Gary Mirams
@mirams.bsky.social
Prof. of Mathematical Physiology, University of Nottingham. Like: rambling, scrambling, climbing, surfing, Irish trad music, VW vans.
On Technical Education ... hard hat and graduation cap. Technical education merits greater recognition. But it is not the opposite of academic education. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/on-technic...
On Technical Education
... hard hat and graduation cap
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On bumping into Bill Oddie at the local North London recycling centre. Michael Palin’s Diary, 1998:
At great @cacna1c.bsky.social "Connect #CACNA1C" meeting, Cardiff Met amazing families and heard about their struggles to figure out what channel variants do and how to treat Variant-specific in-silico models promising to assess risk and propose treatments timothysyndrome.org/conference/
Connect CACNA1C Global Network Conference - Timothy Syndrome Alliance (TSA)
Join researchers, healthcare professionals and families from all over the world to advance the understanding of CACNA1C
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It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
...to highs not seen since Thursday afternoon
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2w agoBorrowing costs rise after Andy Burnham speech
If you're at #ECMTB26 (or wish you were), you might be interested in our modelling paper out today in Plos Comp Biol! In which talented (ex-)student Nic Fan develops a #Chaste agent-based model to describe vascular remodelling in tumour growth models! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Exploring the relationship between vascular remodelling and tumour growth using agent-based modelling
Author summary We have created an agent-based model (ABM) that accounts for mechanical interactions between tumour cells and associated vasculature. The model simulates vessel occlusion and pruning du...
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🚨 postdoc job available! Fixed term postdoc position assessing the information added when pharma do animal studies, relative to lab and simulation based testing: www.linkedin.com/posts/garymi... Please repost!
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed-Term) | Gary Mirams
We're hiring a postdoctoral statistician — come and help us reduce use of animals in drug safety testing 💊 : https://lnkd.in/gFjBpmvx Before a new drug reaches patients, its effect on the heart and ...
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A little blog post: #Claude #AI as a supercharged proofreader: mirams.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/c...
Claude AI as a supercharged proofreader
If you aren’t using LLMs like Claude (my favourite), ChatGPT, etc. as a proofreader for drafts of scientific papers or technical reports, you might want to give it a go…Claude likes to …
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Bit grim, but this is a very useful graph for why we are more likely than not to rejoin the EU.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...
New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease
Daniel Cressy, 23, underwent gene therapy at Manning Family Children’s Hospital.
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Today I've written for Arguably on one big mystery in our public life: why does no-one care about the existential crisis of our universities? Read all about it... 👇 www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Professor Mark Chaplain FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is an applied mathematician whose main area of research is mathematical oncology – the mathematical modelling of cancer – a field which he has pioneered since the early 1990s. #RSFellows https://bit.ly/4vfM4DZ
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
Two telescopes, two epochs, the same nebula. You might have to stare for a little bit to fully appreciate all the movement going. Apologies to any faint stars who got deleted. I tried to remove the NICMOS PSFs from the Hubble view (which is lower resolution/blurrier)
On Choosing an Academic Career … what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands profserious.substack.com/p/on-choosin... by @profserious.bsky.social #HigherEducation #Universities
On Choosing an Academic Career
… what it takes, what it offers, and what it demands
profserious.substack.com
I predicted 10 out of 17 studies correctly in Guess the Replication, reaching the rank of "Reviewer 2"! Can you do better? Play here: t1p.de/guther #GuessTheReplication
Guess the Replication
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Steam loco royalty visiting Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre this weekend. Kids loved the Flying Scotsman footplate visit - with exit through the corridor tender too - plus a train ride pulled by Tornado. I loved it even more.
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
Due to #Microsoft price hikes our uni have started archiving #Office365 things >90 days old. Emails and calendar items go into an archive. To-do list (to-do.office.com) items disappear into the ether, never to be seen again. Sorry if I owe something you told me about >90 days ago. It is gone.
Microsoft To Do
Microsoft To Do
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NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ
ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication
The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...
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John Gurdon (1933-2025) by Jim Smith journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
John Gurdon (1933-2025)
John Gurdon was a towering figure in developmental biology, respected and admired throughout the world. His discovery, made when he was a PhD student, that the nuclei of differentiated cells retain th...
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Curious about how we assess grant applications? We’re inviting researchers to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee in action. Apply by 11 May 2026 ⤵️ wellcome.org/research-fun...
Apply to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee | Prepare to Apply | Wellcome
Find out how to observe a Wellcome funding advisory committee. Researchers who are considering applying for Wellcome funding in the next two years can apply to observe a shortlisting committee.
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![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)
