Yea and verily did he say unto them, Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Broadsword calling Danny Boy.

I don't mind being rejected by a journal. What I resent is being rejected for good reasons.

#ChristmasSong, even

Chaise Longue Wet Leg · Wet Leg · Song · 2022

All day long on the chaise longue

#ChtistmasSong

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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#AcademicSky

Degree, PhD, overseas Fellowship but sadly no secretarial credentials in the subject of "chemisty".

Now in admin.

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Research culture: why praise is important and myths should not be propagated #edusky occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

10 University of Bradford research and innovation projects that will change the world  - 2024 - News - University of Bradford Find news articles published in 2024 from the University of Bradford., The University of Bradford’s Research and Innovation Annual Report 2023/24 highlights areas of research that have the potential t...

10 University of Bradford research and innovation projects that will change the world - 2024 - News www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive...

Great work by the team pulling together our 2023/24 Annual Research Report

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And there were
29-49 feral hogs
Playing in the yard

Cover of the University of Leeds and Leeds City Council Research Collaboration Framework report

📢Exciting news! The University of Leeds and Leeds City Council, with insights from LSSI, launch a new Collaborative Research Framework to tackle evidence challenges. Discover how this partnership is shaping policy in Leeds. #ResearchImpact #CivicCollaboration

📰 read more here bit.ly/3D0m0qO

**Black UK PhD students**

This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care.

**Tell everyone**

For any #Nottingham and #EastMidlands folks here, there's 5 days left for local folk to apply to take on one of our 10 community focused PhD research projects!

Strong signal here of (literally) tooling up for a step change in importance of #defence in the UK economy. Something for us in #UKHE to consider, in terms of both research and education.

Regions, cities and finance: The role of capital shocks and banking reforms in shaping the UK geography of prosperity - The Productivity Institute This paper examines the role played by financial markets in shaping UK regional growth fortunes.

Since global financial crisis, UK's capital markets have regionally fragmented; lenders demand higher risk premiums for regions outside London
Another dimension to UK's regional economic disparities revealed by this data-driven paper from UoM's Philip McCann
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If you're a university, every home undergraduate you take *without a commensurate loss of staff* gets you deeper into financial trouble. Every £200k of research income you win means stumping up £60k you haven't got. Ergo, you cannot survive by being a university and eventually you will close.

The #UKHE sector needs to talk about the way we are changing shape and size with a little less hyperbole. If it wasn’t adapting, rapidly, it would be hurtling towards Enron style crashes. We can debate what the right model is and how we adapt with care but what we can’t do is nothing.

Interesting stuff and, from the perspective of a central uni research office, prompts thinking about the internal politics of institutional research strategy.

The politics of missions: a gloomy perspective Abstract. This article discusses the so far understudied role of politics in the development of transformative innovation policies (TIPs) and mission-orien

Also interesting to see someone on the EU's research staff taking a gloomy view of mission-oriented innovation policy: "conservatism, centralization, and political polarization in many advanced economies challenges the effective adoption and deployment of...MOIPs." academic.oup.com/spp/advance-...

Check out go.bsky.app/8sC4hAL

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I think of this sort of thing as a demand signal, insofar as supply-demand applies to academic research.

Potentially easier path to contract funding for research asking the qs in the ARI

No obstacle to public / Uni-funded research into the gaps.

Following a HUGE increase in the number if Bluesky users including a veritable banquet of interesting HE folks I have updated the starter pack with a load more people. As before it includes thinkers, leaders, students, academics and lots more. Hope this is useful to others.

go.bsky.app/MmHk4p7

With so many of you new to BlueSky, it's time to reintroduce ourselves!

Based at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, we work across the #HigherEd sector to support:

👉 Interdisciplinary research development
👉 Increasing interdisciplinary skills and capacities
👉 Creating connections across disciplines

Yay! It was great to collaborate on this and the end result is (I hope!) useful to anyone struggling with where to begin with research funding.

"We go live now to Korea and our Seoul correspondent..."

<puerile giggling>

🚨Geeky research klaxon🚨

Am extremely pleased to see HM Treasury publish their 'areas of research interest'. Have seen other departments do this but can't remember HMT doing it before 👏🏼

Lots in there but am very excited for the public service reform areas - transformational and place based 🙌🏻

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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