Applications are open for the R&D Missions Accelerator Programme Dementia Challenge, an opportunity seeking clinical interventions & technological innovations for the NHS. Submit your expression of interest by 2 April.
Details, including 18 March webinar registration: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Changes to how UKRI will deliver its investments have prompted questions and debate. UKRI’s CEO Ian Chapman discusses the rationale and mapping the old world onto the new buff.ly/JkXEH1R
UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus January 2026
Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
More on Britain’s science paradox here: blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/britains-sci...?
What do we know about public attitudes to R&D and charities?
In this briefing we take a charities focused look at the findings of our 2025 public attitudes research.
This is the first in a series looking at a variety of R&D actors. Stay tuned for more.
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🚨 Premiere alert! Today we're launching a new series to help people see how research and innovation is really improving their lives. And to introduce them to the people behind this important work.
Future Makers ep 1 talks about smart socks that could improve dementia care: youtu.be/Jryye0I7sDA 🧪
Professor Sir Ian Chapman speaking at Innovation for Growth podium
UKRI CEO Professor Sir Ian Chapman closed yesterday’s Innovation for Growth summit by sharing UKRI’s plans to pivot investment to deliver against the government’s R&D priorities.
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Earlier this week we launched our latest study - Public Attitudes to R&D 2025 - marking the start of a tracker that will help R&D organisations to understand and respond to shifts in public opinion towards our sector.
www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/analysis-and...
See below for the key findings 👇
Swindon musicians + innovative instruments = Circles 🎶⭕
As part of the Swindon Shuffle music festival in our hometown, we brought together local artists with researchers developing new music technologies - showing how innovation in music is never finished!
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHkV...
UKRI seeks your views in 2025 stakeholder survey #ESRC #AcademicSky
Wonderful to see Philippe Aghion of the @cep-lse.bsky.social recognised, alongside Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr, in this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. Three unusually deserving winners!
Our favourite niche posts to get tagged in: unboxing videos, but instead of an influencer it’s an excited technician with incredibly high-spec equipment that takes up half a room and will probably help save the world and/or global wheat yields.
Anyway, this thread is about BBSRC ALERT scheme 1/
Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years.
It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK.
Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social
From bee superfoods and uncovering Stonehenge secrets, to upcycling cherry waste🍒
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What counts as interdisciplinary research? And can we tell who is actually funding it, versus just talking about it? A data-driven deep-dive from me here: open.substack.com/pub/johnsonb...
As we gear up to welcome 830 colleagues from 65 countries to UCL for #Metascience2025, we’re delighted to publish RoRI’s impact report, outlining our projects & progress over the past 2.5 yrs. researchonresearch.org/roris-impact... Huge thanks to all our partners & team @rorinstitute.bsky.social
Our Technology Missions Fund supports technologies with the potential to change our world for the better.
We headed to the London Underground to see how quantum sensing is helping keep track of trains where GPS can't reach 🚆
Amazing work from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social!
#LondonTechWeek
"Research and innovation are fundamentally endeavours of hope and empowerment. This is the North Star that has guided my time at UKRI."
Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser reflects on her proudest achievements in her time as UKRI CEO and the importance of systems-level thinking.
This may not be conducive to a quiet life, but I've written up some thoughts on the subject of "woke waste" in publicly funded research
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Potatoes: boil them, mash them, make them anti-bruise 🥔
In the latest episode of the Naked Scientists podcast, we meet researchers at B-Hive Innovations who are giving the lowly spud a genetic makeover in a bid to reduce food waste and improve their resilience to climate change.
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🚨 Hiring news! 🚨 I’m looking to hire five really important new roles. Each will lead a major new innovation programme to tackle one of five major national challenges.
"UKRI should be central to the future of the people in this country and beyond. I am excited to be joining an excellent team focused on improving the lives and livelihoods of UK citizens."
www.ukri.org/news/profess... #AcademicSky
Great start to half term with some mind-expanding research from @ukri.org #ahrc at the ever wonderful @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
This morning, we've published an interview with the outgoing UKRI CEO Ottoline Leyser who warned "budgets are very tight and I think they will continue to be through the next spending review", and that the research community has to focus on its responsibility to rebuild the economy
The House of Lords Science & Tech Committee report on engineering biology is out committees.parliament.uk/committee/19...
I would LOVE to hire someone awesome to lead UKRI’s work on data and how we use it to understand the R&D system.
Great opportunity for someone with strong data skills who cares about technology, research and progress!
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Now that @altmetric.com is tracking @bsky.app posts (yay!) let's share our favourite #Scicomm papers.
I'll go first. This one from Brian Wynne (where he spoke to Cumbrian sheep farmers about the fallout of Chernobyl) taught me what can be achieved if we truly listen.
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