College of Experts membership for 2026: The ARC have informed nominees for the 2026 College of the outcomes of their applications, via their RMS profiles. www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Research office staff: Ppl wondering about ambiguity bomb in "Summary of changes" doc for Discovery Program fellowships👇 I interpret as 'statements in prev Guidelines about caps on # of FTs & DEs (100 & 200) have been removed', not 'the caps themselves have been removed'. Anyone clarified w/ ARC?

What do you think about Australia "associating with" Horizon Europe? It's not me asking, but the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. If you're interested, make a submission to their "request for information": ▶️ consult.industry.gov.au/association-...

calling all Australian researchers - see below. The ARC haven't circulated this survey very well.... thanks @arc-tracker.bsky.social for circulating!

Worth responding to if you're an ARC person.

Once again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy: 8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter? They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.

#ARCSenateOrder Aug25: The ARC made no grant recommendations in August. See https://www.arc.gov.au/about/our-organisation/reporting/senate-requirements/agency-grants-pratt-motion /bot

#ARCschedule Sep25 Outcomes already reported this month for Discovery Indigenous. No others expected. Other events: 🔹Apps open: Future Fellowships & Industrial Transformation schemes 🔹Rejoinders open: Linkage Projects 🔹Selection meetings DECRA & LIEF Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🚨 #DiscoveryIndigenous #IN26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Indigenous 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/283 /bot

ARC says they’ll announced Discovery Indigenous outcomes tomorrow. Recently, announcements have been made around 11am (Canberra time). But even more recently ARC’s comms have been at weird hours, so we’ll see what happens.

#ARCSenateOrder Jul25: ARC's grant recommendations in July have been published ➡️ https://www.arc.gov.au/about/our-organisation/reporting/senate-requirements/agency-grants-pratt-motion PDF: Link to ARC's PDF XLS: Link to ARC's Excel file /bot

I imagine there's a great number of researchers well suited to this "strategic advisor" role at the ARC ▶️ www.apsjobs.gov.au/s/job-detail... (I'm not generally going to do ARC's advertising for them, but for some reason they think their target audience is still on twitter. Erm, 2 likes🫠)

#ARCschedule Aug25 No outcomes expected this month (Industrial Transformation schemes were announced in July). Other events: 🔹Selection meeting for Discovery Projects Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Any Research Office staff, or others with direct info from ARC, understand what’s happening with ARC’s “Network Messages”? The NM site is “not found” since mid-afternoon (AEST).

The members of the new ARC Advisory Committee have been announced👇 ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-publica... This Committee is required under the new ARC legislation, to "assist the Board to determine priorities, strategies and policies for the ARC."

🚨 #IH25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Industrial Transformation Research Hubs 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

🚨 #IC25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Industrial Transformation Training Centres 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Has anyone got an email from ARC directly about this imminent change to accessing RMS? They're going to require multi-factor authentication (currently optional), which is OK I guess. But what I'm wondering is whether they've done more than sticking the news on a webpage no-one looks at?

#ARCSenateOrder Jun25: The ARC made no grant recommendations in June. See https://www.arc.gov.au/about/our-organisation/reporting/senate-requirements/agency-grants-pratt-motion /bot

The ARC has “announced” an update on the proposed changes to its grant schemes. Key changes, in response to “nearly 350” submissions” (!) on their proposal, are 👇 More here: www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...

🚨 #LaureateFellowships #IL25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Industry Laureate Fellowships 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/279 /bot

🚨 #IndustryFellowships #IM25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Mid-Career Industry Fellowships 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/275 /bot

🚨 #FutureFellowships #FT25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for ARC Future Fellowships 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/278 /bot

ARC says they'll announce outcomes for the Mid-Career and Laureate Industry Fellowships tomorrow (Thursday 10 July). I presume one will be announced at about 11am AEST, while the other will be later in the day, based on today's experience of two schemes being announced.

🚨 #IndustryFellowships #IE25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Early Career Industry Fellowships 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/276 /bot

In case you missed it👇 Outcomes for Future Fellowships and Early Career Industry Fellowships will be announced today.

ARC says outcomes for Future Fellowships and Early Career Industry Fellowships will be announced tomorrow (Wednesday 9 July). Such announcements have been happening around 11am AEST recently. (Apologies for my tardiness to report this – was offline for a bit.)

Any College of Experts members, past or present, have advise on this sticky point? What procedures or guidelines are there for ensuring equal treatment of applications with very different numbers of detailed assessors? (The ARC don't provide such information, if it exists … so on-brand.)

Another fun tidbit I saw, which to be fair is not as egregious as the gambling one, but in the most recent reported tax credit data Atlassian got about $200m for their for-profit software development and in the same period the total Discovery DP round budget was around $260m

"Productivity reform starts with public science" by Nathan Garland @n8sci.bsky.social has some worthy suggestions for improving productivity. In news we all know – but the Government seems to like ignoring – it'll help to fund more basic science research! nathangarland.substack.com/p/productivi...

#ARCschedule Jul25 Outcomes expected for Future Fellowships & Industry Fellowships. Other events: 🔹Apps close for Linkage Projects 2025r2 🔹Rejoinders close for DECRA, Discovery Projects & LIEF 🔹Selection meetings for Centres of Excellence, Discovery Indigenous & Linkage Projects 2025r1

#DiscoveryProjects #DP26 Assessor reports should now be available in RMS for Discovery Projects 2026.

🚨 #LaureateFellowships #FL25 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Australian Laureate Fellowships 2025❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/280 /bot

DECRA assessor reports are now available in RMS.

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.

🚨 #LinkageProjects #LP24r2 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Linkage Projects 2024 round 2❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D... /bot

ARC says Linkage Projects (LP24r2) will fiiiinally be announced tomorrow (25th June). Announcements tend to happen around 11am AEST, but it varies.

DECRA assessor reports come out tomorrow (normally about 11am AEST). Here's a thread of advice from previous years 👇 Summary: 🔹Always submit a rejoinder 🔹Get help 🔹 #ARC3DayRule 🔹 Think like a College of Experts member 🔹 Look for "faint praise" in assessor reports And finally, take tonight off!

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.

Here's @jsresearchpro.bsky.social reporting on ARC's "it's caretaker … ah, I mean, it's security" messaging about delay to Linkage Projects & Laureate outcomes. I especially like the … journalistic skepticism in the bit I highlighted😉 🔗 (no $): www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

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

While welcome to research teams facing last minute application finalisation, was it really not possible to announce the submission deadline extension for Linkage Project 2025 Round 2 earlier than one week prior to the original deadline? A lot of stress could have been avoided.

ARC say they’ll announce Linkage Projects & Laureate Fellowship by end of the month. Next Linkage Projects deadline (2025 round 2) has been pushed back accordingly. Better later than never, I guess 🙄. And the sort-of reason given sounds … weird, given that the new legislation started last July.

Still no info on Linkage Projects & Laureate delays. Jenny Sinclair, @jsresearchpro.bsky.social, asked the Dept. of Education but only got this non-statement from them👇 But they didn't say "ask the ARC", so maybe it *is* the Dept's delay? Link: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Australian roundup: Linkage scheme delay continues, government "open to exploring opportunities" on Horizon Europe (subscriber content0: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Election "caretaker" period a whole month ago. Outcomes for 2 grant schemes, scheduled to be announced during that period, remain a mystery. ARC's "update" from 15 May👇 is all anyone has said. Dept. of Education has said nothing. ❗Applicants & industry partners deserve an explanation❗

@arc-tracker.bsky.social I’m struck by the irony / inconsistency / disconnect between the constant reminders I have been receiving over the past weeks to get on and complete my ARC assessments, while I await the LP24 outcome. He says during a break from completing the assessments…

Just a note on Senate Order updates: I presume they're only relevant for Centres of Excellence & Industrial Transformation schemes because these are still approved by the Minister. I presume other schemes, where the ARC approves grants, won't appear in the Senate Order lists anymore.

#ARCSenateOrder Mar: The ARC made no grant recommendations in March. See https://www.arc.gov.au/about/our-organisation/reporting/senate-requirements/agency-grants-pratt-motion /bot