Manchester Retains Top 10 Global Position in QS World University Sustainability Rankings The University of Manchester has reaffirmed its status as a global leader in sustainability by retaining its position in the top 10 worldwide in the 2025 QS World University Sustainability Rankings. T...

🎉 We're proud to have retained our position in the top 10 worldwide in the 2025 QS World University Sustainability Rankings!

#QSSustainability

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These researcher peer-led conversations are helping foster and support a thriving research community here at Manchester. A great opportunity for anyone at UoM interested in research data and open to making valuable new connections. Read on to find out more!

Great interview with our Office for Open Research Data Stewardship Coordinator, Tristan Martin, talking about all things #datastewardship. I had a brilliant time last month supporting the Data Stewardship project's first event in an exciting new event series called Research Data Conversations.

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Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric. It's been 84 years meme #AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper

When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language

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Announcing our new Series Editors for 'Disability History' - Manchester University Press MUP are thrilled to announce the newest additions to our Disability History series editorial team, Dr Coreen McGuire and Dr Aparna Nair. “I am absolutely delighted to be joining the disability history...

This month is #UKDHM🙌

Have you heard about MUP's #DisabilityHistory series?

Specialising in diversity and interdisciplinary history, with two new editors appointed this year, we want to grow our list.

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As snow and ice is coming, here’s a list of my ten favourite gritter names…

10. David Plowie
9. Nicole Saltslinger
8. Creedence Clear-Road Survival
7. Spreddie Mercury
6. I Want to Break Freeze
5. We Will Rock(salt) You
4. Super Spreader
3. Thaw and Order
2. Gritter Thunberg
1. Snow-be-gone Kenobi

This is ridiculous. Indexes not even allowed to store the _abstracts_ of papers. That is, the thing that lets you ascertain if you want to read the full article.