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Joe Dunster

@cardiomaths.bsky.social
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Mathematical/Computational biologist. Trying to understand the mechanisms that underlie cardiovascular disease and inflammation #platelets #coagulation #HemeSky #flugle #cycling #knitting works @rdgplateletlabs.bsky.social

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Ellis Patrick @ellispatrick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🎓 PhD scholarship We are recruiting a PhD student to develop new methods for analysing spatial omics data at the University of Sydney, cosupervised by @shazanfar.bsky.social and me. Ideal for students with backgrounds in statistics, data science, computer science or bioinformatics Apply by 18 Jan
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ARC Postgraduate Research Scholarship
A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for research students within the Faculty of Science.
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Joe Dunster @cardiomaths.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Fully funded PhD available. Developing mathematical models of haemostasis to predict clinical outcomes. Combines maths with large data and wet lab experience www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/...
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Mathematical modelling of haemostatic data to predict clinical and therapeutic outcomes - The University of Nottingham
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 01/10/2025
🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in! #rstats
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ggplot2 styling
This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.
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Dr Fraser Mcrae @fibrin-fraser.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Only 5 days left to apply for this position, don't miss out!! If you are a Postdoc and looking for a job don't forget to check out this opportunity @UniversityLeeds below. Deadline for application is the 25th of July. Start date is the 1st of September.
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Blood Journals Portfolio @bloodjournals.hematology.org · 16/06/2025
Rilzabrutinib acts through multi-immune modulation mechanisms targeting key aspects of ITP disease pathophysiology. buff.ly/2y1gxnZ #hemesky
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
A warm summer breeze and blue skies at Matlock Lido. A restoring afternoon
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Gary Mirams @mirams.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We're hosting a special symposium "Asymptotics, PDEs, Industrial Mathematics and Systems Biology" in Nottingham to celebrate John King's election to Fellow of @royalsociety.org on Wed 23rd July. Please register here www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/... #WeAreUoN @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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Asymptotics, PDEs, Industrial Mathematics and Systems Biology - The University of Nottingham
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Christine N HfE (no DMs) @christinevn-hfe.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
With Springwatch visiting the NT Longshaw estate on the Derbyshire /Yorkshire border why not visit Cromford and it’s fabulous bookshop !
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Joe Dunster @cardiomaths.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This makes me happy royalsociety.org/people/john-... @royalsociety.org @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
John king
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Royal Society puts £30m into attracting foreign researchers. The Royal Society has announced it will invest £30m into a new fellowship for global researchers, with the international science community “in a state of flux”, its president has said. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Royal Society puts £30m into attracting foreign researchers - Research Professional News
New international fellowship announced as details of separate government plan yet to be confirmed
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Joe Dunster @cardiomaths.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
What's not too like... Florence Nightingale + Tim Harford
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Andrew Johnson @adjomics.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Now online in Blood, the largest genetic study to date of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, reveals 36 Risk Loci. Most loci are not related to coagulation/hemostasis and instead other biological processes like hormone regulation and Wnt/beta-catenin signaling: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40324064/
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Genome-wide Meta-Analysis of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Reveals 36 Risk Loci - PubMed
Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a widespread occurrence among women of reproductive age and inflicts a substantial impact on well-being and healthcare expenses. To better characterize the genetic ar...
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Magdi Nagy @magdinagy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I will be at ISTH 2025 to present my recent works as 2 posters! Looking forward to seeing all the brilliant researchers from all over the world! @isth.org #thrombosis #stroke #atrialfibrillation
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
You know that point when you’re half asleep and half awake and a mathematical thought pops into your brain? Love it when it turns out to work the next day…
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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust @royalberkshospital.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🏆 Congratulations to our Haematology team who have received a national award for their commitment to patients living with myeloma. 🥳 The team were presented with the Myeloma UK Clinical Service Excellence Programme (CSEP) Award in recognition of their outstanding care... (1/2)
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
happy Emmy Noether's birthday to all who celebrate
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Liam McGuffin @liammcguffin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Our MultiFOLD2 server is also now freely available to all. It's the top-ranked server on the hardest domain targets in #CASP16 by GDT_TS. With integrated stoichiometry prediction it outperforms AF3 on common multimer subsets in CAMEO. www.reading.ac.uk/bioinf/Multi...
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Kirk @kirk-taylor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pleased to share that our latest study has been published in Hematologica! @rdgplateletlabs.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40045892/
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Inter-platelet communication driving thrombus formation is regulated by extracellular calpain-1 cleavage of connexin 62 - PubMed
Connexin (Cx) gap junction proteins are expressed by a multitude of cells and function as plasma membrane hemichannels or dock to form intercellular communication tunnels. Whilst Cx43 has garnered con...
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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Want to work in one of the most dynamic places in mathematical biology - in one of the oldest universities in the world - great colleagues, great science.
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Beth Psaila @bethpsaila.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Check out @abattacks.bsky.social’s new and improved bone marrow organoid model - preprint below. More cell types (lymphoid progenitors and osteo- lineage), myeloma modelling and a cool method to improve scalability!
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British Cycling @britishcycling.org.uk · 15/02/2025
Anna Morris is magic 🎩🪄✨ A stunning world record in the women’s IP!
Anna Morris holds a British flag behind her as she celebrates her new world record
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Alan Champneys @al-prof.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Massive thanks to @chrischirp.bsky.social and Sonya Crowe for giving up their time to talk to students taking our Course on Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Development. The students were inspired to hear about how to make a real difference in healthcare using mathematical modelling.
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Fabian Spill @fabianspill.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Excited to announce the first UK Maths Bio Conference 4-5 September in Birmingham ukmathbioconference.github.io . Registration will open in a few weeks, save the date! Thanks to my amazing co-organisers Valeria, Kyle, Rachel and Phil for all their work planning the conference.
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Michael Plank @michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
These are great - really nice set of resources
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Help get fossil fuel ads banned in the UK – sign the petition . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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linusschumacher.bsky.social @linusschumacher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Only 3 days left to apply for these PhD projects in Edinburgh
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British Heart Foundation @thebhf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We are thrilled to announce that 100,000 defibrillators are now registered on The Circuit!
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Gillian @gilli-campbell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Calling ALL health care professionals in Primary Care! Midwives @rcm.org.uk , Nurses @rcn.org.uk .uk, GPs @wisegpcouk.bsky.social gpcouk.bsky.social please share your views to inform this National survey t.ly/pDJPH. @nihrspcr.bsky.social sky.social @arc-em.bsky.social em.bsky.social
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eoghanjm.bsky.social @eoghanjm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨 BIG NEWS! MuSpAn is LIVE! 🚀 The ultimate tool for tackling all your spatial biology questions. Huge congrats to @joshuabull.bsky.social & @josh-moore.bsky.social ❤️👏 Poignant given Spatial proteomics is Technique of the Year 2024 @naturemethods.bsky.social 🎉 📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dagmar Iber & CoBi @iberd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We are looking for a #PostDoc with experience in #BioImage Analysis @ETH in #Basel, CH. Our mission: translate image-derived insights into mechanistic models of development & disease #lightsheet #ultrasound #CT www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
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Post-Doc Position: Bio-Image Analysis
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Mark Allenby @mcallenby.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Is anyone interested in part-time computational research? We have some funds to support microscopy bioimage analysis and modelling of cell culture, and wondering how best to use it! Let me know if you are interested or know someone. Link: Our experimental PhD position is still open (until Jan 5th)
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Engineering vessels from blood to predict transplant-associated cardiovascular disease
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…
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Fionnuala Ní Áinle @fniainle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Congratulations to the Irish #TILLIRI investigators, led by Dr Denis O'Keefe! In a large observational study incl. people with lower limb injury & immobilization, VTE occurrence at 90 days was low. #medsky #hemesky #INViTEresearch @jthjournal.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The (T) thrombosis (I) in patients with (L) lower (L) limb (I) injuries (R) requiring (I) immobilisation (TILLIRI) Study
Patients requiring lower limb immobilisation after injury have an increased venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk. The extent of this risk in published st…
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Oliver Jensen @oeskildjensen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
PhD project available at the University of Manchester: Mechanical regulation of cell cycle in tissues: are organelles tension sensing hubs? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis @jthjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Mathematical models showed that concizumab enhances thrombin generation by simultaneous inhibition of multiple TFPI anticoagulant activities. #hemophilia #concizumab #TFPI #medsky #hemesky www.jthjournal.org/article/S153...
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Joe Dunster @cardiomaths.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#uksnow in DE4 7/10
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Zoltan Nagy @zoltannagyphd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Mark your calendar! 🗓️ Abstract submission for #ISTH2025 closes on January 15, 2025. I am already excited about this incredible congress 🩸 #Platelets #Megakaryocyte #HemeSky
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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
OK, I've taken a swing at it - a Mathematical Biology starter pack, please add (or remove) yourselves as necessary! (If that's possible? I have no idea how this works) go.bsky.app/GVkxwBv
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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
Excited to share our latest preprint reporting new findings from the CINN HAVEN study, led by the formidable Gabs Rossetti: Evidence for direct control of neurovascular function by circulating platelets in healthy older adults. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
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