Chestnut Sunday in Bushy Park - NPL attracting lots of interest as always

Bertie was surprised to find a street and a pub named after him

Good to see a as a report in @financialtimes.com today that Government plans practical steps to attract talented researchers to the UK (plans no doubt in hand long before I mentioned the subject)

Near two-thirds increase in income from UK university-business collaborations over past two decades driven by a small group of top institutions, with many others seeing work in this area “stagnate” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/rise-un... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

This is well worth a look - it is clear and concise.

I decided to refresh my @bsky.app site with a new photo. I chose an image of something handsome, solid and needing periodic maintenance. I also provide a photo of the Forth Rail Bridge.

🚨 Hiring news! 🚨 I’m looking to hire five really important new roles. Each will lead a major new innovation programme to tackle one of five major national challenges.

🎉 Happy 199th birthday, UCL! 🎉 We’re just one year away from celebrating 200 years of innovation, discovery, and impact. UCL has always been a place of firsts. Now, we look ahead to an exciting bicentenary year! Learn more: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe... #UCL200 #UCLFoundationDay #UCLBirthday

Wow - looks like we need to visit Greenwich again. ornc.org/whats-on/hel...

Important ESRC funding call: “P2R: increasing UK policymaker engagement with research” www.ukri.org/opportunity/... (total fund: £3.8m; deadline: 6 May)

Great to be at UCL East this morning to hear Peter Kyle and Kier Starmer describe plans to make the UK ‘an AI Superpower’

It was a pleasure to meet so many wonderful postgraduate students earlier this week at UCL's Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy. Professor David Coen kindly invited me to give a lecture. David seems to share my impeccable sense of fashion 😀

A stimulating, thought-provoking and enjoyable event. Thanks to @sciencecampaign.bsky.social for organising, Imperial for hosting and Elsevier and QMUL for sponsoring

Another interesting set of data from the Discovery Decade work at CaSE www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

When John Kingman - who has done more to drive good policy on UK economic growth than anyone - gives advice, I really hope people listen. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...

This is an important and timely addition to the terrific work CaSE has done on public attitudes to R&D

I joined bluesky about an hour ago. I look forward to discovering how it compares with other social media