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Clinical Psych PhD Candidate UofL EAT Lab | eating disorders, time, and N=1 | Quant curious. Typos guaranteed. (She/they) Views my own. cecusack.github.io/ClaireCusack

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · Sep 16

Are we getting more #PsychSciSky users?! I’m Claire-4th year PhD student asking questions like “why do eating disorders persist?” I’m curious about how symptoms unfold over micro-moments & how to use that information to learn about long-term trajectories of illness maintenance, relapse, & recovery.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6h

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Shameka 🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 6h

A’ja Wilson is the 2025 #WNBA MVP doing MVP things 🤷🏾‍♀️ #cheatcode

A game stat graphic showing Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson with pink hair, who recorded 34 points, 14 rebounds, and 4 assists in a 90–88 win over the Phoenix Mercury. She shot 11/20 from the field (55%) and 11/12 from the free-throw line, adding 3 blocks. Wilson played 38 minutes, finishing with a double-double and a game-high performance. Hashtags shown: #doubledouble #30bomb #merchant.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 16h

Add yourself and other people you know to this list of research researchers doing work on LGBTQ+ health

abct-sgm-sig.bsky.social @abct-sgm-sig.bsky.social · 16h

@abctnow.bsky.social Please add yourselves (and people you know) to our SGM research mentor list: : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The list of mentors doing SGM research will be hosted on our website soon. In the meantime, I sent a message about this to the listserv!

docs.google.com

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Emily Presseller @emilypresseller.bsky.social · 2d

I am excited to share that I began as an assistant professor at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth last week. I am hiring a research coordinator to join my team ASAP! Please share with anyone who might be interested!
searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/83064

Research Coordinator

The Scalable, Accessible Treatments for Eating Disorders and Related Psychopathology (SATED) research team at Dartmouth College is pleased to invite applications to join our exciting and supportive re...

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 2d

It felt sleepy on campus, and then I learned/remembered that it is fall break. Seems on brand for 5th year where semesters are almost meaningless with little anchoring me to time 🥲

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 4d

In April, I thought it would be fun to celebrate internship apps with an 80k race in the PNW. I’m now looking at the cut-off times and my recent performances. I’m not saying I regret my decisions, but I am questioning them 🤡 2 weeks until a nice day along the Rogue River for however long!

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6d

(I can hear my mentors laughing 😅❤️)

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6d

Ok I know I’ve said this for years, but for real this time: I’m at the point of my training where I think “yay, I’m almost done, and oh no, I’m running out of time.” Maybe internship apps and dissertation writing make it hit a bit differently now. A mix of excitement, anxiety, & anticipatory grief!

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6d

-someone who values transparency and reproducibility and practices imperfectly

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6d

I once heard someone describe their teaching as a “place for learning, not already knowing.” It isn’t a 1:1 here but I think of that sentiment in these OS discussions. Not that knowing results in doing but how do we create a space that’s inviting to adopt the values of OS and practice the principles

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6d

True. I really appreciate y’all’s input because I think these types of comments bring people in versus further isolate/push people away. It’s okay to not know things, *and* it’s important we learn, continue to learn, and raise our standards!

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 6d

Even messy products can be fridge worthy 😊

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 8d

Omg it gets better!! For me, I felt it after finishing year 3! 🙏🏻

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 9d

Grad school doesn’t have to be that hard all of the time! Over the past week, I got to see views like these and friends get married! I also saw pika, seals, otters, alpacas, and orcas✨

The Cascades reflecting into Gem Lake. I think this is Wright mountain

Rocky Pacific Coast with the Lime Kiln lighthouse in the background

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 12d

This change limits eligibility to the pool of students with the *least* access to information about GRFP, and will favor the lucky few with access to mentorship and social capital as an undergrad

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 13d

You are amazing, Omid! Well deserved!!

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Shannon Sauer-Zavala @shannonsauerzavala.bsky.social · 14d

👋🏻 I am so excited to announce that I'll be hiring a postdoc at the University of Kentucky!

We study mechanism-focused (e.g., personality traits), transdiagnostic treatment development and personalization.

ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...

More details in the 🧵 👇🏻

Psychology Post-Doctoral Scholar

The Treatment Innovation for Psychological Services (TIPS) Research Group in the Psychology department of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, KY is seeking a fu...

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

8/ side note: @clarissaong.bsky.social and @cherilev.bsky.social will be reviewing apps for our Clinical Psychological Sciences program at UofL 🤗 check out their websites to see if you might be a good fit. I’m lucky to benefit from their mentorship and to be a part of a supportive department 💖

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

7/ We found preliminary evidence that subgroup membership may be helpful in understanding treatment outcomes. Future work is needed to (a) clarify the relationships between shame/guilt in eating disorder samples, and (b) test if personalizing based on subgroup membership relates to clinical outcomes

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

6/ This finding is consistent with other work showing evidence for shame being implicated in eating disorder maintenance. It’s possible that guilt predicting shame reflects the tendency to internalize guilt or core-beliefs (e.g., I am a bad person) that can be difficult to move in therapy.

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

5/ Subgroup membership was not associated with change in eating disorder symptom severity, but was associated with change in eating disorder clinical impairment. Specifically, the subgroup characterized by guilt➡️shame showed less improvement in clinical impairment relative to the other subgroups.

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

4/ S-GIMME identified 3 subgroups. The subgroups were distinguished by the shame-guilt relationships, such that in one group guilt predicted shame; another shame predicted guilt; and the third group showed no relation between guilt and shame.

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

3/ we studied relations btwn GIMME-identified subgroups & treatment outcomes in individuals w/ eating disorders. If a subgroup membership predicts poor outcomes, that might point to a sticky area to target. If a subgroup is related to better outcomes, that could be a strength to leverage in therapy

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

2/ Eating disorder treatment effects have remained stagnant over the past 30 yrs, possibly b/c manualized treatments are based on aggregate information. While personalized treatments reduce symptoms, they may not be scalable. Here, we try to find the middle ground between the two approaches

Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 15d

Excited this one is getting out there! A thread/teaser🧵

Eating Anxiety Treatment Lab @uofleatlab.bsky.social · 16d

Exciting news! A new paper has been accepted in Behavior Therapy:

Congrats to @clarissaong.bsky.social, @claireecusack.bsky.social, and @cherilev.bsky.social on this important contribution!

#PersonalizedTreatment #NetworkTheory #EatingDisordersTreatment

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Jonas Haslbeck @jmbh.bsky.social · 16d

Two new preprints on multilevel HMMs! Time series data is now pervasive in psychology and new methods are needed to model the dynamics in such data. Hidden Markov Models (HHMs) are powerful models for dynamics in which a system is switching between a number of discrete states.

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