Professor Tom Crick
proftomcrick.com
Professor Tom Crick
@proftomcrick.com
Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport; and Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University. All views my own, etc.

https://www.gov.uk/government/people/tom-crick
August 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New inquiry by the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights: "Human Rights and the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence" committees.parliament.uk/work/9220/hu...
August 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In PNAS: “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly” doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
December 23, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Excellent and thought-provoking breakfast briefing and discussion on “AI for Science” with @deep-mind.bsky.social at the @royalsociety.org with CSAs, Perm Secs and CDIOs from across government…
December 3, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Bringing cross-curricular computing skills to schools across the UK, it's BBC micro:bit - the next gen! Take your first steps with coding, learn the importance of data science and enter our design competition with your Primary school class.

bbc.co.uk/teach/microbit
November 27, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Also great to see the #TaNC recommendations published bilingually in English and Welsh: zenodo.org/records/1383...
November 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Have your say to help shape the Civil Society Covenant…

If you work for a voluntary organisation, share your thoughts with NCVO and ACEVO as we reset the relationship between government and this vital sector: www.ncvo.org.uk/get-involved...
November 23, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Great fun in Manchester this week speaking on the "Towards a National Collection" Policy Panel w. colleagues from AHRC, Heritage Lottery Fund, @creativecommons.bsky.social, British Museum and Uni York. See: "Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action" zenodo.org/records/1383...
November 23, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed speaking at the Association of Science & Discovery Centre's conference #ASDC24 at the @royalsociety.bsky.social yesterday — great conversations, great community. I spoke about how we must see/embrace science as a shared cultural endeavour (hence the multi-valued talk title)…
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Celebrating #NationalEngineeringDay today, shining a spotlight on the many brilliant engineers inspiring the next generation to take up a career in engineering⚡ raeng.org.uk/national-eng... #EngineeringRoleModels
November 13, 2024 at 9:45 AM