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Ryan L. Brown

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A very curious social-health psychologist! 🤠 Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University 💫 PI, @starlabteam.bsky.social‬ 📄 Associate Editor, British Journal of Health Psychology 🎤 Host, Stress Puzzle podcast ryanlinnbrown.com

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · Aug 25

🧩 In this episode:
1:09: How have you handled mistakes?
8:50: Non-traditional experiences and hobbies
12:03: Advice for trainees & ECRs
22:29: Reflections on collaborating
30:20: What is the future of stress science?

Season 2 coming tomorrow!
#scicomm #academicsky #psychscisky #healthpsych

Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Aug 25

🧩 A new back to school bonus episode of the Stress Puzzle is available now!

Listen: tinyurl.com/bonusstressp...

Tune back in tomorrow for our Season 2 premiere with Dr. Wendy Berry Mendes! Season 2's theme is stress in context and we have a phenomenal lineup that we can't wait to share with you.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 1d

The Tribune spoke with several Texas Tech professors about new restrictions on instruction related to gender identity.

They described a system where politics shapes what can be taught and faculty have little protection if they resist.

Texas Tech system’s vague guidelines on gender identity spur more questions than answers

Faculty have spent weeks seeking clarity on new restrictions, which have often been issued by word of mouth. A written Q&A was rescinded.

www.texastribune.org

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Interested in what goes viral online and how social media intersects with rising political polarization?

Check out the latest episode of the Stress Puzzle where @jayvanbavel.bsky.social walks us through the implications of this research: www.stressmeasurement.org/podcast/epis...

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

I’ll end the thread here but I feel so lucky to love and be loved so deeply 🤍

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

HOT TO GO! was the highlight of the dance floor (of course!) 💖

I am obsessed with this picture with @katiealegria.bsky.social!

P.S. Can you spot @jacasiegel.bsky.social & @roxannefelig.bsky.social on the dance floor??

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

I also love these photos from the night before where we brought our friends on a sunset electric paddle boat ride around Lady Bird Lake (ft. bats and surprise fireworks to close out the night!)

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

My dad died in May of 2020 and I knew this would be one of many difficult moments of missing him. I’m so grateful for the ways we incorporated Austin music & Townes Van Zandt specifically as part of our ceremony. It all felt so right.

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

It was a whimsical garden wedding that felt so true to us as a couple & our love of nature!

Extra special to have these books from my childhood that always made me want to frolic in a garden — one was a given to me when I was 4 y/o with a handwritten note inside that was incredible to rediscover 💕

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 5h

On May 25, 2025, I married my best friend in a lush garden in Austin. From Houston to San Francisco to Lubbock, we’ve created and recreated our lives together — I feel so grateful we get to keep moving forward together 💕

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 8d

If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that if you invite me to your wedding, I WILL be out on the dance floor (I’m sorry).

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · 9h

In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants

Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

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PNIRS @pnirs.bsky.social · 2d

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️

🗓️ June 22–25, 2026
📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸

✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy!

📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 2d

Shout-out to @carlosasilvera.bsky.social for his efforts to coordinate career advice from SBM students and trainees for the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Fall 2025 newsletter! 👏🏼

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 7d

When we moved to the Bay Area for my partner’s job, I didn’t know a soul. But almost immediately, @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social and @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social became my closest friends. It’s hard to form new, deep connections as an adult, but it’s like the three of us have known each other forever.

A photo of Jaclyn in a wedding dress, with Ryan in a green dress on her right side in the photo, and Sanjana on her left side in the photo.

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 7d

the biggest ditto!!!!! absolutely so special to find such good friendships in the midst of our ~many~ moves and I will absolutely be framing this photo 🥲

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PNIRS @pnirs.bsky.social · 7d

It is time for our annual Tell Us About Your Research series!! Please fill out the form here by November 11th if you would like your research to be featured in this fun weekly series! 🔬🧠👩‍🔬

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 8d

🧩 New episode of the Stress Puzzle with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social & host @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social on the impact of partisan animosity, risks of rising political polarization, and how social media incentives can contribute to polarization.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/polarizationandhealth #psychscisky

Political Polarization and Health: Navigating the social media divide with Dr. Jay Van Bavel

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely thrilled to be here and looking forward to soaking up every moment of these few weeks! 🤩

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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 15d

Welcome @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social!! Very excited to have you with us for a few weeks!!

Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 15d

We are so excited to welcome Dr. Ryan Brown, Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, who is joining our lab on a micro-sabbatical! Her research focuses on the role of love and loss in shaping mental and physical health across the lifespan.
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Logic of Emotion Lab @logicemotionlab.bsky.social · 15d

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 17d

As researchers or clinicians, how do we navigate conversations about the demands of caring (i.e., "cost of caring") without minimizing the importance of care work?

Dr. Giscombé shared her thoughts on navigating difficult conversations around coping based on her research into Superwoman Schema.

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Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 19d

I'm especially grateful to have this early-career space to lean into my own intellectual curiosity, love of lifelong learning, and the opportunity to absorb feedback from so many brilliant folks in this department.

Ryan L. Brown @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social · 19d

*SQUEALS* I'm so excited to have the opportunity to participate in a 3-week microsabbatical program in the Department of Psychology at Princeton (starting next week!).

Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 19d

📚 Dr. Brown (@ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social) will be speaking at Princeton in the Department of Psychology’s Social Talk Series next week! If you’re on campus, be sure to check it out this Monday (9.22) at 12pm.

Talk details: psychology.princeton.edu/news-events/...

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · 26d

In our episode on building #stem careers, we asked guests to reflect on mistakes in their careers, how they approached them & how it may have affected their future research. Dr. Almeida reflected on needing measures of positive events in addition to stress.

Listen now: tinyurl.com/bonusstresspuzzle

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Stress, Aging, and Relationships Lab @starlabteam.bsky.social · Sep 6

It was a great evening to explore Lubbock's First Friday Art Trail with new graduate students! We're thrilled to have you here, @kristenstopfer.bsky.social and @carlosasilvera.bsky.social!

STAR lab members at the First Friday Art Trail

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Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!) @bsamjournal.bsky.social · 29d

New in BSAM - Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives

This review combines a recognition of societal factors that worsen & consolidate disparities in asthma outcomes + explores mechanisms to support resilience in asthma patients from disadvantaged communities.

Free for the week!

Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives : Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine

ade in identifying mechanical, cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma and influences of psychosocial factors on development, pathophysiology, and management have been demonstrated. However, much ...

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