Mark Ross

There is no evidence to support that claim.

And this is why we teach mathematics in school.

Porty beach mornings are good mornings. Delaying the start of the email rush

The Oriam National Performance Centre are looking to hire 2 x part time sport scientists to support their work with @heriotwattuni.bsky.social sports union teams, as well as key performance partners. Take a look!

Performance Analyst Job Opening: Performance Analyst at Scottish Football Association in Hampden.

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Research has an economic return multiplier >1. So taxes don't even really pay for research. Research more than pays for itself, the taxes are just used to kick-start the positive economic cycle. The more money invested in research, the better the economy.

164414 Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences

Our department @ucph.bsky.social is looking for a new faculty member! This is a nice environment for an ambitious PI with a research focus on cardiovascular system, metabolism and/or drug discovery! Happy to answer questions if you are interested!

with this trip and work funded by @vivensa.bsky.social Ignition Fund. Huge thanks to Dr James Turner and Professor Leigh Breen for the hospitality and supporting this work

Have just spent 2 amazing days at the University of Birmingham, learning to isolate and characterise immune cells from human skeletal muscle tissue. We’re developing this protocol so we can undertake studies investigating role of immune cells in ageing muscle

What a way to end the academic year @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Our year 3 Sport and Exercise Science students presented their experiences of their placement in industry, demonstrating the challenges they faced, and their professional development. Thanks to all placement providers and staff involved

Decided to go for a run yesterday. Didn’t plan the route, just went where it seemed sunniest. Was not a fast run, but most enjoyable this year.

All set for our Health and Care Technology Global Research Institute ECR conference at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social . Lots of varied research focused at improving population and patient care.

2 new teaching focused tenure track faculty positions in my dept.

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YouTube video by Heriot-Watt University Study Sport and Exercise Science at Heriot-Watt

It is Offer Holder Day this weekend at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social. Looking forward to welcoming future Sport and Exercise Science students to our campus and amazing facilities within Oriam Scotland's Performance Centre. Take a look at the video below for what we offer youtu.be/HKUGCV0ldEM?...

Delighted to have been awarded a Dunhill Medical Trust Ignition fund to undertake skills training in analysis of skeletal muscle resident immune cells. Thanks to Dr James Turner and Prof Leigh Breen (University of Birmingham) for supporting. #muscle #ageing #immunology

It’s been a rocky 2 years but the human tissue lab is finally complete (other than some paperwork for health and safety!). Thanks to everyone involved and looking forward to getting back in the lab! Thanks to @thermofishersci.bsky.social for the equipment and Beckman Coulter for the amazing flow!

Hi BlueSky #immunology folk! Advice- Looking to develop method to isolate immune cells from human muscle biopsies. Issues arise with cleavage of certain receptors. Any suggestions? Currently planning working with Collagenase B, but has its limitations. Thanks!

There is significant variation in the progenitor cell response to exercise. A contributing factor to this variation is cardiorespiratory fitness. The fitter you are, the higher the absolute intensity you exercise at, resulting in more progenitor cell mobilisation

Last week I was at the @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Dubai campus for week 2 of the Global Leaders Programme. Lots of learning from a great bunch of people from various disciplines and services at the University, in a truly stimulating programme. Beautiful campus, and outrageous city.

'How's that on a scale of medieval misogyny?'

Ian Hislop tells Andrew Marr that Elon Musk is 'riddled with contradictions'.

PET Assessment of Immune Cell Activity and Therapeutic Monitoring Following Myocardial Infarction - PubMed Imaging of enhanced metabolism in activated macrophages with ¹⁸F-FDG is feasible and has been associated with cardiac outcome in a small prospective study. Novel targeted PET agents show hi...

This is so cool. The technology to track these changes in humans is amazing. Intrigued whether specific immune cell populations differentially respond to MI - seems lots to come here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29511843/

Delighted to get this off the ground. Exciting collaboration, with all parties truly benefiting. Students, staff, players and organisations alike. Promising opportunities for our sport and exercise science students @heriotwattuni.bsky.social

Centenarians—the way to healthy vascular ageing and longevity: a review from VascAgeNet - GeroScience The prevalence of centenarians, people who lived 100 years and longer, is steadily growing in the last decades. This exceptional longevity is based on multifaceted processes influenced by a combinatio...

Nice to see this in print before the end of the year- ‘Centenarians- the way to healthy vascular ageing and longevity’. Part of the VascAgeNet COST action working group

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Christmas done differently- I must admit, could get used to it!

Christmas cake made. Quite happy with it, although (dare I say it), too much brandy this time!

Game on - The Watt Magazine 2024 A number of Heriot-Watt alumni are helping to develop the University’s sport and exercise science education. They explain why they returned to the University to their current roles and how they are su...

A nice time to reflect on the past two years getting the Sport and Exercise degrees launched and delivered at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social, driven by alumni who saw the incredible potential here. Lots more to do mind you!
www.wattmag.hw.ac.uk/2024edition/...

a man singing in the rain with the words " i 'm singing in the rain just singing in the rain " above him ALT: a man singing in the rain with the words " i 'm singing in the rain just singing in the rain " above him

Show off! Edinburgh at night …

💪CALL FOR PAPERS💪
Check out this #CallforPapers for our "New perspectives on the physiological basis of muscle loss" #SpecialIssue! This issue will highlight experimental and theoretical research on the underpinning integrative physiological mechanisms driving muscle loss!

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EASTBIO-Investigating phosphoinositide acyl chain composition as a novel regulator of T cell signalling during ageing at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EASTBIO-Investigating phosphoinositide acyl chain composition as a novel regulator of T cell signalling during ageing at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

If you’re interested in immune cell metabolism I’m recruiting for a PhD student. Deadline: 17th Jan. Start date: Sept 2025. Informal discussion always welcome.

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An ultra-endurance event leads to changes in circulating regulatory T-cells, CD4+ naïve and CD8+ effector memory T-cells in the 48 h post-race recovery period - European Journal of Applied Physiology Purpose Exercise is known to acutely affect T-lymphocyte populations in the peripheral blood, which is intensity- and duration-dependent. However, effects of longer duration endurance exercise (>5 h) ...

And last (but not least) ultra-endurance race results in distinct circulating T cell changes in the 48h post race period (doi.org/10.1007/s004...). Regulatory T cells, CD4+ naive and CD8+ central memory cells elevated, with CD8+ effector memory cells decline Thanks to BASES for funding this work.