🚨BREAKING🚨
REF 2029: Research culture metric overhauled (and weighting reduced).
Research Excellence Framework reworked “to reduce burden”, with elements of 2021 exercise reinstated.
All the headlines as the three-month pause ends. Free to read.
https://t.co/hLUVl425rM
Bad enough that all Medical Research Council (MRC) Units are being closed under the new funding model
All 6 Cambridge Units face major restructuring or shutdown
Worse still, University isn’t meeting its minimum legal obligations on staff redundancies
https://t.co/jc3iOHxO2j
UK universities cannot thrive while continually cutting academic staff
No amount of wellness webinars, Lego play workshops, communal climbing events, bounce back sessions, desk yoga, jigsaw puzzle nights or Vice Chancellor's Special Awards for Resilience can change this
If you feel like you're bad at your job and it's making you depressed, just consider that, as the investigation of the recent heist revealed, the password to access the Louvre's videosurveillance system was "Louvre".
🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.”
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
🎓 Dyfrig, President-elect for HE, tells us why it’s time to take a stand.
It’s time to vote YES in this ballot because if we don’t, redundancies will rise and conditions will only get worse.
💬 Why are you voting YES? Tell us below. ✊
LMFAO, that vlogger went to Nepal on vacation and ended in the middle of their revolution and ended up documenting the whole thing😂.
He became a celebrity over there apparently
Fantastic PhD project available (I'm biased obviously) with me and the wonderful @PagliaraExeter and @JodyMMason. Bioinformatics, metabolic modelling, single cell imaging and new antibiotics. Who could want more? Apply now! https://t.co/R0m54ysztZ
We are recruiting for an Editor to join the Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM)! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to handle JMM’s One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Disease section. Apply here: https://t.co/7rjih9Ut4G 🦠
@birdwarehouse_ So glad you love following our girl Turt Reynolds! We are the conservation org partnered with Fahlo that satellite tags sea turtles all over Florida & the Caribbean! You can also adopt these turtles + get bonus Fahlo products on our site: https://t.co/0CbkjWz8RE
The Ebola virus – going beyond the bleeding edge. Published Open Access and fee-free in JMM using a Publish and read agreement: https://t.co/oPuzspDshB #JMedMicro#PublishAndRead
New paper alert! In depth characterisation of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva: stability, detection and recovery. Important findings for using saliva samples for carriage studies. @MicrobioSoc@awyllie13 https://t.co/L6ynWYw1cH