Hi Steve. This is interesting and not really surprising; UKRI strategy pointed to it. The sector risk is that research is becoming structurally more expensive and less economically sustainable…larger awards often recover less and UKRI know that overall cost recovery is declining.
Roast chicken, smothered in lime pickle butter, with asparagus and chips on a white serving plate
Someone here linked to this recipe for lime pickle roast chicken… I tried it, it’s ace, would recommend
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...
View from Edinburgh toward north Berwick
Stunning day
I daren’t ask.
Excellent estimation skills. It’s a mini one… 50mm dia
Mine too 💨
Butter beans on sourdough toast with three circular slices of black pudding on top. It’s on a blue plate.
Ottolenghi butter bean recipe is awesome, because of huge amounts of oil and garlic. I don’t imagine he thought of having Stornaway black pudding with it, but omg it’s good
www.theguardian.com/food/2020/oc...
Beaut.
Absolutely a lesson in gratitude.
“A challenging beast to contain”
A coil of Merguez sausage - a North African, spicy lamb sausage characterised by a red colour from paprika, chilli and harissa.
Made Merguez
It should be so easy to do, and for free…but depressingly rare.
Good example, thanks. Have added to me collection of rarities. See also
www.salford.ac.uk/news/pioneer...
It may have been you too! Thing is I’m also sure I looked up a story from said HEI and was impressed… now I’ve forgotten completely. It’s me age.
Thanks, that’s helpful. I’m sure someone told me their university was highlighting PS staff in their funding news items routinely now, but can’t find it. It’s depressing even looking, realising just how invisible entire teams are
Can anyone in my network provide an example of university research comms that does a good job (any job) of celebrating the contribution made by professional services / research adjacent colleagues?
Best not insult the real chemical engineers!
A home brew setup, lots of pipes and pumps and shiny metal
Early morning chemical process engineering. Lager for the summer on the way
It’s usually vitamin C. It stabilises gluten
On the plus side: it was obviously not written by Al. Only a human could be so stupid.
There is not a single middle class family in the entire country not having baths in order to save money. 🤷♂️
Interesting, if biased, article. “We are far, far too rich, so we do stupid things with our money,” said Trine Skei Grande, former education minister”. How clever the Victorians were to fund public libraries.
“Free iPads ruined kids’ reading in Norway. Now it’s fighting back”
Hi Tara, I do remember well, and the “dialling” of costs/time to fit to budgets at the expense of host subsidy. My questions are rhetorical really - I’m hugely supportive of STFC, but the budgets, practices and sustainability haven’t been transparent for a long time.
How does the STFC funding model for PDRAs compare to other research councils? Why is it different? Has it been transparent, and is it sustainable? Do HEI hosts recover costs as expected for other disciplines? If the current STFC system is maintained, where are the tradeoffs?
Interestingly, Scotland receives c12-15% of UKRI funding for 8% of the UK population. Devolution doesn’t seem to be the issue.
Or types a number generated by one computer into another to prove he’s a human.
Or the brains.
We are truly the lucky ones.
