Cassie Boness, PhD
@cassie-boness.bsky.social
I talk about substance use a lot. Probably going down with twitter if I’m being honest. BAL.UNM.edu #addictionsci
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OPINION: Federal cuts put addiction treatment and recovery at risk
I vividly remember growing up and my grandmother warning me to be careful with alcohol — because addiction “runs in our family.” She wasn’t wrong. For generations, both sides of
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New op-ed out in the Albuquerque Journal. I share about the importance of federal substance use and addiction funding for families like mine.
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and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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and in case you hit a paywall: unmm-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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...
Graduate Program Overview ::
Department of Psychology | The University of New Mexico
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November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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...
Research Assistant Professor in Personalized Medicine for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder
Seeking applicants for a Research Assistant Professor faculty position at the University of New Mexico on an NIH funded grant evaluating personalized ...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Come work with us @unm.edu 🤩
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Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
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Still waiting on 3 institutions to give their decisions...
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Still waiting on 3 institutions to give their decisions...
Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
October 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Great turnout for No Kings in Albuquerque today!
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Applications 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...
Learn more: lnkd.in/p/gA_JAdmy
Apply: datamanagementdatasharing.weebly.com/upcoming-wor...
Upcoming Workshops
The 2026 Data Management for Data Sharing workshop will take place June 8-12th 2026 on Vanderbilt University's Campus in Nashville, TN. Applications for 2026 cohort are LIVE! Click here to...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Applications 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...
Learn more: lnkd.in/p/gA_JAdmy
Apply: datamanagementdatasharing.weebly.com/upcoming-wor...
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Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
Ousted CDC director testifies on why she was fired
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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I 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 )
September 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I 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!
August 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Proud of this one. Thanks @apadivision50.bsky.social!
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."
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"Over half of the programs we surveyed rely on school-level funding, often leaving them vulnerable to budget cuts."
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College Shouldn’t Be a Relapse Risk: Why Collegiate Recovery Programs Deserve Sustainable Funding
Colleges and universities that are committed to fostering inclusive and supportive educational environments must prioritize sustainable funding for collegiate recovery programs, writes Noel Vest in a ...
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July 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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...
"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...
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Not 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.
The president just issued an executive order to curb "Crime and Disorder on America's Streets"
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Its primary target: unhoused people share.google/1JD7LxJ9oW2r...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
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July 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Not 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
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SOC Press Release 7-22-25.docx
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2025 – Chapel Hill, NC Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and O...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
📣 Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and Overdose and Reverse Gains
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⚠️ 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...
Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
New Doctoral Degree Area ::
Department of Psychology | The University of New Mexico
psych.unm.edu
July 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
⚠️ 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...
Details and faculty here: psych.unm.edu/graduate/pro...
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Researchers 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
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
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021
was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and
the words were also switched in ...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Researchers 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
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
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Our 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
July 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Our final APA programming is out now! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Denver this year!
Great resource from @drugpolicy.org drugpolicy.org/resource/pro...
Protecting Federally-Funded Drug Research: An Advocacy Toolkit for Researchers
A toolkit that highlights stories of the lifesaving studies of drug researchers whose funding has been cut and how to fight back against funding cuts.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Great resource from @drugpolicy.org drugpolicy.org/resource/pro...
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BREAKING: 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.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: 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.
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Addiction 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.
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. 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Addiction 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.
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.
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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. 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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. 🧵
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.
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Advocates say progress on the battle against addiction could backslide with federal funding cuts
For the first time in years, overdose deaths have been declining recently after reaching a peak of about 111,000 in 2022. However, advocates are worried about a backslide on that progress as federal g...
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June 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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
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@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 ✨
June 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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 ✨
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Science 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.
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.
Open Letter: A Call to Preserve the Future of American Science
The Scientist Network for Advancing Policy (SNAP) invites early-career scientists (e.g., student, post-bacc, PhD candidate, post-doctoral researcher, early-career faculty) in the United States to join...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Science 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.
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.