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Only a few are caught as masking drugs hide the real doping, Alan Moore wrote thishttps://backpagefootball.com/sure-theyre-all-at-it-are-you-entertained-part-2/127087/Dr Tom Bassindale on Reflections on leading our undergraduate curriculum redevelopment
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How do we know if testosterone is ‘non-endogenous’?
Posted on September 12, 2023 | 1 CommentYesterday we discovered that Paul Pogba, the Juventus midfielder was provisionally suspended after drugs test found “non-endogenous testosterone metabolites” in a urine sample. The sample was collected on 20th August after Pogba […] -
Reflections on leading our undergraduate curriculum redevelopment
Posted on August 7, 2023 | 2 CommentsAt the start of academic year 2022-23 the university embarked on an ambitious programme of curriculum redevelopment. This encompassed all of the universities taught provision, categorised in various ways: ‘standard’ undergraduate teaching; […] -
Embedding Sustainability in the Science Curriculum
Posted on June 28, 2023 | No CommentsAll of the undergraduate courses in the Department of Biosciences and Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam have just successfully gone through a full revalidation. From 2024 our department will be offering refreshed versions […] -
Should cannabis be banned as a performance enhancing drug?
Posted on July 2, 2021 | No CommentsToday it was announced that the American athlete Sha’Carri Richardson had tested positive for carboxy – THC (the main metabolite of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis), during the Olympic trials in […] -
Is this the end of the lecture and exams?
Posted on April 13, 2021 | 3 CommentsFor Universities, and in particular science education, some of the main issues we faced have been how to deal with closed laboratories (see this blog piece), exams and lectures. I'll have a look at exams and lectures here. -
What is your idea that got away?
Posted on March 12, 2021 | No CommentsThe One That Got Away This is another of my ‘BitRot’ inspired doodles from the summer, transferred from a google note into this blog piece. I did actually voice type it on […]