"snowballing grant application numbers" Yet UKRI's published grant application figures show a drop in numbers which I cannot explain; more off system, closed invitation, demand management not accounted for? 24/25 - 24,775 25/26 - 21,637 Make it make sense. www.ukri.org/what-we-do/w...

UKRI investment and outputs publication

Explore the latest figures on UKRI funding and research outputs providing an 11-year overview of each financial year from April 2015 to March 2026, reviewing and updating all previously published figu...

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Adam Golberg@cash4questions.bsky.social · 22h ago

Good summary article on mis/use of AI in research grant assessment from Research Agenda, a new venture from the WonkHe team. Bonus points for "Reviewer 2.0" headline... www.researchagenda.news/articles/rev...

Can’t wait for Mick Herron to bring together the Danny Tommo A-plot and the RAF Fairford B-plot in an unexpected but satisfying way.

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Macklemore of this story please

Super cool! large new crater McGetchin spotted on the Moon thanks to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter wide-angle camera covering it more than once: science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

NASA’s Moon Orbiter Spots New, ‘Once-in-Century’ Moon Crater - NASA Science

It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scanned a giant Moon map on his

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BREAKING: Ed Sheeran to represent Piddington at Eurovision

Scotland recruited just 28 trainee physics teachers this year against a target of 131. Without action, shortages will continue to impact pupils, schools & future workforce. @iopscotland.bsky.social's new report calls for a 10-year plan focused on Retention, Recruitment & Retraining: bit.ly/4h3M2K0

someone is gonna give ed his ipad for screen time in a few hours and it is gonna be bad

Tag yourself, I’m the uno card x

Eos@eos.org · 2w ago

Six retainers! An inhaler! A single, lonely jingle bell! A good reminder to hold onto your hats (and your pacifiers, lens caps, coins, sunglasses, ear buds, etc.) when enjoying the outdoors. eos.org/research-and...

But also: "31% of the UK government's target number of physics teachers have been recruited" My take: this country desperately needs more physicists, or we can all forget about the UK being at the forefront of quantum/space/computing/engineering/finance/biophysics/...

Striking quotes and figures from an @IOP report this month 🧪🔭 "A quarter of state schools in England have no specialist physics teacher, while over half of physics lessons (...) are taught by teachers who never studied physics or a related subject beyond 18." 👇🏻

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

"Black/ethnic minority researchers're less likely to receive £ & statistically tend to receive smaller £ than white researchers,” Oliver cont. “Longer, larger awards tend to go to older white men; prioritising such risks funnelling more towards that demographic, exacerbating existing inequalities”.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fewer, longer research grants ‘could exacerbate inequalities’. Science minister’s call for larger, longer-term investments prompts fears of benefits for “big hitters”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Thanks @sophieatrpn.bsky.social for covering this, glad to have had the chance to be heard (and remain so gutted we are losing the vital work of RPN)

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fewer, longer research grants ‘could exacerbate inequalities’. Science minister’s call for larger, longer-term investments prompts fears of benefits for “big hitters”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

McDonald says having fewer grants should reduce uncertainty for postdocs?? In what way does having fewer grants, therefore presumably at fewer institutions, do this? Is it genuinely that it makes us more certain we won’t get a job next, or at least without moving to the golden triangle lol.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chris McDonald: funding system ‘destroying’ value of research. New science minister wants fewer, longer-term grants and a “smoother and simpler system”, he tells Universities UK conference. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

A criminal investigation is underway by Met Police into allegations Reform broke the law in relation to foreign funding, following a C4 broadcast involving James Orr. James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity. Any media interest in hundreds of articles?

Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 3w ago

Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...

Metre-sized meteoroid 2026 RW1 (previously known as CERNQ52) hit the ocean off NW Australia on Sunday afternoon - but the impact was forecast roughly six hours in advance, using ESA’s Meerkat automated system for predicting imminent impactors! neo.ssa.esa.int/imminent-imp...

Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.

Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port

Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.

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The most influential poster on bluesky has real 'Best swimmer in the desert' vibes.

We are currently clean on OPSEC!

I wonder what supporting actor role awards the Verbatim undercover reporters could be eligible for after this lengthy investigation in character

Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors

Channel 4 reporter: Hello. I am Mr. Alias and this is my extremely suspicious comically large donation that i can only make in the form of a bag of money with a dollar sign on it. every other reform guy: seems legit! let me tell you every single way in which i and my boss have broken the law

The term ‘marmalade dropper’ has improved my day immensely.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Well, this is a marmalade dropper

"Nigel Farage's Home Affairs spokesperson is a Muslim with parents born in Sri Lanka. Can't you see what's happening yet?" would obviously be a despicable racist attack on Zia Yusuf - very close to his own racialised attack on the leader of Camden Council. It is made by some racist opponents of his.

Incase you missed this last night .... thank you PM! This is an excellent start which I hope will lead to the reversal of the very damaging UKRI policy decisions that have resulted in countless first-class research projects facing significant funding cuts.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Burnham commits to saving Jodrell Bank Observatory Demise of iconic astronomy facility “will not happen under my government” says prime minister www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

@andyburnham.bsky.social is doing the right thing here! Now that it has been shown the @ukri.org process was flawed, the rest of the cuts to STFC facilities, labs and projects are in question. There is so much more damage to UK-led science that needs to be addressed urgently.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 4w ago

Well I think I am liking this new +ve PM! In response to @sarahrussellmp.bsky.social on Jodrell: "there must be a way to save #JodrellBank and I give her a commitment at this dispatch box - we will find it" Brilliant Burnham! Can you now save all the other epic projects that have also been cut 🙏🔭

MP now noting that the STFC cuts are disproportionately impacting the North...

29 years ago I woke my parents up telling them the tv was broken because none of the cartoons were on

Gary Brannan@garybrannan.bsky.social · 4w ago

29 years ago I woke up to find that UK Gold had cancelled the showing of the doctor who serial ‘The Armageddon Factor’ - which I was taping at the time; the reason being that it had a Princess in it.