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Alex Mitchell

@agmitchell.bsky.social
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Scientist attempting to understand pain 😖 temperature 🔥❄️ & attention 👀 in the human brain 🧠 In my spare time: 🐕🥊🧘🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️ & 👩🏻‍🎨 Brit in Denmark. She/her

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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What a force of nature. She is unparalelled.
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomach–brain communication and worse mental health symptoms www.psypost.org/scientists-d... Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments 🌈 than the science itself 😅: x.com/OwenGregoria...
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Scientists discover surprising link between gut-brain interactions and mental health
Every emotion has a physical side, but one organ has been curiously overlooked in brain-body research. Now, scientists are turning their attention to the stomach—and discovering signals that may chang...
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Got Butterflies in your Stomach? I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social - Now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl. yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’. no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The UK's Supreme Court ruling is abhorrent and outwardly validates an hateful anti-feminist rhetoric that is extremely harmful towards all minorities (incl. cis-women). I am sick of it. Trans women are women, trans men are men 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Gender critical campaigners win at UK supreme court over definition of woman
Judges rule that Equality Act definition excludes transgender women holding gender recognition certificates
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
some of the most striking tortured phrases i’ve seen in a while. Look here to discover what “moo warm steadiness” is pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer - Adsorption of heavy metals from wastewater by chitosan: A re...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Adsorption of heavy metals from wastewater by chitosan: A review (2024)
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer.
Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact.
A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmbo, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US.
"American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers,
" said Qi.
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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 01/04/2025
Ever stuck choosing the right plot or trying to figure out how to make it look just right? My go-to resource is the R Graph Gallery (r-graph-gallery.com), which is full of examples and clear code for everything from scatterplots to Sankey diagrams! #dataviz #rstats #rladies
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The R Graph Gallery – Help and inspiration for R charts
The R graph gallery displays hundreds of charts made with R, always providing the reproducible code.
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... "And asked if he was just joking, as he and his supporters like to say whenever he floats anti-constitutional ideas, he said: “No, no, I’m not joking. I’m not joking.”
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Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House
In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19/03/2025
Pleased to share our latest collaborative publication, "Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain", out now in Science Advances! The first major output of our Visceral Mind Project, lead by the amazing @francescafardo.bsky.social! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain
Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.
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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan @drrageshri.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“We’re seeing a rise in broken legs being diagnosed.” The discourse about this would not be about ‘over-diagnosis’, but about investigation into why this was happening, prevention and support. Perhaps we could do the same for other diagnoses.
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Ashley Tyrer @ashleytyrer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Yup, tracks with my experience, too. And even in a department that was overwhelmingly female (excluding emeriti), if male associates didn’t do the extra labor, it did not hurt their chance at TT, but if female associates didn’t donate their time, they wouldn’t get consideration for TT.
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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
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Women end up doing the academic housework
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
How the #MenstrualCycle shapes #heart and #brain health - @jellinap.bsky.social together with Julia Sacher @cogneuroend.bsky.social & Arno Villringer describe how these naturally occurring variations might influence #stress, mood, and long-term #womenshealth: tinyurl.com/35pu6447
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How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health
How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Employees, teachers, students, alumni -- tell your universities and retirement funds to participate in the #TeslaTakedown and #divest. Source: www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Normally the only kind of tesla I'd post about online are the femtotesla generated by human brain activity. But these aren't normal times. 🧵 #TeslaTakedown
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a man stands in front of a tesla truck with a demo tesla armor glass sign above him
ALT: a man stands in front of a tesla truck with a demo tesla armor glass sign above him
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/02/2025
those that evangelize genAI as a "powerful tool" for their little tasks without consideration of its disastrous impact on the information/knowledge ecology are shortsighted, to say the least
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We’re all super excited for this session and hope to see you there!
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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In our second workshop we will have the incredible @AshleyTyrer from Aarhaus University outlining Dynamic Causal Modelling! Date: 5th March, 9am EST, 2pm GMT. Register below! forms.gle/v72nSZyu4Fsh...
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How-to-DCM Workshop
How-to Workshop Series Introducing a new series of online workshops designed to showcase emerging protocols and toolboxes developed by our OHBM community. All workshops will be recorded and made avail...
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Lau Møller Andersen @ualsbombe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum . Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline for the application is March 20th 2025.
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Postdoc in cognitive neuroscience - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I do not, necessarily, agree with the sweeping title of this article. But the fundamental point stands, we have benefitted from US defense for decades and were woefully unprepared for this eventuality.
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Europeans are right to be angry with Donald Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves | Andrew Rawnsley
The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding their defences
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
I lost my job. USDA Forest Service.


My probation was up next week.


I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it.


Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know.


And now? Just like that, I’m out.


Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ukraine did not "go into this war“. They were attacked.
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Beavers always know best" 🦫💪 Land right disputes were delaying construciton of dam to protect downstream nature. Beavers moved in and built the dam in a couple of nights saving the government £1 million. #Biodiversity #Conservation #Rewilding english.radio.cz/beavers-buil...
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Beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area, while local officials still seeking permits
A beaver colony has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed.
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico
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Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico | Greg Grandin
Environmental disasters have plagued the water body for decades. Now the region is thrust in the global spotlight
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 17/01/2025
This is a great article. AI is absolutely destroying students' ability to think and problem solve, and this is a *huge* issue in education.
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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
How does the perception of our bodily self arise in our experience, and to what extent do we process body ownership information unconsciously? In a new study (preprint), we found body ownership information processing cannot occur without awareness. 0/14👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
WRITER OF 'WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS': And then we end on wishing them a happy new year, and that's the song 😊 FIGGY PUDDING MARKETING DEPARTMENT: Great! Just one minor suggestion
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Possibly my favourite thing about LLMs to date
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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
BOOM! Re-upping our Pain Research Starter Pack since so many people have joined this glorious place in the past week. If you are not on the list and want to be added, let me know and I will add you... I have been doing my best to keep this updated. #painresearch go.bsky.app/KboKNhg
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 22/11/2024
Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
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Max Berg @maxberg91.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Men will literally prefer going Bayesian instead of going to therapy.
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just published from our group- a method that successfully thresholds the Thermal Grill Illusion. Lovely to have this out and seriously impressive work by everyone involved (especially Camila as lead on this)
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
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Sophia Rini @sophiarini.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Really seems that being a singularly worthless man is still a major advantage over being an exceptionally impressive woman.
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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Keir Starmer has talked a lot about choices. His Government has chosen to increase public transport fares. Keeping the £2 bus fare cap in England would cost £300m, according to the New Economics Foundation. The fuel duty freeze? £3bn. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
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Keeping £2 bus fare cap would have cost a tenth of fuel duty freeze, says think tank
Campaigners say ‘bus tax’ will hit communities while freezing fuel duty encourages car usage
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Arthur S. Courtin @acourtin.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Is our sensitivity to pain influenced by signals coming from our blood vessels? This could explain why when we raise the arm on which a capsaicin patch is applied, the pain becomes much worse, a phenomenon we describe and probe in our latest paper doi.org/10.1002/ejp.... A 🧵
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
The research and publications we do as academics is largely unpaid. Now, it is being sold, with none of that money going to us, to train a system that makes our work as mentors of new scholars even harder. (Ok, a ranty thread)
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/06/2024
Got a bad gut feeling 😖? In a new study, led by the brilliant @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo, we combined fMRI & electrogastrographic (EGG) imaging in more than 200 participants to uncover links between the gastric-brain axis and mental health.  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...  🧵👇
A complex figure showing an overview of our stomach-brain to psychiatric symptom fingerprinting pipeline.
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