrats to lab director
@NHWeissPhD
, for being awarded the Outstanding Mentorship Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies! She is so deserving of this honor, as she is one of the most dedicated mentors out there! We are so proud of her!
@ISTSSnews
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an F31 from
@NIAAAnews
! I will use alcohol administration to study the effects of acute intoxication & state emotions on sexual assault risk perception. Many thanks to my incredible mentors
@NHWeissPhD
,
@LMOrchowski
, & Dr. Kathleen Parks
5/ sad, anxious, etc. I believe them. We need to do a better job capturing the lived experiences of the people we are serving in our work. In my work, this has involved building equitable relationships with community stakeholders, partnering with people with lived experience at
1b/ Then I talked to a senior PI who encouraged me to submit other R-level grants and to other institutes. My first R34 was funded. My first R21 was funded. I had a K but believe that these were the grants that ultimately paved the way for my R01.
3a/ Continue to find ways to fund your research. While actively applying for R01 funding, I identified other funding sources to collect pilot data for my R01 proposals. Through these studies, I developed rigorous protocols with the populations and methods I was proposing.
Excited to finally announce that we were awarded a Project Leader Grant from the
@opioidsCOBRE
to use EMA and the Empatica E4 (wearable biosensor) to examine the intersection of longitudinal changes in PTSD symptoms and physiology (HRV, EDA) on opioid use outcomes
@NHWeissPhD
So incredibly proud of you
@AlexaMRaudales
. Your perseverance and determination throughout this process was truly inspiring and is a testament to your commitment to pursuing a career in clinical research.
Please RT!
Come be my colleague! 2 Tenure-track Assistant Professor Positions in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island, one in Child/Adolescent Clinical Psychology () and the other in Quantitative Methods ()
Check out our recent call to action for ground-up and trauma-informed approaches to the development of alcohol interventions for North American Indigenous peoples
@NicheaS
@ISTSSnews
@URI_STRESSLab
@PathsLab
Exciting week in Texas with a visit from one of our collaborators 🤩 Thank you to
@NHWeissPhD
for sharing your work on positive emotion dysregulation as an invited speaker for the UNT Department of Psychology Bonney Speaker Series!
Very excited to share that
@Noam_Newberger
has been awarded an F31 to study treatment utilization during community re-entry following residential treatment for opioid use disorder!
Congrats to Dr. Goldstein (
@SilviGoldstein
) who successfully defended her
@NIAAAnews
funded dissertation examining the acceptability and efficacy of a harm reduction pharmacobehavioral treatment for AUD across race, ethnicity, and sex assigned at birth groups!! We are so proud!
6/ Big thanks to
@URI_STRESSLab
for their unwavering commitment to growing research to improve the lives of people with experiences of trauma and thoae who have supported me through this process including Co-Is on this R01
@LeslieBrickPhD
@jrpeters
Howard Tennen Evan Kleiman
Very excited for this series of talks! Come to hear about
@URI_STRESSLab
's recent EMA work on PTSD and cannabis use among women experiencing partner violence!
Good morning, CPA! Come join us for our talk at 9:45 am in Salon C, “From the Lab to the Clinic: Basic and Applied Findings on Co-Occurring PTSD and SUDs.” Drs.
@herrypatelphd
@NHWeissPhD
& Kelly Peck will all be presenting and
@MAmlung
is our discussant!
@apadivision50
#CPA2023
4a/ Don't stop learning. I knew I was a good writer and I also knew I could be better. I took every opportunity I could to improve my grant writing -- I got mentorship from senior PIs who were willing to review and provide feedback on my proposals,
4/ analyses that examine processes occurring within hours of one another. The conversations I have seen around this paper also highlight another problem in academic research -- the need for listening to people, not just data. People tell us they use alcohol when they're stressed,
Very excited to be chairing and presenting a symposium on co-occurring
#PTSD
and
#substance
use at
#CPA2023
with amazing colleagues including
@NHWeissPhD
,
@herrypatelphd
, and Dr. Kelly Peck! The icing on the cake is having
@MAmlung
as our discussant! Albuquerque, here we come!
1a/ Diversity your portfolio. I submitted only R01s, nearly all to one institute and in one research area (study section), for three years. I listened to early recommendations to focus on R01 proposals with a K -- I was told that an R21 was just as likely to be funded as an R01.
5b/ I acknowledged where these feelings were coming from and instead chose actions that were aligned with my values (continuing to find ways to fund my research and serve people with lived experiences of trauma).
Meet incoming
@URIStressLab
@universityofri
clinical psychology PhD student Enya Meade! Enya is currently a clinical research assistant
@Road_Home_Rush
. Enya's research examines risk factors for the development & maintenance of PTSD symptoms in BIPOC communities. Welcome, Enya!
7/ So, yes, this is an incredibly important paper by
@jonas_dora_
et al., but let's make sure we're being thoughtful about what conversations we are having about what it means.
Applying to clinical PhD programs? Interested in reducing health disparities related to alcohol & other drugs by developing/evaluating prevention/treatment programs for Indigenous communities? My work bff (
@NicheaS
) is taking a student! Check out her open house!
@PathsLab
2b/ I had to accept there were ways to do that without aims directly focused on PTSD. My R01 focuses on return to use after residential SUD tx. Nearly all people in residential SUD tx have lived experiences of trauma; many (1/3-2/3) have PTSD. I am still serving people with PTSD.
6/ every stage of the research process, and using qualitative interviews to strengthen our methods and build on (explain) our quantitative findings, as some examples.
3/ and thus that examining these processes at the day-level is unlikely to capture their causal relations. We've learned that we must examine these processes closer in time, and have been for quite a while. The majority of EMA studies now include multiple surveys a day and
Very excited to announce that
@__EDThomas__
is the recipient of the 2024
@universityofri
Graduate Research & Scholarship Excellence Award (& love that he requested this pic w/
@NHWeissPhD
be shared). This is the highest research award given to grad students. We're proud of you!
2/ associations do not exist -- that negative emotions do not increase proximal risk for alcohol use. And I think those of us who are doing this work already know this very well. We've learned that emotions and risk for alcohol use fluctuate dramatically, often within hours,
1/ Grieving for our Black community who is having to mourn the senseless and callous murder of Tyre Nichols. Acknowledging the collective trauma of centuries of racism and discrimination experienced by Black folks. Committing to actions: listening to Black voices;
2a/ Propose fundable ideas. My research program focuses on co-occurring PTSD-SUD. I kept getting the feedback that my ideas were not specific to PTSD; that they were transdiagostic. I am passionate about serving populations with lived experiences of trauma.
Thrilled to announce that STRESS lab graduate candidate
@SilviGoldstein
matched at Alpert Medical School of Brown University!!! Silvi, we are so proud of you. Can’t wait to see what your future holds!
@BrownClinPsych
@BrownPsychiatry
7/ I'll end by reaffirming our need to listen to the people we serve in clinical research, especially when those people's voices have been systematically excluded from clinical research.
Holding space for our LGBTQ+ communities who are once again collectively mourning the trauma and pain of hate violence. I honor the lives of those who were killed and strive to ensure that the communities I am a part of are safe and affirming for LGBTQ+ people.
The idea for this paper came from a phone call with a PhD applicant. I liked it, so I asked them to lead the paper, with me playing a supportive role. It's nice to finally see this in print!
Publication alert! We found that positive emotion dysregulation was significantly higher for individuals exposed (vs. not exposed) to a greater number of specific trauma types than negative emotion dysregulation.
@atscon60
@NHWeissPhD
1/ Thanks for this conversation
@jonas_dora_
. While it is my hope that people will read this paper before drawing any conclusions, I understand that even if they do, many do not have the requisite knowledge in this area to understand what the findings do and do not tell us.
@NHWeissPhD
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on our paper
@NHWeissPhD
! I agree with your main takeaway that we need to improve our EMA methods to increase our confidence in the results we obtain. 1/N
Really excited about this line of work developed with
@BrendanJacka
! Community distribution of naloxone for opioid overdose reversal has been a key strategy to address the opioid epidemic. In turn, more community laypeople are responsible for responding to opioid overdoses. 1/
Happy birthday to my
#1
collaborator and fellow
#academicmama
@atscon60
Grants, papers, students, teaching, kids - you are a consistently there providing advice, support, and a listening ear. Grateful for our friendship always and especially today!
Ideal candidate is: 1. Committed to addressing social inequities and health disparities; 2. Passionate about researching trauma, emotions, and risky behaviors (broadly); 3. Interested in joining a highly collaborative and productive research team;
@eisenlohr_moul
My grad students track all the ridiculous things I say on a huge (and centrally located) whiteboard in our lab space. I honestly chuckle every time I look at it. If we can't laugh at ourselves, we're doing this job wrong.
4/ A growing body of research suggests that some individuals experience dysregulation in the context of positive emotions. Findings from the current study provide experimental evidence for the influence of positive emotion dysregulation on risky behaviors.
No one warned me how little sleep mentors get the night before match day 😬 So excited for Shannon to start this next leg of her journey! Watch out world - she's going to do big things!
Huge congratulations to
@MTTull
and Kim Gratz for this recognition of their research excellence. Proud to be a
@LabPert
alumna every day, and especially today.
Congratulations to
@LabPert
directors Drs. Matthew Tull and Kim Gratz! Each received the 2022
@UToledo
President's Award for Excellence in Creative and Scholarly Activity.
@aartibodas
While emailing is not required (inequity issue), my preference is that emails serve as an introduction (concise summary of experiences, interests, & goals) with attached CV. My pages state I'm taking a student & I just don't have the time to answer questions from 100+ applicants!
Publication Alert! Check out published results from
@SilviGoldstein
’s research, funded by a 2019
@apadivision50
student research grant, that assessed harm reduction acceptability & feasibility among a First Nation Reserve community!
@NHWeissPhD
@NicheaS
3/ Greater self-reported state emotion dysregulation and lower hfHRV predicted more urges for substances in the positive (vs. negative & neutral) emotion induction condition. Lower hfHRV predicted more beh risk-taking in the positive (vs. neutral) emotion induction condition.
2/ bringing voice and action to racism in my teaching, research, mentorship, and practice; using my privilege to speak up against racism in all spaces I occupy; following the lead of Black people and organizations in actions to create a more just, equitable, and inclusive society
@DrMonnica
et al. are changing the landscape of trauma research/practice. Their work challenges narratives about the conceptualization, measurement, & treatment of trauma, highlighting the need for addressing racial trauma.
Calling all therapists! I'm excited to announce our latest publication - Evidence-Based Approach for Treating Stress and Trauma due to
#Racism
using CBT. Yes, it's about time! Free download here for the next 45 days:
@DrMonnica
Deadlines for URI fellowships are fast-approaching, which means I've spent the past 2 days writing 7 letters for 5 grad students. I pour my heart into these letters. They deserve recognition, $, protected time. I'm always looking to do more. What do you do for students & why?
@URI_STRESSLab
@ReinaKiefer_
@ReinaKiefer_
this is exactly how I imagined you celebrating. What a huge week for you (F31 submitted + comps defended). I'm so proud of you and honored to serve as your mentor ❤️