Dr. Cheri A Levinson

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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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"!!!

Huge huge congratulations!!! So thrilled!

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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

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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%.

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.

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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.

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!

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%.

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.

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🌟📝 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.

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Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators. ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

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Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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..

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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

@uofleatlab.bsky.social

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.

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.

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