Come along to hear what SCAF pump priming projects can deliver - new interdisciplinary insights, transformative ideas!

📢 Round 5 of Quantum ARC seed funding is now open!

For this round, money has been set aside specifically for projects that bring together quantum technologies with the food sector, in line with our sister ARC, @scafarc.bsky.social 🍴

Other projects will still be considered for funding. 💡

This #WorldFoodDay2025, we are inviting recipes and short stories to celebrate the diversity of food and how it connects people across Scotland. 💙

Whether your dish represents your identity, family heritage, culture, or history, we would love to hear from you! 🍴

More info below 👇 #FoodStudies

Event Round-Up: Collaborative Approaches to Climate Change Research in Scotland - Scotland Beyond Net Zero Event Round-Up: Collaborative Approaches to Climate Change Research in Scotland Scotland Beyond Net Zero and the Scottish Funding Council hosted a dynamic and inspiring event – ‘Tackling the Climate E...

UofG researchers took part in @scotlandbnz.bsky.social and Scottish Funding Council event Tackling the Climate Emergency at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social, exploring how research across disciplines is shaping a sustainable future.

#NetZero #ClimateAction

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Tackling the climate emergency - Scottish Funding Council In our second Scotland’s Climate Week blog, SFC’s Elspeth Nicholson describes this week’s event to illustrate the support of Scottish university research for energy transition and our response to the ...

Speakers Prof Jaime L Toney (GALLANT), Prof @emiliecombet.bsky.social (@scafarc.bsky.social), & Prof Chris Pearce represented UofG.

🎥 tinyurl.com/4mfm9c3j

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With the ambition of connecting people, ideas, and disciplines for a better food future, we invited SCAF members to our hybrid two-day event for talks, research posters, and networking 💡

Thank you to our speakers, panellists, and moderators for inspiring conversations and new ideas! 👏

#FoodStudies

🌟 SCAF MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Dr Lindsay Williams is a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Edinburgh's
@instmolplantsci.bsky.social! 🌟

Lindsay is a molecular biologist who specialises in post-harvest quality and the safety of vegetable crops to reduce food loss and waste. 👇 #FoodStudies

all SCAF events are free and inclusive - check the SCAF website for info www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

2nd Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF) writing retreat - loads of writing completed, many new connections!

With every SCAF event, we are building a more cohesive cross-disciplinary, cross-sector network around #FoodStudies

@scafarc.bsky.social

⏳ We are looking for two researchers to join our team in U of Glasgow to explore food and health inequality in the city.

❓ open to candidates with grounding in public health / nutrition, particularly people with experience working in the community.

#FoodStudies @scafarc.bsky.social

we re at Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 1.50 - the food is there, looking amazing, and we are looking forward to two great presentations by Jay Burns and Kathrin Lauber!

@scafarc.bsky.social @edresearch.bsky.social

SCAF marks its second anniversary! 🎉

Professor Emilie Combet, SCAF Director, reflects on two years of SCAF—what has been achieved and the opportunities ahead for the next 2.5 years 🍴

Read Emilie’s blog here 👉 bit.ly/3G3kF3O
@emiliecombet.bsky.social #foodstudies

Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

Trump is picking off the universities one by one and they are caving very quickly.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Worth reposting this article i wrote the other week.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

Peder Mørk Mønsted .(Danish,1859-1941)
"At the beach" ,1919
Oil on canvas

#OtD 22 Mar 1974 Scottish workers in the East Killbride Rolls Royce factory refused to work on plane parts from Pinochet's Chile. They kept the refusal up for 4 years, leaving the engines outside to rust, before they went missing one night stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Join us to support exceptional early career researchers and celebrate their contributions to #obesity science!

A dedicated session at #ECO2025 will showcase three outstanding finalists and their research.

🗓️Monday, 12 May, Málaga, Spain, 16:30-18:00

easo.org/title-easo-e...

Agree👇!
A reminder of just how quickly institutions bend the knee & how eager many individuals/institutions are to enforce & enact clearly undemocratic & often blatantly racist edicts.

This, combined with the apathy ("I'm ok") of the masses, is exactly how fascism and dictatorship take hold.

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

The outrage of austerity — CHEX In this blog, David Walsh and Gerry McCartney discuss the disastrous effects that austerity policies have had on life expectancy - exacerbating health inequalities and causing many people in our most ...

Austerity kills.

“For society’s sake, we need to reverse these cuts, not add more. We need to use the power within our communities – our collective voice – to demand that austerity policies are reversed.”

@gerrymccartney1.bsky.social
@deependgp.bsky.social

www.chex.org.uk/latest/artic...

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Less than 2 weeks to go!

ASO members – do you have insights on obesity research, clinical care or public health? Shape the #UKCO2025 programme in Aberdeen.

📅 Deadline: 31 March
Info: tinyurl.com/4xw2kkuu
Submit: tinyurl.com/4wtenyhu

🍎 JOBS x2 on new research project on dietary advice and allergy at the University of Glasgow, Human Nutrition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

1️⃣ Technical position: findajob.dwp.gov.uk/details/1574...
2️⃣ postdoctoral level position my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecru...

⌛ Deadline: January 3rd

@scafarc.bsky.social #FoodStudies #nutsky

📢 SCAF Writing Retreat!

Open to all SCAF members actively working on professional pieces of writing, including SCAF-related writing projects as well as manuscripts, grant proposals, or fellowship applications ✍️

More information & application form 👉 bit.ly/40J1c0z

#foodstudies

📣 SCAF Pump Priming Round 3 Awards!

Following the announcement of the round 2 awardees and projects, we're excited to announce our next round of seed funding! 💰 🌱

Deadline: 14/02/2025, 5pm

More information and application 👉 bit.ly/3TSdHDS

#foodstudies

⏳ Another few weeks to go until deadline. Interested? pls get in touch to discuss your application.

Glasgow Uni is a vibrant place to study diet, nutrition and health inequalities

#FoodStudies #nutsky @uofglasgow.bsky.social

#foodsystems post
For the budding photographers out there, there is still time to submit to the 'Food for Thought' competition from @scafarc.bsky.social - you have til 9th Jan! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

We will be holding our first writing retreat at SCENE soon - an opportunity to gather with other SCAF members and write, in a supportive environment. Interested? apply by jan 6th

#food #foodstudies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@sceneuog.bsky.social

When I try to explain how things are actually getting worse, people look at me like I'm crazy.This piece is spot on. #SIStem (senior #womeninSTEM)

Starter pack to find University of Glasgow related people...

Please post if you want to be added/removed.

go.bsky.app/PgJ23HK

Well done!
Looking forward to hear the findings of this round of projects at our annual event in June 2025