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Dr Liat Levita

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Neuroscientist; Associate Professor in Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience. At University of Sussex @Sussex_Psych; Research: adolescent neuroscience and mental health

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The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

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?

27.08.2025 14:32 👍 867 🔁 331 💬 99 📌 41
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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 ...

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 👇

27.08.2025 16:17 👍 180 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 17

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."

21.08.2025 10:52 👍 27 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Funded PhD opportunity.pdf

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...

27.05.2025 13:49 👍 46 🔁 58 💬 2 📌 5
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Respect!!!

@harvard.edu 😍

The link to the FREE GOVERNMENT COURSES is ...

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

24.05.2025 22:32 👍 5376 🔁 2024 💬 203 📌 164

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.

21.05.2025 08:29 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholar Overly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist

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

10.04.2025 07:41 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 8
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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
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

06.03.2025 19:15 👍 540 🔁 310 💬 51 📌 104

Yap! Important read

26.03.2025 14:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

22.03.2025 06:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

14.03.2025 13:44 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
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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

12.03.2025 18:42 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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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

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

12.03.2025 16:56 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Satellite Events | ESCOP 2025 View the satellite event programme for the ESCOP 2025 conference.

🚀 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

11.03.2025 10:51 👍 22 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
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‘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.

"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

08.03.2025 12:12 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#StandUpForScience
Science not silence!

07.03.2025 13:53 👍 1891 🔁 291 💬 22 📌 14
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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

03.03.2025 15:52 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education

Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

27.02.2025 09:52 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
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Inside the Teen Brain - A Second Chance

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...

27.02.2025 10:48 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Calling all #StatsEd researchers!

@rosenetwork.bsky.social are recruiting new committee members… 👀👇

26.02.2025 12:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

11.02.2025 17:48 👍 47 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
Statement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate

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

11.02.2025 22:28 👍 149 🔁 72 💬 1 📌 5

Much needed, in todays world more then ever

11.02.2025 12:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Doctoral Projects – VoCS

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...

11.02.2025 11:24 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

Sadly mine would be rather boring and depressing now days… calling out to all the cool guys @sussexneuro.bsky.social

11.02.2025 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What’s scares me most is the compliance, fight! Don’t take them down. Struggeling to understand the submission.

10.02.2025 20:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We were glad to be able to submit evidence to POST's new evidence briefing on wellbeing in schools. Using emerging evidence from @resetproject.bsky.social we made the case for increased focus on selective, preventative interventions for mental health problems in adolescence

07.02.2025 13:10 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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2025 Dublin - Flux Society

2025 FLUX Conference
Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025!☘️

Local Organising Committee:

Rhodri Cusack (Chair)
Hugh Garavan
John J Foxe
Robert Whelan
Catherine Fassbender
Flavia H. Santos

fluxsociety.org/2025-dublin/

31.01.2025 19:20 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Evening blue light exposure during adolescence induces avoidance behaviors and rewires medial amygdala circuit. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.31.635947v1

01.02.2025 19:15 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0