At @spie.org quantum catalyst meeting in Boulder. A great great meeting (very little power point!) and a couple of great days walking too:)

A wonderful day out in the Ayrshire Alps. Thanks to Nikolaj’s slipstream!

Cycled out to Wemyss Bay today. The station really is a masterpiece (it has a very very good cafe too!)

An almost perfect waterfall ?

@spie.org some of our new Directors:)

Ness Glen walk - a Victorian relic - but a nice one

I went for a Glorious Gravel ride yesterday:)

Loved this at the @royalsociety.org today - look no hands ! Trapping particles using ultra sound

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away Anton Muscatelli, Maria Delgado and Miles Padgett consider the latest REF guidance, and warn of possible unintended consequences in how removing restrictions on output numbers will play out Anton Musc...

Writing again with Anton Muscatelli @uofgvc.bsky.social and Maria Delgado @mmdelgado.bsky.social. This time looking at how we must strive to design a process to maintain diversity within the next REF exercise.

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ri...

A gravel bike ride around Glasgow. Cake / hills / architecture - what’s not to like ?

Lovely to be speaking in Limoges - super workshop too! Thank you for the invite, questions and chat!

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The “Sir Walter Scott” 125 years of pleasure cruising on Loch Katrine @lomondtrossachs.bsky.social simply wonderful - thank you 🙏

I always wanted to go and check out the ruin of St Peter’s Seminary- and finally I did. Well worth the trip!

A rather magnificent creature a Drymen show

Goodbye Ottawa - thank you !

Celebrating 💯 years of quantum here in Ottawa- speaking about the work of @qusit.bsky.social.

Great cycle adventure today coming back from nr Aberfoyle to Glasgow via Loch Lomond ferry:)

Great day again at Scotland’s Etape (cycle event) - thank you Andrew, Jonathan and Richard.

Took my bicycle out upto and around Loch Katrine today. Another peachy day - great little cafe - even better bacon roll !

National Cycle Route 7 back home from the weekend

Fantastic bike ride up and round Glen Lyon today

Is really interesting working with you both seeing the problem through different disciplinary lenses.

Portability within REF remains key to fairness Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

The unintended consequences of decoupling outputs from their authors - portability, fairness and diversity.

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A few days in Lisbon - it might be my favourite city :)

Super ride around the Clyde estuary yesterday. Up over the Rest and be Thankful to Dunoon - back over on the ferry and bike home.

A faultless Sunday morning in Scotland ?

To some extent we did. Originally we were planning to fund 40 CDTs, but by repriorisation in EPSRC/ forward commitments we increased to over 60. Was that enough? No but there is only so much can do with flat cash in inflation times. But at least that is an extra 1500 students that will be supported

Dear Kirsty - I hope while I was the Interim Head of EPSRC we strengthened the morale of ERSRC staff (for others to say) - key to that was showing how UKRI could achieve things we could not do alone - e.g. increasing the number of CDTs. Sadly there are wider issues in the sector we need to address.

That’s true - lol - I would have to have gone higher!

Out for a Sunday morning bike ride. For a big city, Glasgow’s access to the great outdoors is second to none in the UK?