UK news editor @ResFortnight @ResProfNews. Dormant on here, cos it's enshittified. Active on @robinbisson.bsky.social. News tip? [email protected]
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On to the societal impact session at #RPNLive2025, with AHRC exec chair Christopher Smith, LSE's Christopher Daley (@cr_daley), LSHTM's Sumi David, the ISI's Dmytro Filchenko and Glasgow University's Kathryn Oliver
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Next panel at #RPNLive2025 sees Clarivate’s Nandita Quaderi, Clear Skies founder Adam Day, Springer Nature’s Chris Graf, Taylor & Francis’ Nick Wise and ESRC’s Stian Westlake discuss threats to research integrity.
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The first #RPNLive2025 panel session sees UCL’s Graeme Reid, University of Manchester’s Andy Westwood, Case exec director Alicia Greated, N8 director Annette Bramley and the Russell Group’s Stephanie Smith research and inclusive growth.
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Jessica Corner tells 8am Playbook editor @mgmcquillan that expanded REF PCE strand feels “unchartered” to universities, who want to know which indicators will stay and “which we might drop”. “It is still open for deliberation and design” in coming months, she says. #RPNLive2025
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The opening session here at #RPNLive2025 is underway! Research England executive chair Jessica Corner tells delegates the UK is still “world leading…really really strong” in R&D.
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Sarah Richardson (@sarahr100), our editor in chief, getting #RPNLive2025 underway, praising the role of research in driving economic growth, improving public services, and working to give the UK population “a more secure, more sustainable future”.
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Scoop: Major national science facilities are in line to be scaled back if anticipated budget cuts at the Science and Technology Facilities Council are confirmed for 2025-26. Cuts inc reductions of around 15 per cent to STFC’s research grants budget, a well-placed source tells me.
Major facilities could be scaled back as UKRI budget squeezed.
Fears for physics grants as sources say STFC lined up for disproportionate cut.
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with some thoughts from me on echoes from 2008, when a budget crunch at STFC led to major cuts in astronomy and particle physics funding, and even a front page story in The Times
Major facilities could be scaled back as UKRI budget squeezed.
Fears for physics grants as sources say STFC lined up for disproportionate cut.
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Cautious optimism as Reeves trails review of visas for scientists.
Research groups have welcomed the chancellor’s announcement of a review of visas for scientists, urging the government to address high upfront costs faced by researchers coming to the UK. researchprofessionalnews.com…
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University of Leeds first Russell Group institution to quit X.
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The University of Surrey has opted out of a subscription deal with Elsevier, telling me that the arrangement is not financially sustainable.
This comes after I reported that the University of Sheffield had cancelled its big deal with the publisher.
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New joint UK-China research projects funded by @UKRI_News dwindled to almost 0 in 2022, after hitting a peak of 142 projects with £112m of matched-funding in 2016 during David Cameron's 'golden era'
Exclusive data shared with @Sophie_atRPN
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ALT Bar graph showing joint UK-China research projects increasing in number and associated funding from 2006 to 2016 before falling to near zero in 2022
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DeepMind says AI could reverse global science slowdown.
Nobel-winning British company urges policymakers to develop “comprehensive” strategies for harnessing AI in science.
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Big scoop from @frances_jones00
Candidates shortlisted for next UKRI CEO before the election include current heads of Natural History Museum, UK Atomic Energy Authority, Royal Academy of Engineering
Seems highly likely they are still in the running
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The Treasury was convinced to raise R&D funding in #Budget2024 because of its links to economic growth, says science secretary @peterkyle.
“Whatever aspect of science you are interested in, you’ll see an increase in ambition,” he says.
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Breaking: @CERN names UK's Mark Thomson as next director-general. researchprofessionalnews.com…
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BREAKING: Fears budget squeeze may stop UKRI awarding new grants in 2025 - free to read researchprofessionalnews.com…
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The @EnvAgency have announced that work on the resumption of abstraction at Alma Rd, Chesham has been halted. Affinity Water have been asked to stop work. @Chilternstreams @ChilternSociety, @RiverChess have been told that the EA now want to engage with local stakeholders on this.
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Does it matter that the chair of the UK's research funding agency is also the chair of Shell? Some UKRI employees think so v strongly, as they told Andrew Mackenzie during a staff webinar, notes obtained by @ResProfNews via FOI show - by @frances_jones00. researchprofessionalnews.com…
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Fears the Treasury is putting the squeeze on research budget by wanting to "tuck in" Horizon costs - making it even more crucial to put the economic/investment case for R&D spending. Views from @JohnWomersley @GraemeTR @racheljanetwolf @AndyWWestwood researchprofessionalnews.com…
