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Benjamin Katz

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Clinical Psychology PhD Candidate at UW-Milwaukee | incoming postdoc at the University of Rhode Island | Posttrauma reckless/self-destructive behaviors, PTSD-SUD, & LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ research | 🐈 dad | views are my own

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Dec 21

Excited to share our (@nicoleweiss.bsky.social and my) first co-authored paper now published in the European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation!

Posttrauma reckless and self-destructive behaviors among trauma-exposed sexual orientation and gender diverse adults

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Posttrauma reckless and self-destructive behaviors among trauma-exposed sexual orientation and gender diverse adults

Sexual orientation and gender diverse (SOGD) adults report disproportionately higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, examinati…

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 23h

I appreciate your consideration and think the context is so critical. When “OCD” is casually used to describe quirks or traits like being meticulous etc. it can diminish the real distress and impairment associated with the disorder

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 23h

When “OCD” is used as an adjective, it trivializes and invalidates the real suffering and courage of people living with this serious and debilitating condition.

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 8d

📣 New Pub 📣

We captured 30-day emotion intensity & dysregulation data from EMA & examined in relation to cortisol (from hair) during the same period. Emotion intensity & hair cortisol levels were significantly associated among women with high (but not low) emotion dysregulation.

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you to the welcoming graduate students in @stresslab.bsky.social (@hodiana.bsky.social + a few Blueskyless folks!) for curating this lovely waiting area outside my office.

Grateful to belong to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social’s phenomenal team 🤗

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Dr. Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt @ssweatt.bsky.social · 22d

In addition to posting plants and puppies, I also mentor students interested in personality pathology. My lab is recruiting a graduate student in clinical or personality psychology for Fall 2026. So please send folks my way. Feel free to share! Thanks.

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · 23d

This is good.

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Strong Ground

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertaint...

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STRESS Lab @stresslab.bsky.social · 26d

Awesome series of EMA talks chaired by STRESS Lab postdoc @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social and lead by STRESS Lab alum (Emmanuel Thomas and Alexa Raudales) and current members (Noam Newberger)

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · 27d

So proud of Alexa Raudales for being the recipient of the @istss.bsky.social Outstanding Student Achievement Award

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STRESS Lab @stresslab.bsky.social · 28d

STRESS Lab is @istss.bsky.social Come meet us and see some of our current work!

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Sep 16

Huge congratulations to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social and @heatherschatten.bsky.social, along with the whole team, on this new R01!!

Can’t wait to support and contribute to this important work ahead with @stresslab.bsky.social!

Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · Sep 16

Went to dinner last night with @heatherschatten.bsky.social & our new R01!!! We're using the BACtrack Skyn & EMA to examine the timing & mechanisms underlying alcohol use & suicide risk.

I'm excited to be doing work that matters with close friends (also @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social and Amy Stamates)

Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Sep 13

Congratulations, Reagan!! 🥳👏🏼 this is a big deal!

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STRESS Lab @stresslab.bsky.social · Sep 9

Proud to empower our community through naloxone distribution on IOAD. Community engagement is more than research; it's action. @nicoleweiss.bsky.social @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social @hodiana.bsky.social (and many others!)

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Nicole Weiss @nicoleweiss.bsky.social · Sep 8

Big news! @universityofri.bsky.social just secured its first-ever NIH T32 grant!

This T32 will bring together Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, and Life Sciences to train the next generation of scientists to tackle complex health challenges like addiction.

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URI receives first-ever NIH T32 award to launch transdisciplinary biomedical research training program

KINGSTON, R.I. – Sept. 3, 2025 – The University of Rhode Island has received its first-ever National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 Predoctoral Training Grant, marking a major milestone in URI’s growt...

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Lovely new neighborhood views ☺️

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Special thanks to @nicoleweiss.bsky.social, @bfeinsteinphd.bsky.social, & @stresslab.bsky.social co-authors (Noam Newberger and Stephen Coutu) for collaborating on this paper!

STRESS Lab (@stresslab.bsky.social)

Serving people with lived experiences of trauma and substance use through research, practice, and advocacy. Directed by @nicoleweiss.bsky.social in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rh...

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

These findings are preliminary and need to be replicated using longitudinal designs. However, findings point to potential intervention and prevention implications.

Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

More frequent lifetime occurrences of sexual orientation-related victimization were indirectly associated with greater past-month posttrauma RSDBs via greater trauma symptoms due to discrimination, and, in turn, greater emotion dysregulation.

Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Specifically, we tested a model examining the serial roles of trauma symptoms due to discrimination and emotion dysregulation in the association between sexual orientation-related victimization and posttrauma RSDBs.

Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Building on this descriptive paper, our study aimed to investigate culturally-specific and nomothetic risk factors of posttrauma RSDBs in a sample of 139 trauma-exposed sexual minority adults.

Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

Earlier this year, @nicoleweiss.bsky.social and I published a paper characterizing the rate of past-month posttrauma reckless/self-destructive behaviors (RSDBs) among trauma-exposed sexual minority adults.

Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jul 15

New paper published in Psych Trauma:

Sexual Orientation-Related Victimization and Posttrauma Reckless and Self-Destructive Behaviors among Trauma-Exposed Sexual Minority Adults

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · Jun 13

This grief is palpable *and* will open space to embrace the changes to come in the field. At least that’s what I keep telling myself 🙃

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Diane Chen, PhD @drdianechen.bsky.social · Jun 7

Important piece by Drs. @jaepuckett.bsky.social and Paz Galupo

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Our trans health study was terminated by the government – the effects of abrupt NIH grant cuts ripple across science and society

The losses include millions of dollars the NIH has already spent on research that will no longer generate results, and the next generation of scientists whose work has been cut short.

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Benjamin Katz @benjaminwkatz.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you for everything, Brian 💛