OK times are wild - officially Dr. Mitchell as of yesterday 🥲 extremely happy + proud, and so grateful + thankful for the mentorship and support from Shansky Lab & all the members of the lab whom I couldn’t have done this without! 🥰

My new paper out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: Levelling up the study of animal gameplay sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to announce that last week I successfully defended my PhD thesis! I want to thank my supervisors Tom Beckers and Laura Luyten for their support these five years and the jury 🥰

The illustrations are a real joy, I'm delighted with them 🦑. Download for free at: thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/default/…

NIH funding cuts could cost the U.S. $16 Billion and 68,000 jobs. An interactive tool from Joshua Weitz and team shows the local impact across the U.S. - down to the county level. This isn’t abstract - these numbers affect real communities and real lives: scienceimpacts.org

There’s an enormous amount of disinformation flying around about NIH right now, so let’s clear a few things up. The NIH is not Big Pharma. It doesn’t make drugs, it doesn’t set public health agendas, and it doesn’t profit from your illness.