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An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
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📣IN TWO MONTHS join us & American Studies for an event w/ @harvard.edu & @leverhulme.bsky.social Visiting Prof @mlamont.bsky.social & Gary Younge on politics & cultural change in the US/UK w/ a focus on class, race & Trump's presidency. 📅29 April, 3pm 📍 @alliancembs.bsky.social 🔗 ow.ly/Vij650UU0kM

New paper from our @leverhulme.bsky.social funded project on biology, data science and education just out Led by Dimitra Kotouza, it explores how student "attention" has been conceived by neuroscience as an object of intervention and a source of value via neurotechnologies doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Want to hear about the results from #ArchaeoFINS? Come along to my talk next week @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social! I can promise exciting results from Iona & other sites! @leverhulme.bsky.social #medieval #archsci #earlymedieval #vikings 🐟 ⛪️ ⚔️ 🏰

The Trust's February newsletter is out! Read about the curious case of clouds and climate, Ignatius Sancho and the Black Enlightenment, what makes the second generation feel valued and included in the workplace, and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

Looking for a quick way to map the brain of your favourite small animal model? See our new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/10

Christopher Dyer reviews 'Living Standards and Material Culture in English Rural Households, 1300–1600', by Ben Jervis, Chris Briggs, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski and Matthew Tompkins @leverhulme.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

My research piece for University of Cambridge's Leverhulme CFI argues that the perception held by some African techno-solutionists that Africa is leading its own AI future is overly optimistic and overlooks the significant influence of external actors. www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thanks to @leverhulme.bsky.social and @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social for putting together this short film about our fabulous research collaborations across Indonesia . It was fun and rewarding to work with film students on their projects

Applications are now open for PhD positions and our MSc+PhD scholarships @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Deadline 7th March!

Since 1925, @leverhulme.bsky.social has provided grants and scholarships for research and education, funding research projects, fellowships, bursaries and prizes. Check out @victorcazareslira.bsky.social's Early Career Fellowship research here at Newcastle University >> bit.ly/41gPR6O

Last week at Aberdeen I spoke about a favourite topic from my @leverhulme.bsky.social research fellowship project: architects' insistence that they - not their clients - own architectural plans and drawings.

Britain’s Second Napoleonic Army Join me for a FREE talk @yorkstjohn.bsky.social on the East India Company Army - key to Britain’s imperial ambitions in Asia, it receives less attention than it should. Online & in person Tuesday 11th March, 18:00-19:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/britains-s...

📢Job📢 Post-Doc Research Fellow @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 3 YR F/T £43,878 Leverhulme Trust-funded project: Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media 😍 Researching the cultural evolution of archaeological information #archaeology 🏺⛏️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

A month left to submit your presentation! TABLE, @britishecologicalsociety.org & @naturerecovery.bsky.social are facilitating a symposium (19-20 June) to bring together science, policy & practice. Call for presentations closes 26 March 2025 at 17:00 GMT. More info here: https://buff.ly/4hwipA9

📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

First senior-author paper is out today in the Journal of Microscopy! 🧪🔬 We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398

📣Out today! 'Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary #LatinAmerica' edited by Pablo Bradbury and Niall H.D. Geraghty. Available to download now for free! You can also order it in print. Published with @ilcs.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/liberat... #OpenAccess

If you missed Hannah Wauchope's fascinating talk yesterday (youtu.be/6z581smMqkA), part of the NatureFinance@Oxford seminar series. You can catch it here. @ecioxford.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @zslscience.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🧪

In this video by @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social, @mattstruebig.bsky.social, a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Awardee @kent.ac.uk talks about defaunation - one of the major global conservation issues of our time. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/strueb...

New paper: Widespread and Diverging Patterns of Change in Local Phylogenetic Diversity The authors ask whether changes in local phylogenetic diversity correlate with changes in species richness and examine if major taxonomic groups show diverging trends. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢We’re hosting a live Q&A session for those interested in becoming a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. Hosted by @annavignoles.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social and Adam Bryan (RES). 📅 Date: Thursday, 27 February ⏰Time: 12:30pm – 1:15pm Sign up👉 https://buff.ly/434BCEG #EconSky #RESFellows

The University of Manchester Annual Sociology Lecture features Leverhulme Visiting Professor Michèle Lamont: Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’. Do join them on Thursday 20 March 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-dig... @uomsociology.bsky.social @profandymiles.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Did you know animals like beavers, termites, and salmon shape landscapes as powerfully as rivers and floods? A new paper by Leverhulme-funded Prof. Gemma Harvey @qmul.ac.uk reveals how over 600 species act as nature’s engineers, reshaping our planet! www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2... @pnas.org

#PhD opportunity! Looking for candidate interested in It #judgment & #DecisionMaking in anticipating the #future. Cross disciplinary, hosted in the Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics. new-og.is.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... 🧪💙👩‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬 #acoustics #AcousticDevices #experiments

Post-doc position available from Sept 2025 for 18 months on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project into children's perceptual decision-making using diffusion models. Closes 10th March. Pls share! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

📢FEBRUARY WILL OF THE MONTH📢 What happens when you reimagine John Pooke's 1607 will as his life story, complete with love interest & a mysterious character called 'Mother Sibill'? #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Skystorians @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Five Philip Leverhulme Prizes prizes are now available for outstanding researchers in Economics. Deadline 14 May 2025 www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-lever...

Did you know animals like beavers, termites, and salmon shape landscapes as powerfully as rivers and floods? A new paper by Leverhulme-funded Prof. Gemma Harvey @qmul.ac.uk reveals how over 600 species act as nature’s engineers, reshaping our planet! www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2... @pnas.org

The University of Manchester Annual Sociology Lecture features Leverhulme Visiting Professor Michèle Lamont: Global Dignity And ‘Seeing Others’. Do join them on Thursday 20 March 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-dig... @uomsociology.bsky.social @profandymiles.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD studentship at the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, at Imperial College London Title: Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches International fees waived. Deadline 3 March 2025 centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...

📢WILLS PROJECT PROGRESS 📢 📜353,402 lines transcribed 🙋2,582 volunteers ⌛7,816 hours 23 minutes of work We're staggered by the engagement with our wills. Thank you to every single person who has transcribed a line for us! 👏🙏🙌 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

It's here! Equal parts exciting and daunting to share my first monograph is OUT NOW! Please consider ordering to libraries 📚 and I'd also love to connect with people/research groups working on similar topics 📧

‘The Power and Pleasures of Reading’ Join @profsarahmcg.bsky.social for a public lecture celebrating the empowering and enriching effects of reading and how to foster a love of reading. 23 April -in-person/online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-... @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT: Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺 Zoom link here: forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...

Five Philip Leverhulme Prizes are available for extraordinary researchers in Archaeology. Deadline 14 May 2025 https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/philip-leverhulme-prizes

New paper in @bjse.bsky.social exploring children's emotional engagements with aspects of religion they encounter in school - from interest via boredom to feelings of injustice, emerging from @leverhulme.bsky.social project with @joannamalone.bsky.social @drpeterjhemming.bsky.social and Sarah Neal

In this podcast, Niall FitzGerald, the Trust’s former Chair, speaks to Simon Hall about backing talents and excellence that have an impact on society. Tune in: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/nial...

Reminder: The Early Career Fellowship scheme will close this Thursday 20 February at 4pm. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

We've received a 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 to support 𝐃𝐫. 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 @fraserwsmith.bsky.social in studying the neural and computational mechanisms of material perception 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 Dr. Stephanie Rossit Dr. Tim Kietzmann (Osnabrück Uni) Paula Zuccotti (Ethnographer) We’re hiring: shorturl.at/RgxHT