More flying (holiday this time) means twenty-ninth book of 2025 finished. More readable than the first in this series, very enjoyable…

@ucl.ac.uk @profgeraintrees.bsky.social met @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social President Li Luming and Vice President Wang Hongwei to advance health & AI collaboration. Discussions focused on the proposed Joint Centre at Changgung Hospital and expanding research collaboration. #UCLandChina #UCLHealth

At the Beijing Health Forum, @profgeraintrees.bsky.social delivered a keynote highlighting @ucl.ac.uk’s healthcare innovation and international partnerships, aligned with the forum theme: Innovation without Borders, Health for Our Shared Future. #UCLandChina #UCLHealth @uclnews.bsky.social

Long pair of flights today so twenty-eighth book of 2025 also finished!

On my way back from Beijing, twenty-seventh book of 2025 finished. Just terrific - a highly readable reflection on the China (and the America) of today.

Twenty-sixth book of 2025 finished - what a book! Short, punchy, packed with irony - a guide to the present

Twenty-fifth book of 2025 finished - just in time for my trip to Beijing this week

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good luck to everyone taking part in the Royal Parks Half this morning. Not me this year, but was my first half so remember it fondly!

@profgeraintrees.bsky.social chaired a private breakfast roundtable at #Lab25 with Dr Anne Lane @uclb.bsky.social, @chriscurtis94.bsky.social and @uclpolicylab.bsky.social on Euston as a place — and how we unlock inclusive growth through innovation.

Knowledge exchange activities drive economic growth and boost innovation across the UK. "These results show the real value of universities like UCL working side by side with business, government, the NHS and the public to translate ideas into real-world impact" - @profgeraintrees.bsky.social #KEF5

Crick chief: UK and Europe have ‘duty’ to welcome US scientists www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Congratulations to my amazing colleagues who have worked so hard to deliver the research, innovation and knowledge exchange that underlies this rating. @ucl.ac.uk is one of the most entrepreneurial universities in the world, sitting at the heart of London's @knowledgequarter.bsky.social

Twenty-fourth book of 2025 finished - curious part-autobiography, part-biography (of David Starr Jordan, founding President of Stanford)

I guess it's not often someone from UCL senior leadership says "Go Durham!" But if you check out this @durham-university.bsky.social page I think you'll find out why #prouddad www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Could these companies be turning their backs at precisely the wrong moment?, asks @profgeraintrees.bsky.social after US firm Merck put the brakes on a £1 billion London research centre & AstraZeneca said it would pause a £200m investment to expand its research and development arm in Cambridge

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

on.ft.com/4pgD6UR AI ‘hit squad’ set up to drive Whitehall efficiency struggles to hire top talent

Great to see this @ucl.ac.uk spinout doing so well!

Interesting no link to cerebellum size, only neortical size.

Longer thumbs, bigger brains This study reveals a significant relationship between relatively longer thumbs – a key feature of precision grasping - and larger brains across 95 fossil and extant primates. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

This is a really interesting finding!

The Californian Ideology hits harder than ever

Marvellous to see this important new clinical trial finding from colleagues UCL - and its historical link to the discovery of aldosterone at UCL over seventy years ago www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

Delighted that we have been able to appoint two incredibly talented colleagues to lead this new Grand Challenge at UCL

Twenty-third book of 2025 finished - epic space opera…

Happy World Entrepreneur's Day! So proud of our amazing entrepreneurial community at UCL and the amazing people in my team that support them. Ten years in and we are still growing strongly, with the potential for even more entrepreneurial impact...watch this space!

Twenty-second book of 2025 finished - managed to squeeze in another just on the last day of my vacation!

Twenty-first book of 2025 finished - and possibly the last of my vacation. Great physics-focused primer on the void… say 15 minutes beforehand

A level results are out! And as many have reported, there was an overall improvement in the proportion of students gaining the top grades. But its not good news for everyone: with London & the South East continuing to pull away from the rest of the country, and boys slightly ahead of girls.

Trump’s chief science adviser faces a storm of criticism: what's next? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Twentieth book of 2025 finished - great sense of place and atmosphere, but the plot twist was visible a mile off…

Nineteenth book of 2025 finished - just terrific

Eighteenth book of 2025 finished - timely and super-readable analysis. Vacation continues…

Seventeenth book of 2025 finished - my vacation is unfolding nicely…

How researcher visa curbs threaten science careers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dismay as north of England universities miss out on share of £54m talent fund www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Biotech hails trial results for antidepressant paired with genetic test on.ft.com/4fm2ap7

Sixteenth book of 2025 finished. Some great ideas but an awful lot of exposition about orbital mechanics…

Fifthteenth book of 2025 started (good start to my summer vacation). A fictional life of Gauss and Humboldt (x2)…

Interesting read! Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beautiful and inspiring work from Gero Miesenböck and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New report shows one year on how a sense of social dislocation was a key driver of the 2024 riots | UCL Policy Lab - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent... via @ft

Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/w... via @theregister

The UK needs to pick up the pace on life sciences on.ft.com/40sX9EV

The funny thing about this piece by Rishi Sunak which says the key to AI is adoption is how many of us sought to persuade his Govt of this but instead he focused the Bletchley Summit and other activities (including DSIT) on frontier technology & risks; not on adoption economist.com/by-invitatio...