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🗞️Our March newsletter is out now! This month: 🔬 @MIHealth welcome @NIHR to showcase translational research excellence 🖋️ Departing EMG Chair Prof Phil Baker reflects on a decade of impact 🔋 @HydexMidlands event explores funding and support for hydrogen innovation ➡️ buff.ly/Inh1wg1

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💬 Keep up the momentum to give technicians a better deal Opinion from Ian Hancox, Director of Research Technology & Technical Strategy at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and ITSS Co-Director, as @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social TALENT programme ends Read more @resprofnews.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/XNPEKzk

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This is a very clear articulation of the National Conservative position on universities. If you work in one, you really do need to watch it all the way through. It builds out from Nixon's line - "the professors are the enemy" youtu.be/0FR65Cifnhw

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Lovely day for a swim. Water was 6C

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Churchill, Romper Suit. Churchill wore one of these suits on a visit to the White House, Washington, in December 1941. At a press conference that week, Mrs Roosevelt declared she was having one made for her husband. blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/winston-chur...

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How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Today: last day to respond to the UK Government's open consultation on #copyright and #AI. Please make your views know if you care about the quality of content of any sort, about paying creators fairly, or about the #education of a citizenry. #Books #art #authors 🗃️ 1/4 www.gov.uk/government/c...

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In Jan, three unis dropped their 'big deal' with Elsevier Now, a survey of 100+ unis found 60% might drop their big deals with the five big publishers: Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley All these are being renegotiated this year... @sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports

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Ian Chapman to be next @ukri.org Exec Chair following his role as CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Nice piece on research supervision from Karen Clegg & colleagues on @wonkhe.bsky.social today. wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...

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Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

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Assessment reform advocate seeks shift from metrics ‘overuse’. “Value-led” approach influential on REF 2029 can widen “homogenised talent pool”, says Elizabeth Gadd. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Heads up - we're having an Open Research Week early May (6-9th). Details to follow #fORtheloveofit #ORWeek25 #OpenResearch #OpenScience @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social

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This week on Wonkhe: Much has been written about issues of decolonisation, anti-racism and identity. Madhavi Dubey explains what happens when academics and students have labels applied to them

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This week on Wonkhe: With announcement of a new UKRI chief executive expected imminently, Anton Muscatelli and Miles Padgett set out the most pressing issues for the new incumbent

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Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage https://go.nature.com/3EYNA8C

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UK must adapt research institutions - including UKRI - for era of AI, says Tony Blair Institute report, with @ersatzben.bsky.social among authors. Via @francesjones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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Everyday the Trump administration remains in power, women's rights and safety deteriorates further. Andrew Tate wears his misogyny like a badge of honour and encourages men to view women as inferior. It's astonishing that this request 👇is even being made; what message does that send to men?

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Can UK universities find the High Road to economic growth?/ www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/can-uk...

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Interested in conducting research within intelligence, security or defence? As a UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow, you could receive up to £25,000 plus career mentorship and training opportunities. See the range of topics that funding covers and apply: raeng.org.uk/ukicpostdoc

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Regional R&D programmes too small and short-term, MPs told. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk. See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

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Technicians play an important role in delivering growth, productivity and innovation, but there is an increasing shortage. Read Professor Dame @athenedonald.bsky.social's new piece for the Productivity Policy Unit to find out more: www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...

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My piece for @productivity.bsky.social about the importance of technicians. We won't deliver growth and opporotunity without enough of them in our labs and across universities and schools. It's an urgent conversation to have www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...

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US ‘culture war excesses’ on diversity could ‘contaminate’ UK . Inclusion agenda at UK universities under pressure from tight finances and changing political climate. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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@ukri.org Metascience AI early career fellowships www.ukri.org/opportunity/... <— “The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape...” (up to two years, £260K FEC)

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📢 Calling all Supervisors Our next online drop-in session for colleagues at SGSAH member HEIs is on 27 March 🗓️ This session will be focused on supporting Part-Time Doctoral Researchers with @edinburghuni.bsky.social's Prof Craig Martin 🗣️ RSVP 🔗 tockify.com/sgsah/detail... @ukcge.bsky.social

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This project was from Round 2 of our Flexible Fund. We hope to announce the successful projects for Round 3 soon. Sign up to our mailing list to ensure you receive our announcement: go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Subscr... Details of all 8 funded projects can be found here: edicaucus.ac.uk/funded-proje...

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We have made the news with something great! Have a read!

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Love this story from universities in Leicestershire. Well done to all involved www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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On the front line of the redundancy crisis in UK higher education: “I found myself sobbing every time I came into the office. It felt unimaginable that an intellectual project into which so many people had invested so much of their lives would simply fade away” #AcademicSky #EduSky

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In light of the major cutbacks at universities - especially in the arts, humanities and social sciences - we have written to the Chancellor to make the case for investing in research and higher education through the Spending Review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/56...

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We're Hiring! The Software Sustainability Institute is looking for a Community Manager to help grow and support vital academic communities, including HiddenREF and the Research Software Engineer movement. For informal enquiries, contact [email protected] jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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FUNDING CALL | £100k is available for Physics Technical Apprentices this #NAW2025 Organisations can apply for up to £20k for apprentice salaries, thanks to support from EPSRC & @instituteofphysics.bsky.social Learn more and apply itss.org.uk/support-for-... #Apprentices #TechnicalApprenticeship

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@jadefrench.bsky.social & @drsarahparker.bsky.social have organised this amazing HYBRID symposium,'Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between' on 7 May, 1-5pm with @amigonidavid.bsky.social @helenkingstone.bsky.social Fatima Borrman, & Helen Small. REGISTER HERE www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

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Lovely snowdrop walk today to remind us all that spring is coming

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Sabotaging the global fight against polio is an act of almost unparalleled sadism.

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Great to see coverage of our new AI sustainability report in the Guardian today. We need to take measures to minimise risks to the environment, people and the economy by managing the resource demands of AI systems. Find out more:

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A great article from Liam White of University of Surrey Students Union - Enabling students to succeed isn't mollycoddling wonkhe.com/blogs-sus/en...

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This from @duncanrobinson.bsky.social on Leeds is excellent. That I live 30-40mins from central Leeds and yet work in London is I think another symptom of this. Must Leeds always lose? www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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This is awful news. A new bill seeks nationwide abortion ban, with help from 13 Texas lawmakers www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/02...

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Great to be at the launch of the @astonpress.bsky.social Enterprise Strategy this evening

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This month we’re heading to the Notts Festival of Science & Curiosity (FOSAC). Join us and @ukaeaofficial.bsky.social on Tuesday 18th February to explore the science behind fusion and discover how it could power our world! Grab your tickets now (booking essential): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e…

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🎓Higher Education🎓 University closures 'unsettling and worrying'

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INSIGHTS & IMPACT | New @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social TALENT Programme report evidences transformative changes for UK technical workforce 📚 Download the report here lnkd.in/efWXsY6j 📰 Read the press release here lnkd.in/ePEfpYxE

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‘More to be done for technicians despite significant strides’. Research and higher education technicians are still facing professional barriers despite “significant strides” in recent years, according to a programme set up to address such issues. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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