Want to learn more about treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder? Check out ISTSS's new 'Interviews with Innovators' series on the website now: istss.org/education-rese…

Very exciting to have our newest PGC-PTSD freeze out! Growing diversity and sample sizes are still affording exponential increases in identifying loci influencing PTSD risk. Check out Joni’s wonderful tweetorial for more.

Very excited that the latest from the PGC Consortium PTSD group is now out in Nature Genetics!

Headline: 95 loci implicated with PTSD, now in the rapid-discovery phase of psychiatric GWAS.

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thread and ReadCube link to follow

Sharing this for neuroscience folks on the academic job market.

My department is hiring multiple TT Assistant Professors. VCU is a great environment for new faculty and Richmond is a great place to live and work!

Check it out:

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/656610/ten…

Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data).

I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London

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qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202…

📢This August I'll be offering a 2-day course in the SMaRT workshops (smart-workshops.com) program on Designing & Planning Research Studies with Diverse Samples.

Workshop Link: smart-workshops.com/diverse-info

A brief thread:

It was an honor speaking with AMA Ed Hub™ about the need for and value of diversity in genomic databases for equitable precision medicine. Check out the podcast here: edhub.ama-assn.org/science-medici….

#ColumbiaSHARP registration has opened for our hybrid #Epigenetics Boot Camp July 29-30! Come in person to NYC or participate remotely. Scholarships & early-bird rates: publichealth.columbia.edu/epigenetics

🚨Out Now in Clinical Psychological Science🚨

Priscilla Lui & I co-edited this Special Issue on advancing our understanding of ethnoracial disparities & mental health equity through our science!

Thanks to Jennifer Tackett supporting us navigating the SI!

Thread w papers below!

Project harmony: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of psychotherapy and pharmacologic trials for comorbid posttraumatic stress, alcohol, and other drug use disorders. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-26…

Super excited to see our paper-in-a-day (or in-a-year😉) published in Psychotraumatology . We examined global differences in transdiagnostic stress- and trauma-related symptoms: 1/x tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It took awhile to find a home, but our RCT examining the efficacy of BlackFULLness is finally published! Blackfullness is a mindfulness app for Black folx, and we found that using this app increased mindfulness + self-compassion 🎉🎉

Sex Differences in Psychopathology Following Potentially Traumatic Experiences jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

✏️1 week left to nominate people for Int'l Society of Traumatic Stress Studies awards. Apps due March 1st. 14 awards including Global Travel Awards for non-US members. Nominate yourself or someone else. More here: istss.org/awards-and-hon…

'Contrary to our hypothesis, we found strong evidence that psychological interventions are highly effective treatments for PTSD in patients with a history of multiple traumatic events.'

New research Article Thole Hoppen Nexh Morina Marianne S. Birkeland
thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Every few months the National Center for PTSD - Veterans Affairs publishes the Clinician's Trauma Update (CTU) Online, that includes updates on the latest clinically relevant research.

In the latest edition two recent papers from the Journal of Traumatic Stress were highlighted.

ISTSS offers a really wonderful variety of professional, student, and mentor awards! Consider nominating yourself or others by March 1 for #ISTSS2024

30 infants die and we recall 4.7 mil Rock ‘n Play Sleepers.

2 toddlers die and we recall 3.2 mil Calico Critters toys.

2 infants die and we recall so much formula that the US goes into shortage.

Last year, over 6,000 children were injured by gun violence.

Nothing. Nada.

ISTSS ISTSS Student Section Awards are now open! Do you know someone doing great work in the trauma field, who you could nominate? Or self-nominate! Lots of options - research, clinical, advocacy, student, travel. #ISTSS2024
Check out the link for info:
istss.org/awards-and-hon…

ISTSS is excited to be a partner of this special #traumaticstress conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings—submit a poster abstract and join researchers from over 15 countries May 22-24, 2024, in Caen (Normandy), France: bit.ly/3OCJW6j