Emma J O’Brien
@obrienemj.bsky.social
Clinical Psychology PhD student at Louisiana State University conducting research in suicide, SGM pops, and military pops. Former research coordinator at University of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis native, views are my own
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New paper out (free link) in Military Psychology led by our mentee and VA partners @docrobphd23.bsky.social
Coping self-efficacy scale continues to show a 3-factor structure (now with dynamic fit indices) in LGBTQ+ U.S. military veterans.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQJBX...
Coping self-efficacy scale continues to show a 3-factor structure (now with dynamic fit indices) in LGBTQ+ U.S. military veterans.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQJBX...
A psychometric evaluation of the coping self-efficacy scale among LGBTQ+ Veterans
Due to unique stressors faced by LGBTQ+ Veterans, it is important to understand how existing strengths, like coping self-efficacy, can be leveraged for health promotion efforts to improve outcomes ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
New paper out (free link) in Military Psychology led by our mentee and VA partners @docrobphd23.bsky.social
Coping self-efficacy scale continues to show a 3-factor structure (now with dynamic fit indices) in LGBTQ+ U.S. military veterans.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQJBX...
Coping self-efficacy scale continues to show a 3-factor structure (now with dynamic fit indices) in LGBTQ+ U.S. military veterans.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQJBX...
My first awarded grant ever! 🥳 so grateful for my friends, family, and colleagues who supported me in this grant application and I cannot wait to disseminate our findings!!
📢 Check out our latest blog highlighting over
1.1 million grant funding to researchers advancing evidence-based solutions to prevent gun violence. Visit our website to read the full blog⏬
gunviolenceresearchcenter.rutgers.edu/gvrc-blog/11...
1.1 million grant funding to researchers advancing evidence-based solutions to prevent gun violence. Visit our website to read the full blog⏬
gunviolenceresearchcenter.rutgers.edu/gvrc-blog/11...
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
My first awarded grant ever! 🥳 so grateful for my friends, family, and colleagues who supported me in this grant application and I cannot wait to disseminate our findings!!
I’m pumped to be presenting at @abctnow.bsky.social next week in New Orleans! Come by my poster session Friday at 4:30 or reach out to say hi! Would love to connect and meet up with new and old friends/colleagues alike!
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I’m pumped to be presenting at @abctnow.bsky.social next week in New Orleans! Come by my poster session Friday at 4:30 or reach out to say hi! Would love to connect and meet up with new and old friends/colleagues alike!
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delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
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October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.
The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
New publication alert! 🚨
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October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
New publication alert! 🚨
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Finally got an up to date MOSB lab picture!! 🥳🥳🥳 love conducting research with these kids!
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Finally got an up to date MOSB lab picture!! 🥳🥳🥳 love conducting research with these kids!
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Duke University is holding virtual office hours for students to get feedback on their psychology PhD applications!
Due October 31st!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Due October 31st!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Virtual Office Hours For Psychology PhD Applicants - Registration Form
To broaden the pool of applicants in psychology PhD programs across the country, Duke University's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is holding our 6th Annual Virtual Office Hours Program. All a...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Duke University is holding virtual office hours for students to get feedback on their psychology PhD applications!
Due October 31st!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Due October 31st!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Just in! 📰 Check out the release on RutgersToday, about the new #NJGVRC research on firearm-related harm in the United States. #NJGVRC
PI @daniel-semenza.bsky.social and colleagues
Take some time to read the release ⬇️
👉 www.rutgers.edu/news/why-col...
PI @daniel-semenza.bsky.social and colleagues
Take some time to read the release ⬇️
👉 www.rutgers.edu/news/why-col...
Why the Collapse of Firearm Violence Prevention Is a Threat to U.S. Lives
www.rutgers.edu
October 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just in! 📰 Check out the release on RutgersToday, about the new #NJGVRC research on firearm-related harm in the United States. #NJGVRC
PI @daniel-semenza.bsky.social and colleagues
Take some time to read the release ⬇️
👉 www.rutgers.edu/news/why-col...
PI @daniel-semenza.bsky.social and colleagues
Take some time to read the release ⬇️
👉 www.rutgers.edu/news/why-col...
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Add yourself and other people you know to this list of research researchers doing work on LGBTQ+ health
@abctnow.bsky.social Please add yourselves (and people you know) to our SGM research mentor list: : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The list of mentors doing SGM research will be hosted on our website soon. In the meantime, I sent a message about this to the listserv!
The list of mentors doing SGM research will be hosted on our website soon. In the meantime, I sent a message about this to the listserv!
docs.google.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Add yourself and other people you know to this list of research researchers doing work on LGBTQ+ health
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Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2
September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2
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🚨Job Alert🚨
Texas Tech University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in clinical psychology! Applications are due by Oct 10. Come work with me! #academia #clinicalpsychology
Please share!
Link to ad:
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Link to program: www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/clinical...
Texas Tech University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in clinical psychology! Applications are due by Oct 10. Come work with me! #academia #clinicalpsychology
Please share!
Link to ad:
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Link to program: www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/clinical...
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚨Job Alert🚨
Texas Tech University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in clinical psychology! Applications are due by Oct 10. Come work with me! #academia #clinicalpsychology
Please share!
Link to ad:
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Link to program: www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/clinical...
Texas Tech University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Prof in clinical psychology! Applications are due by Oct 10. Come work with me! #academia #clinicalpsychology
Please share!
Link to ad:
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Link to program: www.depts.ttu.edu/psy/clinical...
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Very exciting news! 🎉 If you are looking for a kind, collaborative, and passionate environment to do suicide and eating disorder research, I highly recommend applying! I love that I get to pursue research and clinical work with so many amazing people! 💕
🦊 Exciting news! The REDS Lab is looking to accept a new graduate student in Fall 2026. If you’re passionate about studying or treating eating disorders and suicide, check out how to join us: www.redslab.org/join-the-lab
Join the Lab | REDSLab
www.redslab.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Very exciting news! 🎉 If you are looking for a kind, collaborative, and passionate environment to do suicide and eating disorder research, I highly recommend applying! I love that I get to pursue research and clinical work with so many amazing people! 💕
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Sarah is a great person in addition to a superb scholar. Apply to her lab!
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 7:18 PM
Sarah is a great person in addition to a superb scholar. Apply to her lab!
Currently learning about suicide risk assessment and safety planning in primary care! Super exciting to hear that this intervention was found to be successful and particularly excited that means safety methods (eg locks) were provided as part of safety planning!
www.umassmed.edu/capes/events...
www.umassmed.edu/capes/events...
CAPES 2025 Annual Innovation Summit — CAPES
Sept. 22, 2025, 2 p.m. EDT
CAPES Innovation Summit, organized with support from Education Development Center and focused on using the Zero Suicide Framework to advance CAPES technologies and implement...
www.umassmed.edu
September 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Currently learning about suicide risk assessment and safety planning in primary care! Super exciting to hear that this intervention was found to be successful and particularly excited that means safety methods (eg locks) were provided as part of safety planning!
www.umassmed.edu/capes/events...
www.umassmed.edu/capes/events...
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Just posting this again. If you or someone you know is looking for a tenure-track position please submit your application. Review is ongoing, but you should submit as soon as possible.
Job Posting
I am pleased to share 2 ads for Assistant Professor of Psych (tenure track) positions at my university (West Chester University of PA). I am chairing the clinical psych search. Please reach out with questions (Mroche@wcupa.edu), review of apps begin in a few weeks. Ad links in comment.
I am pleased to share 2 ads for Assistant Professor of Psych (tenure track) positions at my university (West Chester University of PA). I am chairing the clinical psych search. Please reach out with questions (Mroche@wcupa.edu), review of apps begin in a few weeks. Ad links in comment.
September 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just posting this again. If you or someone you know is looking for a tenure-track position please submit your application. Review is ongoing, but you should submit as soon as possible.
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A new study shows how firearm suicides among women 65+ are rising, reversing decades of decline, while firearm suicides among older men remain high but stable. As these numbers grow, timely mental health support and conversations about firearm access are critical.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Sex Differences in Trends of Firearm Suicide Among Older Adults, 2014 to 2023
This cross-sectional study examines trends in suicide deaths by firearm among US adults aged 65 years or older between 2014 and 2023.
jamanetwork.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A new study shows how firearm suicides among women 65+ are rising, reversing decades of decline, while firearm suicides among older men remain high but stable. As these numbers grow, timely mental health support and conversations about firearm access are critical.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Submissions are due October 30! Please disseminate far and wide to reach all who work in suicide research.
Hi all! The 5th annual Suicide Research Symposium, cohosted with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, will take place virtually from April 15 to 17, 2026. You can find details and the full Call for Proposals here: www.suicideresearchsymposium.com
SRS 2026
We are delighted to announce that the fifth annual Suicide Research Symposium will be taking place April 15-17, 2026. Like previous years, this Symposium will be free and take place virtually.
This...
www.suicideresearchsymposium.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Submissions are due October 30! Please disseminate far and wide to reach all who work in suicide research.
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"I consider firearm suicide prevention to be my life’s work. Around 60 percent of all gun deaths in the US are suicides, and over half of all US suicides result from self-inflicted gunshot wounds."
Read the latest RGVRC member highlight: @mikeanestis.bsky.social.
rockinst.org/blog/rgvrc-m...
Read the latest RGVRC member highlight: @mikeanestis.bsky.social.
rockinst.org/blog/rgvrc-m...
RGVRC Member Highlight: Michael Anestis | Rockefeller Institute of Government
Learn more about the research of Dr. Michael Anestis, a member of the RGVRC and the executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University.
rockinst.org
September 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"I consider firearm suicide prevention to be my life’s work. Around 60 percent of all gun deaths in the US are suicides, and over half of all US suicides result from self-inflicted gunshot wounds."
Read the latest RGVRC member highlight: @mikeanestis.bsky.social.
rockinst.org/blog/rgvrc-m...
Read the latest RGVRC member highlight: @mikeanestis.bsky.social.
rockinst.org/blog/rgvrc-m...
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More personally, I'm grateful to LSU's student paper, The Reveille, for the opportunity to share my own origin story of seeing a friend thinking of suicide and having no idea what I could do to help them keep themself safe, because no one ever talked about suicide
lsureveille.com/261733/opini...
lsureveille.com/261733/opini...
Guest column: When someone you care about is thinking of suicide, know that you can help - Reveille
I was 16 years old and up late on a weeknight when Facebook pinged with a message from a school friend. Honestly, calling her a friend is probably unfair: we had been friends in freshman year before d...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
More personally, I'm grateful to LSU's student paper, The Reveille, for the opportunity to share my own origin story of seeing a friend thinking of suicide and having no idea what I could do to help them keep themself safe, because no one ever talked about suicide
lsureveille.com/261733/opini...
lsureveille.com/261733/opini...
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So incredibly proud of the work @raymopt.bsky.social, @obrienemj.bsky.social, @faithstoneking.bsky.social, and the rest of LSU's Consortium for the Advancement of Suicide Prevention have done on campus and in our community for National Suicide Prevention Week/World Suicide Prevention Day.
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So incredibly proud of the work @raymopt.bsky.social, @obrienemj.bsky.social, @faithstoneking.bsky.social, and the rest of LSU's Consortium for the Advancement of Suicide Prevention have done on campus and in our community for National Suicide Prevention Week/World Suicide Prevention Day.
My lab @lsu.bsky.social put together some resources ahead of Suicide Prevention Day (9/10)/Week (9/8-13) - check them out, and please share widely! @lsuscience.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My lab @lsu.bsky.social put together some resources ahead of Suicide Prevention Day (9/10)/Week (9/8-13) - check them out, and please share widely! @lsuscience.bsky.social
A practice I generally follow but want to make sure I bring into the next academic year: Every day, do one thing to better myself/my life (e.g., go for a run, do SOME writing), and one thing to better the life of someone else (e.g., compliment an outfit, make dinner for a friend who is struggling).
August 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A practice I generally follow but want to make sure I bring into the next academic year: Every day, do one thing to better myself/my life (e.g., go for a run, do SOME writing), and one thing to better the life of someone else (e.g., compliment an outfit, make dinner for a friend who is struggling).
I just submitted my first first-author manuscript of my PhD with my PhD advisor 🥹🥹🥹 this project used EMA data I helped collect in sexual minority college students - the first of hopefully many projects in this area to come!! ♥️
August 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I just submitted my first first-author manuscript of my PhD with my PhD advisor 🥹🥹🥹 this project used EMA data I helped collect in sexual minority college students - the first of hopefully many projects in this area to come!! ♥️