Tom Gillingwater
@tomgillingwater.bsky.social
Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. FRSE, FRSB, HonFAS. Mood generally influenced by family, anatomy, science (MND/SMA/ALS/NMJ), music, whisky and NFFC. Owned by a Lakeland Terrier. My opinions etc!
📍Edinburgh/East Lothian 🏴
📍Edinburgh/East Lothian 🏴
I still can’t get my head around how Springsteen could write and record a song as good as this 👇 and not think it worthy of release at the time…and then subsequently forget that he’d written/recorded it 🤯 youtube.com/watch?v=38uX...
Iceman (Studio Outtake - 1977)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic
youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I still can’t get my head around how Springsteen could write and record a song as good as this 👇 and not think it worthy of release at the time…and then subsequently forget that he’d written/recorded it 🤯 youtube.com/watch?v=38uX...
Farewell old friend. It’s been the greatest of pleasures getting to know you. A quarter of a century in the cask but unfortunately only a minute or two on the lips! #Whisky
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Farewell old friend. It’s been the greatest of pleasures getting to know you. A quarter of a century in the cask but unfortunately only a minute or two on the lips! #Whisky
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Happy 158th Birthday, Marie Skłodowska Curie! She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the honor twice.
In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA
In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA
The making and remaking of Marie Curie
The famous physicist's legacy looms large 150 years after her birth
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Happy 158th Birthday, Marie Skłodowska Curie! She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive the honor twice.
In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA
In 2017, #ScienceBooks toured the dynamics that established her as "the most iconic of all female scientists." https://scim.ag/47tkKYA
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As Scottish Rugby celebrates 100 years of Murrayfield, they’re asking fans to choose the defining moment in the stadium’s history!
For us, there’s only one 💙💛 Doddie’s unforgettable match ball delivery in 2017 - a moment that inspired the nation.
Vote here 👉 scottishrugby.org/murrayfieldm...
For us, there’s only one 💙💛 Doddie’s unforgettable match ball delivery in 2017 - a moment that inspired the nation.
Vote here 👉 scottishrugby.org/murrayfieldm...
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As Scottish Rugby celebrates 100 years of Murrayfield, they’re asking fans to choose the defining moment in the stadium’s history!
For us, there’s only one 💙💛 Doddie’s unforgettable match ball delivery in 2017 - a moment that inspired the nation.
Vote here 👉 scottishrugby.org/murrayfieldm...
For us, there’s only one 💙💛 Doddie’s unforgettable match ball delivery in 2017 - a moment that inspired the nation.
Vote here 👉 scottishrugby.org/murrayfieldm...
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🎄Share the spirit of the festive season with exclusive MND Scotland Christmas cards and help support families affected by motor neuron disease 💙
➡️ Now available in the MND Scotland shop: https://bit.ly/4c2XRNQ
➡️ Now available in the MND Scotland shop: https://bit.ly/4c2XRNQ
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🎄Share the spirit of the festive season with exclusive MND Scotland Christmas cards and help support families affected by motor neuron disease 💙
➡️ Now available in the MND Scotland shop: https://bit.ly/4c2XRNQ
➡️ Now available in the MND Scotland shop: https://bit.ly/4c2XRNQ
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Is it too early to start thinking about Christmas? 🤔🎄 We don’t think so! And our Christmas cards are now available to buy to help you spread some festive cheer. What’s more, each purchase will help support MND research 🔬
Click below to get yours 👇
www.myname5doddie.co.uk/christmas-ca...
Click below to get yours 👇
www.myname5doddie.co.uk/christmas-ca...
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Is it too early to start thinking about Christmas? 🤔🎄 We don’t think so! And our Christmas cards are now available to buy to help you spread some festive cheer. What’s more, each purchase will help support MND research 🔬
Click below to get yours 👇
www.myname5doddie.co.uk/christmas-ca...
Click below to get yours 👇
www.myname5doddie.co.uk/christmas-ca...
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Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Thank you to Heart of Midlothian FC for featuring MND Scotland in today's match program and on the stadium screens. If you're attending the Hearts FC vs Celtic FC game today, please consider texting 26MNDS to 70085 to donate £5.00 to support those affected by MND. Good luck to both teams!⚽
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Thank you to Heart of Midlothian FC for featuring MND Scotland in today's match program and on the stadium screens. If you're attending the Hearts FC vs Celtic FC game today, please consider texting 26MNDS to 70085 to donate £5.00 to support those affected by MND. Good luck to both teams!⚽
Time to crack open a new #Whisky purchase: the new peated Sauternes offering from the ever-reliable @ardnamurchanwhisky.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Time to crack open a new #Whisky purchase: the new peated Sauternes offering from the ever-reliable @ardnamurchanwhisky.bsky.social
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@tomgillingwater.bsky.social @dibbouk.bsky.social et al. @euanscentre.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social & @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social show in utero delivery of SMN-restoring therapy corrects neurodevelopmental defects affecting primary cilia in SMA mice: insight.jci.org/articles/vie...
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@tomgillingwater.bsky.social @dibbouk.bsky.social et al. @euanscentre.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social & @cmvm-edinburghuni.bsky.social show in utero delivery of SMN-restoring therapy corrects neurodevelopmental defects affecting primary cilia in SMA mice: insight.jci.org/articles/vie...
🎯🎯🎯: "These 'AI' products are materially and psychologically detrimental to our students' ability to write and think for themselves, existing instead for the benefit of investors and multinational companies." Brilliantly put. I couldn't agree more.
✍🏼 Sign AI open letter here: openletter.earth/open-letter-...
🤔 Resources on my perspective here: olivia.science/ai
📚 Read position piece below: bsky.app/profile/oliv...
🤔 Resources on my perspective here: olivia.science/ai
📚 Read position piece below: bsky.app/profile/oliv...
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🎯🎯🎯: "These 'AI' products are materially and psychologically detrimental to our students' ability to write and think for themselves, existing instead for the benefit of investors and multinational companies." Brilliantly put. I couldn't agree more.
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“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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New paper from @tomgillingwater.bsky.social: Federica Genovese's fantastic PhD, showing reversible prenatal primary cilia defects in the Taiwanese mouse model of SMA. Lots of work still to be done to understand how low levels of SMN lead to the cellular defects we know; this project is part of it🙌
JCI Insight -
Prenatal SMN-dependent defects in translation uncover reversible primary cilia phenotypes in spinal muscular atrophy
insight.jci.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New paper from @tomgillingwater.bsky.social: Federica Genovese's fantastic PhD, showing reversible prenatal primary cilia defects in the Taiwanese mouse model of SMA. Lots of work still to be done to understand how low levels of SMN lead to the cellular defects we know; this project is part of it🙌
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Tell me you didn’t ask anyone in Scotland about your product and without telling me you didn’t ask anyone in Scotland about your product name…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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One of my favourite hidden treasures of #Edinburgh and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social is this 11th century Swedish runestone, to be found tucked in behind one of the main teaching buildings on George Square. Most people seem to walk past it and don’t notice…
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
One of my favourite hidden treasures of #Edinburgh and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social is this 11th century Swedish runestone, to be found tucked in behind one of the main teaching buildings on George Square. Most people seem to walk past it and don’t notice…
Reposted by Tom Gillingwater
Reposted by Tom Gillingwater
Now that's a legacy to be proud of.
Sofia “Mamma Erasmus” Corradi, founder of the EU student exchange programme that sent 16 million students abroad, has died in Rome at 91.
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus programme, dies aged 91
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus programme, dies aged 91
www.brusselstimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Now that's a legacy to be proud of.
Time to say farewell (with a sizeable pour) to this old friend. It’s been one of my absolute favourite whiskies over the last few years. Benromach from a bourbon cask hitting the spot perfectly. Aberdeen Whisky Shop don’t half pick some amazing exclusive bottlings #Whisky
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Time to say farewell (with a sizeable pour) to this old friend. It’s been one of my absolute favourite whiskies over the last few years. Benromach from a bourbon cask hitting the spot perfectly. Aberdeen Whisky Shop don’t half pick some amazing exclusive bottlings #Whisky
