Ross
@rossp22.bsky.social
Lecturer. Scientist. Huge fan of History. Lover of blood sciences, microbiology, 📚, cooking, historic sites, old churches and @lesmills classes. 🌱 Cat dad.
Good morning Aragorn and Duncan! 😊❄️
January 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Good morning Aragorn and Duncan! 😊❄️
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! ⚔️🏰
January 10, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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 ❄️🌨️ 🏃🏻🏃🏽♂️
January 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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 😁
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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🥼🔬🧫🧪🦠🩸🅰️🅱️🆎🅾️
September 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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.
September 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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
✅ Accredited degrees (IBMS/RSB)
✅ Award winning careers & placements team
✅ Gold for Teaching Excellence
#ALevelResultsDay
August 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
📣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
✅ 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
August 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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 🇮🇹😊
July 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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/...
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
www.thetimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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/...
www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...
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
July 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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! 🥵☀️🥳🥉🏃🏽♂️🏃🏻
July 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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 🩸
July 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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!
July 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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.
July 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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.
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@rossp22.bsky.social from @astonuniversity.bsky.social talking at #UKSTEMConf25 about interprofessional learning.
June 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
@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
June 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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 😊
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 😊
June 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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 😊
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 😊
First day of annual leave today. On our drive through Gloucestershire we planned a stop at this medieval beauty. Opened the Norman church door to be greeted by stunning frescoes from 1120 AD—including a vivid Last Judgement scene above the chancel. Just wow! 😍 #KempleyChurch
June 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
First day of annual leave today. On our drive through Gloucestershire we planned a stop at this medieval beauty. Opened the Norman church door to be greeted by stunning frescoes from 1120 AD—including a vivid Last Judgement scene above the chancel. Just wow! 😍 #KempleyChurch
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I wonder how long it will take for the government to care that the higher-education sector is in freefall.
'The university has informed staff of plans to cut 400 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions by July 2026, with academics the first to go.'
Professor Andy Schofield, VC at Lancaster University since 2020, will take up position of Principal & VC at Glasgow University on 1 October 2025.
Professor Andy Schofield, VC at Lancaster University since 2020, will take up position of Principal & VC at Glasgow University on 1 October 2025.
Lancaster University to cut one in five academic jobs
Institution says it is ‘not immune’ to financial challenges as it looks to axe 400 jobs
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I wonder how long it will take for the government to care that the higher-education sector is in freefall.
It has been the highlight of my year for the last few years. Super excited for the beginning of chalkefestival.bsky.social tomorrow! 😎🥳
June 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It has been the highlight of my year for the last few years. Super excited for the beginning of chalkefestival.bsky.social tomorrow! 😎🥳
If you’re able to, please consider giving blood, particularly if you’re O neg or African-Carribean🩸🅰️🅱️🆎
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NHS calls for 200,000 new blood donors as supplies run low
The health service issued an
www.bbc.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you’re able to, please consider giving blood, particularly if you’re O neg or African-Carribean🩸🅰️🅱️🆎
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Neighbours birthday party on a Sunday night + early commute as the OH was off to London for work = 😴
June 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Neighbours birthday party on a Sunday night + early commute as the OH was off to London for work = 😴