Join EORI online for our next ReproducibiliTea event on Wednesday 4th March from 10am-11.30am. We welcome Associate Professor Fergus Guppy and Dr Peter Bankhead to talk Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. Join our mailing list at edin.ac/3JFv5sF for the event link.

Get onto this, folks. If you lament the metricisation of academic work, this is valuable. What should be counted, and how does the counting happen? #AcademicSky

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DORA has launched an introductory course on responsible research assessment! 🤩 🤓 What is it? A free online self-paced course ❓ Who is it for? Anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of research assessment, regardless of career level or discipline 🌐 Explore the course 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Intro-C...

Join Edinburgh Open Research Initiative on Wednesday 4th February in the EFI Cafe ("Canopy"), at 10am for our next Honest Research Conversation. Expect an open, honest chat on the theme of Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. We hope to see you there!

📣 bit.ly/4q4XEiQ Our site has been live since late summer 2023 and we’ve been continuing to evolve and improve it with your input ever since. We made some changes to improve the way you can search and navigate the site. Read more about the changes on our blog:

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🔔 The SULSA Early Career Development Fund is now live — offering up to £4,000 for travel, training, consumables & facilities access! 🗓 Apply by: 16 March 2026 at 5pm Learn more and apply at shorturl.at/5SaMP

Calling all early career clinical lecturers! 🚀 Apply for an Academy Starter Grant to receive up to £40k in funding (up from £30k!) 💷 ✨ What sets Starter Grants apart? - Feedback for all applicants - Mentoring & careers support Apply by Thurs 26 Feb 🗓️ 👉 bit.ly/4qTA8Wk

What if genomics, other disciplines and wider society came together to shape research? This is the goal of our Genomics in Context Awards. Find out more ⤵️ https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/genomics-in-context-awards?utm_source=&utm_medium=o-wellcome&utm_campaign=bluesky&utm_content=

Happy New Year! Here's a resolution... "I will get more involved in opening up research". Yeah? Great! Oh, wait - hey - I think we can help with that! Why not submit a talk or poster to EORC2026? library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup... That way we can meet, chat, and perhaps support one another!

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Find out how to submit a contribution for for the 2026 Open Research Conference. This year our conference centers on UNESCO's "Recommendations for Open Science", reflecting our new institutional…

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We’re funding new collaborations between genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society. 🧬 Level: up to £500,000 Duration: up to two years Deadline: 16 March 2026 Find out more about our Genomics in Context Awards: https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/genomics-in-context-awards

Do you work to improve human health? Apply for our Cross-Sector Experience Awards to 💸 Receive up to £100K in funding 🤝 Work 3-12 months in a new sector 🚀 Gain cross-sector experience to drive health innovation Check eligibility & apply by Fri 20 Feb: https://bit.ly/48gcvkx

📣Job opportunity: To analyse neuroimaging, cognitive, and biological data from the UKRI MRC-funded PREterm Neurodevelopment and COGnition study (PRENCOG), the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort (TEBC), and other early life image datasets available to the research community. More info: edin.ac/4pz9kux

📆 SULSA OPPORTUNITIES WEBINAR! Register for our webinar to discover how to make the most of SULSA in 2026 - including how we can support your research & career development, plus details on upcoming funding, networking opps, & training designed to help you thrive 🙌 👉 forms.office.com/e/HwqXwZqkjH

Applications are still open for our CATAC 2026 competitions! Apply by Thurs 8 Jan to 📑 Showcase your research 🤝Grow your network 💬 Connect with peers across disciplines Learn more and see eligibility to apply: https://bit.ly/4pQurYV

The BHF Cardiovascular Biomarker Laboratory is recruiting a full-time technician. Closing date 5 November 2025. More info and application: edin.ac/43BA701

📣Job Opportunity: To provide comprehensive support and manage all technical aspects for a clinical research project entitled ‘Protecting spermatogonial stem cells from chemotherapy-induced damage for fertility preservation in childhood cancer'. More Info: edin.ac/49ni8hx

📣Job Opportunity: Play a central role in supporting researchers using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics approaches at the Institute for Regeneration & Repair. More info: edin.ac/3Wuxlpt

📣Job Opportunity: We are seeking a dedicated individual to join our Lab services team providing day-to-day technical support for IRR’s research. More Info: edin.ac/4qFIJwL

Join us for another inaugural lecture showcase, with two professors from our Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, exploring what keeps dogs healthy and how nutrition and new technologies are transforming farm animal health. 📅 Tue 4 Nov | 🕒 5–7:30pm | 📍 Easter Bush Campus 👉 edin.ac/47fQUYV

How does research move beyond academic journals to influence policy, practice, and public understanding? I'll be chatting with Francesca Brazzorotto from @kargerpublishers.bsky.social on Tuesday 4th Nov as part of their People & Science Live series. Register Free www.linkedin.com/events/73834...

For anyone wanting to revisit Dr Taryn Bell's excellent PI Network session on Narrative CVs - video and session materials are now live on our Portal: bit.ly/3LvMzIr (including the link to Taryn's wonderful curated Padlet of all things NCV!)

Using Narrative CVs to support you and your team's career development - Prosper

A session exploring how Narrative CVs can be a useful reflective/positioning tool for supporting your team's career development, and your own

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Prosper@prosperpostdoc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Many thanks to Taryn Bell for facilitating an excellent PI Network session yesterday - all about the power of Narrative CVs for career development (both for your postdocs, and your own!) For those who missed it, or wish to revisit, we'll be putting materials on our Portal later this week (🧵 1/2)

🪧We are delighted to announce the winners of the CMVM Postdoc Appreciation Week Awards 2025 - we received lots of super nominations so congratulations to everyone nominated - see🧵for results...

The Royal Society's #PairingScheme26 is now open for applications for researchers. This scheme pairs scientists with UK parliamentarians or civil servants. Find out more and apply now for this unique scheme: https://royalsociety.org/grants/training-mentoring-partnership-schemes/pairing-scheme/

Our partnered project 'Breaking Barriers in Research Funding Applications: Evaluating Narrative CVs and Co-designing Solutions' has come to an end! Thanks @edicaucus.bsky.social @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social University of Surrey. Here's an overview of what we have been working on and our key findings

The Royal Society's Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme is now open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern. Find out more and apply now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/dorot...

EDI Caucus@edicaucus.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Take some of your own time, and read 8 stories of casualised and precariously employed academics. in-their-own-time.ed.ac.uk Dr Cécile Ménard and Dr Lena Wånggren with artist Maria Stoian received EDICa Flexible Funding to produce this research and artwork highlighting the challenges faced.

🚨 New Job Opportunity! 🚨 We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to support active clinical research studies within the Hub (principally the METPSY research study) at the University of Edinburgh. 📍Edinburgh 📆 Apply by 11th September 🔗 More info 👇 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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📅 Save the Date: 9 Sep at @royalsociety.org 🌍 Five global challenges. One shared future. ⚠️ Places are limited and filling quickly – register now to secure your seat. 👉 More info: iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @ukri.org

If you're in Edinburgh, you'll be familiar with the post-fringe blues. What to do with all the free time?! Well - how about grabbing a cuppa and signing up to Sheffield's online OpenFest? sheffield.ac.uk/openresearch...

OpenFest 2025

OpenFest 2025 will take place between 2nd-5th September 2025. View the programme and book your place:

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We're running a webinar on the 'Improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape' report. 🗓️3 September ⏰11:00 - 12:00 Join us to hear about the report's findings and discuss the future of the open access research information landscape. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1b6a1e...

UK National Postdoc Appreciation Week (UKNPAW) 2025 is coming! Join the online and free flagship event 'From surviving to thriving: planning your future', on 15th September 10.30am (expected finish time 12.30pm), register here uk-postdoc-appreciation-week.webnode.co.uk/teaching-met...

2025 event :: UK Postdoc Appreciation Week

How can postdocs move beyond day-to-day survival and actively shape their future?

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