📢 Funding alert! The 2026 Rank Prize New Independent Investigator grant is now open 💰 Up to £25K is available in human nutrition, animal nutrition or crop science ⏱️ Deadline: Monday 14 September 2026 at 23:59 ❓ Find out more & apply at www.rankprize.org/grants/new-independent-investigator-grant/
Rank Prize
@rankprize.bsky.social
Stimulating and celebrating the brightest minds in nutrition and optoelectronics.
We had a wonderful night at the 2026 Rank Prize awards ceremony in London on Monday. It was a real pleasure to see so many people coming together to celebrate the achievements of our Prizewinners, Profs David E. Salt and Martin Broadley in Nutrition & Prof Susumu Noda in Optoelectronics 👏
Just 1 week to go until the 2026 Rank Prize awards ceremony! 🏆 We can’t wait to celebrate the achievements of the 2026 Prizewinners, Profs David Salt & Martin Broadley (Nutrition) and Prof Susumu Noda (Optoelectronics) 👏 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @rothamsted.ac.uk
📢 Calling all grad students in #optics & #photonics! Planning on going to Photon 2026 in #Newcastle this September? We can help you with the cost through our bursary scheme with @iop.org. 20 bursaries are on offer at £300 per student. ⏰ Visit www.photon.org.uk/bursaries & apply by 12 June.
📢 Congratulations to the winners of our 2026 Undergrad Vacation grants in Nutrition & Optoelectronics! Thanks to the grants, 16 students will undertake a paid research placement over the summer, gaining valuable skills & contributing to groundbreaking projects ➡️ www.rankprize.org/news-events/...
Malcolm Bennett from @uonresearch.bsky.social introduces the Rank Prize @rankprize.bsky.social support to cereal research at #Monogram2026
⏰ Yes, just 2 weeks to go! Apply for funding for your summer students through our Undergrad Vacation scheme by Monday 16 March ▶️ www.rankprize.org/grants/under... Open to supervisors and students in human nutrition, crop science & animal nutrition working at UK universities.
🌱 There's just 2 weeks left to apply for the Rank Prize Undergrad Vacation grant to fund your summer students! 💸 Funding up to £500 in consumables and £480/week per student 💸 Apply by 16th March 👉 rankprize.org/grants/under... @rankprize.bsky.social #plantscience #earlycareer
Celebrating just some of the brilliant female scientists we are proud to have supported and worked with over the last year on this #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 🙌 You can find out more about the researchers below & their projects on our news pages ➡️ lnkd.in/e-T5N4iV #IDWGS #February11
📢 Grant Alert! Are you a researcher in #nutrition or #optoelectronics? Do you know an undergrad who'd benefit from some lab/research experience over the summer? Our popular Undergrad Vacation grant is open & accepting applications until 16 March ⏰ Find out more & apply ▶️ www.rankprize.org/grants/
Thinking of joining us in Cambridge for #MONOGRAM26 ?? 💸 There's only one week left to save on registration! 💸 Register now 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo 🐦 Early-bird registration rates end 2nd Feb 🐦 @monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
New year, new trustees! ✨ We’re delighted to welcome Professor Chas Bountra and Professor Sir Keith Burnett FRS to the Board. Find out more about our Board members and wider committees here ▶️ www.rankprize.org/who-we-are/t... @ox.ac.uk @iop.org @royalsociety.org
Undergraduates, come and work with us in Bristol this summer! If you're interested in eyes and vision, get in touch to discuss projects - we have several opportunities to study the impacts of eye loss, evolution of retinal musculature, and the growth of distributed visual systems, to name a few!
Are you finishing your undergraduate degree next year? Are you interested in animal eyes, and would you like to gain some paid research experience this summer @bristolbiosci.bsky.social? If so, get in touch! @rankprize.bsky.social funds 8-week studentships 👇 www.rankprize.org/grants/under...
Thinking caps on! Nominations for the Institute of Physics Awards 2026 are now open 🏆 Find out more by going to ➡️ lnkd.in/eG9KKHkh & help celebrate excellence in #physics
Know a physicist who deserves the spotlight? Now’s your chance to celebrate excellence. Nominate a colleague, yourself or a team for one of our Medals and Prizes, recognising the people who make physics truly extraordinary. 📅 Nominations close 2 March 👉 iop.org/awards
Apply now for a new #PhD opportunity at Rothamsted (based at Uni of Hertfordshire)! www.rothamsted.ac.uk/studentship/... #studentship #phdopportunity
Congrats to Prof. Martin Broadley for winning the 2026 Rank Prize for Nutrition alongside Prof. David E. Salt for their pioneering work on elemental profiling to improve soil and crop quality, enhancing nutrition and health outcomes for people worldwide👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/prof-ma...
Another snowy start for our final day of Roots to Regenerative Agriculture ❄️ Our plenary speaker @kengiller.bsky.social starting the day with some food for thought and a plea to follow the scientific evidence not the herd 🌱🦠 👏 Thank you to @rankprize.bsky.social for sponsoring the session!