Hopping on to share that I’ll be accepting a PhD student in Counseling Psych at @uoregon this cycle. Those interested in culture, perinatal mental health or positive affect treatments would be a great fit. See faculty profile for more: https://t.co/OEOlF32PoU

#HiringFreeze across all 10 UC campuses. Devastating doesn’t begin to cover it. Make no mistake, the ripple effects will be felt far outside of academia. This is bad for healthcare, statewide revenue, upward mobility etc etc etc.

As a person who directly benefitted from many of the programs being dismantled (F31 diversity, diverse postdoc seminar series, cluster hire, etc), it hits so hard every time I see one of these programs go away. I am gutted. We are going to lose so many exceptional scientists.

Still, messaging can--and should--be manipulated to increase screening rates of diverse groups in our RCTs. Well designed recruitment studies are vital to enhancing health equity. This work is open access, and can be read here: https://t.co/0FbeZ7bL7u

✌️🏼 In pregnancy, sleep challenges can be considered normal (even when they're not)! Sleep problems may have been considered an inherent part of pregnancy experience, weakening the credibility of the sleep disparities message.

👆🏼We drew attention to disparities in the prevalence rates of poor sleep among Latinx/Black people. It's possible that focusing on disparities in the *consequences* of poor sleep may have motivated more screening.

Overall, the disparities message resulted in less screening and the disparities vs. standard message did not impact participants differently depending on their race/ethnicity. While unexpected, we think the disparities message may have flopped in part b/c...

We randomized pregnant people to receive a study recruitment ad highlighting ethnic/racial disparities in sleep quality, or an identical message without a mention of disparities. Then we looked @ which message resulted in more screening overall & by participant race/ethnicity.

Randomized controlled trials notoriously under-enroll non-white participants. In this article, we tested whether recruitment messaging could be leveraged to increase the diversity of pregnant people screening into a study for prenatal insomnia.

I'll be accepting a clinical psych student at @montclairstateu this admission cycle. Those interested in etiology/asmnt/tx of youth externalizing problems are encouraged to apply. https://t.co/tbsksmLCZ8 @BrianDawkins - peep the name and let's collab!

Very excited to share new work from the @BABLab_UCLA! This study w/ Drs. Misty Richards, Molly Fox, Laura Glynn, & @Dr_BCallaghan investigated the role of interoceptive sensibility & early-life adversity in prenatal depressive symptoms. Summary below 🧵 https://t.co/vqF0wNXsoC

🚨 Are you a community-engaged scholar? Postdoc Opportunity: Community-Engaged Research with Latinx Communities. UC Merced seeks a postdoctoral scholar to conduct research with Latinx communities in California’s Central Valley. Interested? Please DM for more details.

Postbacs have few mechanisms for obtaining travel funds & still we prioritize an applicant's conference presentations during grad admission. Efforts like this virtual SIG conference are one way to increase equity for our trainees.

Gratitude for @ABCTStudentSIG & all involved in programming for creating opportunities for students to present their research at no cost! #ABCTStudentSymposium2024

Presenter: Richelle Genove Mah Insomnia Disorder During Pregnancy: What gets in the way of seeking help? Richelle Mah, Carolyn Ponting, Bernadette McClelland, Chenoa Levy, Rachel Manber, Patricia Moran, Nasim Siobani, Andrew Krystal, Jennifer Felder #ABCTStudentSymposium2024

Presenter: Berni McClelland Predictors of Treatment Expectations in a Randomized Clinical Trial of a Digital Sleep Intervention During Pregnancy Berni McClelland, Carolyn Ponting, Richelle Mah, Chenoa Levy, Patty Moran, Rachel Manber, & Jennifer Felder #ABCTStudentSymposium2024

We have another opening for a full-time Clinical Research Coordinator for the UCSF PRISM Study, described below. Provides a rare combo of research & clinical skills for those interested in clinical psych. New posting ⬇️ https://t.co/73TvUivVrK Please reach out with questions!

Proud of Dr. Wright— a stellar colleague-amiga. Happy for the UO and the future students she’ll inspire 💥

Recruiting a postdoc to address obstetric racism and perinatal mental disparities in Latine birthing people. Join us!

Past mentees had a moment last week! One admitted to her top choice clinical psych PhD program. The other got their honor's thesis accepted to a peer reviewed journal. I've had an urge to call them "rockstars" which is the only part of this situation I'm not proud of.