Mona Al-Bizri, MS
@monaalbizri.bsky.social
Experimental Psychology PhD Student @TCU studying life stress, PNI, coping & depression 🧠
WM & JMU alum
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Hey that’s me!
Meet @monaalbizri.bsky.social, an Experimental Psychology Student at TCU! Mona’s researches life stress, inflammatory mechanisms, self-regulation under stress, depression, aging populations, and methods in PNI.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hey that’s me!
First personal & lab milestone: Very first IRB has been submitted!!! Yay!! 🎊
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
First personal & lab milestone: Very first IRB has been submitted!!! Yay!! 🎊
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Submit your symposia proposals for the #PNIRS2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans! This year's meeting theme is Modifiable Risk Factors Across the Lifespan.
More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org
More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Submit your symposia proposals for the #PNIRS2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans! This year's meeting theme is Modifiable Risk Factors Across the Lifespan.
More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org
More info and submission site here: mss-abstracts.pnirs.org
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In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants
Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
journals.lww.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
In a recent meta-analysis and systematic review, Cardenas et al., (2025) found that greater discrimination was associated with higher levels of systemic inflammation based on 161 effect sizes from 47 articles representing ∼74,763 participants
Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
Free to read this week: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...
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Join us on 10/16 for a FREE virtual Fireside Chat with 2025 Gold Medalists for Impact in Psychology, Drs. Lyn Abramson & Lauren Alloy! For nearly 5 decades, their work has shaped the understanding of mood disorders and the cognitive and biological processes behind depression & bipolar disorder. 🌟
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Join us on 10/16 for a FREE virtual Fireside Chat with 2025 Gold Medalists for Impact in Psychology, Drs. Lyn Abramson & Lauren Alloy! For nearly 5 decades, their work has shaped the understanding of mood disorders and the cognitive and biological processes behind depression & bipolar disorder. 🌟
On today’s list of unexpected PNI lab activities -
I hurriedly walked through the halls of the bio department to find an occupied lab and ask for tin foil to wrap a lightsensitive solution…
(It was 10% FBS with RPMI-1640 if anyone is curious)
I hurriedly walked through the halls of the bio department to find an occupied lab and ask for tin foil to wrap a lightsensitive solution…
(It was 10% FBS with RPMI-1640 if anyone is curious)
October 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
On today’s list of unexpected PNI lab activities -
I hurriedly walked through the halls of the bio department to find an occupied lab and ask for tin foil to wrap a lightsensitive solution…
(It was 10% FBS with RPMI-1640 if anyone is curious)
I hurriedly walked through the halls of the bio department to find an occupied lab and ask for tin foil to wrap a lightsensitive solution…
(It was 10% FBS with RPMI-1640 if anyone is curious)
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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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I am barely on this app, because of *gestures wildly* life, the universe, and everything, but I should announce that I plan to review apps for clinical psychology PhD admissions this cycle! Please read my website for more info! www.sarahevictor.com/contact
Contact & Apply | Sarah Victor, PhD | United States
Information on how to reach TRTL and how to join the lab.
www.sarahevictor.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am barely on this app, because of *gestures wildly* life, the universe, and everything, but I should announce that I plan to review apps for clinical psychology PhD admissions this cycle! Please read my website for more info! www.sarahevictor.com/contact
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I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
RADLab - Graduate Applicants
Is the RADLab a good fit for my career goals?
Our lab is very research oriented. Our primary goal is to train doctoral students to make outstanding, substantive, and meaningful contributions to the sc...
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September 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall.
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply.
More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...
Slowly becoming one with PBMC isolation and LPS challenge protocols (fancy way of saying I’m looking at immune markers)! I am happy at my new university and labs!
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Slowly becoming one with PBMC isolation and LPS challenge protocols (fancy way of saying I’m looking at immune markers)! I am happy at my new university and labs!
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I am excited to share that I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware.
Feel free to share! ☺️
Feel free to share! ☺️
September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I am excited to share that I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware.
Feel free to share! ☺️
Feel free to share! ☺️
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Our new paper in JG:PS is out!
In a sample of over 3100 older adults assessed each year for 12 years, loneliness & sense of purpose were unique predictors of cognitive decline, though past research has underestimated the reciprocal nature of this relationship.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In a sample of over 3100 older adults assessed each year for 12 years, loneliness & sense of purpose were unique predictors of cognitive decline, though past research has underestimated the reciprocal nature of this relationship.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Our new paper in JG:PS is out!
In a sample of over 3100 older adults assessed each year for 12 years, loneliness & sense of purpose were unique predictors of cognitive decline, though past research has underestimated the reciprocal nature of this relationship.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In a sample of over 3100 older adults assessed each year for 12 years, loneliness & sense of purpose were unique predictors of cognitive decline, though past research has underestimated the reciprocal nature of this relationship.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs.
This is egregious.
This is egregious.
September 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Emory University just closed all our DEI offices and programs.
This is egregious.
This is egregious.
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New from my lab, lead by stellar grad student Elizabeth Marsh (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Dependent Stressor Occurrence, Stressor Severity Appraisals & Stressor Controllability Appraisals Link Attentional Control Deficits To Engagement in Repetitive Negative Thinking in Daily Life - Journa...
Worry and rumination share a common process of repetitive negative thinking (RNT). RNT is a transdiagnostic risk factor for internalizing psychopathology. Theoretical models suggest deficits in cognit...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
New from my lab, lead by stellar grad student Elizabeth Marsh (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I decided to stop pursuing admission to clinical psychology PhD programs - a thread 🧵
Since I was 16 years old, I imagined myself as a clinical psychologist. However, my plans changed.
Since I was 16 years old, I imagined myself as a clinical psychologist. However, my plans changed.
August 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I decided to stop pursuing admission to clinical psychology PhD programs - a thread 🧵
Since I was 16 years old, I imagined myself as a clinical psychologist. However, my plans changed.
Since I was 16 years old, I imagined myself as a clinical psychologist. However, my plans changed.
In PhD lab training news: I learned how to draw blood today! YAY!
Did I hit the vein? No, womp womp
Did I hit the vein? No, womp womp
August 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
In PhD lab training news: I learned how to draw blood today! YAY!
Did I hit the vein? No, womp womp
Did I hit the vein? No, womp womp
I highly recommend you apply to Dan’s lab! He’s a great mentor and you’ll get the chance to do some cool PNI research! 🔬
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.
Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
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Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.
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Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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August 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I highly recommend you apply to Dan’s lab! He’s a great mentor and you’ll get the chance to do some cool PNI research! 🔬
I’ve moved and I start my PhD program 12 days! I love college so much I haven’t left in 6 years (ignoring last year’s gap)! 🐸 💜🤍
Some snaps of TCU:
Some snaps of TCU:
August 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I’ve moved and I start my PhD program 12 days! I love college so much I haven’t left in 6 years (ignoring last year’s gap)! 🐸 💜🤍
Some snaps of TCU:
Some snaps of TCU:
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After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out:
Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines
With a legit superstar team
Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵
Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines
With a legit superstar team
Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵
Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines: https://osf.io/7nq92
July 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
After nearly 2 years of debating and redrafting, the preprint is out:
Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines
With a legit superstar team
Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵
Towards Next-Generation Stress Generation Research: Expert Consensus Methodological Guidelines
With a legit superstar team
Here’s how it could transform research on stress generation (& beyond) 🧵
I’m feeling more anxious about moving half way across the country than starting my PhD program! I fear I’ll be yelling at drivers for majority of the trip! 😵💫
Does anyone have audio book or podcast recs?
Does anyone have audio book or podcast recs?
July 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’m feeling more anxious about moving half way across the country than starting my PhD program! I fear I’ll be yelling at drivers for majority of the trip! 😵💫
Does anyone have audio book or podcast recs?
Does anyone have audio book or podcast recs?
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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!!
1/7🧵
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!!
1/7🧵
July 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
💫 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!!
1/7🧵
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!!
1/7🧵
I’m so excited to start my PhD program in a few weeks but also in disbelief that I’ll never have apply to PhD programs again. I can’t believe I get to do the training and research I’ve been dreaming about!
July 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’m so excited to start my PhD program in a few weeks but also in disbelief that I’ll never have apply to PhD programs again. I can’t believe I get to do the training and research I’ve been dreaming about!
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My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩
With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.
rdcu.be/eu8bo
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With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.
rdcu.be/eu8bo
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A meta-analytic review of child maltreatment and interoception
Nature Mental Health - Interoception, the perception of internal bodily signals, is crucial for mental and physical well-being, yet the origins of disruptions in interoception are not well...
rdcu.be
July 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩
With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.
rdcu.be/eu8bo
1/🧵
With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals.
rdcu.be/eu8bo
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Someone put this up at my RA job and I thought “who taped up this duck?” 🦆 🐇
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Someone put this up at my RA job and I thought “who taped up this duck?” 🦆 🐇
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f/t paid postbac RA position w/ my wonderful friends at Pitt - @jamielarsh.bsky.social - cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Developmental Research Coordinator
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
cfopitt.taleo.net
June 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
f/t paid postbac RA position w/ my wonderful friends at Pitt - @jamielarsh.bsky.social - cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...