lads, can someone check in on the irish times

38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/

thetimes.co.uk/article/e78c47…

What's fascinating about this story to me is that it was Factory International (Aviva Studios) that was supposed to be the disaster/white elephant (being an ambitious public culture project = automatic red flag to many commentators) but in fact the private sector project is the disaster.

Boris Johnson, who made the law requiring ID to vote in elections, gets turned away from his polling station for not bringing ID (2024)

I did the ancestor programme to this degree back in the day, and over the years I’ve been lucky enough to teach some students on the current programme where they’ve selected my UoM UCIL course ‘Science, Technology and Democracy’. It’s a great programme!

Interested in deep time in/or contemporary fiction? Alan Garner fan? Fancy a potter around Jodrell Bank on the summer solstice? This very special event is for you… jodrellbank.net/events/the-thr… Jodrell Bank Manchester English School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Myself, Dr Edmond Smith and Andrew James look at the history and fallacious thinking behind the UK's 'science and technology superpower' rhetoric in light of geopolitics in this comment piece for RUSI
#scipolicy Innovation Research

In today's #RUSICommentary , Kieron Flanagan, Andrew James and Dr Edmond Smith argue that the UK’s current science and technology policy is based on three fallacies that limit its ability to become a tech superpower. Learn more below.
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🗣️ Anand Menon asks the really really big questions to Sir John Curtice....

👉 When does he find out the result of the Exit Poll on election day?

👀 And listen to the audience reaction...

Job I posted a few days ago. Strongly encourage folks to apply.

letter to the Times from a former Conservative MP

Excellence Clusters funded within the German Excellence Initiative increased the innovativness of regional firms. However, there are
exceptions.

Read more in my open access article published in Research Policy:
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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And yet we can’t make minor changes to assessment modes or mix in-year because of fear of the regulators 🤷🏻‍♂️

Up to £500k for bold starts that align with, or contradict, the tenets of our opportunity space.

3 page proposal, ~3 week response time. Hope to hear from you 🙏🏼

As Nick Gray points out, all 5 of Iain Mansfield's 'elephants' were directly involved in this disgraceful episode.

Except the guilty parties were Michelle Donelan, Policy Exchange and Ian himself, not civil servants.

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He has just talked about the government needing sound finances. Perhaps intends to unveil a tax on massive irony.