Cassie Boness, PhD
I talk about substance use a lot. BAL.UNM.edu #addictionsci
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDBoth chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhD🚨Faculty position just dropped. We are seeking a Psychology Clinic Director at the @unm.edu Dept of Psychology psychclinic.unm.edu, this position is focused on clinical training of PhD students in sunny, affordable, and progressive New Mexico. Come join us! unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDIt's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls www.justice.gov/epstein
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDI kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhD🧵Our Peer Foundational Training Program is back! This in-person program, hosted @ our NYC office, runs from April-June. The free weekly peer sessions, covering a range of #HarmReduction topics, are held every Wednesday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. w/ an hour lunch break. Peers are expected to attend all...
- Happening soon!
- The Addiction Science Defense Network is hosting a congressional briefing series, "Protecting Federal Leadership in Addiction Science and Public Health." The series will start on January 13th. Learn more and register here: www.npscoalition.org/congressiona... Please share!
- Podcast episode with Dr. Marissa Esser that's worth a listen - she discusses some of the impacts of the federal funding cuts that eliminated CDC's Alcohol Program omny.fm/shows/health...
- Very proud of our @projectechohq.bsky.social program on alcohol use and mental health and the community of practice we have built over the last 3.5 years! projectecho.unm.edu/story/the-ne...
- I would like to take a moment to congratulate @drcolintmahoney.bsky.social on the award he received yesterday, "Most likely to crash into @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social's Cybertruck."
- The Addiction Science Defense Network is hosting a congressional briefing series, "Protecting Federal Leadership in Addiction Science and Public Health." The series will start on January 13th. Learn more and register here: www.npscoalition.org/congressiona... Please share!
- We will still consider applications submitted today and tomorrow!
- Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
- I will be reviewing applications for @unm.edu's Clinical Psychology as well as Diversity and Health Data Science Across the Lifespan PhD programs. Both deadlines are December 1! psych.unm.edu/graduate/ind...
- Come work with us @unm.edu 🤩
- Research Assistant Professor position at @unm.edu - join a dynamic team working with @cassie-boness.bsky.social. This position is to work on an NIH grant evaluating personalized medicine approaches for the treatment of alcohol use disorder. Submit via UNMJobs by Nov 26: unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDHoly shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDStill waiting on 3 institutions to give their decisions...
- Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDApplications are now open for our next cohort of the Data Management for Data Sharing workshop, funded by NIH! Come join us for 5 days of learning in Nashville next June! Learn more: lnkd.in/p/gA_JAdmy Apply: datamanagementdatasharing.weebly.com/upcoming-wor...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDSusan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDI would like for both @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social & @cassie-boness.bsky.social to know that the groupchat we have combining our labs has been named “BAAALD” (ty @karalink.bsky.social )
- Proud of this one. Thanks @apadivision50.bsky.social!
- "wasteful grantmaking" www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
- Great piece by @noelvest.bsky.social on the need for colleges and universities to prioritize sustainable funding to support students in recovery. "Over half of the programs we surveyed rely on school-level funding, often leaving them vulnerable to budget cuts." www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
- It's the guns. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDNot 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.
- 📣 Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and Overdose and Reverse Gains docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- ⚠️ UNM has a new non-clinical PhD program, Diversity & Health Data Science Across the Lifespan! This area adopts a multidisciplinary lens to frame research questions at the intersection of human development, health, and sociocultural diversity. Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
- Please share!
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDResearchers take note: 👇🏼👇🏼 analysis of changes to words in 232 datasets from HHS, CDC, & VA sources btwn Jan 20 & Mar. 25, 2025, compared to archived versions: 49% substantially altered 106 had "gender" switched to "sex" 15 logged/indicated change occurred 🛟😷🧪📈 Sociology demography policy medsky
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDOur final APA programming is out now! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Denver this year!
- Join @apadivision50.bsky.social at #APA2025! We’re bringing together the best of our Division for three days of memorable programming, check it out! Registration is open now! 👉 convention.apa.org
- Great resource from @drugpolicy.org drugpolicy.org/resource/pro...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDBREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDAddiction destroys lives. And the current administration is dedicated to destroying the careers of scientists who seek to alleviate the pain and suffering of Americans with addiction. I cannot think of a more certain way to do this than by defunding training grants for early career scientists.
- Today our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDToday our @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social T32 training grant is no longer funded. We are waiting for our renewal that is pending. I spent most of yesterday crying with worry about how I will support our amazing trainees. Today I celebrate them and the joy of seeing them present at CPDD and RSA. 🧵
- Thanks to KUNM for helping to spread the word about the devastating impacts of federal funding cuts on addiction prevention and treatment, especially for New Mexico. www.kunm.org/public-healt... @casaa.bsky.social @apadivision50.bsky.social @apadiv28.bsky.social
- Congrats to @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social who won APA's 2024 Research and Creative Works Leadership Award! I must say, UNM Psych is the place to be ✨
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDScience is under unprecedented threat in the US, and we need to speak out to save it. If you are an early-career researcher, please consider signing our open letter calling to preserve the future of American science: tinyurl.com/mcclintockle.... Our futures, and our country's future, depend on it.
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDNPR story about the #BethesdaDeclaration www.npr.org/sections/sho... 1/n
- APA Division 12, in collaboration with Division 50, is inviting letters of intent to evaluate psychological treatments for the Division 12 empirically supported treatments list (div12.org/psychologica...). We are offering evaluation teams two, $1,000 stipends to support this effort! Please share.
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDBig update to scienceimpacts.org: See the devastating impact of cancelled NIH grants across the country, and how losses at specific institutions ripple out to surrounding communities. This is all in addition to the future losses that would result from cutting funds for indirect costs of research.
- Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhD⚖️Heartbroken but proud to stand with fellow researchers in court today⚖️ NIH’s sudden grant cuts: 🚫 Silence lifesaving health equity work ⏳ Undermine years of progress ⚠️ Put vital discoveries at risk We won’t stop fighting for science & justice 🧪 👇More details from our @aclu.org representation👇
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDWe also previously published a brief with @scholars.org summarizing our recommendations for clinicians in the Post-Dobbs era: scholars.org/contribution...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDReally proud of this paper and so grateful for the amazing team that wrote it! We discuss principles and guidelines for navigating clinical practice, research, and advocacy in the post-Dobbs sexual and reproductive health landscape for behavioral health disciplines. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhD🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDThe #WhiteHouse is making cuts to addiction research and treatment programs. In this OpEd, @cassie-boness.bsky.social uses personal anecdotes & her research to write about how these cuts are putting addiction treatment and recovery in jeopardy. Learn more in @abqjournal.bsky.social. ⤵️
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDIn New Mexico, overdose deaths are down 8% since 2021 thanks to life-saving tools made possible by federal science funding. But cuts to NIH, CDC, and SAMHSA will dismantle this progress. 🧪🏠
- New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDThese cuts will be catastrophic. Worth reading.
- New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDTrump administration cancels PhD student’s funding who was studying the harms of the US opioid crisis because it fell under “diversity.”
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDCassie said it best in yet another great piece in the ABQ Journal from addiction scientists: "We owe it to every person struggling with substance use, and their families, to act now to save the very infrastructure that saves families from unnecessary suffering." Check it out here:
- New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDyoutube.com/shorts/BTimG... NIH funded research at @ukresearch.bsky.social is critical to helping those affected by SUDs throughout the commonwealth and beyond!
- New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine. www.abqjournal.com/opinion/arti... and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDI am thrilled to share I have officially accepted an offer for a TT Asst Prof of Clinical Psychology position at the U of New Mexico! SO excited to join their Dept and be an affiliate of CASAA too! I cannot wait to work with so many stellar faculty and students there! @unm.edu @casaa.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhDThis is the most tragically American thing I’ve ever read www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
- Reposted by Cassie Boness, PhD[This post could not be retrieved]
- We're still collecting individual and organization signatures!!
- 🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.
