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❓Do you know a trailblazer in #physiologyeducation? Or, a physiologist championing equity, diversity, and inclusion? 🌟 Help us celebrate these outstanding physiologists by nominating them for our prize lectures. Send us your nominations by Monday 17 March ⬇️ https://buff.ly/30HHFRi #EDI

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Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Game-Based Learning with Liz Cable @lizcable.bsky.social. Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Read the blog post here: lthechat.com/2025/02/17/l...

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I wish my students had the same enthusiasm for the cardiovascular science I'm trying to teach them as they do for my hair and skincare routines...

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The Cell Physiology Workshop in Liverpool (CPW-Liverpool) is hopefully returning for August 2025… more news very soon! @cpw-liverpool.bsky.social #CPW_Liverpool2025 #40thWorkshop

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“I’ll post answers on Canvas after the lecture if there’s no time at the end.” he said. Do I still dignify these with a response?! 😂

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Quarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfalls www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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For every £1 of public money invested in the higher education sector, £14 goes back into the economy. Universities power economic growth all over the UK. The government must invest in them to drive the growth mission. See more on the impact of unis👇 loom.ly/T-7pw68 x.com/universities...

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Coming full circle, in a way, as this year I get to deliver first year lectures on the cardiovascular system, meaning I can pull out the 'taster lecture' slides I did in my job interview for @newcastleuni.bsky.social nearly 5 years ago now!

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Today’s fun game will be guessing at what point will the power in our power cut-prone street go out in these winds…

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Myokit 1.37.2 is out today, and includes export to SBML added by Martin Robinson. github.com/myokit/myoki... Excitingly, this is the second release in a row where the main contribution is by somebody other than me! Love to see it.

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Live footage of me as I open my 60th lab report of the marking season. 😩

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The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news. This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them. Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda

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I thought my ‘man approaching mid 30s’ hobby (/crisis) was going to be pickling stuff, but it looks like it’s going to be amateur mixology… apologies in advance to my liver.

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Beach find.

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Biomed staff Christmas meal yesterday. Smiles all round presumably indicative of having a brief respite from marking!

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Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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The equilibrium potential of sodium, Doesn’t determine the action potential peak. Although there’s free sodium entry, It falls short just slightly, Because potassium still continues to leak.

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We're looking to create BlueSky Starter Packs to help highlight members of our academic community using this network, either individual accounts or institutes/schools. If you'd be interested in being featured please complete this short form forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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Pleased to have got this through last week! AFHEA in 2019, FHEA in 2022 and now SFHEA in 2024 - the trend suggests PFHEA is on the cards next year…? 😂

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Any of you teaching students about scientific posters might find this blog post really useful - really helpful practical visual design hints that can be applied to most disciplines #STEMeducation #academicsky #bioscienceeducation www.sciencegraphicdesign.com/blog/how-do-...

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The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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This is priceless! tylervigen.com has long been a wonderful source for spurious correlations, but now it has added these totally bs "explanations" generated by AI!

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The ventricular action potential, Prevents cardiomyocytes from being able to summate. The calcium plateau phase, Creates sufficient delays, To allow the muscle tension to fully abate.

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Busy day of teaching yesterday but worth it as - for my first time as a lecturer - I actually got to talk about my own research for a change! MRes student audience didn’t seem too perturbed. #science #arrhythmias #computationalmodelling

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Using teamwork for assessments in Higher Education can be challenging. In our latest review Connie Pritchard, Zoë Prytherch, Steve Rutherford, and I discuss how to avoid some of the common pitfalls and ensure that students gain the maximum benefit from teamwork assessments. doi.org/10.1002/2211...

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I’ve heard the grass may be greener, or the sky bluer, on the other side. So here I am.

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