Great turn-out for last night's 'Reimagining New Towns' event with @uomhums.bsky.social and @productivity.bsky.social at @alliancembs.bsky.social. Excellent presentation from Deputy Chair of New Towns Taskforce Dame Kate Barker followed by a lively panel discussion and audience questions.

🎉 1 Month to Go! 🎉We’re counting down to Co-created Futures—our annual conference on 3 Dec at Sister, Manchester! 🌍 Theme: Co-produced research 🔬 Focus: Materials | Energy | Nature 🎓 Poster Comp for UoM ECRs & PhDs—submit by 21 Nov! 🎟️ Grab your ticket 👉 tinyurl.com/3xxt9juc #ResearchImpact

🐇 Follow the White Rabbit: In Defence of Conspiracy Theories Join journalist Gabriel Gatehouse (The Coming Storm Podcast) & Gary Younge for a deep dive into conspiracy theories and why they matter. 🗓️ 3 December ⏱️ 18:00–19:30 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/follow-the... @digitaluom.bsky.social

Adeela Shahid, Saira Khan, and Salman Imami will present at the next seminar in The University of Manchester Digital #Health Equity Seminar Series. Topic: Bridging the Divide in #PainManagement in Pakistan Using #Digital Tools. 🗓️ Wednesday 12th Nov 🕐 1PM - 2PM BST 📍 zoom.us/j/94521771818

Since their inception 6 years ago, ARCs have: 🔎 carried out over 3,300 research projects 📰 published over 9,000 papers 🤝 collaborated with 627 partner organisations 💰 leveraged about £1 billion in external funding! 👉🏿 Explore a selection of our work: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar... 💫 #ARCimpacts

🔬 Join the next Digital Health Equity Seminar on Wed 12th-Nov, 1-2pm (Zoom). 🔗 More info & Zoom link: bit.ly/4lYG65z

Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.

♻️ New from the Sustainable Consumption Institute: "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" explores how optimism and pessimism shape our responses to sustainability challenges. 📖 Read the full post: tinyurl.com/mhshhzsk #Sustainability #ClimateAction #EmotionalIntelligence #SCI #EnvironmentalPsychology

🌱 Students are leading the green transition and universities are backing them. At The University of Manchester, the University Living Lab is turning the campus into a testbed for sustainable innovation. 📖 Learn more: tinyurl.com/bde59hh9 #GreenTransition #LivingLab #Sustainability #ClimateAction

We hosted The Future is Biological: Future Data Storage Solutions and AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models #2 for #Digitober! Missed out? Sign up to our newsletters: 🔗 GM Connected Health Ecosystem: eepurl.com/iozsPY 🔗 Digital Futures: tinyurl.com/digitalfuturesuom

Join us on 26 Nov at @manchester.ac.uk for an event to discuss digital solutions to sustainable housing expansion with a panel of experts, and try out the DSH. To register, please email [email protected] with your name, role, organisation, and any dietary/access requirements.

🎧 New podcasts alert! If you're curious about the future of the aviation industry, have a listen to the new BBC Sounds Rethink podcasts our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, has contributed to: Rethink: how can flying be less polluting? lnkd.in/e-TFS_9d Rethink: should we stop flying? lnkd.in/erQGKqJ5

🎨 Following the success of Embedded exhibition, the Henry Royce Institute invites you to Sculpted Forms: A Response to Embedded — an evening of poetry, art, and conversation led by acclaimed writer and curator Inua Ellams. 🗓️ Monday 3rd November 🕠 17:30–19:30 🎟️ Reserve your spot: lnkd.in/e_-y-ddV

✉️ Join the SPRITE+ Extended Reality TIPSS Community of Interest! Sign up to our Community of Interest to get involved in online events, receive an ad hoc newsletter, and stay up to date on opportunities within our Deep Dive project: www.spritehub.org/sprite-commu... #SPRITEplus #XR #DigitalTIPSS

Check out the latest funding opportunities in our newsletter. This week, we profile opportunities from Supergen Bioenergy Hub, NERC, and Innovate UK. Find out more below. mailchi.mp/14f698a50c45...

🌟 Meet Dr João C. Magalhães (@jcmagalhaes.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security, @uomsalc.bsky.social. 🗣️ "What if AI doesn’t fix inequality but makes it worse? To ensure AI helps rather than harms society, my research asks, who really benefits from AI?..." 🧵(1/2)

🌟 Meet Dr Diāna Bērziņa, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre for Digital Trust and Society 🗣️ "My research examines online marketplaces for digital objects – focusing on the blurred boundaries between legal and illegal activity, the drivers of these markets, and the role AI plays..." 🧵(1/2)

🎧 Podcast spotlight! Our co-director, Prof Alice Larkin, features in two BBC Rethink episodes exploring aviation and sustainability: ✈️ How can flying be less polluting? 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... ✈️ Should we stop flying? 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Give them a listen and share your thoughts

NEW EVENT: Creative Health: Supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester Join us for an afternoon exploring creative health + Brain Health to supporting older adults to live well in Greater Manchester. 📍Martin Harris Centre 📅 19 Nov 🕜 2-5pm 🎟️ https://ow.ly/x0Xl50XgVqL

We've been celebrating GMCA's #Digitober campaign by hosting a range of talks with #digital leaders and experts. We hosted Patrick Chester, Justin Lane, @ordekianm.bsky.social, and Dr Jennifer Cearns for our Digital Trust and Security seminar series. @uomhums.bsky.social @spriteplus.bsky.social

How is Generative AI challenging some of the analytical frameworks we think about self and other with? 👥 ▶️ Watch our latest Lunch + Learn talk with Dr Jennifer Cearns to learn more: youtu.be/YasTQcAMYh4?... @digitaluom.bsky.social #SPRITEplus #DigitalIdentity #MentalHealthApps #GenAI

We are celebrating #GMCA's #Digitober, celebrating Manchester's digital sector! Check out the ways Digital Futures and @manchester.ac.uk are advancing AI research and innovation below! 🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/research/ai/ 🔗 bit.ly/aidigitalfut... @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social @aifunmcr.bsky.social

The UK's leading creative R&D conference BEYOND Conference is inviting students and early career creatives (aged 18-30) to attend this year's edition for free🗯️ 📅24-26 Nov 📍Lowry Find out more: https://ow.ly/lfAr50XfBnG

Digital Futures brings together over 2200 researchers from over 30 different disciplines across all three of the University’s faculties into multidisciplinary communities to tackle important research problems and build critical mass in new and emerging research areas. 🔗 linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

This week @manchester.ac.uk's AI @ Manchester campaign kicks off, celebrating 75 years since Alan Turing established the Turing Test, laying the foundations for AI🔢 Learn more about AI at Manchester: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/ai/ Meet some of researchers driving the future of AI at Manchester👇

📅 18 Oct - 8 Nov 🎟️ Free entry 📍 Across the UK and online 🔗 Find an event for you: festivalofsocialscience.com

Oxford Road Corridor and MIDAS have launched a new Life Sciences Investment Prospectus, spotlighting Manchester’s strengths in health innovation. Discover why the future of life sciences runs through Manchester.

From Manchester for the world. We are proud to launch our bold strategy to 2035. Together, we're redefining what a great civic University looks like for the 21st century. Visit our webpage to explore our ambition in full: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/manche...

Really excited to start my new role in helping shape @digitaluom.bsky.social at the University and wider.

The GM Connected Health Ecosystem series will be returning on 4th December at @manchester.ac.uk ! We'll be discussing the impact of the pandemic on the healthcare industry. 🎟️ Secure Your Ticket Early: bit.ly/uomdigitalfutures @uompankhurst.bsky.social @ticmcr.bsky.social @mft-edi.bsky.social

🎉 We are overjoyed to welcome @msbarrioluengo.bsky.social as a new theme lead for Digital Economy at the @manchester.ac.uk! Her research interests include the involvement of universities in economic development and university-society collaborations. 🔗 Discover more: linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

🎉 We are pleased to welcome Prof Rachel Gibson as a new theme lead for Digital Society at the @manchester.ac.uk! Her research focuses on how digital technologies are changing the way in which election campaigns are fought and won. 🔗 Discover more: linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

🎉 We are pleased to welcome Prof Sabine Van Der Veer as a new theme lead for Digital Health at the @manchester.ac.uk! Her research focuses on improving care, equity, and outcomes for people living with long-term conditions. 🔗 Discover more: linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

🎉 We are delighted to welcome Prof @loftytopping.bsky.social as a new theme lead for Digital Worlds at the @manchester.ac.uk! His work ranges from modelling molecular processes to weaving Generative AI into end-to-end research workflows. 🔗 Discover more: linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures

We were joined by Dr Benjamin Brown, Dr Tim Murdoch, Dr Chris Nortcliff, and Dr Jingyuan Sun yesterday at @manchester.ac.uk for #AIinHealthcare2! Speakers explored how #LLMs and AI are helping & hindering the #NHS and the healthcare industry. Sign up to our Ecosystem newsletter: eepurl.com/iozsPY

We attending #MDFuture today at SISTER! We're excited to learn about all things AI - from the future of #AI and emerging technologies, to applying AI to health datasets. Keep posted and follow out live updates! @mcrdig.bsky.social

Register to explore a pioneering technique to successfully retrieve &analyse the text of tightly restricted social media context at a large scale: tinyurl.com/bd4xhs3x 📅3rd Oct ⏰4-5PM @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomscieng.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

🎉 We're excited to welcome Dr @lukaszszulc.bsky.social as a new theme lead for Digital Cultures at the @manchester.ac.uk! His work explores the deeper power dynamics of digital media, focusing on gender and sexuality. 🔗 Discover more: lnkd.in/eN45PHW4

🎉 Big news! We're thrilled to welcome Dr @lscholz.bsky.social as our new theme lead for Digital Cultures at @manchester.ac.uk. Dr. Scholz’s work transforms our understanding of the digital age by blending archival research with computational methods. 🔗 Discover more: lnkd.in/eN45PHW4

Big news: we're going solar! ☀️ From September, we will begin powering our campus with clean, renewable electricity from a major new solar farm, marking a key milestone in our goal of becoming zero carbon by 2038.

Paying off technical debt with a sociotechnical cyber levy...my piece in policyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/on-critical-... @manchester.ac.uk @ciaranm.bsky.social @spcoulson.bsky.social @cybergeekgirl.bsky.social #CentreForDigitalTrustAndSociety @cyberbaines.bsky.social @digitaluom.bsky.social

🌟 The programme is now live for our 2025 Showcase! 🌟 Whether you can attend the full day, or there's a particular talk you'd like to tune in for, we're excited to see you there! 🔗 View the programme and register here: www.spritehub.org/event-detail... #SPRITE #showcase #TIPS #NetworkPlus

Analyse and tell stories with 40+ petabytes of environmental data on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub 📝 📩 Sign up to our mailing list to be one of the first to test the Hub and see for yourself how incremental the DSH is in transforming geospatial: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...

📢 Discover the future of data storage at the “Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop.” 📅 Thursday, October 2, 2025 🕛 12:00 – 16:00 BST 📍 The University of Manchester 🎟️ (Only for UoM staff) shorturl.at/cGMGq Got questions or want to present? 📧[email protected]

🔔 For @manchester.ac.uk academics only: Join the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop. 📅 2 Octorber, 2025 🕛 12:00–16:00 🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧[email protected]

Join us in Manchester for the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop. 📅 Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025 🕛 Time: 12:00 – 16:00 BST 📍 Location: @manchester.ac.uk 🎟️ Get your ticket now: shorturl.at/cGMGq Want to get involved? Email [email protected]

⁉️Don’t miss the chance to connect and discuss AI’s impact on healthcare! 📢 Join us for AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models #2 on 6th October! 🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/AXv7q @ticmcr.bsky.social @mft-edi.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

📢 Meet Nick Crossley, the new Director of the Center for Digital Trust and Society! 🚀 He’s driving cutting-edge research combining sociology, AI, and quantum computing to tackle today’s toughest cyber threats. ️📽️Watch full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxtw...

How will the @nercdsh.bsky.social allow users to visualise data to enhance place-based decision making by using trustworthy AI-powered search?👇 Start your data journey with the DSH 🚀 Learn more: www.linkedin.com/posts/nerc-d...

PhD call 🎓 Join us at @manchester.ac.uk in collaboration with Getty Conservation Institute for a fully funded studentship exploring AI & the future of museum conservation. 📌 Starts January 2026 📅 Deadline: 24 September 2025 To know more👉 shorturl.at/FsBDk