Anita Liebenau, of @unsw_maths receiving the Christopher Heyde Medal. #unsw_maths #ShineDome25

The wonderful George Willis, a modern great of Mathematics, a truly wonderful teacher, and a thoroughly nice person, receiving the 2025 Thomas Ranken Lyle medal. #ShineDome25

Huge congratulations to Noel Cressie, recipient of the 2025 Hannan Medal! #ShineDome25

Loving the fantastic new fellow presentations. Here's Rick Middleton FAA telling us about his work on Control Theory. #ShineDome25

The amazing Jessica Purcell, Outgoing President of the Australian Mathematical Society inducted into the Australian Academy of Science. #ShineDome25

Prof Rick Middleton being inducted into the Australian Academy of Science for his amazing work in Electrical Engineering. #ShineDome25

President Jagadish welcoming the new Fellows at the Charter Book signing ceremony. #ShineDome25

At #shindedome25

There is something we can do about it, though - always accept requests to review if you possibly can. You may feel not expert enough, but remember, if you say no, your replacement will probably be even less expert - if there *is* a replacement.

It is really very tricky. There isn't really much that the College can do by that point, except flag for special discussion if they feel it's resulted in one out-of-whack report having disproportionate influence.

Congratulations to all the successful applicants, commiserations with those not so lucky, and a communal sigh of relief with all that the uncertainty is over for now!

Black text on white background. Screenshot of tweet from the ARC stating they will announce Laureate Fellowship outcomes on Thursday 26th June 2025.

ARC says they'll announce the Laureate Fellowship outcomes tomorrow.

Again, massively overdue (originally slated for 19th May at the latest) due to "security" process changes.

Screenshot of tweet from the ARC. Black text on white background.

ARC says Linkage Projects (LP24r2) will fiiiinally be announced tomorrow (25th June).

Announcements tend to happen around 11am AEST, but it varies.

Senior researchers, what are you doing tomorrow?

Helping DECRA applicants navigate their referee reports, that's what you're doing tomorrow.

Book in some quality time with them now. Normally reports drop around ~11am AEST.

Security upgrade throws research council timing into turmoil - Research Professional News Australian Research Council delays—previously blamed on federal election—now attributed to new assurance processes

Australia: Security settings upgrade may be behind ARC's grant deadline blowouts (free to read): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

RMS was down for maintenance for a while this morning. Gears turning perhaps...

The sort-of reason given, if accurate, would also mean they were flat-out lying to us when they initially blamed in on the caretaker period, no? Why?!?

Finally, @arc_ an update from the ARC.

www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

Great to have some information and a timeline, and even bettet that the LP25R2 closing date is extended.

Such a weird response: caretaker is long gone. The Department of Energy, for example, started making post-election announcements in May (eg this on May 20 www.energy.gov.au/news/discoun...), so at least as far as they were concerned caretaker was done and dusted by then.

Remember this announcement?

ministers.education.gov.au/clare/ending...

I was so naïvely excited about it...

*Election “caretaker” period ENDED a whole month ago

After about a week of sending an email and a Facebook dm every day, ARC actually responded to me - but only to point me to this "update."

But then why does their network message blame the Caretaker period? Weird.

Worrying thought, though surely not possible, just pure paranoia: are they waiting for the report from the "New Plan for Research" consultation? They surely wouldn't retrospectively cancel schemes after running the whole selection and application process?

Black text on white background. Screenshot from article in Research Professional News by Jenny Sinclair about the ongoing delays to the Linkage Projects and Laureate Fellowships outcomes.

No update from ARC about ongoing Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships delays.

On 29th May, ARC told @jsresearchpro.bsky.social they couldn’t "provide further detail”👇

Remember, they told us to wait for an update a month ago. Nothing since.

Seems so out of touch. Just explain what's happening!

...and if the ARC Board did not approve before the anticipated dates...why on Earth not?

Black text on white background. Excerpt from the ARC Act, with yellow highlighting indicating a sentence that states the ARC must announce grants (at least, to the universities that applied for them) within 21 days of the ARC Board approving them.

Is ARC breaching its own legislation right now?

ARC Act says grant outcomes have to be announced within 21 days of Board approval👇

Outcomes for Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowships were anticipated weeks ago. If ARC Board approved before anticipated dates, they should've been announced by now.

I just don’t understand why they can’t communicate with researchers about this stuff. Why?!?

If this *is* the reason, then their announcement that outcomes were "impacted by the recent election" seems to be at best a prevarifiction.

Almost 2 weeks since ARC's "update" on delays to Linkage Projects & Laureate outcomes.

Nothing since. Not even a schedule for announcements.

"We are aware this affects applicants". OK. But it also affects applicants for next round (apps due 25 Jun). Also affects industry partners; EOFY is coming.