Alexandra Hernández-Vallant, PhD

Your talk was so wonderful to watch! 💖 such important work!! That connection quote really inspired me too when I first came across it

I am SO sad to hear this, Katie! If not for the T32 and so much amazing mentorship at CASAA, I would not be where I am today. Thinking of you all today 💛

If you're at @rsaofficial.bsky.social conference today, come check out our roundtable on values-driven mentorship at 3:20pm!

🧠 Your brain health matters!

We’re teaming up with Illinois Alzheimer’s Association to launch the Illinois Brain Health Project – a statewide campaign to raise awareness about brain health. 🧵

Wonderful news, Cassie!! Congratulations!!!

Reducing Stigma and Enhancing Care for People Who Use Alcohol - Journal of Health Service Psychology Alcohol use is common and associated with varying degrees of harm. Heavy alcohol use can lead to the development of an alcohol use disorder (AUD). The stigma and discrimination that people with AUD of...

Feels like an especially strange time to be sharing about work, but I'm super proud of @karalink.bsky.social for writing this important paper for health service psychologists on reducing stigma and enhancing care for people who use alcohol! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congrats Katie!! Looking forward to citing this on a paper Natania and I are working on 🥳🤓

To understand the devastation for U.S. science right now. Here is how NIH grants work: somebody comes up with a research idea, like a tree sapling NIH invests in the “direct cost” of that idea, aka buys the sapling Let’s say that sapling is $100

A visualization I created to share with family and friends about how the NIH indirect rate costs will hurt science AND our economy.

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

What a timely honor to have our work highlighted where we make the case that the health of people and communities requires an intentional focus on structural determinants and social change leveraging not only community knowledge and wisdom but also building sustainable community partnerships 💛

Anyone have any examples of graphical abstracts? Or examples of graphical abstracts they’ve come across that were standouts? 🤓

I love this message as I work on finalizing my post-doc applications! Such an important thing to consider as we make big professional transitions along the journey and a reminder to lean on our community. Hello 🦋 👋

Hi 🤩 please add me!