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Kayla Costello
@kaylacostello.bsky.social
UAlbany PhD Student - UNC CEED Fellow - ED Researcher - Dog Mom
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Friday I walked and was hooded for my PhD in clinical psychology, earning the title of Dr. Barnhart. I am truly blessed to have shared the day with the most important people in my life, my dear friends, family, and mentors. (1)
August 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
So proud to be able to publish my master’s project alongside my amazing mentors!
March 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We have a new preprint out examining how different types of childhood maltreatment experiences and genetic liability predict (main and interaction effects) five different eating disorder diagnostic outcomes in up to 63,989 individuals:

osf.io/preprints/ps...
March 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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📃Congratulations to HBL's @kaylacostello.bsky.social on her new pub in @intjeatdisord.bsky.social examining associations between COVID-19 death-related loss and mental health among people with preexisting eating disorders in the U.S., Netherlands, and Sweden. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Mental Health After COVID‐19 Death‐Related Loss in Individuals With Eating Disorders: A Multi‐Country Nested Matched Case–Control Study
Objective The COVID-19 pandemic caused millions of deaths worldwide and significantly impacted people with eating disorders, exacerbating symptoms and limiting access to care. This study examined th...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Saw a creator say that female computer scientists/coders are disproportionately knitters because you use the same skills and me (an avid knitter) is obsessed with this idea
January 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This approach has a well-known consequence: it's called the minority tax that faculty of color often face as we're called upon to address inequities in the larger system. I just want to make sure we don't keep adding to that tax. 4/4.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The burden of service for faculty of color to achieve diversity and inclusion: the minority tax
The exclusion of Blacks/African-Americans, Latinx/Hispanics, and Indigenous people from science has resulted in their underrepresentation in the biomedical workforce, especially in academia. Faculty d...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 27, 2024 at 1:59 AM
So thankful for the opportunities to present my research and hear inspiring talks from others in the field!
November 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Hello world 😎 my lovely friends have reminded me I have this account
November 17, 2024 at 12:21 AM