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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · 2d

Sosososo excited to serve on the editorial board of Eating Behaviors! I’m so honored to experience this milestone in my academic bucket list!

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · 19d

Research from Scott Griffiths at #EDRS showing that more toxic ED content is delivered to people with #eatingdisorders. TikTok prioritizes time spent watching videos over actions like liking videos - so folks w/ EDs get more toxic content even if they aren’t interacting directly

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · 20d

Day one of #EDRS2025 in sunny/rainy Orange County ☀️🌧️ and my first as an EDRS member!! Becoming a member this year was definitely one of my #imadeit moments as an eating disorder researcher and I can’t wait to learn with and from so many amazing researchers!

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Aug 23

Congrats Dr Shepherd!! :))

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Aug 19

You can tell I am in grant writing mode because tell me why I used the term "procedural exactness" in a casual text with a friend (in my defense she is a ceramics artist and I will argue it is an important skill in her field!!)

Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Aug 17

After 6 long years, 30+ scientific publications, 2000+ clinical hours, 40+ presentations, countless cups of coffee, and a wealth of love and support, I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology! So proud to be the first doctor in my family and excited for what the future brings 🌟 #PhDone

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Aug 16

Oh my goodness I’d be happy to!! I’ll shoot you a text!!

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · Aug 12

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

2026 Applicants – Personality Processes and Outcomes Laboratory

sites.lsa.umich.edu

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Aug 12

Aaah that is so kind @lisavelkoff.bsky.social and thank you @taylorepenwell.bsky.social for the shoutout! :)

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jul 28

Bsky research friends! Does anyone have resources or examples of an F32 or K08 project that has proposed using existing data in addition to proposing a novel study? Any help is appreciated!

a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it

ALT: a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jul 3

This week I started my new position as a T32 NHLBI Postdoctoral Research Scholar through University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Training Program! So excited to receive this specialized training on cardiometabolic research and eating behaviors!

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congrats Molly!!!

Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 3

Aah thank you so much! I'm so excited you'll be presenting as well! It was great to see you at ICED!

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 3

Congrats!

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 3

Also in the spirit of normalizing rejection - I also had several symposia rejected, including other research studies on weight stigma and suicide research among trans and gender diverse youth. I still think that research is so important and worth doing, but rejection is a ubiquitous part of academia

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 3

In the spirit of continued excitement and passion for sharing more on fat justice and anti fat bias efforts in the eating disorder space - so excited that our clinical roundtable on this was accepted at @abctnow.bsky.social #ABCT2025 this year! @connorelbe.bsky.social @drtiffanyabrown.bsky.social

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 3

#ICED2025 was one for the books! I was so excited that we had a full house for our panel on weight stigma, “feeling fat” across the size spectrum, and eating disorders. A great chance to connect/reconnect with other scientists and practitioners that care about eating disorder advocacy!

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Jun 3

All of my symposia were rejected this year 🫠 but just when I was reaching radical acceptance about finally having a conference I can kick back and just go to talks I had a clinical roundtable accepted

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · May 21

Sadly they ended up being double booked haha, but they will be presented Friday 5/30 at 2:30pm! :)

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · May 16

We also found that individuals with worse interoception reported increased urges to binge eat as well as restrict. Overall, we found evidence that weight neutral approaches would be extremely helpful in disordered eating treatment settings and interoception is a promising treatment target

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · May 16

My dissertation study is now out *open access* at Appetite! We found that individuals with binge eating symptoms who were randomly assigned to be exposed to weight stigma engaged in *less* caloric consumption - many implications for social identity threat!

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

Testing Interoceptive Dysfunction as a Mediator of the Relation Between Weight Stigma and Disordered Eating

Interoceptive dysfunction could be one mechanism that facilitates the weight stigma-disordered eating association. Hence, the aim of this study was to…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · May 12

Congrats!

Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · May 9

My co-interns and their passion for their research are always inspiring to me! @laurenlaifer.bsky.social's new paper finds that both maternal and paternal factors across the perinatal period influence toddlers' emotion regulation. Definitely sharing this with all the dads in my life ❤️

Lauren Laifer @laurenlaifer.bsky.social · May 9

Amid the seemingly endless stream of bad news, I'm thrilled to share something positive: my latest publication on the intergenerational transmission of emotion dysregulation across the perinatal period, out now in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology!

Here's what we found🧵

Understanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Dysregulation: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Psychological Inflexibility During Pregnancy and Mindful Parenting At Toddler-age

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · May 9

So excited to hear that my dissertation paper was accepted at Appetite!! Stay tuned for when the paper is in press to read more about how experiences of weight stigma contribute to both binge eating and restriction risk 👀

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Shruti Kinkel-Ram, PhD @shrutikinkelram.bsky.social · Apr 1

Aah just seeing this, congrats Wes!

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