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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🥳 Massive congratulations to Seema Banglawala for winning the award for Best Oral Presentation in the Early Career Session at #Fertility2026 🏆. Seema presented her summer project on protecting the testis from chemotherapy. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 @srf_societyuk @edinfertility

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🥳 Great session of selected oral presentations at the UK Fertility Preservation Conference today. Excellent presentations from the large Edinburgh contingent 😊 #GraceForsyth #KathleenDuffin #AgnesStefansdottir #EmmaKearney #BritishFertilitySociety #EdinFertility #OrchidNet

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Well all things have to come to an end 😢 It has been an absolute pleasure to perform ‘Talking Bollocks’ at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Thanks to @suziemo The Provocateurs and @StandComedyClub teams for making a little boys dream come true 🙏

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Delighted to say that registration is now open for this years UK Fertility Preservation Annual conference. Clinical Frontiers in Fertility Preservation is organised by @BritFertSoc and has a great programme. Check it out and register here 👉 www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/civicrm/even...

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Super-excited that the incredible Ria Lina ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @rialina.com will be hosting #TalkingBollocks 🍒 & #ChildrensMoney 💰 at the @standcomedyclub.bsky.social on 5th August. Tickets now available for this Edinburgh Fringe Festival @edfringe.bsky.social show 👇 🎟️ www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... 🎟️

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

An impressive erection 😳 and a sperm still intent on chasing the egg… even in 35 degrees of heat. Paris is the perfect setting for #ESHRE2025. Safe travels and see you tomorrow @ESHRE 🇫🇷

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

KICK-OFF ⚽️ for this exciting new @EU_Commission project. The PREDICT-AYA study is a €6.4M project to identify predictive factors for future reproductive health & #fertility in AYA/TYA with cancer. Delighted to be leading the male WP with Csilla Krausz. #FertilityPreservation

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Looking forward to chairing today’s @ESHRE webinar by Peter Schlegel on TESE for young males as part of the Addressing Today’s Biggest Challenges series. @SIGFertPreser. You can find out more about this series here 👉 www.eshre.eu/Education/We...

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Lovely evening with the testis and ovary teams 😆, welcoming new team members. Team testis were lost in space but managed to escape 🚀 …just 😉

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Fantastic ‘How do I manage…’ session on Graves Disease from Tim Cheetham @EuroSPE today. Always provides a common sense approach to managing patients and even a nod to the ‘Toon Army’ at the end ⚽️ #ConnectingEndocrinology2025 #EndocrinologyAcrossTheLifeCourse

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Heading to #espe2025 in Denmark 🇩🇰 after a short trip to Latvia 🇱🇻 to speak at the International Workshop Andrology and Reproductive Medicine in Riga. My Latvian may not be up to much but I think I can work out what this room is for 😉 #ConnectingEndocrinology2025

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Rounding off the talks from the Edinburgh team, we have @kathleensuffin.bsky.social with a great talk on in-vitro exposure to chemotherapy in the testis 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #FertilityPreservation.

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lovely talk from @GraceForsyth13 on an in-vivo model for chemotherapy exposure in the #testis. Important work for developing strategies for #FertilityPreservation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The paper is now published in @Repro_Fertility 👉 raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal...

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 a huge well done to @Emma_Kearney2 for a great presentation on germ cell quantification methods at #ETW2025 today…1/2

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Superb talk by Sara di Persio on spermatogonial single cell sequencing at #ETW2025.

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

European Testis Workshop #ETW2025 in The Netherlands. The highlight of the calendar for testis 🥎 🎱 ⚽️ 🏉 enthusiasts. This time (as opposed to Washington!) some of the lab team are actually here IRL 😉😂😂😂

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

👨 Are you a young man (>16yrs): ✅ diagnosed with cancer aged 11-25? We would love to hear your views on a new resource, designed to help young males with #cancer with their #fertility & #FertilityPreservation. If you can help or want to learn more please get in touch 👇

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Enjoying some great science and discussion at #ASA_ICA25Conf in Washington, surrounded by many of the legends in #Andrology 🕺💃. Looking forward to presenting the work of @edinfertility, the @ORCHID_NET_Fert consortium and of course, the fantastic lab team 🙏👇👇👇

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

👀 We are looking for males aged 11-25 who have had #cancer (or their family members) to help develop a new @CFMyoungmen resource to support young people make decisions about future #fertility. #CCLG2025. See below for how to get involved 👇

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚨 Calling all UK Paediatric Oncologists/ Haematologists 🚨 at #CCLG2025. We will update on our clinical trial to restore #Fertility in young males after cancer treatment. WE NEED YOUR HELP 🗣️ to find eligible patients. Come along to #CCLG25 tomorrow to find out more👇

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We would love to get the input of @younglivesvscancer.bsky.social Voice Hub for developing a resource to help young males with cancer make decisions about future fertility 👇

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

All set for ‘IVF-47 Years Later’ in the beautiful city of Athens. I will be talking about #FertilityPreservation in boys, including the work being done @edinfertility and @ORCHID_NET_Fert 😊

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Congratulations Margit Bistrup Fischer on defending her #PhD on Paracetamol effects on Ovarian Function. It was a pleasure to be an examiner 😊. PS: I think all PhD defences should end with a song written for the candidate…not that I understood the Danish (except Nutella) 😂

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Last nights @srf_societyuk ‘Bits & Bobs - The Anatomy of Sex’ was a rip-roaring success! 200 tickets sold & more squeezed in 🤫. Activities included clay modelling genitals, crocheting sperm & The Wandering Womb ⛺️. Inspiring to see public so engaged in the science 🧪 🧫 🧬

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

‘Gieing it laldy’ at the #Fertility2025 conference dinner. The Edinburgh team entertaining the crowd with a very lively ‘Bandaoke’ rendition of #500miles 🎤 🕺🎶 💃 DaDaDaDa…

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Well done @GraceForsyth13 on an excellent presentation on protecting #Fertility in #ChildhoodCancer 😊 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We had a blast at #Fertility2025. Great science, great fun and great friendships. Already looking forward to Fertility 2026 next year in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

💥Last chance💥 to provide your feedback on these draft @ESHRE recommendations on Fertility preservation in child and adolescent males. Check them out here 👉 www.eshre.eu/Guideline/FPinboys

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Never imagined I would be writing a chapter on #Reproduction in #Space 🚀👨‍🚀! 👉 bit.ly/3VpX6qI Thanks to our Captains @JanStukenborg and @vjain102 for leading our mission! More intergalactic adventures to come...

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Fab Christmas Lunch this week 😊 So nice to relax and unwind with such a lovely bunch of people 🫶🏻. Not to mention another chance to wear my favourite Christmas jumper 🌲 👕

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just finished watching #Joy. I can safely say it lived up to its name 😊 Phenomenal that the persistence of THREE researchers resulted in #IVF, which has created 12 million new lives 🤯 Promise I wasn’t crying 😭, I just had something in my eye 😉

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is one for our research groups papers on #Pubmed.

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Rod Mitchell @rodtmitchell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

🚨 News from the team 🚨 We have joined @bluesky to help spread the word on #FertilityPreservation in #ChildhoodCancer. You can keep up with our work on @X or follow us on @bluesky (RodTMitchell) and all the major social media channels. Keep your 👀 peeled for updates 😊

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