Melissa Nance
@melissanance.bsky.social
Clinical psych grad student at the University of Notre Dame | research interests in EMA, alcohol and other substance use, & NSSI
10/10 recommend. Ryan is a great mentor and ND/south bend is very livable. And this is coming from someone who’s very critical 😂
I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu
Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...
Clinical Science
Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology offers graduate programs in cognitive, clinical, developmental, and quantitative psychology, joint doctoral programs in peace studies and in computer science / en...
psychology.nd.edu
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
10/10 recommend. Ryan is a great mentor and ND/south bend is very livable. And this is coming from someone who’s very critical 😂
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Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
The fiscal year ends tomorrow.
Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
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Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago.
The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors.
1/3
September 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
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Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
Opportunities
Interested in the neuroscience of addiction? We are recruiting at all levels!! Reach out to Dr. Baranger – dbaranger@mcw.edu Postdoctoral fellows/Senior Scientists: Please send an email conta…
bearlab.science
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/
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On Trump, autism and tylenol:
A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim
“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”
There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.
A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim
“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”
There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On Trump, autism and tylenol:
A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim
“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”
There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.
A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim
“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”
There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.
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“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”
Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and closed prevention offices. Expert calls it a 'cruel irony' – gun violence grows as prevention efforts fade
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/12/g...
As U.S. faces deadly week, gun violence experts lament end of prevention research
Amid deadly shootings, CDC has fired experts and shut down research on preventing gun violence. Expert calls it a "cruel irony."
www.statnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
Feeling proud, excited, and truly relieved to have gotten a notice of award yesterday for an F31!
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Feeling proud, excited, and truly relieved to have gotten a notice of award yesterday for an F31!
Would be so fun!
I will be reviewing applications this fall for the ASU clinical science PhD program. Please send any prospective students with interests in alcohol, cannabis and co-use my way! My lab’s current and future priorities can be found here psychology.asu.edu/research/lab...
DRAMA: Dynamic Research on Addiction and Momentary Assessment Lab (Waddell) | Department of Psychology
psychology.asu.edu
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Would be so fun!
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‼️Applying to graduate school in #psychology? Check out our Google Drive with prerecorded workshops, example statements, email templates, and additional resources including Psychin’ Out’s free mentorship program and information for international students! drive.google.com/drive/mobile... share widely
Psychology Graduate School Resources (Shared) - Google Drive
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August 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
‼️Applying to graduate school in #psychology? Check out our Google Drive with prerecorded workshops, example statements, email templates, and additional resources including Psychin’ Out’s free mentorship program and information for international students! drive.google.com/drive/mobile... share widely
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I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...
Psychological Clinical Science – Department of Psychology | CSU
psychology.colostate.edu
August 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I am pleased to announce that our APA accredited Counseling Psychology program at Colorado State University has officially transitioned to an APA accredited Clinical Psychology program, adopting the clinical science training model. psychology.colostate.edu/clinicalscie...
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Not too long ago there was bipartisan support for supportive “housing first” for people on the streets: it’s safe, humane, reduces crime, reduces hospitalization, & saves the community $. This ain’t it.
The president just issued an executive order to curb "Crime and Disorder on America's Streets"
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
share.google
July 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Not too long ago there was bipartisan support for supportive “housing first” for people on the streets: it’s safe, humane, reduces crime, reduces hospitalization, & saves the community $. This ain’t it.
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The first rule of homelessness policy is that it must be cruel.
The second rule is that it must be expensive.
The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail."
God forbid we just provide basic shelter.
The second rule is that it must be expensive.
The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail."
God forbid we just provide basic shelter.
Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy.
They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.
They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.
This is the line of thinking. Prevent states and localities from being more protective of the unhoused than SCOTUS. Do it through financial coercion.
July 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The first rule of homelessness policy is that it must be cruel.
The second rule is that it must be expensive.
The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail."
God forbid we just provide basic shelter.
The second rule is that it must be expensive.
The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail."
God forbid we just provide basic shelter.
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American Psychological Foundation released a call for applications for crisis funding to support early career researchers who had grants terminated. Looks like a great opportunity!
ampsychfdn.org/funding/dacf/
ampsychfdn.org/funding/dacf/
Direct Action Crisis Funding - American Psychological Foundation
The APF Direct Action Crisis Funding grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected dat...
ampsychfdn.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
American Psychological Foundation released a call for applications for crisis funding to support early career researchers who had grants terminated. Looks like a great opportunity!
ampsychfdn.org/funding/dacf/
ampsychfdn.org/funding/dacf/
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...housing first cut veteran homelessness by half & was developed because requiring abstinence had failed, but sure, fine, the cruelty is obviously the point...
Predictable, but no less shocking or reprehensible: Trump just signed an executive order urging states to forcibly institutionalize homeless people, defund Housing First, criminalize encampments, and cut aid to cities that don't comply.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
...housing first cut veteran homelessness by half & was developed because requiring abstinence had failed, but sure, fine, the cruelty is obviously the point...
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The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro are coordinating with Orange County to support disaster relief:
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
crisiscleanup.org/survivor
+19102181569
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I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836
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July 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836
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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
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I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?
June 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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For prospective PhD applicants interested in interdisciplinary research training at the interface of brain, body and behavior, we can take US students through both the Psychology and Neuroscience PhD programs on this T32.
www.brandeis.edu/psychology/d...
www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience...
www.brandeis.edu/psychology/d...
www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience...
Doctorate in Psychology (PhD)
www.brandeis.edu
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
For prospective PhD applicants interested in interdisciplinary research training at the interface of brain, body and behavior, we can take US students through both the Psychology and Neuroscience PhD programs on this T32.
www.brandeis.edu/psychology/d...
www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience...
www.brandeis.edu/psychology/d...
www.brandeis.edu/neuroscience...
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You know your country has screwed up priorities when it pretends it doesn't have the money to prevent LGBTQ teen suicides but it *does* have the funds to subsidize the wealthiest man in the world's engineering incompetence.
www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...
www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...
Video shows SpaceX Starship explosion at Texas launch site
A SpaceX Starship exploded at a launch site in Texas Wednesday night, bursting into a massive fireball.
www.cbsnews.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
You know your country has screwed up priorities when it pretends it doesn't have the money to prevent LGBTQ teen suicides but it *does* have the funds to subsidize the wealthiest man in the world's engineering incompetence.
www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...
www.cbsnews.com/news/video-s...
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Led by my student, Ian McNamara, we found pain and alcohol were related in daily life in patients with chronic pain, though it's a lot more complex than a social media post can convey
Ian did a great job with an unreasonable number of analyses that really call into question the person advising him
Ian did a great job with an unreasonable number of analyses that really call into question the person advising him
Just Published: Associations of Physical Pain, #Alcohol Use, and Related Factors in the Daily Lives of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain @rwcarpenterphd.bsky.social
@jeffbphd.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@jeffbphd.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Associations of Physical Pain, Alcohol Use, and Related Factors in the Daily Lives of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain
Alcohol use and chronic pain are highly prevalent, costly, and have a bidirectional relationship. This may occur, in part, because of the analgesic ef…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Led by my student, Ian McNamara, we found pain and alcohol were related in daily life in patients with chronic pain, though it's a lot more complex than a social media post can convey
Ian did a great job with an unreasonable number of analyses that really call into question the person advising him
Ian did a great job with an unreasonable number of analyses that really call into question the person advising him
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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My dept is looking for a new dept head!!! (please share)
I've appreciated my 1st year in the HDFS dept at Auburn. I love the balance between basic & applied research & the values stemming from being a land grant university.
If you're interested, apply by 8/15!
www.auemployment.com/postings/53618
I've appreciated my 1st year in the HDFS dept at Auburn. I love the balance between basic & applied research & the values stemming from being a land grant university.
If you're interested, apply by 8/15!
www.auemployment.com/postings/53618
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My dept is looking for a new dept head!!! (please share)
I've appreciated my 1st year in the HDFS dept at Auburn. I love the balance between basic & applied research & the values stemming from being a land grant university.
If you're interested, apply by 8/15!
www.auemployment.com/postings/53618
I've appreciated my 1st year in the HDFS dept at Auburn. I love the balance between basic & applied research & the values stemming from being a land grant university.
If you're interested, apply by 8/15!
www.auemployment.com/postings/53618