Anthony Perillo, Ph.D.
@anthonyperillo.bsky.social
Forensic Psychology Training Director, Associate Professor @ University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Trying to leave the forensic psych world better than I found it. Perpetually food-motivated. http://hsc.unm.edu/directory/perillo-anthony.html
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Re-intro time. I'm a forensic psychologist & train clinicians doing mental health services w/ people in the legal system. Big into making science accessible & transparent, mentoring w/ kindness, & checking our biases in evaluations.
Also ❤️ food & am thrilled when I get to combine that w/ work!
Also ❤️ food & am thrilled when I get to combine that w/ work!
Tuesday's Law & Mental Health Series features Matthew Johnson discussing racial justice advocates who've faced wrongful convictions facilitated by the FBI. #PsychLaw
Free webinar w/ free CEUs! hsc-unm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Free webinar w/ free CEUs! hsc-unm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Tuesday's Law & Mental Health Series features Matthew Johnson discussing racial justice advocates who've faced wrongful convictions facilitated by the FBI. #PsychLaw
Free webinar w/ free CEUs! hsc-unm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Free webinar w/ free CEUs! hsc-unm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Trying to make a science in 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trying to make a science in 2025.
Tonight was ground turkey chili done “over the top” style: whole thing done in the smoker, meat first smoked as a massive meatball directly over the pot before crushing & mixing in (then smoking further). Served w/ blue cornbread. #FoodSky
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Tonight was ground turkey chili done “over the top” style: whole thing done in the smoker, meat first smoked as a massive meatball directly over the pot before crushing & mixing in (then smoking further). Served w/ blue cornbread. #FoodSky
When I was in Hawaii, a water viewpoint had a sign w/ the dates of every person who'd died there. Later that day, I looked up where exactly Stan died.
It was right where I'd been standing. He's the last person to die there.
Remember to reach out to your friends when you have the chance.
It was right where I'd been standing. He's the last person to die there.
Remember to reach out to your friends when you have the chance.
In HS Stan & I did "freezes" where we'd act out an altercation & then freeze like a still image before a show would cut to commercial. Later he played in a funk-soul band & let me jam in rehearsal once in a while.
Was trying to track him down this year & learned he died just a few weeks ago.
Was trying to track him down this year & learned he died just a few weeks ago.
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
When I was in Hawaii, a water viewpoint had a sign w/ the dates of every person who'd died there. Later that day, I looked up where exactly Stan died.
It was right where I'd been standing. He's the last person to die there.
Remember to reach out to your friends when you have the chance.
It was right where I'd been standing. He's the last person to die there.
Remember to reach out to your friends when you have the chance.
Trying to make a science in 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Trying to make a science in 2025.
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I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room:
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
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@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room:
@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
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@lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social
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Celebrate the small moments, like joint co-authored pubs.
Goonies w/ 16-year-old sour beer as the kids sleep.
Goonies w/ 16-year-old sour beer as the kids sleep.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Celebrate the small moments, like joint co-authored pubs.
Goonies w/ 16-year-old sour beer as the kids sleep.
Goonies w/ 16-year-old sour beer as the kids sleep.
This place is ok. The team and work are ok. The position sounds ok.
(ok = amazing)
(ok = amazing)
Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Research Assistant Professor in Personalized Medicine for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder
Seeking applicants for a Research Assistant Professor faculty position at the University of New Mexico on an NIH funded grant evaluating personalized ...
unm.csod.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This place is ok. The team and work are ok. The position sounds ok.
(ok = amazing)
(ok = amazing)
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This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
Honored to be part of this reflective piece led by @laurenshallion.bsky.social. Thinking through these issues was cathartic, then lit a fire, then instilled hope for how to keep moving psych wellness & behavioral health forward. May others feel that hope & drive to keep psych science rolling. 🙏🏼
Just accepted at Nature Mental Health:
Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
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Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Honored to be part of this reflective piece led by @laurenshallion.bsky.social. Thinking through these issues was cathartic, then lit a fire, then instilled hope for how to keep moving psych wellness & behavioral health forward. May others feel that hope & drive to keep psych science rolling. 🙏🏼
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This is such an important point, imo.
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I'd definitely be more surprised if 50s social psych held up in today's scientific standards. It's all the work we've done since then that should count. That's what makes a field.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This is such an important point, imo.
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
I don’t *want* science from 40+ years ago to be holding up just as well as the latest papers of a field. Like, what do you mean scientific progress in a field has basically stalled for decades? That’s tragic!
I love to see the progress happening! Evolution!
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Europeans and...Burqueños. New Mexico has universal child care (up to age 13!) as of November 1, and Albuquerque has free bus service. 🎉
"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Europeans and...Burqueños. New Mexico has universal child care (up to age 13!) as of November 1, and Albuquerque has free bus service. 🎉
@unmhsc.bsky.social's Randy Otto & Dave DeMatteo address contemporary issues in forensic psych. Covers language, ethical inconsistencies w/ general clinical guidelines, transparency vs. test security, & several practices yet to be standardized (if they should). psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
@unmhsc.bsky.social's Randy Otto & Dave DeMatteo address contemporary issues in forensic psych. Covers language, ethical inconsistencies w/ general clinical guidelines, transparency vs. test security, & several practices yet to be standardized (if they should). psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Doing important things today by voting and honoring my dad with a tomato pie. He died on Election Day 17 years ago today (the day Obama was elected).
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Doing important things today by voting and honoring my dad with a tomato pie. He died on Election Day 17 years ago today (the day Obama was elected).
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Defense counsel was absolutely going for a pun here and probably won a bet back at the office for doing it
Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Defense counsel was absolutely going for a pun here and probably won a bet back at the office for doing it
A few weeks of trying to get our 6-month-old to try foods & the only thing he’s liked is a specific freshly caught fish when we were in Hawaii. We’re gonna have a second bougie kid it seems.
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A few weeks of trying to get our 6-month-old to try foods & the only thing he’s liked is a specific freshly caught fish when we were in Hawaii. We’re gonna have a second bougie kid it seems.
Our 6-month-old just got dressed as a COVID-vaccinated baby for Halloween & we’ll just keep that costume on him for a while.
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Our 6-month-old just got dressed as a COVID-vaccinated baby for Halloween & we’ll just keep that costume on him for a while.
5 yrs ago today, Jen & I were 2 of 100+ faculty at our uni whose positions were being cut. We submitted promotion portfolios the next day just in case.
Wild ride since then: jobs back, tenured, promoted, resigned, great jobs elsewhere, 2 kids. But for me the illusion of tenure was erased that day.
Wild ride since then: jobs back, tenured, promoted, resigned, great jobs elsewhere, 2 kids. But for me the illusion of tenure was erased that day.
Jen & I have been informed our positions at IUP are cut at the end of the academic year.
I’m so thankful for my students & colleagues who’ve been supportive through this. Several have noted they plan to help fight this if necessary. Now we know.
I’m so thankful for my students & colleagues who’ve been supportive through this. Several have noted they plan to help fight this if necessary. Now we know.
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 AM
5 yrs ago today, Jen & I were 2 of 100+ faculty at our uni whose positions were being cut. We submitted promotion portfolios the next day just in case.
Wild ride since then: jobs back, tenured, promoted, resigned, great jobs elsewhere, 2 kids. But for me the illusion of tenure was erased that day.
Wild ride since then: jobs back, tenured, promoted, resigned, great jobs elsewhere, 2 kids. But for me the illusion of tenure was erased that day.
The simultaneous pride, sadness, & fury when seeing how many local businesses plan to indefinitely offer free meals to children when SNAP benefits are taken away from families come Saturday.
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The simultaneous pride, sadness, & fury when seeing how many local businesses plan to indefinitely offer free meals to children when SNAP benefits are taken away from families come Saturday.
WhyYesOhYesIDidSpendThisLastDayInKonaDrivingAroundTryingVariousCoffeesWhyDoYouAskMeepMeep
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
WhyYesOhYesIDidSpendThisLastDayInKonaDrivingAroundTryingVariousCoffeesWhyDoYouAskMeepMeep
Timeline cleanse from Hawaii
October 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Timeline cleanse from Hawaii
Aloha from Kona. Starting vacation w a bagel w cream cheese and salmon poke bc I can.
October 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Aloha from Kona. Starting vacation w a bagel w cream cheese and salmon poke bc I can.
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No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico
October 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico
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My research team began studying stand your ground laws and public perceptions after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Botham Jean. So I knew of Ajike Owen’s murder…however, I was still unprepared for The Perfect Neighbor. I’m glad this story was amplified but gutted at this tragedy.
October 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My research team began studying stand your ground laws and public perceptions after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Botham Jean. So I knew of Ajike Owen’s murder…however, I was still unprepared for The Perfect Neighbor. I’m glad this story was amplified but gutted at this tragedy.