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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

The systems must change University systems Healthcare systems Food systems Consumerism and wellness systems The absence of structural support for families The patriarchal and racist foundations embedded throughout the Western world

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

So I say goodbye to 2025, the worst year of my professional life, with the hope that this devastation is not meaningless, but the necessary breakdown before something more just, humane, and honest can finally emerge

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

This is why women and minorities burn out—not because we lack resilience or brilliance, but because these systems extract everything from us, offer little protection in return, and then blame us for collapsing under the weight.

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

I am not writing this for attention or sympathy. I am writing it for those who still deny this reality. Women, and the work women do, are under attack. The systems are not strained. They are broken.

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

I will always center the work- the necessary, life-altering work. But what has become impossible to ignore is this: women and minorities are not meant to belong in these spaces. They are tolerated only when we are quiet, grateful, and compliant.

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

We survived. From the outside, it may even look like we thrived. Do not be fooled.

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

provided free treatment to hundreds of patients, and spoke publicly to raise awareness about eating disorders

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

And still, my team and I published over 20 papers, wrote three books, analyzed novel data with real potential to save lives, submitted more grants than ever before, completed two successful clinical trials, trained future scientists and leaders..

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

This year, something I won’t name, effectively granted permission to target women who create change—to undermine them, exhaust them, and attempt to erase their credibility.

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

All for supporting people who do not fit the narrow, outdated stereotype of what a “scientist” is supposed to be. I had my work stolen after speaking truth about misconduct. I watched systems designed to protect people look away, because protecting the status quo is easier, safer, & more convenient

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

This year, I experienced overt harassment and quieter, more insidious forms of violence—microaggressions, threats, entrapment, & discrimination. My work was threatened. Grant funding was terminated.

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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

We offer practical steps for truly weight-inclusive, stigma-free care across clinical practice, research, and policy. If we want equitable, effective treatment, we must dismantle the systems that created the harm.

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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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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 · 08/11/2025

As an eating disorder expert I strongly strongly disagree with this statement.

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

18 million Americans were food insecure in 2023. And this is even before the snap crisis. That’s 13.5 percent of Americans Unacceptable

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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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