Alex Best
@bestieboy.bsky.social
Maths lecturer, disease modeller, EDI empowerer, amateur percussion player, very amateur baseball player.
As a mathematician it’s not often you get a field trip, but today’s office was a definite improvement. First day of a collaboration with colleagues @forestresearchuk.bsky.social and been wandering round trees discussing disease spread.
June 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
As a mathematician it’s not often you get a field trip, but today’s office was a definite improvement. First day of a collaboration with colleagues @forestresearchuk.bsky.social and been wandering round trees discussing disease spread.
V happy to announce my 1st grant in a looong time! "Integrating spatial structure & seasonality into forest disease models" (EPSRC small grant). I'll spend 12 mths modelling disease spread through forest pops, incl working with @forestresearchuk.bsky.social to specifically model Dothistroma in pines
April 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
V happy to announce my 1st grant in a looong time! "Integrating spatial structure & seasonality into forest disease models" (EPSRC small grant). I'll spend 12 mths modelling disease spread through forest pops, incl working with @forestresearchuk.bsky.social to specifically model Dothistroma in pines
We're doing projectile motion today and I feel the students have suffered enough through the semester that they get to see an embarrassing picture of me as a visual aid
December 6, 2024 at 10:27 AM
We're doing projectile motion today and I feel the students have suffered enough through the semester that they get to see an embarrassing picture of me as a visual aid
Away from the stresses of work, the last 2 evenings the eldest and I have been kickstarting people’s Christmas celebrations as part of Maltby Miners Welfare Band with sellout concerts at Rotherham Civic. (It turns out whacking a timpani very hard is quite good for stress)
December 4, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Away from the stresses of work, the last 2 evenings the eldest and I have been kickstarting people’s Christmas celebrations as part of Maltby Miners Welfare Band with sellout concerts at Rotherham Civic. (It turns out whacking a timpani very hard is quite good for stress)
As an ex-resident of neighbouring Caister, I believe I am obliged to ask “would anyone notice?”
November 22, 2024 at 3:20 PM
As an ex-resident of neighbouring Caister, I believe I am obliged to ask “would anyone notice?”
As my follower count creeps towards that of the old place, an unashamed plug for the FREE online textbook I wrote for #mathbio students. 'Introducing Mathematical Biology' is FREE, interactive, accessible and FREE. Please feel free to share with students. sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm...
November 21, 2024 at 10:58 AM
As my follower count creeps towards that of the old place, an unashamed plug for the FREE online textbook I wrote for #mathbio students. 'Introducing Mathematical Biology' is FREE, interactive, accessible and FREE. Please feel free to share with students. sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm...
A recent side hustle I’ve dipped my toe into - after discovering my love of baseball (yep, some of us Brits watch and even play) - is sabremetrics. Here was a prediction I generated for this years post-season based on Elo rankings over the main season. Not a bad predictor! #SABR #MLB
November 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
At a recent tutorial I asked students to build a mathematical model of the (highly unlikely) scenario of a water company dumping pollution into 1 of nearby Peak District reservoirs and how it would move thru system. Great to see them tackling real-world (sorry, highly unlikely) problems with maths!
November 13, 2024 at 9:59 AM
At a recent tutorial I asked students to build a mathematical model of the (highly unlikely) scenario of a water company dumping pollution into 1 of nearby Peak District reservoirs and how it would move thru system. Great to see them tackling real-world (sorry, highly unlikely) problems with maths!