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Miles Padgett

@milespadgett.bsky.social
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Royal Society Research Professor and Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy University of Glasgow. Keen and slow 🚴.

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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
At @spie.org quantum catalyst meeting in Boulder. A great great meeting (very little power point!) and a couple of great days walking too:)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A wonderful day out in the Ayrshire Alps. Thanks to Nikolaj’s slipstream!
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Cycled out to Wemyss Bay today. The station really is a masterpiece (it has a very very good cafe too!)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
An almost perfect waterfall ?
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@spie.org some of our new Directors:)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Ness Glen walk - a Victorian relic - but a nice one
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I went for a Glorious Gravel ride yesterday:)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Loved this at the @royalsociety.org today - look no hands ! Trapping particles using ultra sound
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Writing again with Anton Muscatelli @uofgvc.bsky.social and Maria Delgado @mmdelgado.bsky.social. This time looking at how we must strive to design a process to maintain diversity within the next REF exercise. The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...
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The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away
Anton Muscatelli, Maria Delgado and Miles Padgett consider the latest REF guidance, and warn of possible unintended consequences in how removing restrictions on output numbers will play out Anton Musc...
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A gravel bike ride around Glasgow. Cake / hills / architecture - what’s not to like ?
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Lovely to be speaking in Limoges - super workshop too! Thank you for the invite, questions and chat! www.cryst3.com/quantum-in-p...
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The “Sir Walter Scott” 125 years of pleasure cruising on Loch Katrine @lomondtrossachs.bsky.social simply wonderful - thank you 🙏
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I always wanted to go and check out the ruin of St Peter’s Seminary- and finally I did. Well worth the trip!
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A rather magnificent creature a Drymen show
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Goodbye Ottawa - thank you !
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Celebrating 💯 years of quantum here in Ottawa- speaking about the work of @qusit.bsky.social.
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Great cycle adventure today coming back from nr Aberfoyle to Glasgow via Loch Lomond ferry:)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Great day again at Scotland’s Etape (cycle event) - thank you Andrew, Jonathan and Richard.
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Took my bicycle out upto and around Loch Katrine today. Another peachy day - great little cafe - even better bacon roll !
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
National Cycle Route 7 back home from the weekend
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Fantastic bike ride up and round Glen Lyon today
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Is really interesting working with you both seeing the problem through different disciplinary lenses.
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The unintended consequences of decoupling outputs from their authors - portability, fairness and diversity. wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...
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Portability within REF remains key to fairness
Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A few days in Lisbon - it might be my favourite city :)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Super ride around the Clyde estuary yesterday. Up over the Rest and be Thankful to Dunoon - back over on the ferry and bike home.
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A faultless Sunday morning in Scotland ?
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
To some extent we did. Originally we were planning to fund 40 CDTs, but by repriorisation in EPSRC/ forward commitments we increased to over 60. Was that enough? No but there is only so much can do with flat cash in inflation times. But at least that is an extra 1500 students that will be supported
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Dear Kirsty - I hope while I was the Interim Head of EPSRC we strengthened the morale of ERSRC staff (for others to say) - key to that was showing how UKRI could achieve things we could not do alone - e.g. increasing the number of CDTs. Sadly there are wider issues in the sector we need to address.
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
That’s true - lol - I would have to have gone higher!
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Out for a Sunday morning bike ride. For a big city, Glasgow’s access to the great outdoors is second to none in the UK?
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
eight-critical-questions-for-the-new-chief-executive-of-ukri. Fun as ever to write with @uofgvc.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Eight critical questions for the new chief executive of UKRI
With announcement of a new UKRI chief executive expected imminently, Anton Muscatelli and Miles Padgett set out the most pressing issues for the new incumbent With announcement of a new UKRI chief exe...
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Including our endoscope the thickness of a human hair part of the QuSIT quantum technology hub.
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Louise and Chris flying the UK quantum hubs flag @spie.org Photonics West - the world’s premier optics meeting from the world’s largest optical society
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Living in Scotland is just fantastic- a short walk up Ben An and then a cycle ride home. @lomondtrossachs.bsky.social
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It was indeed a pleasure - I hope people are stimulated by reading as much as I found it to write it with you
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The Devil’s Pulpit - I’d lived in Glasgow for over twenty year before I knew it was even there (13 miles north)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
From coffee stop to cake stop - the wonders of living in Glasgow :)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
That was fun! Thank you @johnmdudley.bsky.social and Scholargoggler.com
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I know tubeless tires are “better” and these only took me two hours to fit…..😱 (had unwittingly damaged the rim tape). On the bright side I now have more grip more compliance and, even more importantly, tan side walls:)
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Walking home - I wonder if we’ll have more snow this season
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This indeed is looking back down the hill I went up on a track that didn’t connect with where I was going
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Cycling to Aberfoyle. Sometimes when you go the wrong way you get a view you didn’t expect - motto for life?
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Look carefully in the background, you’ll see the wonderful BBC-B. At that point in time, the UK led the world in personal computing?
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I know people have mixed views on the merits of Clarivate’s identification Highly Cited Authors. Either way, I’d like to thank my research group and our collaborators for the last (subject normalised) decade - together we wrote papers that others liked :) clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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Highly Cited Researchers | Clarivate
The Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interested in joining our research group? Working in the UK ‘s quantum hub ⁦in sensors, imaging and timing. as a Research Associate at University of Glasgow - developing endoscopes the thickness of a human hair. Apply below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ434/r...
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Research Associate at University of Glasgow
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Interested in joining our research group? Working in the UK ‘s quantum hub on imaging, sensible and timing. as a Research Associate at University of Glasgow - developing camera that image without detection. Apply below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ439/r...
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Research Associate at University of Glasgow
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A gentle reminder!
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Miles Padgett @milespadgett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Was a privilege to speak to the latest cohort of Royal Society research fellows - you are all so special - have confidence in your ability to change the world - but never lose sight of the privilege you have. Thank you for an inspiring day
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