A suitably blustery run on this first day of #BritishWinterTime. Winds propelling me in one direction and blocking me in the other. #Running #Sunday

Picked up a copy of the Financial Times at the airport. This digital native is absorbed 😍

'New proposals by Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Sage were sent to universities this week after their initial offers were decisively rejected by institutions in a sector-wide consultation run by Jisc,...negotiating jointly with Universities UK on behalf of universities.' 1/3

My London acquisitions on my flying visit today ❤️ I have been struggling to find printed copies in Belfast so this makes me happy @lrb.co.uk @thetls.bsky.social #England #LiteraryLondon

London bound today for the ARMA Editorial Working Group annual in person meeting #EarlyFlight #BelfastCityAirport #ResearchManagement

As we look to build an early warning system in our Forecasting Tipping Points programme, we're partnering with Telescope and the Ditchley Foundation to convene experts + ensure actionable information reaches the people it needs to.

Learn more about FTP: link.aria.org.uk/ftp-programm...

It's 10 years since the Open Library of Humanities published its first article. Since then, OLH has published 13,000 open access scholarly articles which have been downloaded over 8 million times.

This excellent editorial by Rose looks back at that decade.

olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

UK ‘closing gap with US’ on conditions for university spinouts

But experts say more proof-of-concept funding is needed for British universities to match international competitors

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...

‘There is more Austen than Joyce in 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺.’

David Trotter on the 100th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s modern novel.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Having done a Jane Austen Challenge this year, I'm appreciating this nod to her 250th anniversary from the AHRC

www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...

Nothing like a Sunday morning jog in the rain. 3.13 miles from Holywood to Cultra. #Running #Sea #Boats #CountyDown

Can we engineer the innate immune system for durable, broad-spectrum protection against respiratory viruses?

In Sustained Viral Resilience – backed by £46m – we’ll fund teams to create a new class of medicines + unlock adoption pathways.

Apply by 10 Nov: link.aria.org.uk/SVR-programme-bs

Defence roadmap signals EU R&I investment priorities.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Playing the "where have I gone game?" under my trench coat at the train station. #Imagination #ThreeYearOld #Friday

This was brilliant.

Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius , Series 1: Episode 3: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002cvlv via @bbciplayer

Stuck for weekend plans? Why not visit The Festival of Social Science!

The festival kicks off this weekend and will be exploring and celebrating the world of social science.

📅 18 Oct - 8 Nov
🎟️ Free entry
📍 Across the UK and online

🔗 Find an event for you: festivalofsocialscience.com

We’re looking to fund short discovery projects to build community and dive into potential research directions for a programme and within our Trust Everything, Everywhere opportunity space, led by PD Alex Obadia.

Find out more + apply by 12 November: link.aria.org.uk/TEE-disc-BS

Risk-averse universities ‘hindering own REF performance’.

Most-read on our site just now.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

What's the secret to building an interdisciplinary dream team?

We spoke to Professor Jon Swann, who's leading the new Gut-Immune-Brain Axis Network+, about collaboration and the microbiome 🦠

We’re launching a new fellowship investment framework to make fellowship opportunities clearer, simpler, and more effective.

The framework will apply to new UKRI fellowship opportunities from late 2025, including those managed by councils.

More: www.ukri.org/news/new-fel...

Sunday morning v.slow plod along Holywood beach #running #countydown

Exploring new places: today, Bangor #CountyDown #NorthernIreland

I may have ordered this for my birthday 🎂

We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science.

The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.

Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...