Dr Liat Levita
@drliatlevita.bsky.social
Neuroscientist; Associate Professor in Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience. At University of Sussex @Sussex_Psych; Research: adolescent neuroscience and mental health
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How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?
The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.
www.newyorker.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?
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Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
www.medrxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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Really amazing work that challenges some long-held beliefs about cortical plasticity.
"We show adult sensory body maps are unaltered after amputation, suggesting deprivation-driven plasticity is even more marginal than argued by the strongest opponents of cortical reorganization."
"We show adult sensory body maps are unaltered after amputation, suggesting deprivation-driven plasticity is even more marginal than argued by the strongest opponents of cortical reorganization."
Now out in @natneuro.nature.com
What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?
Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation
www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7
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August 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Really amazing work that challenges some long-held beliefs about cortical plasticity.
"We show adult sensory body maps are unaltered after amputation, suggesting deprivation-driven plasticity is even more marginal than argued by the strongest opponents of cortical reorganization."
"We show adult sensory body maps are unaltered after amputation, suggesting deprivation-driven plasticity is even more marginal than argued by the strongest opponents of cortical reorganization."
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Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf
drive.google.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁).
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...
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Respect!!!
@harvard.edu 😍
The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
@harvard.edu 😍
The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
May 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Respect!!!
@harvard.edu 😍
The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
@harvard.edu 😍
The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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This is a very important issue, because it might sound like "trashing" psychological interventions or prevention efforts, but it is not. This is how science should work. We have a good idea, we test it, if it works, great, if it doesn't, rethink and retest. With enough evidence against, we drop it.
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is a very important issue, because it might sound like "trashing" psychological interventions or prevention efforts, but it is not. This is how science should work. We have a good idea, we test it, if it works, great, if it doesn't, rethink and retest. With enough evidence against, we drop it.
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Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar
Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Needless bureaucracy and “bullshit jobs” are preventing academics from fulfilling their core creative responsibilities and making clinical research an “impossible task”, a leading neuroscientist has warned. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Yap! Important read
This is one of the most important papers published in years.
"On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities"
@masudhusain.bsky.social
"On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities"
@masudhusain.bsky.social
On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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March 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Yap! Important read
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In this era of political suppression, I'm especially glad to see this paper among the top 10 most cited papers published in Child Development Perspectives in 2023!
Grateful to our team: Stephanie Irby Coard, Oscar Barbarin & Jude Cassidy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social
Grateful to our team: Stephanie Irby Coard, Oscar Barbarin & Jude Cassidy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
In this era of political suppression, I'm especially glad to see this paper among the top 10 most cited papers published in Child Development Perspectives in 2023!
Grateful to our team: Stephanie Irby Coard, Oscar Barbarin & Jude Cassidy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social
Grateful to our team: Stephanie Irby Coard, Oscar Barbarin & Jude Cassidy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@srcdorg.bsky.social
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We are so excited to be taking the #BNA2025 International Festival of #Neuroscience to #Liverpool !
A city where history, culture and innovation collide - the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable neuroscience gathering. Join us! bna2025.org
#cpd #careerdevelopment #medicalresearch #networking
A city where history, culture and innovation collide - the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable neuroscience gathering. Join us! bna2025.org
#cpd #careerdevelopment #medicalresearch #networking
March 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We are so excited to be taking the #BNA2025 International Festival of #Neuroscience to #Liverpool !
A city where history, culture and innovation collide - the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable neuroscience gathering. Join us! bna2025.org
#cpd #careerdevelopment #medicalresearch #networking
A city where history, culture and innovation collide - the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable neuroscience gathering. Join us! bna2025.org
#cpd #careerdevelopment #medicalresearch #networking
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#SfNHillDay momentum builds!
Today, SfN members and fellow #NeuroAdvocates continue meetings with members of congress and their staff to advocate for crucial initiatives that protect and advance #neuroscience research.
#NeuroSky
Today, SfN members and fellow #NeuroAdvocates continue meetings with members of congress and their staff to advocate for crucial initiatives that protect and advance #neuroscience research.
#NeuroSky
March 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#SfNHillDay momentum builds!
Today, SfN members and fellow #NeuroAdvocates continue meetings with members of congress and their staff to advocate for crucial initiatives that protect and advance #neuroscience research.
#NeuroSky
Today, SfN members and fellow #NeuroAdvocates continue meetings with members of congress and their staff to advocate for crucial initiatives that protect and advance #neuroscience research.
#NeuroSky
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Why do our senses give us such different experiences of the world and is there a way of having supersenses? Come to Think Again at Ironworks Studios in Brighton at 7pm on Mar 13th where 3 brilliant Sussex University psychologists will explain all to me. www.ironworks-studios.co.uk/whats-on
What's On in Brighton - Ironworks Studios Brighton
Want to know what’s on in Brighton? Ironworks Studios is the home of top-quality entertainment and live music in Brighton. We showcase the best names in drag
www.ironworks-studios.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Why do our senses give us such different experiences of the world and is there a way of having supersenses? Come to Think Again at Ironworks Studios in Brighton at 7pm on Mar 13th where 3 brilliant Sussex University psychologists will explain all to me. www.ironworks-studios.co.uk/whats-on
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🚀 Thrilled to share the stellar #ESCOP2025 satellites lineup! From @psychopy.org to Bayesian modelling, fNIRS, eye-tracking, gen AI in teaching, Knowledge Exchange & the @wicseurope.bsky.social 25-year anniversary!🥳🎂
www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
Satellite Events | ESCOP 2025
View the satellite event programme for the ESCOP 2025 conference.
www.escop2025.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚀 Thrilled to share the stellar #ESCOP2025 satellites lineup! From @psychopy.org to Bayesian modelling, fNIRS, eye-tracking, gen AI in teaching, Knowledge Exchange & the @wicseurope.bsky.social 25-year anniversary!🥳🎂
www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
www.escop2025.com/satellite-ev... @escop.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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"Our difference was really magnified" - Waveney Bushell, often referred to as the first black female educational psychologist in the UK.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
#IWD2025
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
#IWD2025
‘Our difference was really magnified’ | BPS
Educational Psychologist Dr Melernie Meheux in conversation with Waveney Bushell, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
www.bps.org.uk
March 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Our difference was really magnified" - Waveney Bushell, often referred to as the first black female educational psychologist in the UK.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
#IWD2025
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
#IWD2025
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#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!
Science not silence!
March 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!
Science not silence!
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Imagine an apple... what does it look like? Imagine the months of the year... what shape do they take? We'll discuss how we sense the world in the next Think Again! at Ironworks Studios #Brighton hosted by @claudiahammond.bsky.social with expert psychologists @sussex.ac.uk Tickets from Ironworks
March 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Imagine an apple... what does it look like? Imagine the months of the year... what shape do they take? We'll discuss how we sense the world in the next Think Again! at Ironworks Studios #Brighton hosted by @claudiahammond.bsky.social with expert psychologists @sussex.ac.uk Tickets from Ironworks
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Latest Ep of Inside the Teen Brain 'A Second Chance'.
@drjanegilmour.bsky.social talks to Prof Rosie Meek exploring the role of risk-taking, peer influence, and emotional regulation in adolescence, particularly among young people in the criminal justice system.
bit.ly/Prof-Rosie-M...
@drjanegilmour.bsky.social talks to Prof Rosie Meek exploring the role of risk-taking, peer influence, and emotional regulation in adolescence, particularly among young people in the criminal justice system.
bit.ly/Prof-Rosie-M...
Inside the Teen Brain - A Second Chance
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February 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Latest Ep of Inside the Teen Brain 'A Second Chance'.
@drjanegilmour.bsky.social talks to Prof Rosie Meek exploring the role of risk-taking, peer influence, and emotional regulation in adolescence, particularly among young people in the criminal justice system.
bit.ly/Prof-Rosie-M...
@drjanegilmour.bsky.social talks to Prof Rosie Meek exploring the role of risk-taking, peer influence, and emotional regulation in adolescence, particularly among young people in the criminal justice system.
bit.ly/Prof-Rosie-M...
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Want to have a say in the RoSE network? We're recruiting for the following roles:
Co-Director- Communications
Co-Director- EDI
Co-Director- Finance
Social Media Officer
Geographic Reps
Follow the link below to find out more & apply by the 23rd March!
www.rose-network.org/about-us/vac...
Co-Director- Communications
Co-Director- EDI
Co-Director- Finance
Social Media Officer
Geographic Reps
Follow the link below to find out more & apply by the 23rd March!
www.rose-network.org/about-us/vac...
RoSE Network - Vacancies
vacancies
www.rose-network.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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And the Association for Psychological Science now also out with a statement to members (I have not found a public link): @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
And the Association for Psychological Science now also out with a statement to members (I have not found a public link): @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social @psychscience.bsky.social
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The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure.
Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
Statement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate
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February 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure.
Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
Much needed, in todays world more then ever
🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures!
Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!
Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not!
Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Much needed, in todays world more then ever
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19 doctoral positions within the European VOCS Training Network in which Doctoral Candidates will engage in groundbreaking collaborative research in cognitive neuroscience, acoustics, phonetics, and computing science
www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/do...
www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/do...
The Doctoral Projects – VoCS
www.vocs.eu.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
19 doctoral positions within the European VOCS Training Network in which Doctoral Candidates will engage in groundbreaking collaborative research in cognitive neuroscience, acoustics, phonetics, and computing science
www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/do...
www.vocs.eu.com/index.php/do...