Especially the fascinating closing talk by Duncan Mitchell on “Lice, ticks and the Comrades Marathon”, addressing the ability of humans to undertake endurance exercise in the heat.

Thermal Physiology: A Worldwide History The lives and discoveries from thermo-physiologists since the 18th century 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇫🇮🇺🇸🇦🇺🇩🇰🇿🇦🇯🇵🇭🇺🇮🇱🇳🇴🇷🇺🇨🇦 link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… 👏Essential reading IMO

Now that #COP27 has ended, it is time to assess the accomplishment as the future of life on planet Earth hangs in the balance.

Some of the delegates for the SEB @sebiology.bsky.social 2023 session on "Thermoregulatory and metabolic adaptations in a changing world", at the Golf Tavern in Edinburgh.

This hero did not disappoint; honoured to have Prof Duncan Mitchell, Emeritus of Wits University visit @MRC_LMB. Born in same town as Sydney Brenner (must be something in the water 🤔), Duncan has monitored 🧠 temp in more species than I know the names of. A physiology legend!😃

Pleased to share my newly published article (from my PhD work) examining the impact of heat on our human brain. Our brain motor activity and cognitive ability are impaired by heat. There could be a brain temperature range optimal for neural function! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37678507/

Rule of science writing: abbreviations are for the reader, not the writer. Don't use abbreviations to save your own keystrokes, use them to improve comprehension of the text. Thus "DNA" is reasonable; abbreviating study site names is not.

I'm pleased to share our 4 part, historical review on #exercise thermoregulation European Journal of Applied Physiology 2.5 years work, 397 pages, 3850 refs tinyurl.com/3ts8a2kn A big thanks to Nigel Taylor & Duncan Mitchell for driving the project & the reviewers/EJAP staff 🙏 Each part is below:

#COP28 has ended. We now need to turn the words into much more ambitious #ClimateAction. 2023 will be warmest year on record. See how our world has warmed. Graphic Neil Kaye ESA Climate Office via Copernicus ECMWF #StateofClimate

Staggering acceleration of global warming is underway, driven by a huge planetary energy imbalance, which in turn is traced mainly to our Faustian aerosol bargain. Six months more of the acceleration are still to come. See Measuring Stick - mailchi.mp/caa/global-war…

Pleased to be invited to talk about history if research in exertional heat illness

Our paper on measuring microclimates in a warming world, led by Duncan Mitchell, is now online in Journal of Experimental Biology journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab…

Measurement of microclimates in a warming world: problems and solutions journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-ab… Read why plotting biological responses against air temperature is inadequate and why 100% relative humidity does not block evaporative cooling. Duncan Mitchell Andrea Fuller

Thermal Physiology in Health and Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications We’re delighted to be hosting this meeting in conjunction with The Physiological Society in June 2025. Full programme details and abstract submission information to follow soon! physoc.org/events/thermal…

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Chanel Rampartab delivers a fascinating presentation on how small mammals cope with heat and cold in the Kalahari. #ORC2024 #OGRC #ScienceBeyondBoundaries

Congrats Shannon R. Conradie! Can’t wait to see your research findings. A well deserved recipient of this prestigious award for early career researchers.

It was great fun getting the opportunity to work with Terrie Williams in the Kruger National Park last week. Looking forward to hearing Terrie give the Knut Schmidt-Nielsen award lecture at IUPS in Frankfurt next year.

If you can’t unequivocally say that Russia is the bad guy in this conflict, you aren’t qualified to discuss foreign policy. Full stop. They invaded a sovereign country and attempted to permanently change their borders by force. In no scenario are they in the right.