Would anyone like two 7-day tickets to the Chalke History Festival from 22–28th June in the beautiful Chalke Valley in Wiltshire? There is also the option to have double Plantagenet membership. Sadly we can no longer go. Please DM me.

Despite the travel disruptions, I’ve had a great day attending the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) conference, including presenting my poster with some great discussions 🦠🥼 Learned lots and it’s always nice to back in London - living there feels like a lifetime ago!

My favourite time of year in the garden, Winnie in her purple-y splendour 💜

Today was hard. Being your grandson was one of my life’s greatest gifts. From growing up in Aston during the Blitz, to being married for 69 years. Having three sons and watching the family grow, to being awarded an MBE. I will forever cherish what we shared Nan and I will miss you immensely ❤️‍🩹.

Ran one of my favourite trail routes again this evening, as I’ve done the last few days. The carpet of wild garlic and bluebells, and the tweeting of birds is just wonderful.

After a very difficult few weeks, I’m heartbroken that my beautiful, loving and wonderful Nan passed away today. Being able to spend most of this week at her bedside meant everything. If roses grow in heaven Lord, please pick a bunch for me. Place them in my Nan’s arms & tell her they’re from me.

Happy Mother’s Day Mom, you were simply the best Mom any son could ever wish for. I miss you more than ever ♥️

A warm sunny welcome to @astonuniversity.bsky.social on today’s Offer Holder Day. Looking forward to meeting those interested in Biosciences🥼🔬🧫🩸🦠

A beautiful run up in the mountains of the Lake District today with friends. Today is my Mum’s birthday, another one without her here. Yet I felt closer to the heavens and therefore closer to her.

Biosciences Offer Holder Day ready 🥼🔬🧫🩸🦠

Dear @history-hit.bsky.social, I’ve been a subscriber for a few years now and love it. I’ve tried several times to request RSS feeds to listen to the podcasts ad-free but nothing is working, even after contacting help and support. Please can you help me? Thanks!

Today’s run 🏃🏻❄️🥶

This morning, I very much enjoyed sitting with a 🫖, re-watching one of my favourite @history-hit.bsky.social documentaries, “The Great Crusader Siege: Kerak” with the awesome @thehistoryguy.bsky.social and Prof Jonathan Phillips! ⚔️🏰

Great 2.5 hours trail running in the beautiful, snowy Shropshire hills this morning ❄️🌨️ 🏃🏻🏃🏽‍♂️

Considering my art abilities are zilch, I’m pretty chuffed with this Santa bauble 😅 I’m accepting no comments at this time 😁

Super grateful and excited to be delivering a two hour lecture/workshop to the first year historians at Aston next week! It’ll form a part of their history of medicine and science module. The central focus stems from my interest in looking to the past to identify novel treatments for infection.

A warm welcome to everyone at @astonuniversity.bsky.social attending our #OpenDay! Thinking biosciences? 🔬 Get hands on in our labs, chat with our staff, meet current students & learn more about our accredited Biomedicine, Biochemistry & Biomedical Science degrees🥼🔬🧫🧪🦠🩸🅰️🅱️🆎🅾️

I had a great couple of days at the BSHM Congress earlier this week in Leeds. Such a range of fantastic talks and such friendly delegates. It was great to present some of our recent research too as a poster.

📣Good luck to everyone getting their A level results today! 📄 Thinking of next steps? Biosciences at @AstonUniversity is open in #Clearing. 🥼🔬✨ ✅ Accredited degrees (IBMS/RSB) ✅ Award winning careers & placements team ✅ Gold for Teaching Excellence #ALevelResultsDay

This is brilliant progress, but other cancer research needs funding too. My Mom died 9 months after her lung cancer diagnosis, my grandad 14 months after his. My dad’s brother died 6 months after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis & my cousin (his daughter) died 11 months after her brain tumour diagnosis

Oh Sicily. From your Ancient Greek theatres and temples, to your Roman Mosaics and Gladiator Arenas. From your Medieval Castles to your Baroque Churches - one of which has columns as a former Temple to Athena. Great weather, food and lovely running routes. What a holiday 🇮🇹😊

Oh no, this is really sad ☹️ we must support English Heritage and the National Trust, two wonderful charities who protect and promote our heritage. www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

English Heritage and the National Trust are on the brink — this is why

The country’s greatest homes and gardens are in chaos with closures and redundancies looming — the sums simply don’t add up any more

thetimes.com

New piece of kit has arrived to support the teaching of haematology on our IBMS accredited Biomedical Science degree at Aston University! It will also support research within the College. Super excited to start using it! 🩸🥼 #astonuniversity #haematology

I was an absolutely sweltering race this morning, but it was great running the Wenlock Olympian 7 mile race! Congrats to Bru on 3rd place! 🥵☀️🥳🥉🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏻

Really enjoyed listening to this blooducation podcast this morning on my run. Helen discusses with Adrian Shields common immunological scenarios encountered in haematology 🩸

Earlier start to meet Dad for breakfast. Have a good Thursday all!

Thrilled our poster abstract was accepted for the British Society for the History of Medicine Congress. It draws together Indigenous knowledge with novel antimicrobial testing. Great to collaborate with a historian colleague & include contributions from some of my final year project students.

@rossp22.bsky.social from @astonuniversity.bsky.social talking at #UKSTEMConf25 about interprofessional learning.

Great Tuesday afternoon at @chalkefestival.bsky.social. Talk highlights were Sir Michael Palin discussing his travels and Tom Holland on Suetonius! #history #historyfestival

Lovely late afternoon @chalkefestival.bsky.social yesterday! ‘Chalke for Schools’ this morning, then full days of history from tomorrow through Sunday. Yesterday’s highlight: Gareth Russell and Lucy-Hughes-Halley on King James I’s love life. Roll on this afternoon! Glastonbury for #history lovers 😊