Enjoying a day of talks at Dementia Futures 2025.

Interesting paper on blind spots in FMRI research related to tobacco use www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Thrilled our proposal on 'the effects of carbon monoxide on platelets' has been funded by CO Research Trust! Excited to study this under-researched area & provide new insights. #PublicHealth #CarbonMonoxide #Platelets @herigstad.bsky.social, Caroline Dalton @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

Reduced risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality with exercise (and dose-response) throughout adulthood from a systematic review of 85 studies bjsm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Anecdotally, this is also true for carbon monoxide. Generators can emit a large amount in some cases.

Some types of engines, turbines and chimneys are allowed to emit more pollution than others. This will have significant implications for our #netzero future. New research by @york.ac.uk. Piece by me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brain fodder!!

The weather is lovely so this is just a small reminder to never have a BBQ in an enclosed area, e.g. inside a tent or even under an awning. Also, even if coals are cold enough to hold with your bare hands, they can still emit significant amounts of carbon monoxide. #carbonmonoxide

Our research is currently all about carbon monoxide and its impact on health, but I find it is not really possible to not pay attention to wider air pollution patterns.

Unthinkable just 10 years ago: Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear. Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.

This ground-breaking event, supported by Wellcome, will address the critical intersection of climate change and human health. 📆 16 - 17 July 2025 📍 London Learn more and apply to attend: buff.ly/ivnjZF8

Funding Call - Wellcome Career Development Awards fund mid-career researchers to lead bold research and become global leaders in health, life, and wellbeing-related fields. Closing date: 24th July www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/well...

For anyone interested in why CO alarm levels matter (or, indeed, just want to know at which CO level your alarm will sound - hint, it needs a pretty high dose), I can recommend this white paper: www.ncoaa.us/resources/lo...

A powerful moment, charged with sadness for a life that could have been but also hope for the future and the huge fortitude of Ella’s mother and family. Honoured to be in south east London this afternoon for the unveiling of Ella's statue. www.bigissue.com/news/environ...

Most of the Sheffield CO Research group (plus two collaborators) will be speaking tomorrow for the April edition of the CO Research Trust lecture series. There's a lot of work gone into these slides, and I'm very lucky to be working with this fantastic team. www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...

❓ Have you applied for our EDI Fund yet? Apply for up to £1000 to promote and champion equity, diversity, or inclusion in physiology. ⏰ Deadline is 3 April, apply now ➡️ www.physoc.org/grants-and-p...

I am grateful to @cancerresearchuk.org for choosing to support our work aiming to understand the links between distorted embryonic development and neuroblastoma initiation using our human pluripotent stem cell differentiation model: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/...

Hiring soon! I am looking for a preclinical imaging physicist with MRI experience. We will be investigating gas exchange in the mammalian brain, with a particular focus on oxygen. Using a gas contrast agent to ask fundamental questions about gas exchange and cerebral perfusion #hiring #neuroscience

ULEZ is working—saving lives and protecting children from deadly air pollution. This is why it matters. Listen to Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah CBE from The Ella Roberta Foundation, as she shares her powerful story about the impact of toxic air and why clean air policies are so important.

Delighted at having had the opportunity to speak to key stakeholders and policy makers at the CO and pregnancy symposium in London last week, presenting new numbers about CO exposure levels in UK homes. Pre-print here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Carbon monoxide and women, made by the students in the Sheffield CO Research group. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdeDfJbN/

Happy International Women's Day! I am lucky to work with fantastic women daily, including some excellent students who I am sure will go on to do great things. So here's to all the marvellous women in science.

Each year we run #BritishScienceWeek #BSW25 - in 2025 it takes place 7-16 March 🥳 To help you celebrate the Week, we have published 4 FREE activity packs for young people and community groups. They're full of 'Change & adapt'-themed fun 😍🪱! www.britishscienceweek.org/activity-pac... #BSW25

Today I had the very good fortune to be part of the International Women's Day Science Event for Science Week 2025, thanks to @mellacey.bsky.social. Top marks to the visiting students from nearby Schools who were fully engaged and asked really good questions.

The US embassies’ air quality data were sometimes the only reliable data in an entire country and influenced local air quality policies. We used the Indonesian US embassy data extensively and co-located our lo-cost PM sensors by their regulatory-grade ones. 😔 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

This series by @momrunninglate.bsky.social is really nice. Good to see May-Britt Moser included as well. I remember her getting the Nobel, and was more than a little chuffed that it went to (a) a woman, (b) in neuroscience, from (c) my alma mater, NTNU. Really lovely work!

A small reminder to make sure you have at least one carbon monoxide alarm in your home, that it is within date and bought from a reputable store (hint: many CO alarms available on e.g. amazon look nice but do not work at all).

Join us Thurs 6 March at the Millennium Gallery to kick off British Science Week! Explore the science of colour—from fluorescent microscopy revealing nature’s beauty to chemical reactions shaping beer’s hue and taste 🍺 @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social @hallam-biosci-chem.bsky.social Find out more ⬇

🚨You have until the end of this week to apply for our Mid-Career Researcher Prize!🚨 Researchers within 6 -15 years of your PhD or MD are eligible to apply for this prize, which will award the winner with £1,000 and a Review published in Experimental Physiology 🔗https://buff.ly/3l2c5oW

This seems like a very good opportunity!

Starting pack for physiology by @physoc.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2KU1XD6

Development folks: the next Northern England Developmental Biology @bsdb.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social meeting will take place on the 10th of July in Sheffield. Great speaker line-up, cheap registration fee and plenty of slots for ECR talks. Registration deadline=31/5, see poster for details

@physoc.bsky.social has a starter pack of physiologists. Hooray!! go.bsky.app/2KU1XD6

Important new EDI fund open for applications from the UK Physiological Society. Apply now!

Full-time cell biology lecturer position available at Sheffield Hallam University. my.corehr.com/pls/shurecru...

📢 We have re-opened our call for nominations for The Sharpey-Schafer Prize Lecture for Translational Physiology. Send us your nominations for an outstanding physiologist whose research has changed our understanding of physiology with real world implications. 📆 Submit by 17 March ⬇️

#TuesdayReads The Stevens Group developed a toolkit to digest extracellular matrix components, revealing elastin damage as key in #cardiovascular calcification and opening avenues for prevention. Read more 👇 @ox.ac.uk @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxforddpag.bsky.social @kavlifoundation.bsky.social

Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her. 🧵👇

📢 We have launched our new EDI Fund! If you’re interested in promoting and championing equity, diversity, or inclusion, in your institutions, please take a look at our page for more details. Apply now ➡️ https://buff.ly/4hqSaL0 #EDI #Equality #Diversity #Inclusion

’Super pollutants’ are responsible for around 45% of global warming to date. Cutting emissions is seen as one of the quickest ways to tackling climate change and preventing millions of deaths from these pollutants.

Interesting question as to whether ‘Endothelium is a type of epithelial?’ Definitely worth a read.

Our first preprint of 2025: Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure in pregnant women - quantifying home levels and how they correlate with exhaled CO and/or sociodemographic factors. Funded by the CO Research Trust and local GDNs, and run by iPiP. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Still time to apply to join our team on an exciting project exploring links between EVs, microbiome, and age-related disease. We're friendly and supportive! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Only a few days left to apply for our BBSRC-funded PhD project with @christoseland.bsky.social aiming to understand how biomechanical cues crosstalk with extrinsic signals to influence cell fate decisions during hESC/NMP differentiation. Please RT! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

❓ Are you looking for support to develop new educational resources or conduct a piece of publishable educational research? Our #Education & #Teaching Award is a great opportunity for members. Hear from our 2024 winners and apply ⬇️ www.physoc.org/news_article...

A £4m funding boost in May meant that the Active Together cancer support service could roll out across South Yorkshire! The service has already helped over 1,000 people in Sheffield and boosted survival rates by 10% through fitness, nutrition and wellbeing support. www.shu.ac.uk/news/all-art...

Happy Holidays！💐 Credit to: Dario Brunetti

I attended a talk by Jocelyn Bell Burnell many years ago. She was an excellent speaker; as eloquent when talking science as when discussing her career and the Nobel Prize winning discovery. Utterly inspiring.