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Eating Anxiety Treatment Lab @uofleatlab.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

First up from our presentations at #ICED2026: Dr. Vanzhula, Dr. Levinson, and Dr. Osborn’s workshop on exposure-based approaches to addressing mealtime rituals in eating disorder treatment. It sparked engaging and insightful discussion! #cancelEDs #eatlab

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April Smith, PhD @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Great start to #iced2026 with @cherilev.bsky.social getting our traditional conference ramen! This was one of the tastiest yet.

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Fantastic work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team - truly a joy getting to collaborate with all of them to integrate/adapt their work on treating eating disorders into our digital therapy ecosystem (credit/thanks as always to Michelle Craske ~ UCLA DGC/ADRC). @personalizedtx.bsky.social

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melibelibob.bsky.social @melibelibob.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This paper touches on the issues of ED. There are a lot of people who are dealing with ED who don't understand the physiology of what's going on when people restrict food, but only see what they want to see from the outside. There should be more education when it comes to food and the human body.

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Eating Anxiety Treatment Lab @uofleatlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Congrats to UofL clinical psychology graduate student Loie Faulkner and her co-authors, Dr. Levinson, Dr. Klein, and Dr. Bufferd on their newest publication in Behavior Therapy! Great job on your first, first author publication, Loie!!

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April Smith, PhD @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

HUGE congrats to @laurenharris.bsky.social on submitting her K23, "Glycemic variability and interoceptive attention as proximal predictors of eating disorder symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa and Atypical Anorexia"!!!

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Huge huge congratulations!!! So thrilled!

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 08/02/2026

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

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JAMA @jama.com · 01/02/2026

Among older adults receiving care in an academic health system, behavioral science–informed electronic health record interventions increased deprescribing or tapering of potentially inappropriate medications compared with usual care. ja.ma/4a4IGCT

Infographic from JAMA. It presents a study about electronic health record interventions for deprescribing medications to older adults. Population: 799 women, 347 men, mean age 73.6 years. Findings: Precommitment intervention 36.8%, Boostering intervention 34.3%, Usual care 26.8%.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If you think they’re building more detention facilities, increasing mass surveillance, and growing the size of ICE just to deport undocumented immigrants, then you haven’t been paying attention. Continuing to fund ICE is enabling what we all know is coming next.

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Raymond Tucker @raymopt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Supremely talented doctoral student Halle Fowler is hoping to put together an ABCT panel related to Deaf and Hard of Hearing suicide prevention or mental health. We have multiple qualitative and quantitative studies on DHH interpretation in mental health settings. We need help finding panelists!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🌟📝 Just out in World Psychiatry: Our new piece demonstrates the added value of dynamic symptom networks for predicting treatment outcomes beyond baseline severity & common covariates, with an added explained variance of 9-22% at post-treatment & follow-up. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Lauren Harris, Ph.D. @laurenharris.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

new publication alert ⚠️ now available online! doi.org/10.1016/j.be... big thanks to my mentors and team: @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social @cherilev.bsky.social @ryleelusich.bsky.social @kefancathywu.bsky.social

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

2025 made one thing undeniable: the systems were never built for people like me. A woman. A mother of young children. A scientist who is loud, who speaks hard truths, who thinks beyond sanctioned boxes, and who refuses to comply with a status quo that harms people.

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Inviting submissions to a new special issue on precision and personalized treatment approaches led by @cherilev.bsky.social and @aaronjfisher.bsky.social! It’s gonna be a fantastic collection so send us your favorite new work :) www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Read the latest articles of Behavior Therapy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Are you working in the personalized treatment/ precision medicine space? If so my co-editors & I would love to review your work for a new SPECIAL ISSUE in Behavior Therapy on personalization in mental health. More info here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... @depressionlab.bsky.social

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New paper! We show how diet culture & weight stigma are baked into eating disorder treatment—leading to missed diagnoses in higher-weight people, BMI-based denial of care, thin-centric programs, and clinicians unintentionally reinforcing fear of weight gain. www.jandonline.org/action/showP...

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This year saw almost a 50 percent decrease in funded grants on mental health. This is not okay. There is a literal mental health crisis in our country & instead of funding more work on cures we are cutting the amount of work in half. Our children will suffer from this. archive.is/2025.12.02-2...

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Kefan Cathy Wu @kefancathywu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I’m so honored to be awarded and to present our findings at the @abct-ssi-sig.bsky.social meeting!! So grateful for all of my mentors!! @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social @cherilev.bsky.social @laurenharris.bsky.social

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ABCT Eating Disorders and Eating Behaviors SIG @abct-edeb-sig.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Next, we have a clinical round table on inhibitory learning in exposure for eating disorders including our own @cherilev.bsky.social and Jamal Essayli (Imperial 12, Level 4).

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Eating Anxiety Treatment Lab @uofleatlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

THANK YOU to our amazing TRAC study participants! They have completed 77% of ecological momentary assessment surveys. This impressive completion rate will significantly enhance our ability to answer questions about suicidality and eating disorders! @redslabauburn.bsky.social

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Eating Anxiety Treatment Lab @uofleatlab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Join us in helping decrease food insecurity!

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Consequences of Grant Termination in Clinical Trials. "The termination of clinical trial grants for reasons other than safety or efficacy is wasteful in terms of time and energy, scientific opportunity, and federal tax dollars." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Consequences of Grant Termination in Clinical Trials

In March 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would be terminating $1.8 billion in grant funding unaligned with the agency’s priorities.1 The proportion of grant funding tha...

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Some Broad Thinking @somebroadthinking.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A reminder that for every dollar invested in NIH research, ~$1.47 was returned. Investors who aren’t gluttonous pigs would do that deal every day, all day long. Cutting grants is like someone looting one’s stock portfolio (if privileged enough to have one).

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

When one ruler holds too much power — king or dictator — people’s needs often come second. Bad decisions, corruption, and silence about problems can lead to hunger or even starvation. Places where leaders are accountable and people can speak up are far less likely to have food insecurity.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.” Gov. Andy Beshear

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Hey. Fat people also deserve food. Fat people using snap benefits deserve to eat guiltfree. Going without will not make them instantly skinny, and in some cases, like those with diabetes, not eating on a set schedule can exacerbate health problems. Being fat does not equal laziness or weak morality.

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mollybyrne12.bsky.social @mollybyrne12.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Mental health is so important for virtually every avenue in life and this includes nutrition. Suffering from mental health disorders will also greatly impact the way one eats. Not supporting this is very upsetting. #beh353 @beh353.bsky.social

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April Smith, PhD @aprilrosesmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🦊 REDS lab will be accepting a grad student for Fall 2026. Folks interested in eating disorders and/or suicide are encouraged to apply! See here for more details: www.redslab.org/join-the-lab

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

400 million dollars To destroy the White House I’m over here thinking about how that amount of money could fund over 200 million scientists to cure diseases

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Happy "No Kings" Day! I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya regarding the recently appointment of a new NIEHS Director.

Dear Director Bhattacharya:

I saw your announcement about the appointment of Dr. Kyle Walsh as Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. It is hard for me to express how disappointed and saddened that I am with this turn of events. This has little to do with Dr. Walsh or his qualifications. Instead, my concerns are based on the damage that this appointment, with the complete lack of any reasonable process, does to the NIH and the ability of this agency. which matters so much to the American people. to recruit and retain the best people for the 13 institute and center director positions that are now vacant.

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Once again it’s looking like my grant won’t get reviewed next week. It is impossible to do science in this environment.

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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 10/10/2025

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I am reading a reviewing a grant that is 278 pages long. People who think scientists and universities are getting "easy money" from the #NIH clearly know nothing about science.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The drain this hostile political propaganda is putting on our mental health must not be underestimated. We're constantly bombarded with division & hatred headlines. We're supposed to keep calm & carry on but we're only human & it's so hurtful. We've got to up the kindness & solidarity. No other way.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief: Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

These are all horrible, but this is just disgusting.

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Sometimes you have to celebrate the good news, despite all the bad. 🍾🥂

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Rachel Butler, PhD @rachelbutler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

SO excited to be able to get exposure therapy into the hands of more therapists who work with clients with eating disorders!

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The @nsf has also decided that clinical psychology is not eligible for NSF. This is a crock of 💩 Clinical psych (actually clinical science) is a RESEARCH degree. Let’s just completely not support research training in mental health then. Bad bad bad bad decision

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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible:

Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program
Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed)
Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed
First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar)
Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded.
Not be a current NSF employee.

Applications that do not meet eligibility requirements will be returned without review as being ineligible for a fellowship.

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

8/ side note: @clarissaong.bsky.social and @cherilev.bsky.social will be reviewing apps for our Clinical Psychological Sciences program at UofL 🤗 check out their websites to see if you might be a good fit. I’m lucky to benefit from their mentorship and to be a part of a supportive department 💖

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Claire Cusack @claireecusack.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Excited this one is getting out there! A thread/teaser🧵

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