Alex DiFeliceantonio
@difeliceantonio.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. at Virginia Tech. My lab studies brain/metabolism interactions in food reward. Scifi reader. Plant killer. She/her
DONNUT: https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/research/labs/difeliceantonio.html
DONNUT: https://fbri.vtc.vt.edu/research/labs/difeliceantonio.html
On the way to University of Michigan to give the biopsych colloquium. Dissertation flash backs in coming. If you are still in Ann Arbor let me know!
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
On the way to University of Michigan to give the biopsych colloquium. Dissertation flash backs in coming. If you are still in Ann Arbor let me know!
Don’t forget to grab your coffee and come to our symposium!
On Thursday don’t miss the Blackburn Symposium at 10am. @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, Aviva Musicis, and I will be presenting on ultra-processed foods!
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Don’t forget to grab your coffee and come to our symposium!
Come by to after the plenary!!
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Come by to after the plenary!!
Get excited for Obesity Week! Today at 2:30 Zach Hutelin will be presenting on our work using indirect calorimetry and fMRI to measure acute responses to ultra-processed foods. It’s in the 1:30 Neuro Session.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Get excited for Obesity Week! Today at 2:30 Zach Hutelin will be presenting on our work using indirect calorimetry and fMRI to measure acute responses to ultra-processed foods. It’s in the 1:30 Neuro Session.
Germans, look at any animal: this is some kind of pig or bear.
Italians, looking at any fruit or vegetable: this is some kind of apple
November 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Germans, look at any animal: this is some kind of pig or bear.
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. 🧪
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. 🧪
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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. 🧪
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. 🧪
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.
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
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
October 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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.
If you are from the Wilmington, NC area Kerr Avenue and Topsail Beach.
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you are from the Wilmington, NC area Kerr Avenue and Topsail Beach.
Reposted by Alex DiFeliceantonio
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
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
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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
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
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.
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
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
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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.
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.
September 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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.
🧪here’s the VT news write up of the study I posted about yesterday.
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...
@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
September 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🧪here’s the VT news write up of the study I posted about yesterday.
🧪 I might be the only author on Blueksy, so here we go.
Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis.
This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT.
rdcu.be/eDDPf
Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis.
This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT.
rdcu.be/eDDPf
Caudate serotonin signaling during social exchange distinguishes essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease patients
Nature Communications - Measurements of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine in the caudate of conscious humans reveal a neurochemical boundary between patients with essential tremor and...
rdcu.be
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🧪 I might be the only author on Blueksy, so here we go.
Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis.
This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT.
rdcu.be/eDDPf
Serotonin in the caudate while doing uniquely human things (a social game) provides information about movement disorder diagnosis.
This work started a long time ago with Ken (when he was at Wake Forest) working with Read at VT.
rdcu.be/eDDPf
It’s guns. It’s guns. It’s guns. Regulate the guns.
August 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It’s guns. It’s guns. It’s guns. Regulate the guns.
They told us the plan was Roe, Obergefell, Loving.
August 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
They told us the plan was Roe, Obergefell, Loving.
I am once again asking manuscript central to actually be a central log in instead of 1,000 seperate log ins in a trench coat.
August 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I am once again asking manuscript central to actually be a central log in instead of 1,000 seperate log ins in a trench coat.
It’s just as good at being confidently wrong. Got it.
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
(real, one-shot :p )
August 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It’s just as good at being confidently wrong. Got it.
Congratulations to Zach for winning best oral presentation by a graduate student (track 2)!!!
August 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Congratulations to Zach for winning best oral presentation by a graduate student (track 2)!!!
🧪🧵ICYMI, the paper describing the behavioral findings in this poster is online at Physiology and Behavior!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
In the words on Martin Yeomans, flavor nutrient conditioning in humans is an "elusive phenomenon." We chased it anyway.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
In the words on Martin Yeomans, flavor nutrient conditioning in humans is an "elusive phenomenon." We chased it anyway.
July 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🧪🧵ICYMI, the paper describing the behavioral findings in this poster is online at Physiology and Behavior!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
In the words on Martin Yeomans, flavor nutrient conditioning in humans is an "elusive phenomenon." We chased it anyway.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...
In the words on Martin Yeomans, flavor nutrient conditioning in humans is an "elusive phenomenon." We chased it anyway.
Reposted by Alex DiFeliceantonio
I had a fantastic time sharing our work at the #ssib2025 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting in Oxford. What a fantastic community discussing everything you ever wanted to know about feeding. Made many new friends and I learned a lot. I hope we stay in touch! Thanks for the invitation!
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social showing us gustatory and orosensory lessons from the fly.
How brain-body interactions guide dietary decisions.
How brain-body interactions guide dietary decisions.
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I had a fantastic time sharing our work at the #ssib2025 @ssibsociety.bsky.social meeting in Oxford. What a fantastic community discussing everything you ever wanted to know about feeding. Made many new friends and I learned a lot. I hope we stay in touch! Thanks for the invitation!
@ssibsociety.bsky.social #SSIB2025 Grab your coffee early tomorrow! It's a full morning of DONNUT Lab, starting with ME's poster in the AM session (#301).
Do you have feelings about flavor nutrient learning (FNL)? Who am I kidding, we all do! Come by Thursday AM #301 and talk to ME Baugh (post doc) and learn how markers of glycemic control influence FNL and how it's encoded in the brain in humans.
July 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
@ssibsociety.bsky.social #SSIB2025 Grab your coffee early tomorrow! It's a full morning of DONNUT Lab, starting with ME's poster in the AM session (#301).
Reposted by Alex DiFeliceantonio
A fantastic session!
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A fantastic session!
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
Thank you to:
@jfcryan.bsky.social
@ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social
Kimberley Smith
Suzanne Higgs
@ssibsociety.bsky.social
I am beyond bummed to be missing #SSIB2025 -- I had back surgery and am not cleared to fly. Drowning my sorrows in this floof. But! If you want to know what the lab is up to, please visit our presentations 🧵🧪!
July 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I am beyond bummed to be missing #SSIB2025 -- I had back surgery and am not cleared to fly. Drowning my sorrows in this floof. But! If you want to know what the lab is up to, please visit our presentations 🧵🧪!
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re not clear on where consciousness comes from, at all.
We’re not clear on where consciousness comes from, at all.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re not clear on what psychopathology is, at all
We’re not clear on what psychopathology is, at all
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re not clear on what intelligence is, at all
We’re not clear on what intelligence is, at all
June 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re not clear on where consciousness comes from, at all.
We’re not clear on where consciousness comes from, at all.
They call it “herd immunity” but what that means is the young, the old, the vulnerable die. What does it say if your health “plan” plans for the death of children?
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
They call it “herd immunity” but what that means is the young, the old, the vulnerable die. What does it say if your health “plan” plans for the death of children?