Alex Mitchell

Alex Mitchell

@agmitchell.bsky.social

Scientist attempting to understand pain ๐Ÿ˜– temperature ๐Ÿ”ฅโ„๏ธ & attention ๐Ÿ‘€ in the human brain ๐Ÿง  In my spare time: ๐Ÿ•๐ŸฅŠ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ & ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐ŸŽจ Brit in Denmark. She/her

592 Followers 656 Following 48 Posts Joined Aug 2023
5 months ago

What a force of nature. She is unparalelled.

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5 months ago
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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 stomachโ€”and discovering signals that may chang...

Thank you to @psypost.bsky.social for featuring our @natmentalhealth.nature.com research on stomachโ€“brain communication and worse mental health symptoms
www.psypost.org/scientists-d...
Was also shared on X but with weirdly more hair colour comments ๐ŸŒˆ than the science itself ๐Ÿ˜…:
x.com/OwenGregoria...

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7 months ago
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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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7 months ago
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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...

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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1 year ago

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 โ€˜centristsโ€™ claiming she isnโ€™t bigoted she just has โ€˜a difference of opinionโ€™.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

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10 months ago

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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10 months ago
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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

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 ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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10 months ago
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)

some of the most striking tortured phrases iโ€™ve seen in a while. Look here to discover what โ€œmoo warm steadinessโ€ is
pubpeer.com/publications...

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11 months ago
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

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11 months ago
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The R Graph Gallery โ€“ Help and inspiration for R charts The R graph gallery displays hundreds of charts made with R, always providing the reproducible code.

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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11 months ago
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Trump says โ€˜there are methodsโ€™ for seeking third term in White House In interview Trump said he wasnโ€™t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president

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: โ€œNo, no, Iโ€™m not joking. Iโ€™m not joking.โ€

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11 months ago
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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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11 months ago
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Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain Computational modeling reveals how uncertainty transforms harmless stimuli into perceptions of pain.

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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11 months ago

โ€œWeโ€™re seeing a rise in broken legs being diagnosed.โ€

The discourse about this would not be about โ€˜over-diagnosisโ€™, but about investigation into why this was happening, prevention and support. Perhaps we could do the same for other diagnoses.

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1 year ago
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1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? Iโ€™m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! ๐Ÿงต www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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1 year ago

Yup, tracks with my experience, too.

And even in a department that was overwhelmingly female (excluding emeriti), if male associates didnโ€™t do the extra labor, it did not hurt their chance at TT, but if female associates didnโ€™t donate their time, they wouldnโ€™t get consideration for TT.

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1 year ago
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Women end up doing the academic housework

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:โ€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 careersโ€

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1 year ago
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How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health How the menstrual cycle shapes heart and brain health

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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1 year ago
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If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is!
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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1 year ago

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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1 year ago
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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

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. ๐Ÿงต #TeslaTakedown

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1 year ago

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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1 year ago
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Weโ€™re all super excited for this session and hope to see you there!

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1 year ago
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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...

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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1 year ago
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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

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 2ยฝ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline for the application is March 20th 2025.

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1 year ago
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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 ...

UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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1 year ago
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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

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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1 year ago
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 masterโ€™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 donโ€™t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect donโ€™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, Iโ€™m out.


Edit: Iโ€™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.

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1 year ago

Ukraine did not "go into this warโ€œ. They were attacked.

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