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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 21h

📣 New Pub 📣

We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

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STRESS Lab @stresslab.bsky.social · 20d

Most of the crew @istss.bsky.social (@nicoleweiss.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social @reina-kiefer.bsky.social) plus a few of our alum (@melissarschick.bsky.social and @atobar.bsky.social)

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Jul 11

My 3-year-old is also very proud of herself for trying her first doughnut this morning. She’s been doing oral immunotherapy for a milk allergy since just after her 1st birthday, and this was a very exciting win!

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Jul 11

The best kind of news to wake up to! So grateful to learn that my Loan Repayment Program award has been renewed for a third year by NIDA. These types of programs are life-changing for early career folx, and have enabled me to pursue a career in research (even if it isn’t the most lucrative option).

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Jul 11

Congratulations, Julie!! So well deserved!

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Jul 2

This is horrible. You all deserve better, and the work you do is so important - our field deserves better.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · May 25

This has been such a cool development for us too!! My kiddo loves to be given a “job” to do

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Apr 30

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction

Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths.

www.latintimes.com

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 16

Congrats, Neo! They’re so lucky to have you!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 16

This is so true, but I think it might be a symptom of the larger problem - authors know that they’ll be asked for this or are encouraged by journal guidelines to describe the clinical implications of their findings and have to reach to cone up with something.

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 15

Yes! I was so excited to start it. Then that visual hit and I said NOPE and went back to streaming Food Network

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 11

I can’t help but think of the many scientific advances that have allowed my family to grow. I hope that science can withstand this administration, but fear the ways that cuts now will impact the advances my children can see in their lifetime. #StandUpForScience #CSectionAwarenessMonth

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’ve been grateful that this was an option to save my babies lives and my own life in situations that could have turned out very differently in other moments of medical history. Women’s health (and the health and well-being of so many others) is under attack.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 11

After my first was born, I really struggled reading these kinds of things and felt a lot of shame telling people that she was born via c-section. More recently, I’ve been proud and grateful. I’ve been proud that I, just like every other mama, laid myself down and brought my babies here.

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 11

Shared on my personal accounts, but this feels professionally relevant too.

April is C-section awareness month. Every now and then some discussion pops up online about whether c-sections “count” as birth, whether they’re an “easier” way to deliver, and all other kinds of nonsense.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 6

I’d like to be added please!

Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 6

Congratulations, Reagan!!!

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Apr 4

An important point getting overlooked:

When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.

They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 3

Baby wearing is the greatest!

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you!! Contact napping while toddler parenting is a skill I fully think through cultivating, but it has been such a joy already ❤️

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ACLU @aclu.org · Apr 2

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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Rachel Hoopsick, PhD, MS, MPH, MCHES @rachelhoopsick.bsky.social · Apr 1

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today.

Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Mar 31

As of last week, I’m on leave for the next few months soaking up all the snuggles I can from this tiny one - work can wait ❤️

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Melissa Schick @melissarschick.bsky.social · Mar 31

So bummed to be missing #CPA2025 this week, but can’t wait to follow along here!

APA Division 50 Society of Addiction Psychology @apadivision50.bsky.social · Mar 31

We want to follow #CPA2025 attendees. Will we be seeing you in PVD this week? Like this post and we’ll be sure to follow.

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨New pub🚨

We examined concordance of emotion-dependent risk-taking in the lab (via emotion induction & BART) & real-world (via EMA). Participants were more likely to drink alcohol, use cannabis & illicit drugs, & have condomless sex during elevated neg and pos emotions 1/

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