Alexandra Thompson
@alexthompo
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Assistant news editor at @newscientist (health) | Award-winning journo | Author | Taylor Swift fanatic | Irritating feminist | Amateur ballerina
London, England
Joined May 2017
It's here... Available at all good book shops and a couple of rubbish ones. And Amazon if you love everything Bezos stands for and are concerned he doesn't have enough money
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The fascinating "nocebo effect" - the evil twin of the equally fascinating placebo effect - manifests as feeling supposed side effects from just a sugar pill, and thinking a drug is cheap may make it worse! I spill the beans on the pod, 12.10 onwards
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From empty streets in Times Square to a priest distributing holy water via a water pistol (!), these are the most iconic and surreal covid-19 pics from the past 5 years
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@Psychobiotic Hi! So sorry but the deadline on this was a little tight so I've commissioned it elsewhere. It would be great to work together in the future, let me know your email if you'd like. Thanks!
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New Scientist is now filming podcasts....which is....great. Petition for less garish lighting @NewScientistPod .
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Karl Pilkington knew it was impossible, his logic always comes out eventually @rickygervais @StephenMerchant
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RT @newscientist: Bullying physically changes the structure of the brain. @alexthompo says brain scans of young people who are bullied sho…
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Teachers told @millzymai that she should have come with a manual, but being neurodivergent has helped her become a brilliant scientist and writer #newscientistlive
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Nate Rae knowing their audience when they hand out sweets (to test our sense of smell) #newscientistlive
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I’m aware of the irony of me posting this on my phone during @garwboy talk about screen time…I’m also aware this is probably the incorrect use of the word “irony” #newscientistlive
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Nate Rae at #newscientistlive gets major kudos for explaining genetics and neuroplasticity to kids in 40 minutes
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RT @hvthomson: Are there any brain development researchers out there who’d like to speak with me about bulling and the brain? I’ve emailed…
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972 people have won a Nobel prize - of whom 17 were Black and 64 were women. And before you come for me, many many women and minority people have done work that is more than worthy of the accolade. The Nobels are on a fasttrack to becoming a joke.
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It won’t help you win the lottery but will make you less paranoid about burned toast. And please stop with the parent-sex jokes (read/subscribe for context)
Top statistician David Spiegelhalter on how to deal with uncertainty
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If I may pull a Trump and quote myself…ahem…‘we’re not in the dark, we’re in a dimly lit room’ 💡
Could mpox be the next covid-19? @alexthompo says the latest mpox variant has infected a record number of people in central Africa, has been found in travellers in Sweden and Thailand, and is now a public health emergency of international concern
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RT @newscientist: 1 in 5 coma patients may be aware of what's happening around them - many more than we realised. @alexthompo and @rowhoop…
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Look at me 33 years old and navigating TikTok like a pro ;) If you're interested in New Scientist's staff's sci-fi picks, watch the below. (I didn't intentionally dress like a handmaid on the day.)
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Petition to hear the bloopers on this as I tried and failed to pronounce these Alzheimer's drug names, to the extraordinary patience of the @NewScientistPod team, with even attempts to incorporate them into a Taylor Swift-style melody
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RT @newscientist: Are we doing more harm than good with biodegradable plastics? @alexthompo says the impact on soil and plant health appea…
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RT @NewScientistPod: A dangerous new strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been identified in the Democratic Republic of the Con…
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