Paul Ansdell
@paul-ansdell.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Northumbria University. Studying sex differences in neurophysiology and responses to exercise.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=1Z4aCNcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=1Z4aCNcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
The first of a few very cool papers to come from @padraig-spillane.bsky.social’s PhD.
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is evident across the menstrual cycle, but potentiated in the luteal phase 🧠
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is evident across the menstrual cycle, but potentiated in the luteal phase 🧠
Preprint is up for the first of my PhD studies on the menstrual cycle and its effects on cortical excitability and neuroplasticty. Feedback welcome!
@paul-ansdell.bsky.social @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social @stuart-goodall.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@paul-ansdell.bsky.social @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social @stuart-goodall.bsky.social
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Menstrual cycle phase alters corticospinal excitability and spike-timing-dependent plasticity in healthy females
The known fluctuations in ovarian hormone concentrations across the eumenorrheic menstrual cycle contribute to modulations in cortical excitability and inhibition. However, how such changes affect spi...
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October 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The first of a few very cool papers to come from @padraig-spillane.bsky.social’s PhD.
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is evident across the menstrual cycle, but potentiated in the luteal phase 🧠
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity is evident across the menstrual cycle, but potentiated in the luteal phase 🧠
The preprint of our latest sex differences research is now online:
“Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes”
The result of a very fun collaboration between research groups with similar interests! 🇮🇹🇬🇧
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes”
The result of a very fun collaboration between research groups with similar interests! 🇮🇹🇬🇧
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes
The ability to withstand impairments in key physiological variables during prolonged exercise, known as durability, is emerging as an important factor in cycling performance. While females possess phy...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The preprint of our latest sex differences research is now online:
“Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes”
The result of a very fun collaboration between research groups with similar interests! 🇮🇹🇬🇧
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
“Sex differences in durability following heavy intensity cycling exercise in trained athletes”
The result of a very fun collaboration between research groups with similar interests! 🇮🇹🇬🇧
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We get some outstanding project students in our department.
Exhibit A was Lorna Crawford, who led this paper on menstrual cycle tracking in elite, yet non-professional athletes as part of her MSc degree.
Message for the PDF if you can’t access!
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Exhibit A was Lorna Crawford, who led this paper on menstrual cycle tracking in elite, yet non-professional athletes as part of her MSc degree.
Message for the PDF if you can’t access!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
July 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We get some outstanding project students in our department.
Exhibit A was Lorna Crawford, who led this paper on menstrual cycle tracking in elite, yet non-professional athletes as part of her MSc degree.
Message for the PDF if you can’t access!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
Exhibit A was Lorna Crawford, who led this paper on menstrual cycle tracking in elite, yet non-professional athletes as part of her MSc degree.
Message for the PDF if you can’t access!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
Had a brilliant week at @ecssofficial.bsky.social. Four talks from our group about our latest work 🧠🚴♀️💪
Also great to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over. Already looking forward to next year🇨🇭
@padraig-spillane.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social
@nuneurofunc.bsky.social
Also great to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over. Already looking forward to next year🇨🇭
@padraig-spillane.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social
@nuneurofunc.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Had a brilliant week at @ecssofficial.bsky.social. Four talks from our group about our latest work 🧠🚴♀️💪
Also great to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over. Already looking forward to next year🇨🇭
@padraig-spillane.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social
@nuneurofunc.bsky.social
Also great to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over. Already looking forward to next year🇨🇭
@padraig-spillane.bsky.social @elisanedelec.bsky.social
@nuneurofunc.bsky.social
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First up from our group at @northumbriauni.bsky.social is Elisa Pastorio discussing Sex differences in durability during cycling exercise at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
First up from our group at @northumbriauni.bsky.social is Elisa Pastorio discussing Sex differences in durability during cycling exercise at @ecssofficial.bsky.social in Rimini, Italy 🇮🇹
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Excited to have presented some early data from our wider collaborative project @ecssofficial.bsky.social More to come! @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Excited to have presented some early data from our wider collaborative project @ecssofficial.bsky.social More to come! @nuneurofunc.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social
The UK Sensorimotor Conference is always one of my favourites, and this year in Oxford was particularly enjoyable.
Presenting our group’s work on reaction time, movement speed and accuracy changes across the menstrual cycle 🧠
Presenting our group’s work on reaction time, movement speed and accuracy changes across the menstrual cycle 🧠
@paul-ansdell.bsky.social and Luca Angius, PI's in our group presenting their work to interested parties at the UK Sensorimotor Conference in Oxford
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
June 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The UK Sensorimotor Conference is always one of my favourites, and this year in Oxford was particularly enjoyable.
Presenting our group’s work on reaction time, movement speed and accuracy changes across the menstrual cycle 🧠
Presenting our group’s work on reaction time, movement speed and accuracy changes across the menstrual cycle 🧠
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Chronic resistance and endurance training alters the way in which motor unit discharge rates are modulated across contraction intensities, suggesting alterations in net excitatory synaptic input - another fun collaboration with @jskarabot.bsky.social and colleagues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Chronic resistance and endurance training alters the way in which motor unit discharge rates are modulated across contraction intensities, suggesting alterations in net excitatory synaptic input - another fun collaboration with @jskarabot.bsky.social and colleagues.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Come and join us - permanent Research Fellow position available from Assistant to Full Professor.
Anyone interested in neuromuscular physiology or women’s health feel free to message me!
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
Anyone interested in neuromuscular physiology or women’s health feel free to message me!
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
work4.northumbria.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Come and join us - permanent Research Fellow position available from Assistant to Full Professor.
Anyone interested in neuromuscular physiology or women’s health feel free to message me!
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
Anyone interested in neuromuscular physiology or women’s health feel free to message me!
work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...
May 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Had a great time at the Women's Nutrition and Physiology symposium at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social today. Some fascinating talks and discussions througout the day. I also enjoyed presenting a poster of some data from my first PhD study on neurophysiology across the menstrual cycle
May 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Had a great time at the Women's Nutrition and Physiology symposium at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social today. Some fascinating talks and discussions througout the day. I also enjoyed presenting a poster of some data from my first PhD study on neurophysiology across the menstrual cycle
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This is probably doable. journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Seven (.65) Seconds Away: The Possibility and Physiology of a Women’s Sub-4 Minute Mile | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society
journals.physiology.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is probably doable. journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Exciting two-year postdoc position available in neuromuscular physiology!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML152/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML152/r...
Research Associate in Neurophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis at Loughborough University
Apply now for the Research Associate in Neurophysiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Exciting two-year postdoc position available in neuromuscular physiology!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML152/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML152/r...
Enjoyed having Dr Emma Cowley and Dr Kelly McNulty present their ‘Invisible Sportswomen’ research at our department seminar today.
I forgot to take a photo, so go and read their latest paper instead!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
I forgot to take a photo, so go and read their latest paper instead!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Enjoyed having Dr Emma Cowley and Dr Kelly McNulty present their ‘Invisible Sportswomen’ research at our department seminar today.
I forgot to take a photo, so go and read their latest paper instead!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
I forgot to take a photo, so go and read their latest paper instead!
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
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A.V. Hill was a hero, a genius, and the most upright person Bernard Katz ever met. He helped bring exercise physiology into being. Here’s our review of that story, published in @jphysiol.bsky.social. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology
Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...
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February 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A.V. Hill was a hero, a genius, and the most upright person Bernard Katz ever met. He helped bring exercise physiology into being. Here’s our review of that story, published in @jphysiol.bsky.social. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our latest preprint, using startling acoustic stimuli in combination with neurostimulation to better understand the neural mechanisms of fatigue 🧠
Corticospinal, reticulospinal, and motoneuronal contributions to fatigability during a sustained contraction of the elbow flexors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.637601v1
February 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Our latest preprint, using startling acoustic stimuli in combination with neurostimulation to better understand the neural mechanisms of fatigue 🧠
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@physoc.bsky.social has a starter pack of physiologists. Hooray!! go.bsky.app/2KU1XD6
February 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@physoc.bsky.social has a starter pack of physiologists. Hooray!! go.bsky.app/2KU1XD6
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Northumbria University is one of four regional universities to receive £6m funding from UKRI's BBSRC to support the next generation of doctoral-level bioscientists.
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Northumbria University is one of four regional universities to receive £6m funding from UKRI's BBSRC to support the next generation of doctoral-level bioscientists.
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Find out more or get in touch: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
Read the study protocol for our interdisciplinary research into female veteran brain health - more to follow! 🧠
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journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
January 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Read the study protocol for our interdisciplinary research into female veteran brain health - more to follow! 🧠
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Two very enjoyable days at #BBEP2024 thank you to the @physoc.bsky.social for putting on a great event!
Here supporting Elisa Pastorio, who presented our collaborative work on sex differences in durability 🚴♀️🚴♂️
Here supporting Elisa Pastorio, who presented our collaborative work on sex differences in durability 🚴♀️🚴♂️
December 20, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Two very enjoyable days at #BBEP2024 thank you to the @physoc.bsky.social for putting on a great event!
Here supporting Elisa Pastorio, who presented our collaborative work on sex differences in durability 🚴♀️🚴♂️
Here supporting Elisa Pastorio, who presented our collaborative work on sex differences in durability 🚴♀️🚴♂️
A recap of some recent work we’ve been involved with, led by @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social and the team at Derby.
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Long COVID research team wins global award
Northumbria University academics are part of a research team looking into the effects of Long Covid which has won a global award from Nature.
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December 17, 2024 at 7:48 AM
A recap of some recent work we’ve been involved with, led by @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social and the team at Derby.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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well I for one can't see this having *any* negative impacts when the next generation of PhD students start getting lectureships. it's a good job teaching is an instinctual skill that requires no experience </facepalm>
Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis
Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame
#EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered
Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame
#EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered
Teaching opportunities for PhDs dry up in university cash crisis
Barely one in three postgraduate researchers now have opportunity to teach, finds Advance HE survey, with financial pressure on institutions likely to blame
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM
well I for one can't see this having *any* negative impacts when the next generation of PhD students start getting lectureships. it's a good job teaching is an instinctual skill that requires no experience </facepalm>
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Ok, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan.
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
@meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
@meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Ok, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan.
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
@meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social
imrf2025.sciencesconf.org
@meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social
A really timely series of articles.
“The ethics of menstrual tracking applications” is particularly relevant to our recent experiences implementing this with elite sportswomen and future plans to do so in women with MS.
www.nature.com/collections/...
“The ethics of menstrual tracking applications” is particularly relevant to our recent experiences implementing this with elite sportswomen and future plans to do so in women with MS.
www.nature.com/collections/...
Menstruation Matters
Menstruation is part of human life, yet we hide it behind stigma and taboos. In this Focus, our authors discuss why menstruation matters. Tackling significant ...
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November 22, 2024 at 2:02 PM
A really timely series of articles.
“The ethics of menstrual tracking applications” is particularly relevant to our recent experiences implementing this with elite sportswomen and future plans to do so in women with MS.
www.nature.com/collections/...
“The ethics of menstrual tracking applications” is particularly relevant to our recent experiences implementing this with elite sportswomen and future plans to do so in women with MS.
www.nature.com/collections/...