@agmitchell.bsky.social
Scientist attempting to understand pain 😖 temperature 🔥❄️ & attention 👀 in the human brain 🧠 In my spare time: 🐕🥊🧘🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️ & 👩🏻🎨 Brit in Denmark. She/her
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...
30.07.2025 09:49 — 👍 98 🔁 37 💬 7 📌 4
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.
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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.
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.
16.04.2025 10:15 — 👍 1006 🔁 330 💬 4 📌 7
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 🏳️⚧️
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some of the most striking tortured phrases i’ve seen in a while. Look here to discover what “moo warm steadiness” is
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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.
Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE
12.04.2025 06:41 — 👍 748 🔁 361 💬 17 📌 39
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
01.04.2025 16:03 — 👍 75 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 1
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"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.”
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
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....
19.03.2025 08:26 — 👍 57 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0“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.
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...
10.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 66 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 3Yup, 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.
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”
05.04.2024 22:22 — 👍 1190 🔁 604 💬 40 📌 119
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
If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is!
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Employees, teachers, students, alumni -- tell your universities and retirement funds to participate in the #TeslaTakedown and #divest.
Source: www.nasdaq.com/market-activ...
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
27.02.2025 15:49 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0those 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
22.02.2025 11:47 — 👍 234 🔁 58 💬 9 📌 3
We’re all super excited for this session and hope to see you there!
20.02.2025 16:18 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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.
UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
17.02.2025 09:09 — 👍 47 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1
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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.
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.
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.
14.02.2025 13:52 — 👍 14166 🔁 4891 💬 227 📌 205Ukraine did not "go into this war“. They were attacked.
13.02.2025 07:51 — 👍 823 🔁 214 💬 38 📌 5
"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
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Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico
