Dr. Cheri A Levinson

I am so sorry this happened to you. Also happened to 3 of my trainees. It’s not okay at all.

Year 2 of my NIMH F31 was supposed to have started yesterday. An award that I was proud to have funded on the first submission (13th percentile), which supported my dissertation research on eating disorders in adolescents, and which funded my tuition, stipend, and health insurance for the past year.

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Spent the afternoon in a Youth Mental Health Leadership meeting w/ the goal to make mental health care accessible for ALL in Louisville

I love my work

I hate the American systems that make it so hard to do

It’s frustrating to imagine how many less kids would struggle if not for these systems

NIH director Bhattacharya denies banned word list in meeting with staffers Bethesda Declaration signers insist that a list exists and further criticize new policies

#NIH PIs, start emailing Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya and tell them what you are experiencing. CC Dr. Jon Lorsch and your ICO Director of Extramural Activities. Get them to talk with each other. #defendresearch

That’s amazing. Has anyone seen any actual dollars from the reinstated grants?

Did you get money back?

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IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE

Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

How many holidays does this guy go on???

Using network analysis to personalize treatment for individuals with co-occurring restrictive eating disorders and suicidality: a proof-of-concept study - Journal of Eating Disorders Background Nomothetic (i.e., on average) eating disorder interventions generally provide insufficient guidance for managing suicidality. The present proof-of-concept study demonstrates how idiographic...

new pub alert ⚠️ did you know that there are currently no evidence-based eating disorder interventions that provide
explicit guidelines for treating co-occurring AN/AAN and suicidality? in this new (open access) article, we demonstrate how idiographic networks could be used to address this gap.

EAT lab in the APA news! Dr. Levinson shared the impact of funding cuts on our work in APA’s series “Psychological Science, suspended”.

@cherilev.bsky.social

Read below!

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While some colleagues in blue states are having grants reinstated - we are still living this nightmare.

This is not okay.

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Schedule

No news on NIH yet because that's a different appropriations subcommittee.

But the House is currently scheduled to markup NIH's budget during the week of July 21. See here: appropriations.house.gov/schedule

Any word on NIH?

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The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

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🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.

Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.

See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.

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Love that!

Brilliant work by @cherilev.bsky.social and her team and Michelle Craske - always a fun time when I get to learn from experts :)

Our hope w this work is to a) show how similiar eating disorder fears are to fears those with anxiety disorders experience & b) show how digital therapies can help treat EDs in a more accessible manner

Love to hear thoughts on our process!

Happy reading 📖📖📖📖📖

Adapting digital anxiety treatments to reduce anorexia nervosa relapse Exposure therapy is an efficacious, frontline treatment for anxiety disorders. Digital interventions for anxiety are effective and increase access to …

The next 15 years of my career were spent on these observations

Most recently my team @uofleatlab.bsky.social & @depressionlab.bsky.social spent years translating anxiety digital exposures to eating disorders

This work explains our thinking and process

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***NEW ARTICLE***

Story time: my third year of my PhD I worked at an anxiety clinic doing intensive exposure therapy

My fourth year I started working at an #eatingdisorder clinic

Two major impacts from these experiences

🥇EDs were SO similar to OCD/anxiety

🥈why werent EDs treated w exposure?

Tracking Psychopathology Dimensions Through Passive Smartphone Sensing Mental health researchers are increasingly using passively collected data from smartphones and wearable devices (eg, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and smart rings) to continuously and unobtrusively ...

🧠📱Excited to share our invited commentary in @jamanetworkopen.com on the promise and pitfalls of using smartphones (and wearables) to track psychopathology w/
@hadarfisher.bsky.social and linked to excellent paper by
@whitneyringwald.bsky.social, @aidangcw.bsky.social & team. tinyurl.com/5n8z4r6e

I am so lucky to work with these brilliant folks! @ivanzhula.bsky.social

Let’s be real. The republicans care very little what their constituents, who are real people, care about

They do not care about democracy

They just want to ensure they remain in power

Everything he does is unlawful. But does it even matter at this point?

What is the most revisions to a paper you’ve ever gotten? I’m
Working on a *FOURTH* round of revisions and I will never submit to this journal again…

Caveat- revisions did improve the paper originally but at this point it’s just 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research