{"id":8,"date":"2023-03-28T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:17:47","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A photograph of Beth McMillan, who is a white woman with mid-length brown hair, wearing a red and black tartan shirt.\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20240511_125708-510x510.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a human being, who has lived in East Grinstead, Sheffield, and Oxford, and I&#8217;ve now settled in sunny Worthing. I like computational biology, cosy games, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lovelacehack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ada Lovelace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m in the process of moving over my blog posts to a new server, but until then, you can read some of my writing that was published elsewhere, like my paper in Toxicology Research titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2017\/tx\/c7tx00141j#!divAbstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">early afterdepolarisation tendency as a simulated pro-arrhythmic risk indicator<\/a>, my article about impostor syndrome in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/blog\/think-impostor-and-youll-go-far-academia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Times Higher Education<\/a>, my thoughts on Fleabag and emotional resilience in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/fleabag-emotional-resilience_uk_5cb85046e4b0e864339ed47a\">The Huffington <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/fleabag-emotional-resilience_uk_5cb85046e4b0e864339ed47a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Post<\/a>, or my story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Five Star Review in the May\/June 2021 issue of Analog Science Fiction &amp; Fact<\/a>. If you&#8217;re particularly committed, you could even read my <a href=\"https:\/\/ora.ox.ac.uk\/objects\/uuid:32bdab32-3969-4473-8f3a-3642383f10f6\">doctoral thesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a human being, who has lived in East Grinstead, Sheffield, and Oxford, and I&#8217;ve now settled in sunny Worthing. I like computational biology, cosy games, and Ada Lovelace. I&#8217;m in the process of moving over my blog posts to a new server, but until then, you can read some of my writing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethmcmillan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}