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Honorable Mention on National Council on Family Relations Award!
I received an honorable mention for a solo-authored theoretical paper titled Seeing Through New Lenses (Re)examining Family Substance Use Disorders via Integrative, Theoretical, and Multi-Level Perspectives at the Theory Construction and Research ...
Post · February 25, 2026
New Service Role: Expert Consultant for the Administration for Children and Families's National and State Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being
In 2025, I joined the Expert Advisory Group (EAG) that advises and supports development of a new iteration of the National and State Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, sponsored by the Administration for Children and Families in collaborat...
Post · February 25, 2026
Our new study on microplastics in White-throated dipper is out (Colette's MSc thesis)
Excited to share that a new study based on Colette Martin’s MSc thesis has just been published in Environmental Research. We investigated the microplastic exposure in White-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) nestlings across Scotland and the Basque...
Post · February 23, 2026
The State of the Public Procurement Profession 2026
Public procurement is often described as a rules-driven function. That is true, but incomplete. The past few years have made something else equally clear: procurement is also a capacity issue. When markets tighten, when policy shifts, when cyber r...
Post · February 23, 2026
Preprint: Inspectable AI for Science: A Research Object Approach to Generative AI Governance
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Post · February 22, 2026
New editorial published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Our Research Topic for Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, "Sex as a biological variable in the neurocircuitry of motivated behavior", is now closed. Take some time to read the submitted research and editorial associated with the topic, in which...
Post · February 19, 2026