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Anthony Perillo, Ph.D.
@anthonyperillo.bsky.social
Forensic Psychology Training Director, Associate Professor @ University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Trying to leave the forensic psych world better than I found it. Perpetually food-motivated. http://hsc.unm.edu/directory/perillo-anthony.html
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Re-intro time. I'm a forensic psychologist & train clinicians doing mental health services w/ people in the legal system. Big into making science accessible & transparent, mentoring w/ kindness, & checking our biases in evaluations.

Also ❤️ food & am thrilled when I get to combine that w/ work!
Key Lime
Sweet Potato

Strawberry rhubarb
Various berries

Coconut cream
Apple

Other cream pies
Pumpkin




Pecan
Sharing some pie objective facts for you all:

apple > blackberry > strawberry rhubarb > blueberry > sweet potato > pecan > assorted and sundry variations on fruit > pumpkin
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I’ve negotiated our Thanksgiving menu to the smallest it’s been in years (Jen & I travel but do the cooking). We’ll see how many things get added by the end.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yep: anytime I hear about turkey being boring & dry I know I’m talking to someone who doesn’t brine & smoke. I know not everyone can access a smoker, so may you be blessed to find someone who does & make friends w them!
"you know turkey is bad because people only cook it twice a year" you do NOT speak for smoker-owning americans, SIR
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I finally have photographic evidence.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Tuesday's Law & Mental Health Series includes the fantastic @evanauguste.bsky.social & Mark Bolden discussing historical & ethical issues in Forensic Psychology through the lens of Black Psychology! #PsychLaw

Free webinar w/ Free CEUs: hsc-unm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Bumping this tip as people might be opening online recipes for family cooking.
1) Open recipe
2) Type cooked.wiki/ into the very front of the url
3) Get a simple 2-column text of the ingredients & steps

One of the 1st things I learned form the early days of Bluesky!
November 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you want to know how together I have it today, while in the shower I saw a bottle of shampoo & briefly asked myself if today’s the day I wash my hair.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I bring the same notebook whenever I testify in court: a gift from my former students when I left my old job. One of those student is now my postdoc. Today she attended court with me as I took her gift from our old lives to the stand.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes:
www.aurorasaurus.org
Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up
Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
www.aurorasaurus.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Hello from our Albuquerque balcony.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Tuesday's Law & Mental Health Series features Matthew Johnson discussing racial justice advocates who've faced wrongful convictions facilitated by the FBI. #PsychLaw

Free webinar w/ free CEUs! hsc-unm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Trying to make a science in 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Tonight was ground turkey chili done “over the top” style: whole thing done in the smoker, meat first smoked as a massive meatball directly over the pot before crushing & mixing in (then smoking further). Served w/ blue cornbread. #FoodSky
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
When I was in Hawaii, a water viewpoint had a sign w/ the dates of every person who'd died there. Later that day, I looked up where exactly Stan died.

It was right where I'd been standing. He's the last person to die there.

Remember to reach out to your friends when you have the chance.
In HS Stan & I did "freezes" where we'd act out an altercation & then freeze like a still image before a show would cut to commercial. Later he played in a funk-soul band & let me jam in rehearsal once in a while.

Was trying to track him down this year & learned he died just a few weeks ago.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Trying to make a science in 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Celebrate the small moments, like joint co-authored pubs.

Goonies w/ 16-year-old sour beer as the kids sleep.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This place is ok. The team and work are ok. The position sounds ok.

(ok = amazing)
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...
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 ...
unm.csod.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Honored to be part of this reflective piece led by @laurenshallion.bsky.social. Thinking through these issues was cathartic, then lit a fire, then instilled hope for how to keep moving psych wellness & behavioral health forward. May others feel that hope & drive to keep psych science rolling. 🙏🏼
Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:

Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3

1/9
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This is such an important point, imo.

I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!

I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I'd definitely be more surprised if 50s social psych held up in today's scientific standards. It's all the work we've done since then that should count. That's what makes a field.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Europeans and...Burqueños. New Mexico has universal child care (up to age 13!) as of November 1, and Albuquerque has free bus service. 🎉
"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
@unmhsc.bsky.social's Randy Otto & Dave DeMatteo address contemporary issues in forensic psych. Covers language, ethical inconsistencies w/ general clinical guidelines, transparency vs. test security, & several practices yet to be standardized (if they should). psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Doing important things today by voting and honoring my dad with a tomato pie. He died on Election Day 17 years ago today (the day Obama was elected).
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Defense counsel was absolutely going for a pun here and probably won a bet back at the office for doing it
Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM