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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 6h

Our preprint is now a print print! rdcu.be/eK7wK
Interested in GLP-1s and alcohol? Take a look at the thread below and the link.
Thanks again to all the amazing people who worked on this project.
The anniversary of Warrens passing was just a few weeks ago. He is deeply missed. 🧪

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 17h

::insert America Ferrera’s Barbie monologue here::
While I run screaming into the woods.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 17h

And SMILE MORE. No not like that.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 17h

I just can’t get over the (this isn’t meant as an insult) a bunch of really insulting things sequence.
Straight trash.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 17h

Also in this spirit and the people you can interact with on social media. Everything @amalelmohtar.com writes is insanely beautiful and if one day I write something a fraction as clear and evocative as even her NY times book reviews, I’ll be happy.

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 15d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 16d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 17h

I should have said that’s for the US! I should also look up how that differs in other countries.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 19h

Also a good reminder that the supplement industry is completely unregulated and the wellness industry is about 4 times the size in $ as the pharmaceutical industry.
Aaaaaand the major health survey tracking environmental and dietary exposures just took a big blow www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 6d

If you are from the Wilmington, NC area Kerr Avenue and Topsail Beach.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Filip Morys @filipkmorys.bsky.social · 9d

Hey everyone! Join our journal club on October 10th (12pm EST) to discuss two short papers on weight stigma and language.

JC is drop in format: come once, come when you can.

Reach out to @shanaadise.bsky.social or myself to get the zoom link and papers. Please share!

@ssibsociety.bsky.social

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 15d

It’s so wild that I just followed @diane.dianeduane.com on here. I’m pretty sure the So You Want To Be a Wizard series is the entire reason I love sci-fi and fantasy today. I loved it so much.

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 15d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 16d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 18d

As someone currently in academia, Katabasis was absolutely brutal and absolutely spot on.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 18d

Recorded remarks were also played at the NIDDK AC. Did he attend any of the ACs live?

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 18d

get inwardly rekt, bro.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · 25d

Are you going to Obesity Week? It starts on Election Day! If you are in VA that means you’re missing the Governors race. You can still apply for an absentee ballot! Or vote early at your local elections office.

Image of Virginia absentee ballot envelope with address of Roanoke city election office.

Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 5

That’s the norm in Europe. You do a masters and then your PhD is shorter. It’s not an all in one like is the norm in the US where you get a masters along the way.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧪here’s the VT news write up of the study I posted about yesterday.

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute @fralinbiomed.bsky.social · Sep 3

What happens when you apply behavioral game theory, machine learning, and electrochemical sensing to the human brain during surgery? 🧠

@virginiatech.bsky.social scientists reveal new insights in a recent study published in Nature Communications (@nature.com) ⤵️

news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Scientists reveal brain signaling that sets Parkinson’s disease apart from essential tremor

For the first time, scientists measured dopamine and serotonin in real time in people with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. The signals showed a fundamental difference — a key step forward f...

news.vt.edu

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks! This was Matt’s baby but he’s not on here so I gave it my best skeet try. lol.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 This work definitely doesn't happen without NIH funding. This study was supported by many R01s and foundation funds. This type of study is expensive and it takes time, but we need studies like this to advance human neuroscience. Sustained, stable funding, is how this gets done.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 I am forever in awe of any patient that works with us in the operating room or in the epilepsy monitoring unit (our other work).

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 I was only a very tiny part of a huge effort. This paper combines neurosurgery, modeling to generate monoamine predictions, modeling of human behavior, and pulling it all together. This work is not possible without patients agreeing to participate in research during an extremely vulnerable time.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 It also tells us something new about how monoamines regulate reward processing in patients with Parkinson's Disease. But, we don't know everything! We need a lot more studies investigating coordinated neurotransmitter release patterns that support human decision making in complex tasks.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 There is a lack of evidence suggesting broad monoaminergic dysfunction in ET, so this gives us a window into "normal" functioning of monoamines we could never get otherwise. These findings add to a growing literature that DA & 5HT, in humans, seem to work in concert to underly reward processing.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 What does it mean? This task involves someone making you an offer to split $20. You can accept or reject the money. Logically, you should accept all money, but when the split gets more unfair, people tend to reject it. This task is really complex, combining reward and judgements of fairness.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 If you take monoamine AUC after each social offer and perform a singular value decomposition (SVD) the latent dimensions can seperate patient groups. We (really Paul) followed this up with logistic regression, testing the contribution of each monoamine and found 5HT AUC drove this serperation.

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Alex DiFeliceantonio @difeliceantonio.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧪 The electrochemistry technique allows simultaneous measurement of DA, NE, and 5HT. When you ask how monoamines track these NPEs, you see a stark difference between patient groups (essential tremor and Parkinson's disease)

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