@cathnoakes
Pro Dean Research and Innovation in Engineering and Physical Sciences at Leeds University. Indoor air, ventilation, infection risks, fluid dynamics, academia, EDI in science and a few cats. Views my own. #academicsky
Please circulate! Are you or do you know someone from groups particularly affected by Mpox, & those less likely to be heard by researchers? We are working with @thelovetankcic.bsky.social to organise workshops seeking to improve modelling response.
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Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather
More on the need for a global assessment of avoidable risks
climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/leeds-r...
PhD position (Lancaster, UK)
Modelling infections within and between schools to reduce illness, absence and learning days lost.
with Jonathan Read
at Lancaster University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2478
This amazing bus is the Moon Palace - a wonderful project between art and Physics to create a space to inspire people how the universe works. If you’re in London over 20-21 Feb, drop into the courtyard outside Royal Astronomical Society and take a look eps.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-engi...
Tread Softly, painting by Peak District artist Clare Allan. Kinder Scout from Mellor Road, New Mills.
no greater love than swan courtship
🦢🤍🦢
I think that’s what it is
I don’t think it was this as there doesn’t appear to be a hole. Could be a drip from the gutter above but even that looks to be in the wrong place
It’s just a shallow puddle on top of a plastic container and there’s no hole so I don’t think it’s expansion.
Yes it did
Does anyone know how this formed? Ice funnel about 7cm high and 2cm diameter sticking up from a sheet of ice on a horizontal plastic surface.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
A piece of covid pandemic history spotted yesterday. This must have been from sometime in Feb 2020 and the poster was probably only relevant for 2-3 weeks. It’s easy to forget now how little we knew and how fast things moved in the early days.
Great to chat with Joel Snape about all things sneezing. Great seeing comments from @cathnoakes.bsky.social too
I was really pleased when I saw he’d spoken to you too!
Hyde Park Picture House, Headingley, Leeds, painting by Allen Tortice (b.1948).
My cat will eat almost anything left out. Most annoying is if we leave bread out to defrost he’ll tear through the plastic to get too it 🤷♀️
I was recently asked to comment on superspreading for a BBC article. Little did I know, my quote would become the title!
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
To study influenza infections, we inoculated human participants with aerosolized virus: coarse particles generated by a flow-focusing monodisperse aerosol generator and fine particles generated by a medical nebulizer. academic.oup.com/jid/article-...
Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
A heavily scalloped underground stream passage, with a caver admiring a calcite formation in the distance
Small gours and causing steps in the stream passage, with a greenish pool beneath them
A high level passage above the streamway, with extensive calcite roof and wall formations, and a caver shining her light down a smaller oxbow part way up the wall.
There are a lot of horrible things happening in the world. I can't offer answers, or even cat pics. But I have been having a go at taking some cave pics while away at new year. First time for a while. Hopefully you will like them.
Happy International Day of Education from the School of Education here at the University of Leeds
This years theme is “AI and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation”,
Read our reflections here: bit.ly/4qo28RT and bit.ly/49asnEu
#DayofEducation #EducationMatters
PhD position (Manchester, UK)
Modelling reactive response in outbreaks of respiratory infections in vulnerable settings
with Lorenzo Pellis, Ian Hall, Thomas House
at University of Manchester
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2462
Siamese cat on top of a door, hanging on with his claws
Happy weekend from a cat sat on top of a door. Like you do…
And my group at the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases is also hiring: We are looking for a postdoc for our work on mucosal immunity and respiratory viruses!
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Professor position in Global Health at the University of Geneva, Institute of Global Health!
This is really an exciting opportunity with lots of possibilities for collaborations, e.g. with our Centre, in the field of infectious diseases, international Geneva, WHO...
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
I wonder how many millions in productivity is lost each year because cross country trains are too cramped to work on and the 4G signal is terrible? I love visiting colleagues at Birmingham uni, but I loathe the trains.
I had 2 nights on a multi bed ward last year and the sheer amount of noise all the time really struck me. So many bleeps/alarms and absolutely no privacy in conversations despite the sensitivity of some of the patient conditions. I eventually worked out how to silence my own drip stand alarm!
