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Research Society on Alcohol @rsaofficial.bsky.social · 2d

🎓 The RSA Doctoral Student Small Grants provide $5,000 (for one year) to help you carry out your project.

🏆 Submit a 1-page Letter of Intent (LOI) first; selected LOIs will be invited to submit full proposals.

Learn more & apply: researchsocietyonalcohol.org/doctoral-stu...

Doctoral Student Small Grant | RSA | Research Society on Alcohol

RSA provides a community for sharing scientific discoveries, attracting and supporting career development of the next generation of alcohol researchers, disseminating scientific knowledge regarding…

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · 22d

CONGRATS!!! I’m happy both our NIAAA grants came through!!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you my dear!!!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · 29d

Wow. That is absolute madness indeed, and so frustrating to wait given such an amazing score. It’s hard to plan and function, right? Fingers and toes crossed for you!!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · 29d

Submitted: Nov 2024
Reviewed: 2/28/25 (AA-2)
Council: 5/14/25
Status "pending admin review": 7/28/25
Received JIT request: 8/7/25
Status "award prepared": 9/8/25
NOA: 9/9/25
Start date: 9/10/25

We submitted this grant 4 times (original sub 2/2022) and had amazing reviewer feedback each time. 🙌

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · 29d

Extra grateful to receive an NIAAA R21 award today. My former labmate/grad school BFF (Amy Stamates) and I will use EMA to examine impulsivity/craving and alcohol when co-used with cannabis and/or nicotine among young adults.

As many are waiting on NIAAA awards, I thought I'd share some history:

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great news, congrats! Is it pre-doc & post-doc? (Thinking ahead for some students!)

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Leslie Leve @leveprev.bsky.social · Aug 28

Come join our team as a postdoc to collaborate on this new NIH research study focused on supporting youth in foster care! Position info in @schweercollins.bsky.social posting below!

Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

📍 Position in-person in Eugene, OR (mountains + ocean!) 👩‍🏫 Co-mentored by me
@iastateresearch.bsky.social
@leveprev.bsky.social of
@universityoforegon.bsky.social
🤝 Hands-on training in implementation science, research-practice partnerships & intervention adaptation +

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Dr. Natalia Van Doren @nataliavandoren.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excited to share my new paper out in @addictionjournal.bsky.social 🎉

We analyzed data from 8 million+ primary care alcohol screenings to examine impacts of adult cannabis legalization (ACL) on alcohol use in California's largest healthcare system across four NIAAA-defined drinking limits. 🧵👇 1/n

Addiction journal @addictionjournal.bsky.social · Jul 31

Are cannabis policy changes associated with alcohol use patterns? Evidence for age-group differences based on primary care screening data buff.ly/Nj4LI0N @nataliavandoren.bsky.social

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Jul 14

Are they playing for a major budget reduction in the next Fiscal Year?

NIAAA is starting to concern me drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/n...

NIAAA is starting to concern me

I did a RePORTER search for any grants with Award Notices issued by NIAAA from 7/1/2025 onward, just to see if they were shut down completely. No, there are 39 awards including two R00 conversions …

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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · May 19

New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.

www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti...

and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...

OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk

I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of

www.abqjournal.com

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Apr 29

Congratulations!!!!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Apr 18

My real guess is Pat O'Neill. 🕵️‍♂️

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Apr 18

It's gotta be Damon. Or Carol.
Miss you all!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Apr 8

WOOHOO!!!! Congrats!!!!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Apr 8

Ugh. I was worried it was only NIAAA but I think this is happening across multiple institutes - for example, NIDDK’s website has the same banner: www.niddk.nih.gov.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

As an Institute within NIH, NIDDK conducts and supports research on many of the most common, costly, and chronic conditions to improve health.

www.niddk.nih.gov

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · Mar 12

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 7

We need to organize--let’s help each other.

NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.

I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.

Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Mar 4

Amazing! What institute?

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Feb 28

In case it's relevant for any #addictionsci friends - NIAAA's AA-2 study section met on 2/25 as planned and IPTA is now showing that it was rescheduled for 4/23/25 (original date of 2/20/25). I haven't been notified by any of this via email; just diligent eRA commons checking!

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · Feb 24

Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

2025 Study section tracking

docs.google.com

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Feb 26

If an NIH grant you've worked hard on for years finally gets a great score, but NIH funding is frozen and being massively restructured, does it still make a sound?

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Feb 24

The University of Oregon/Dept of Counseling Psychology & Human Services (my dept) is hiring!

Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Health Promotion in Hispanic/Latine/Underserved Communities. Deadline of 3/17. Please pass along to anyone who may be interested!
careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

Assistant Professor, Health Promotion in Hispanic/Latine/Underserved Communities

careers.uoregon.edu

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Katie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · Feb 15

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

To understand the devastation for U.S. science right now. Here is how NIH grants work:
somebody comes up with a research idea, like a tree sapling
NIH invests in the “direct cost” of that idea, aka buys the sapling
Let’s say that sapling is $100

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Ashley Linden-Carmichael, Ph.D. @drashleylc.bsky.social · Feb 13

Congratulations on getting this submitted. It’s such a fabulous project and you are a rockstar. Fingers crossed for you ❤️

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