We’re hiring a Science + Technology Lead in our Smarter Robot Bodies opportunity space to help shape a new programme exploring more efficient robot locomotion. We’re looking for a roboticist with expertise in robot locomotion. Apply before this Sunday (May 17). https://bit.ly/4dbssuL

Announcing our first cohort of Innovator Circles: high-trust peer groups to shape ideas at the frontier of science and tech. https://bit.ly/4eE24Lf

Breakthroughs don’t create impact on their own — systems do. That’s the role of our Activation Partners: unlocking ideas, empowering talent, and building pathways that move research into the real world. If you’re working on new models of science, entrepreneurship or AI: https://bit.ly/4c4ngXT

⏰ No time for stasis: using time as a design principle In our April update: - Funding, opportunities, and more - Why our Programme Directors are term-limited - New UK FROs: Echo Labs + Meridial - Moving research into real-world trials Read more: https://bit.ly/4tI3w3H

🚀 ARIA is looking for a partner to help deliver our R&D programmes and improve how we operate. Acting as an embedded extension of ARIA, you’ll support decision-making and delivery across the portfolio. 📅 Webinar 26 May: https://bit.ly/49k8Odt ⏰ Proposals due: 16 June: https://bit.ly/4d9oDWI

🚨 Final call: We’re looking for a communications & engagement partner to work alongside our team, bringing strong strategic and creative capabilities. Help us enhance ARIA’s visibility, strengthen our narrative, and amplify the impact of our programmes. ⏰ Deadline 1 May: https://bit.ly/4d9oDWI

🚀 We’re hiring Science & Technology Leads at ARIA Help shape bold, high-risk R&D at the frontier of science and tech. Opportunities: • Mathematics for Safe AI • Nature Computes Better • Trust Everything, Everywhere • Smarter Robot Bodies 👉 https://aria.pinpointhq.com/

AI can now describe images, compose music, and predict protein structures, but it still can’t smell. What if we could give machines a sense of smell, making the chemical world computationally legible?

We’re hiring a Chief Science & Technology Officer. A senior role mentoring Programme Directors, shaping technical culture, and helping scale bold, world-changing programmes. Looking for deep technical expertise, cross-domain thinking, and a track record of developing others. https://bit.ly/48fE6BU

🚀 Partners wanted for our Enduring Atmospheric Platforms programme. Seeking: • Test sites & infrastructure • Field testing support • IV&V Support teams to safely fly and pass the Final Exam: deliver 300W to a 20kg payload for a full week. Apply by 22 May 2026: https://bit.ly/4vCGs7S

Full proposals are now open for our Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies programme. Led by Jacques Carolan, we are investing £50m to develop a new class of neurotech – interfaces that reach the brain via the body’s natural pathways. Submit by 11 May: link.aria.org.uk/MSNx

⚒️ As ARIA continues to build operational maturity, we’re preparing to re-tender our Programmatic & Operational Support Partner contract – a core function embedded within our team. Join our pre-launch market briefing tomorrow at 11.30am to find out more. https://bit.ly/4sVDslf

Full proposals are now open for our Universal Fabricators programme. Backed by £50m, the programme will leverage breakthroughs in protein engineering + build a community that can harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale. Apply by 5 May: https://bit.ly/4uUMHDE

We’re hiring a Chief Translation Officer at ARIA. Help ensure breakthrough science translates into real-world impact — shaping partnerships, pathways, and how discoveries move beyond research. Apply by 3 May: https://bit.ly/3PMUVO8 Learn more about working at ARIA: https://aria.pinpointhq.com/

We’re hiring a Chief Financial Officer at ARIA. This role sits at the heart of how we operate — enabling ambitious, high-risk work while maintaining strong public accountability. Apply by 3 May 2026: https://bit.ly/4bYgSRT

Our call for Activation Partners cohort 2 is now live. 🚀 We're looking for 8-10 new partners to accelerate breakthrough science translation across the UK — with an expanded focus on advanced AI capabilities. Information webinar: https://bit.ly/4mmYmaJ Apply before 21 May: https://bit.ly/4c4ngXT

Full proposals are now open for our Accelerated Adaptation programme. Backed by £54m, the programme will explore pathways to make wild species more resilient to rapid environmental change. Apply by 1 May: https://link.aria.org.uk/AA-BS

Our March update is live🚀 Dive into for: - The latest from ARIA - A deep-dive into @normalcomputing.com's world-first thermodynamic computing chip - A Q&A with Philip Carella who is leading an opportunity seed project within our Programmable Plants opportunity space https://bit.ly/4rUjYw0

What does it take for AI agents to trust each other? Our Scaling Trust programme is tackling exactly that. At the centre is the Arena: An open competition platform testing multi-agent systems in real-world scenarios. We’re looking for a partner to help design and build it. https://bit.ly/4t88CFM

The search for ARIA’s next cohort of Programme Directors has begun 🚀 As a PD you will design and manage a ~£50M programme to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Applications open August 2026 for a May 2027 start - register your interest: https://bit.ly/418ltvy

We recently launched the Scaling Inference Lab – a testbed within our Scaling Compute programme for AI hardware technologies, prioritising rapid iteration, open collaboration, and long-term sustainability. Read more in @britishprogress.org: britishprogress.substack.com/p/post-haste...

Last week we were delighted to welcome the @aria-research.bsky.social #Synthetic #Plants team to the Earlham Institute and @johninnescentre.bsky.social to discuss the latest on our ARIA-funded project with @uommib.bsky.social, engineering synthetic plant chromosomes (synPACs).

Our February update is live. 🚀 Dive in for: - The latest news from ARIA - PD @yannickwurm.bsky.social on his Accelerated Adaptation programme - A Q&A with Samuele Marro – a Creator driving a pre-programme discovery project for Scaling Trust ariaresearch.substack.com/p/february-u...

In an expansion of our Scaling Compute programme, we’re dedicating £50m to the creation of the Scaling Inference Lab – an open AI testbed designed to increase the ability of startups to test new compute technologies with the goal to rapidly reduce cost. Learn more: link.aria.org.uk/SIL-bluesky

Today, we are launching a £50m programme – Massively Scalable Neurotechnologies – to decouple advanced brain therapies from complex surgery.

Could you help unlock a digital infrastructure layer between the Earth and space? Full proposals are open for our £50m-backed Enduring Atmospheric Platforms programme. Apply by 2 April: link.aria.org.uk/EAP-programm...

Building on the momentum from our first Activation Partners, we’re preparing to launch a call for 8-10 new partners to design activities that accelerate the pace and translation of breakthroughs with a key focus on AI applied to science. Discover our early thinking: link.aria.org.uk/AP_CN

Backed by £50m, our Universal Fabricators programme will leverage breakthroughs in protein engineering + build a new, interdisciplinary community that can harness proteins to produce a functionally universal range of materials at scale. Apply by 9 March + join our webinar: link.aria.org.uk/UF-BS

Humans are changing the environment faster than wild species can naturally adapt. Backed by £54m, our Accelerated Adaptation programme will explore pathways to make wild species more resilient to rapid environmental change. Submit concept papers by 6 March: link.aria.org.uk/AA-BS

AI agents are becoming more commonplace – but their inability to securely coordinate is stifling their potential. Backed by ~£50m, our Scaling Trust programme will create new trust infrastructure to move agents from solo operators to secure collaborators. Apply by 24 March: link.aria.org.uk/ST-BS

Our January update is live. Dive in to find the latest news, events and opportunities from our community – plus thoughts from our outgoing CEO @ilangur.bsky.social, a look at Fifty Years' 5050 UK programme, and more. ↓ ariaresearch.substack.com/p/january-up...

As Kathleen Fisher prepares to join us in February, dive into our incoming CEO’s track record of impact and reflections from those she’s worked with, to learn why she’s the right leader for ARIA's next phase. ↓ uk20.substack.com/p/a-short-bi...

Applications are now open for the third 5050 UK cohort – a 14-week programme from the world-leading deeptech company builder @fiftyyears.com – apply by 15 February: www.fiftyyears.com/5050

"To do things at the frontier, we've got to know what the frontier is." @ARIA_research CTO Ant discusses exploring the limits of AI Scientists across our newly announced portfolio in @technologyreview.com link.aria.org.uk/MITtechrevie...

Today the government announced new measures to attract exceptional talent to the UK, including new university scholarships for International Mathematical Olympiad gold medallists. (1/2)

Backed by £6 millionwe're supporting 12 projects to see if autonomous systems can reason, plan, and run experiments in the real world. Discover the projects: link.aria.org.uk/AIscifpbs

“A British bet worth watching." @evanhd.bsky.social explores the economics of our mission on BBC Radio 4 – roughly £5 per citizen to de-risk science with the potential to catalyse new trillion-pound industries. Listen to it here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Join us and Wales Innovation Network for a session on ARIA's approach and how our programmes connect with emerging research and innovation. ↓ 📆 Monday 9 Feb 2026 🕜 12:00-13:00 GMT 📍 Online Complete this form by 4 Feb 2026 to attend: forms.office.com/e/L0irYGJiEb

The world is rich with information hidden from human senses. Our latest opportunity space, Extending Our Perception, explores combining AI and sensors to create Hypersensory Intelligence to perceive reality in new ways + catalyse breakthroughs across disciplines. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/EOPbluesky

As we prepare for our next chapter, we’re reflecting on our progress this year. From the momentum built across our first seven programmes to an expanded portfolio of opportunity spaces, dive into our 2025 highlights. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/2025-bluesky

Enduring Atmospheric Platforms, our new programme led by PD Rico Chandra, is aiming to unlock the stratosphere as the backbone of the next-gen communications – crucial to AI’s projected £13-20 trillion economic potential. Submit your concept paper by 19 Jan. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/EAP-programm...

Full proposals are now open for Sustained Viral Resilience – backed by £46m, this programme is looking to create a new class of medicines by engineering the innate immune system. Submit by 22 January. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/SVR-programm...

Our November update is here. 👀 Find the latest news, events and opportunities, plus insights across our work. ↓ ariaresearch.substack.com/p/november-u...

Neurological disorders cost the EU & USA >$1.7T annually, yet effective neurotech is limited by surgical complexity. We’re scoping a programme to build brain surgery-free interfaces, allowing responsive, outpatient therapies for earlier intervention. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/SNI-MSN-thes...

Humans are changing the environment faster than wild species can naturally adapt. Our new thesis – Accelerated Adaptation – explores whether methods to accelerate adaptation can enhance ecosystem resilience and prevent species loss. ↓ link.aria.org.uk/AA-thesis-BS

We’re excited to introduce our new CEO: Kathleen Fisher. ARIA is at an inflection point. We’re moving from launching ambitious research to driving it forward. Kathleen is the ideal leader to scale our work. Read more: link.aria.org.uk/ceoannouncem...

As AI collapses coordination costs, our new thesis - Scaling Trust - explores how scalable trust infrastructure could usher in a world of many AI agents, capable of mobilising, negotiating, and verifying on our behalf across digital + physical spaces ↓ link.aria.org.uk/ST-thesis-BS

Perpetual Flight → Enduring Atmospheric Platforms PD Rico Chandra has published his updated programme thesis, tightening its focus on telecommunications and opening up the range of approaches we’re interested in. Dive into his evolved thinking: link.aria.org.uk/EAP-thesis-BS

Complex global challenges are outpacing our ability to respond. In our new opportunity space, Collective Flourishing, PD Nicole Wheeler asks if we can build new tools to create the future – from advanced modelling to large-scale deliberation methods. Read here: link.aria.org.uk/cf-bs

A silence switch for cancer + fungal networks as bio-interfaces – meet the 8 new Creator seeds we're funding in Scalable Neural Interfaces. Led by @jacquescarolan.bsky.social, this space asks how we can safely connect tech with the human nervous system. Dive in ↓ link.aria.org.uk/snb-seeds-bl...