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Margaret Crane, PhD

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clinical psychologist & implementation scientist at Brown @brownimpsci.bsky.social Interested in business models to scale effective treatments, policy, digital mental health, and implementation science Views are my own

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 27

Hi everyone! Thought I'd introduce myself to the Blue Sky community. I'm a clinical psychology post doc at Brown. I study implementation science, which looks at how to get treatments that work out to more people.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 8d

Here is NIMH

There were 51% as many new R01s in FY25 as in FY24.

Note the large increase in RF1 multi-year awards.

10/n

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 8d

After a rollercoaster of a year of delays from NIH disruptions (literally the length of a pregnancy), it is such a relief to have this promotion processed. It’s incredibly exciting to be entering into this new stage of my professional career and my personal life this month.

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 8d

Some professional and personal announcements!

I’ve been promoted to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University!

We’re also expecting our baby boy later this month!

Pregnant person smiling in front of the Brown Bear statue at Brown University

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 13d

Appendix has a list of what skills were modeled in each book. A few of our favorites books:
-Sam Wu is Not Afraid Series by Katie Tsang and Kevin Tsang
-King of the Bench: No Fear! by Steve Moore
-Worry Warriors Series by Marne Ventura and Leo Trinidad
-Fuzz the Little Sheep Series by Inger Maier

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 13d

We found:
-Characters modeled 2.39/8 practices
-Cognitive strategies (60% of books), exposure (46%), and labeling body sensations (42%) were the most frequently modeled
-Perhaps unsurprisingly, books written by mental health professionals modeled more skills.

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 13d

Like using children's books to teach kids about emotions? Check out our publication! We reviewed children's books on anxiety to identify how often characters modeled evidence-based practices. See the appendix for a list of what skills were modeled in each book

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Children’s Literature on Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Content Analysis

Children’s literature can teach life lessons and effective coping strategies, and can be a way to disseminate practice elements (i.e., building blocks…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 20d

The second of our openings in the Clinical Program at Colorado State is now online. This one is for an Assistant Professor with an open research area.

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166...

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 23d

APCs are particularly brutal for trainees and ECRs whose grants have too small of budgets to accommodate unexpected open access fees (e.g., F‘s, T32s, K’s)

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 23d

How are folks handling this change in NIH open access policies? Submitting to journals that comply with the new NIH policy for immediate release without requiring an open access fee?

Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: The NIH just started requiring NIH-funded research to be made freely, immediately available. In response, some journals are forcing scientists to pay thousands in open-access fees to publish.

The result: chaos. The fees, one scholar says, are “out of control.” www.chronicle.com/article/maki...

Making Your Research Free May Cost You

Under a new requirement that NIH-funded research be freely, immediately available, some journals are forcing researchers to pay to publish.

www.chronicle.com

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 24d

Strange trend for researchers to be aware of: participants are using Chat GPT to respond to open-ended questions at the end of surveys. Be sure to look for common indicators of GenAI before coding qualitative data (e.g., numbered lists, double asterisks, etc.)

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 24d

Penn State Psychology is hiring in Child Clinical!
Assistant or Associate Professor

*This is a 2nd position*
We're also hiring in quant-computational.

Q's app process: [email protected]
Q's position: [email protected], Cynthia Huang-Pollock

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant or Associate Professor, Child Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats! This is so exciting!

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Gio Ramos @gramos.bsky.social · 27d

This is a fantastic resource for students applying to clinical/counseling programs this cycle: A list of PIs, organized by areas of research, accepting students!

Please share widely!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

docs.google.com

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · Sep 9

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

psychology.fas.harvard.edu

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 4

It is a wild time to be an NIH funded researcher. This grant has been pending since December 2024 (submitted June 2024). I am incredibly grateful for the mentors, colleagues, friends, and family who supported me through this rollercoaster of a year.

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'll be working with a dream team of mentors - A. Rani Elwy, Alex Dopp, Aaron Lyon, Bo Kim, David Mohr, Will Aldridge, and Joshua Kemp.

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 4

We hope to learn about how digital mental health organizations, mental health providers, intermediary organizations, and purveyor organizations scale their impact.

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 4

he goal is to help organizations balance priorities, including implementing evidence-based interventions, being financially sustainable, and providing equitable access to care. The project will use human-centered design and qualitative/mixed methods.

Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 4

Over the moon to announce that I received the Notice of Award for my #NIMH K08!

This 5 year project will adapt a tool to help implementation and mental health organizations with strategic financial planning.

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Dan McNeish @dmcneish.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tenure-Track Quant Psyc job opening at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Areas of interest are pretty broad (SEM, multilevel, or psychometrics), the deadline to apply is coming up soon (Sept 15) if you're interested!

careers.nau.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States

About the Department/College The Department of Psychological Sciences is located on the Flagstaff Mountain Campus of Northern Arizona University (NAU), situated at the base of San Francisco Peaks. NAU...

careers.nau.edu

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Shari Steinman 🧜🏻‍♀️ @sharialaina.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hi all! It looks like I *will* be able to take a new student this year! If you are interested in perinatal mental health, cognitive bias, and/or cats, apply to work with me at UVM! :)

a pusheen cat with the words let me join my dude below it

Alt: a pusheen cat with the words let me join my dude below it

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh you want to address health disparities, decrease chronic illness, alleviate mental health problems, decrease maternal and infant mortality, and prevent diabetes/cancer/dementia/heart disease??????

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · Sep 2

Looking at grant reporter, it seems like the NIMH is focusing on issuing NOAs for grant renewals. In August, they issued 393 NOAs, of which only 23 were for new projects

Total NOAs: reporter.nih.gov/search/-raDb...
NOAs for new projects: reporter.nih.gov/search/9PUrD...

RePORT ⟩ RePORTER

reporter.nih.gov

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Sep 2

The House discretionary budget bill is now out for FY26, including a proposed *slight boost* in NIH funding & many other components that will take time to unpack.

Bill text:
appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

A few key points including IDC analysis in a provisional 🧵

appropriations.house.gov

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · Sep 1

House LHHC bill is out. Lots of hits to HHS, but the top line number for NIH is 1% decrease, mostly due to cuts ARPA-H. This seems like a huge rejection of the president's budget request.

democrats-appropriations.house.gov

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