@timeshighered.bsky.socialThe prime minister has announced that UK Research and Innovation will commit £1 billion over the next four years to back regional innovation clusters, as he set out the UK’s ambition to use its HE sector to drive his place-based agenda. Frances Jones reports #research #UKRI
https://ow.ly/ZL0q50ZWiLf
@breakbulk.bsky.social#UKRI awards £3 million to #EMEC to advance the #DeepWind testing facility by 2030, supporting #FloatingOffshoreWind technology, engineering assessments, commercial development and future opportunities for offshore construction, maritime transport and #ProjectLogistics across the UK.
@helmholtzhmc.bsky.social
@timeshighered.bsky.socialA research funding network that used artificial intelligence to reject half of grant proposals to its latest funding call has committed to redoing the review process, reports Frances Jones #research #UKRI #AI #grants
https://ow.ly/ZCj150ZUqXc
@lucienheurtier.bsky.socialUKRI’s cuts are now damaging the UK’s reputation abroad.🧪🌍
Yifang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) calls abandoning LHCb leadership “irresponsible”. Yu-Gang Ma (East China Normal University) warns it “erodes the UK’s credibility”.
@timeshighered.bsky.socialLeading Chinese physicists have condemned UK Research and Innovation’s “irresponsible” decision to withdraw funding from an upgrade to an experiment at Cern, Europe’s world-leading particle physics facility. Frances Jones reports #UKRI #Cern #physics #research
https://ow.ly/uNre50ZU0F9
@thehandlab.bsky.social
@cochemelab.bsky.socialThanks #UKRI for featuring our research on #Ageing! We show that direct activation of the energy sensor #AMPK extends #Lifespan in multiple pre-clinical models. This strong evolutionary conservation highlights potential for future #Translation.
@aibio-uk.bsky.social📢 Please share!
Join the BBSRC webinar on the UKRI Enabling AI Adoption Across Science & Engineering funding opportunity: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
🗓️ 15 Oct 2026, 11:00–11:45 BST
🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/024ac0...
@aibio-uk.bsky.social📢 Join the AIBIO-UK Management Group
1 funded Management Group position available
💡 2-year term | 10% FTE funded
📍 Particularly interested in strengthening links across Scotland & Northern England
📅 Deadline: 23 Oct 2026
📝 Apply: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WAndhe2zux
@kmiou.bsky.socialThree new UKRI projects strengthen KMi’s leadership in AI for Metascience
👉 blog.stem.open.ac.uk/three-new-uk...
@fosborne.bsky.social @angelosalatino.bsky.social
#AI #Metascience #ResearchAssessment #UKRI #KnowledgeGraphs #TrustworthyAI
@downham.bsky.socialThere are no words for how much this disgusts me #research #humanities #ukri
@cake-dri.bsky.socialOne week left! CHARTED Fund 1 (FAIRifying training resources, up to £40k) and Fund 3 (tools & frameworks, up to £150k) close 30 Sept. Make dRTP training easier to find, reuse and build on: www.cake.ac.uk/news/charted... #UKRI #DRI #RSE
@helenkopnina.bsky.socialDelighted to share that FIELD (Fostering Interdisciplinary Education for Life and Diversity) has been funded by @ESRC Connect Awards, part of @UKRI_News! 🎉🌍 Biodiversity pedagogy with 19 partners, 13 countries🙏 #BiodiversityEducation #Ecocentrism #ESRC #UKRI #HigherEducation #ConservationScience
@cake-dri.bsky.socialGot an idea you wish someone would develop, document or benchmark? #SHAREing will fund it! Suggest a task by 22 Sept and, if approved, it becomes an open, funded piece of work for the community to deliver. Details: www.cake.ac.uk/news/sharein... #UKRI #DRI
@transittwin.bsky.socialFunding of £1.2 million for #transport #decarbonisation research is being offered by UK research hub, TransiT. Those applying for funding must be eligible to receive funding from @ukri.org
More here: transit.ac.uk/1-2m-funding...
@drandrewv2.bsky.socialThis from my local metro mayor, Steve Rotheram, and his opposite number at Cheshire & Warrington, calling for a moratorium on the #UKRI > #STFC cuts, with reference to Daresbury Laboratory especially, really helps restore my faith in politicians!
www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/news/liverpo...
@ignitenetplus.bsky.social📢 New report from the IGNITE Network+ Flexible Funding Activity 1 project: Unlocking the demand flexibility of heat pumps for providing electricity grid services.
#HeatPumps #EnergyDemand #NetZero #UKRI
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