Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety

Complexity science approach to anxiety research/intervention - Function over Disorder - PhD candidate @EdinburghUni

[Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety @GillBatty]

Great to share my MSc research in https://t.co/UX5oQWa7KU looking at the value of connection, community, citizenship, co-production, present in the conditions created @BuransMentalH @Camerados_org @buenasemillaorg @Mad_In_America recognising dysfunction in conditions not people.

[Evan McGloughlin @evan_mcgl]

We are truly standing on the shoulders of Giants today!

@drmichaellevin together with @MillerLabMIT

"Physicalism has been dead since the time of Pythagoras, and probably long before that."

"The basement of all this, I don't think, is math. I think this is behavioral science. I think math is a behavioural science of a certain kind of pattern."

"It's a bioelectric code, because the network instructs the patterns of gene expression and cell behaviour and morphogenesis. If you want the system to make an eye on a tadpole's tail, or a flatworm that has two heads… you have a chance to do that."

Scientists working at the bleeding edge of bioelectricity at very different scales. They agree stuff, they disagree on stuff. Watch now ⬇️

[Sayantan Ghosh @sayantansunnyg]

Teacher: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Marji: “I’ll be a prophet.”

Marjane Satrapi (1969–2026)

[Pete Sanford @PeteSanford]

ARLA WON -- YOU LOST - BOVAER SOON ALL MILK

After the Arla - DMK takeover last week a Huge New Milk Supply Monolith has been Formed.

This means Bovaer‑milk will quietly become the default “standard milk”, while organic milk becomes scarcer and more expensive.

AND YOU WILL NOT BE INFORMED ON LABELS

Why this matters now with the Arla–DMK merger:

This is where things get strategically interesting.

1. Arla is already the most aggressive adopter of Bovaer

They defended it publicly, continued trials, and positioned it as central to their climate strategy.

This means the merged entity is WILL scale Bovaer faster, not slower.

2. DMK brings Germany — a huge dairy market — into the equation

The merger forces a harmonised methane strategy, and Bovaer is the only ready‑to‑deploy tool.

CONSUMERS: Exoect Organic Milk to be Priced out of the Market, not just UK, not just EU, but there will be plans through those financially involved, like Bill Gates, to get BOVAER in Animal Feeds as the de facto position.

And before Mr Gates Operatives on X start to argue:

The Company holding Bovaer Trademarks is DSM-Firmenich -- The Gates Foundation holds extensive shareholdings in this Company.

From Scottish Parliamentary Briefing Papers re Nicola Sturgeon's involvement...

"There also seems to be some information hidden from public view, such as DSM-Firmenich denying any connection with Bill Gates, only for us to discover Bill Gates has purchased 1m shares in the Company, with the major investor behind the scheme, Black Rock"

There will also be price differentiation between Bovaer Milk and Non-Bovaer.

OF COURSE TEN YEARS FROM NOW THERE WILL BE ZERO CHOICE - JUST BOVAER.

For the Arla–DMK giant, this means:

They will push Bovaer harder than ever — because climate targets demand it.

They must avoid another consumer revolt — because the merged brand is too big to hide.

They will likely invest heavily in “green dairy” PR, transparency dashboards, and retailer‑aligned messaging.

Any future health concerns (even unfounded ones) will hit twice as hard because of their scale.

LACK OF CHOICE, LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, PUBLIC REJECTION

We’re sleepwalking into a food system where the public has no real choice at all.

Supermarkets are quietly shifting to “low‑methane milk” using feed additives like Bovaer — and most people don’t even know it’s happening.

There’s no clear labelling.
There’s no public documentation.

There’s no way for families to choose milk without these additives unless they pay organic prices or hunt down tiny local suppliers.

And here’s the truth nobody in the industry wants to say out loud:

Even if every analysis says “no harm”, even if regulators approve it, even if the science is solid…

The public still won’t want it if they feel tricked.

People want transparency.

People want choice.

People want to know what’s going into the food chain — not find out years later through a press release.

This isn’t anti‑science. This isn’t anti‑farmer.

This is about trust.

If the industry keeps rolling out feed additives without open discussion, clear labelling, or public consent, they’re going to trigger a backlash far bigger than they expect.

Choice matters. Transparency matters. Trust matters.

And right now, the public is getting none of them.

MANY FARMERS DO NOT WANT CHEMICALS OF ANY KIND PUT INTO ANIMAN FEED AND THEN INTO THE HUMAN FOOD CHAIN..

Because. It. Is. Insane...

[Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller]

Great opportunity for families with mentally ill kids who want to try the ketogenic diet with some physician support

[Iain Campbell, Ph.D. @IainCampbellPhD]

This a study of ketogenic therapy in young people with mood disorders, please share with anyone who may be interested!

https://t.co/UqdNm1ugCh

[Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety @GillBatty]

@Breen 😂

[Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social @markhoro]

This is a must-read. It brilliantly captures emerging from “patienthood” and reclaiming the imperfect reality of being human beyond diagnostic labels. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny. A sharp, humane pushback against the medicalisation of everyday life.

[Kathleen Stock @Docstockk]

People worried about assisted death services should sign this. People who strongly desire assisted death services should also sign this. Everybody should sign this.

Petition: Fully fund Specialist Palliative Care provided by hospices https://t.co/q9q2bHve0G

[Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety @GillBatty]

@GreggBraden A complexity theory perspective on anxiety

[Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety @GillBatty]

@JamesMelville The chilli cheese bread is amazing!

[Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety @GillBatty]

Had a great day yesterday teaching post grad students how to understand and approach anxiety through a complexity theory lens. Shifting the lens allows an entirely different set of questions to be asked about the dynamic states human organisms move in and out of. Seeing lightbulb moments as they happen when people start to make sense of their embodied states in context is a joy. #complexity

[Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social @AnnaCiaunica]

Back to square one: the bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life | Neuroscience of Consciousness | Oxford Academic https://t.co/GDnmgGI1ki

[no.mind @the_no_mind]

Martin Picard published one of the most important papers in modern biology in 2025.

Almost no one outside a small circle of researchers has heard of it.

The Energy Resistance Principle may explain disease, aging & energy crashes — from first principles.

Here’s the framework:🧵

[The Dissenter @TheDissenterYT]

In episode 882, I talk with Dr. Luiz Pessoa (@PessoaBrain) about his fascinating book, The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together. #Neuroscience #Science

https://t.co/JbPptKGKkt

[Sarah Millican @SarahMillican75]

People of the UK and Ireland! Late Bloomer, my latest Stand Up Special is on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm and will also be on demand after that. I really hope it makes you laugh.
Please share with folk who might like it. Thanks!

[The Dissenter @TheDissenterYT]

New episode (1235), with Dr. Nicole Rust (@NicoleCRust). We talk about her great book, Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders―and How We Can Change That. #Neuroscience #Science

YouTube: https://t.co/5QpaLEzhjj
Podcast: https://t.co/yc7azEZRlH

[Gill Batty - Exploring Anxiety @GillBatty]

@unusual_whales Haven't we all

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

We are told this is about dignity. About choice. About autonomy. But autonomy does not exist in a vacuum.

Choice!? This is not about choice!

What does ‘choice’ mean for a 25-year-old woman who has been gang-raped, had no justice, rapists still out there living their lives, whilst she is institutionalised, pathologised, paralysed, and left to live in chronic pain?

What does ‘choice’ mean when every system she has encountered has failed to keep her safe, failed to support her, and instead labelled her responses as disordered?

What does ‘choice’ mean when the only consistent message she has received is: you are too much, too broken, too difficult to fix?

We need to be honest about what we are witnessing.

We are witnessing a system that cannot - or will not - provide the depth of trauma-informed, relational, long-term support that survivors need. And systems that will not address male violence - which is a common denominator in these cases.

And so, instead, it offers an exit - for the victim.

Rest in Peace, Noelia. Another young woman, euthanised after rape and abuse.

My new article is in your inbox now. Check comments.

[Charlotte Strawbridge @DearUniverse_cs]

My Exhibition ‘When Beasts Spoke’ opening night is tonight, 6pm - 9pm. It runs from 28th March till 10th May at Made in Stirling. I’m so excited to show you my work, and will make sure to share lots of photos and videos of all the art over the next 6 weeks for those of you who are a little too far from Scotland to visit 💛

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'As soon as [assisted dying] is promoted, you are effectively saying it is good.'

Author Kathleen Stock shares her opposition to assisted dying, calling it the 'institutionalisation of death'.