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Kira Venables
@kiravenables.bsky.social
clinical psych phd student @ VCU REPEAT Lab 🧠 | NSF GRFP | eating disorders, reward, affect, & treatment | smith college alum | she/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Overjoyed to share that I will be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at VCU this fall under the mentorship of the amazing Annie Haynos!! Working in the REPEAT Lab has been an absolute dream and I could not be more excited to pursue the next step of my training with this incredible lab 🖤💛🐏
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Here is the link to apply✍️ I have learned so much during my time as an interventionist! We have an awesome team!! If anyone has any questions, please email haynosa@vcu.edu

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Clinical Interventionist - Department of Psychology
Position Responsibilities: The Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences is recruiting to fill multiple part-time Clinical...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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@repeatlab.bsky.social is looking to hire 2-3 Part-time Clinical Interventionists to start this Fall! Interventionalists will conduct remote therapy sessions for a clinical trial comparing 2 therapies (CBT & Positive Affect Treatment) to support adults in the process of recovery from AN and AAN 🧵1/6
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🌟The REPEAT Lab at VCU (PI: Dr. Annie Haynos) in Richmond, VA is hiring a clinical research coordinator! 🌟 We use various methods (fMRI, EMA, computational modeling) to study neurobiological mechanisms and treatment for eating disorders & other disorders of rigidity. Post will be open for 1 week! 🧠📊
July 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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💫 REPEAT lab hiring a research coordinator💫

The Research on Excessive Persistent and Emotion-based Actions and Traits (REPEAT) Lab in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University is recruiting to fill a Clinical Research Coordinator position. Posting will close in 1 week!!
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July 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
CONGRATS AMANDA 🥳🩷 a very well-deserved accomplishment for a super interesting and important project! So proud!
What a semester! I’m excited to share that with the amazing support of my lab, committee, and loved ones, I successfully passed my master’s thesis defense✨ This project was a labor of love, and I’m excited to build on what we found (which I hope to share sometime in the near future)
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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What a semester! I’m excited to share that with the amazing support of my lab, committee, and loved ones, I successfully passed my master’s thesis defense✨ This project was a labor of love, and I’m excited to build on what we found (which I hope to share sometime in the near future)
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Overjoyed to share that I will be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at VCU this fall under the mentorship of the amazing Annie Haynos!! Working in the REPEAT Lab has been an absolute dream and I could not be more excited to pursue the next step of my training with this incredible lab 🖤💛🐏
April 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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good piece on last week's devastating cuts to queer health research: "This termination has broader implications ... It sets a concerning precedent where scientific inquiry is stifled by political rhetoric, potentially erasing entire communities from research agendas" - @britshmit.bsky.social
Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health
Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.
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March 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
THAT’S MY BESTIE/COORDINATOR TWIN!! This could not be more well-deserved - you are such a shining star & Yale is incredibly lucky to have you 🌟💜 I can’t wait to visit you in New Haven and see all the amazing things the future has in store for you 🤩🥳 grad student era of our sitcom starting Fall 2025!
I’m over the moon to share that, starting Fall 2025, I will be pursuing my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Yale University under the mentorship of the incredible @shirleybwang.bsky.social !! Super excited to join the Computational Clinical Science Lab and Yale community! Literally a dream come true 🎉🥳
March 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I’m over the moon to share that, starting Fall 2025, I will be pursuing my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Yale University under the mentorship of the incredible @shirleybwang.bsky.social !! Super excited to join the Computational Clinical Science Lab and Yale community! Literally a dream come true 🎉🥳
March 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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📣🤩🎉 Some good news: I'm hiring a Clinical Research Coordinator to begin in my lab (the TREAT Lab) this summer (ideally in June 2025) to work on projects investigating the neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms of eating pathology in young people! vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Clinical Research Coordinator, Department of Psychiatry
The VCU Department of Psychiatry is recruiting for a Clinical Research Coordinator position. This position is within the Translational Research ...
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February 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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We had our annual TREAT & REPEAT Labs holiday party tonight. I’m so grateful for this crew (including ~10 others who aren’t pictured!) and proud of what Annie and I have built over the last 2 years! Cheers to the next year!
December 14, 2024 at 3:51 AM
So thrilled to be co-chairing this symposium with @amakara.bsky.social!! Come by to hear our amazing presenters share their exciting work in the realm of Atypical AN 🧠⚙️
Excited to return home to Philly for #ABCT2024 to co-chair this symposium with the lovely Kira Venables👯 Come see us at 8:30am on Saturday to hear our presenters discuss mechanisms underlying Atypical Anorexia Nervosa⚙️
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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Excited to return home to Philly for #ABCT2024 to co-chair this symposium with the lovely Kira Venables👯 Come see us at 8:30am on Saturday to hear our presenters discuss mechanisms underlying Atypical Anorexia Nervosa⚙️
November 14, 2024 at 9:51 PM