Congratulations!! 👏👏👏

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:

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 :)
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Omg!! Congratulations!! So proud of you and excited for this next step 😊👏👏

Ppl studying emotion and psychopathology, at least those I could find on this app so far..

DM or reply to join or suggest more!
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As cannabis policy continues to evolve, understanding the broader impact on other health behaviors is essential for anticipating public health consequences and informing tailored prevention/intervention efforts for specific age groups. Full paper: doi.org/10.1111/add....
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Findings may inform the cannabis-alcohol substitution vs. complementarity debate: short-term increases in heavy drinking among young adults could reflect complementary use, whereas longer-term declines—especially among middle-aged and older adults—are more consistent with substitution effects. 5/n

But effects varied by age:
Adults 21–34 showed a short-term increase in HED, followed by declines across all drinking outcomes.
Adults 35–49 had immediate and sustained reductions.
Adults 50–64 had a brief uptick in weekly drinking, then gradual declines.
Adults 65+ showed small decreases. 4/n

Overall trends:
📉 Gradual declines after ACL passage in rates of weekly drinking and frequent HED. 3/n

Using interrupted time series analysis, we modeled trends from 2015–2019, evaluating two policy points: ACL passage (Nov 2016) and ACL implementation (Jan 2018). Alcohol use was measured across four NIAAA-defined limits: rates of exceeding daily, weekly, both daily and weekly, and frequent HED 2/n

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

New blog post! Let's say you've measured two variables repeatedly and want to investigate how one affects the other over time. Here are some recommendations for how to do that well.

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Call for Submissions! Behavioral Medicine: Special Issue on Terminated Grants.

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I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

Fridays come with blood-shed these days. I am told the DOJ was at UCSF today, with an emergency meeting of the chancellors. Have a wonderful weekend ya'll!

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All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...

I barely have words.

Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.

At this point, scientifically speaking ... diddly squat 😅

Totally. It’s easy for folks to fall into the trap of equating constructs with measures, especially when there’s a predominant one that much of the literature is built around. Then again, when that's the case, it raises legit questions about what we actually know; so that part seems fair.

In my experience, some reviewers also view ERQ-based ER research as "social psych" (& less relevant), whereas measures like the DERS are perceived more grounded in clinical science. Broadening your framing of ER early on to include clinical lit. and a wider array of ER strategies can help too. 3/3

Overall, reviewers seem more receptive when you acknowledge the CBT foundations first, and then clearly position ER as extending (rather than rebranding or ignoring) those core ideas. 2/3

I’ve definitely run into this too. I’ve found it can help to explicitly bridge the literatures: grounding early discussion in classic CBT (e.g., Beck, Ellis), then show how the ER literature builds on — but also expands — those concepts (Gross, 1998). 1/3

There is a debate in the addiction field about the affect regulation hypothesis. So let's see what ya got! Papers in favor, papers opposed. Thanks @jonasdora.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social @andreawycoff.bsky.social @drandreahoward.bsky.social @jtwaddell7.bsky.social for being Guest Editors.

Thanks so much!!