RT @ResFortnight: On to the societal impact session at #RPNLive2025, with AHRC exec chair Christopher Smith, LSE's Christopher Daley (@cr_d….

RT @ResFortnight: Next panel at #RPNLive2025 sees Clarivate’s Nandita Quaderi, Clear Skies founder Adam Day, Springer Nature’s Chris Graf,….

RT @ResFortnight: The first #RPNLive2025 panel session sees UCL’s Graeme Reid, University of Manchester’s Andy Westwood, Case exec director….

RT @ResFortnight: Jessica Corner tells 8am Playbook editor @mgmcquillan that expanded REF PCE strand feels “unchartered” to universities, w….

RT @ResFortnight: The opening session here at #RPNLive2025 is underway! Research England executive chair Jessica Corner tells delegates the….

RT @ResFortnight: Sarah Richardson (@sarahr100), our editor in chief, getting #RPNLive2025 underway, praising the role of research in drivi….

Fiona also spoke to Cardiff academics protesting outside the Senedd on Tuesday . Anthony Ince, a senior lecturer in human geography, said: “I’ve got a four-year-old, my wife’s about to be unemployed as well, and it just suddenly felt like, this is real”.

Cardiff uni cutting 400 jobs has sparked calls for a govt rescue package. Wendy Larner, Cardiff's vice-chancellor, told .@FiJMcIntyre that while emergency funding would be welcome, it “only delays the inevitable” and that unis “will need to be different”.

The Data Bill is expected to become law in spring. Two peers explain moves to change the bill’s definition of scientific research as being conducted “in the public interest”, after fears AI companies could have free rein. @Sophie_atRPN reports.

Friday: @AstraZeneca says it scrapped £450m investment because the govt lowered its £££ support . Monday: @RhonddaBryant says govt dropped its offer because AZ scaled back R&D plans from £150m to £90m . Pretty interesting to see govt come out swinging.

Julia King, chair of @LordsSTCom, has not pulled her punches when writing to ministers on visa barriers to scientists - particularly those early in their careers. The UK's strict and expensive immigration policy is "an act of national self-harm" she says.

RT @frances_jones00: Scoop: Major national science facilities are in line to be scaled back if anticipated budget cuts at the Science and T….

RT @JohnWomersley: with some thoughts from me on echoes from 2008, when a budget crunch at STFC led to major cuts in astronomy and particle….

Frank statement from Patrick Vallance:. “We know we’re not succeeding as we should be on scale-ups. We’ve got a significant gap in terms of the ability to scale those companies and turn them into things that are sustainable” . By @Sophie_atRPN .

Rachel Reeves said in Davos govt will "look again" at visas for "the highest-skilled people". Cue relief from science groups, but @martinrsmith says unless govt considers high upfront costs "there’s a risk it will just be tinkering at the edges".

The @UniversityLeeds is the first @russellgroup uni to quit X. Leeds says @elonmusk's platform "no longer aligns with our university values of collaboration, compassion, inclusivity and integrity" . Who's next?.

RT @ResFortnight: Cautious optimism as Reeves trails review of visas for scientists. Research groups have welcomed the chancellor’s announ….

RT @ResFortnight: University of Leeds first Russell Group institution to quit X.

AI-driven research is shifting up a gear. @demishassabis, the @GoogleDeepMind CEO who won a Nobel, said another company he leads, @IsomorphicLabs, will “hopefully have some AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of the year”. By @CLANicholson .

The median ethnicity of pay gap at @wellcometrust doubled between 2023 and 2024, from 3.3% to 6.6%. With its median gender pay gap stable at ~16%, the charity says it is "determined to eradicate our pay gaps". @Sophie_atRPN reports.