Life-changing dementia research isn't just about medicine. There's a big role for arts and humanities, too. This is the story of HUG: a therapeutic device developed with #AHRC support, now bringing comfort to thousands of people living with dementia worldwide. @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social

Day 1 of #ADRUKConf25 wrapped! 🚀 Inspiring keynotes on admin data (Netherlands & Brazil), trusted research environments & AI, plus buzzing parallel sessions + exhibitors. Now onto the evening reception 🎉 See you tomorrow for a ministerial address from Rt Hon Mark Drakeford!

Nearly half of UK farmland is upland: nutrient-poor soils, steep slopes and harsh weather. IBERS research shows that grazing sheep alongside cattle (mixed or rotational systems) increases total output per hectare. 🎥: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCIl... 🔗: www.aber.ac.uk/en/ibers/abo...

The ESRC Festival of Social Science is returning for its 23rd year! We're proud to fund incredible research, and this festival brings it to the public, showing them just how influential it is on the world. If you have some spare time, come along! For more info: www.ukri.org/news/largest...

Webinar: Could DNA repair hold the key to treating Huntingtons disease?🧬 Join UK DRI Group Leaders Profs Sarah Tabrizi & Gabriel Balmus as they dig into the latest discoveries and therapeutic breakthroughs from the field 🗓️ Mon 29 Sep 🕓 4-5pm (BST) Register free 👉 www.ukdri.ac.uk/events/rethi...

Announcing our latest round of successful UKRI Future Leaders Fellows! Our flagship fellowship scheme will support 77 talented early-career researchers to lead ambitious research and develop their careers. Congratulations to our new fellows👏 More: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

Huge congrats to @mbourdenx.bsky.social, Dr Sophie Morse & Dr Wioleta Zelek who have today been awarded prestigious Future Leader Fellowships from @ukri.org! 🙌 🥳 Find out more about their projects 👉 buff.ly/VPFkvna

I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship! My lab will focus on embedding #equity in #health surveillance with #GeoAI to map how socio-environmental & individual vulnerabilities shape #disease risk. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

That's right – we're live! You can check out the @ukri.org announcement here www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... & feel free to visit our website to keep up with all we've got planned rewriting-worlds.ed.ac.uk

📣Two talented Northumbria researchers have today been awarded a share of £120 million from @ukri.org's flagship Future Leaders Fellowship fund to help advance their work in space physics and book history. 🎉Congratulations to Dr @charlottestalks.bsky.social and Dr @drwilliams.bsky.social

Delighted to finally be able to share this! www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Super grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way @ukri.org @alzheimersresearchuk.org @parkinsons.org.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social - most of all my amazing colleagues and mentors at the DRC! Can't wait to get started!!

After a superb week for #design, with the World Design Congress, a major AHRC investments and the London Design Festival, here are my reflections on what design means to me - a discipline of care, and our laboratory for the future anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/w...

📣 We’re launching the London Social Media Observatory! 🎉 ➡️ We are a new multidisciplinary research centre, directed by @andreucasas.bsky.social & funded by the @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship 🧵 [1/4]

Academic careers aren’t always linear, and that’s a good thing. Cross-sector moves spark fresh thinking and unexpected connections. We spoke with Dr Patrick Bury, a former soldier who's now a reader in security @uniofbath.bsky.social, about his unique journey. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLP...

Our favourite niche posts to get tagged in: unboxing videos, but instead of an influencer it’s an excited technician with incredibly high-spec equipment that takes up half a room and will probably help save the world and/or global wheat yields. Anyway, this thread is about BBSRC ALERT scheme 1/

Registration is open for the NCRM Annual Lecture 2025! A panel of four experts will discuss how to use #AI responsibly in #research. The free event takes place on 1 October 2025 at the @BritishAcademy_ and will be streamed online. Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/lecture25/index.php

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK. Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

ICYMI: Simplifying access to MRC applicant-led funding #MRC #AcademicSky

📣 The UK Government announced in June that the UK will host the 12th IPBES Plenary (#IPBES12) in Manchester from 3-8 February 2026.

Our ‘Switching Sectors’ series spotlights the impact of research careers spanning multiple sectors and disciplines. In this episode, we met Ashmita Randhawa, a biomedical engineer turned social scientist, helping to bridge the gap between academia and university. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqKf...

A great example of the value of industry-academia collaboration. Through a Prosperity Partnership, the University of Sheffield and GE HealthCare have combined MRI lung-scanning technology with AI which could make MRI scans more cost effective and available on the NHS. www.ukri.org/news/ai-coul...

BLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...

New programme of work during the pause in REF 2029 #ResearchEngland #AcademicSky

The four UK higher education funding bodies confirm the pause in the criteria setting and publication of final guidance for REF 2029 for a short period, as announced by the UK Science Minister Lord Vallance today at the Universities UK conference. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...

Almost 50% of lab workers identify as neurodiverse. So what difference could it make for research organisations to fully embrace neurodiversity in their workplace culture? We supported the John Innes Centre to implement a project aiming to do just that 👇

From bee superfoods and uncovering Stonehenge secrets, to upcycling cherry waste🍒 Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and keep up to date with the latest UKRI news, funding announcements and stories of research and innovation in action👇 public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKR...

New image from the James Webb Space Telescope! It's peered through 3,400 light-years and dense cosmic dust to reveal the ancient star at the heart of the Butterfly Nebula. This dying star offers a glimpse into what may happen to our own sun at the end of its life. www.ukri.org/news/james-w... 🦋🧪

Recently, leniolisib, a lifechanging new treatment for a rare immune disorder became available on the NHS. We think its story is a great example of what curiosity-driven biomedical research can achieve when it's nurtured long term.

How many researchers begin in a totally different career? Quite a few! In this episode of 101 Jobs, we meet Mac: a former Royal Marine, now an ocean operations expert at @pml.ac.uk🌊 We want to show the public that even if your career doesn’t begin in science, it can still lead you there.

A new 'superfood' could help tackle the decline in honeybees🐝 Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, researchers have engineered the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to produce the six sterols bees need, creating a nutritionally complete supplement. More: www.ukri.org/news/enginee...

We recently interviewed @gilesyeo.bsky.social for our Instagram channel, and wanted to get his thoughts on why he thinks it's important to share research with the public. He also shared some great advice on how to do it well! Check it out👇

Help us gauge the state of the UK's research & innovation sector in terms of preventing and handling bullying & harassment. Please share our survey of anyone who has witnessed or experienced it at work. go.hw.ac.uk/EDICa/Bullyi...

"Hidden" visceral fat around organs accelerates heart aging - but fat on the hips and thighs could be protective in women. Read our paper out now in the European Heart Journal. #whyCMR doi.org/10.1093/eurh...

In this episode of 101 Jobs, we visited The Henry Royce Institute⚙️ We wanted to show just how important technicians are in driving life-changing science. Meet Jen, a Specialist Technician in biomaterials, who tests the fascinating machines here and trains researchers to use them👇

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Sir Ian Chapman on his first day as UKRI CEO. 1/

A new economic valuation report has, for the first time, brought into focus the scale of the National Geological Repository's impact on the UK economy. The facility has saved major energy and infrastructure projects £1.5 billion over the last 20 years. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

How can we use the power of data to make streets safer? www.ukri.org/news/how-can... <-- "The Safer Streets R&D mission, part of @ukri.org's Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme (R&D MAP), is launching its first initiative, the Concentrations of Crime Data R&I Challenge."

There's still time to apply to join a new ESRC college which we'll use to find members for our assessment panels. We're looking for academic members from across the social sciences, as well as advisor members from the public, business and civil society sectors. More: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/w...

Cheaper and more accurate test to diagnose milk allergy in children #MRC #AcademicSky

#abswss25 #diversityscholarship "For me, the ABSW Summer School was that pistol shot, signalling the start of what I hope will be a very long, very rewarding race." Read how the Summer School has set Stephanie Meadows up for success 🔗 zurl.co/twysL @ukri.org

One of our goals with 101 Jobs is to show the different paths into a science career. In this episode, we meet Reuben, who didn’t go to university and found a job in a clean room. This led him to work on ENFYS, an important part of the Mars Rover: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aE... #careers #space 🌎🧪

We're running a webinar on the 'Improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape' report. 🗓️3 September ⏰11:00 - 12:00 Join us to hear about the report's findings and discuss the future of the open access research information landscape. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1b6a1e...

How do you explain the value of long-term research in a medium made for short attention spans? Well, here's our attempt from Instagram! Telling the story of structural biology since the 90s - and where it might go next - with the help of lots of outfit changes. How do you think we did?

🍎 Tackling diet and health inequalities in Glasgow 🍎 Researchers, local government and food organisations are coming together to tackle poor diet and ill health in some of the most deprived areas in Glasgow. Led by Dr Ada Garcia at UofG, this £1m+ @ukri.org -funded project will:

11 projects will bring cutting-edge telecoms technology closer to market - boosting connectivity for homes and businesses across the UK. Awarded a share of £13m in government funding, these projects are focused on bridging the digital divide. More: www.ukri.org/news/advance...

Does your organisation hold or support a UK natural science collection? Want to help make them digitally accessible to scientists worldwide? Check out our exciting opportunity to set-up a Digitisation Hub for Natural Science Collections👇 #ahrc

We've been working with the Naked Scientists podcast to help some of the incredible technologies we fund reach a wider audience. This week, we heard about LiFi: a technology using infra-red light to get round some of WiFi's most frustrating limitations 📶

Exciting news! We are supporting ADR UK, a UK public sector data scheme that provides insights on everything from the cost of living to early cancer diagnosis. This now has five more years of funding. 1/4

Conversations with scientists we support like Frances are always so inspiring. We caught up with Frances before she embarked on a research expedition to the North Atlantic. Her work is helping to improve the accuracy of climate models so we can better prepare for future climate change challenges📽️