Continuing to prepare:
UCL release all clinical academics to support NHS services during coronavirus outbreak | UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences - UCL - London's Global University
*NEW COVID-19 STUDY*
@ucl
Recruiting adults in UK to answer wkly 15min online surveys about psychological & social experiences during COVID-19. Results will help identify effects of social isolation & how to support mental health.
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#unisupport
Honoured to be featured alongside four other terrific scientist-dads in this
@nature
careers article - Juggling research and family life: honest reflections from scientist dads
Research culture is a shared endeavour. The new
@WellcomeLeap
call asks researchers to devote Dec 15 - Jan 13 to writing a 25 page application. That's school holidays so v.difficult for those with caring responsibilities. Can we do better
@JeremyFarrar
?
Great that second jabs now available for 16+. Less impressive that NHS website says you can’t actually book these until the website is updated which will take at least a week. Why not coordinate update and announcement for maximum impact?!
Delighted to see Jeremy is adhering to on-campus regulations. I suspect hand washing will be a bit of a stretch though. But if you can wear a mask, we expect you to even if you are an auto-icon...
If you’re a globally outstanding scientist the visa/health cost of moving to the uk is now 21x higher than 🇫🇷 and 34x higher than 🇩🇪. A very big disincentive to creating the productivity, jobs and growth that science in 🇬🇧 brings. We are allowing ourselves to be outcompeted
YES! thank you to everyone who supported me (). A wonderful day that brings out the best in people. Special thank you to
@PositiveMaren
who got me properly started on running all those years ago.
Not just the US.
@UKRI_News
doctoral stipends are below the living wage in the UK. And inflation is now a real challenge.
PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs
A response that does not address the very real needs of current research students. The argument that current student support cannot be improved by UKRI in case it jeopardises the ability to fund as many future students is very difficult to support.
We have published our response to an open letter from postgraduate research students on inflation and the cost of living. The reply is on our website here:
Delighted to be leading one of these new Centres for Doctoral Training. Ours is AI-enabled Healthcare Systems working with some exceptional NHS and commercial partners. Join us
@ucl
!
Our new AI skills drive, funded by govt & industry, will ensure that the next generation of AI experts train at unis across the UK 🇬🇧 while prestigious
@turinginst
Fellowships will attract & retain the very best global talent👩🏽🎓
#IndustrialStrategy
We are delighted to share that UCL has been awarded the University of the Year 2024 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide! 🎊
Read more ➡️
@thetimes
#GoodUniGuide
#LoveUCL
It is simply shameful that
@SfNtweets
is refusing refunds for ECRs and others who have paid for an in person conference that has been cancelled just after the registration deadline. An organisation with many tens of millions of dollars in reserves. Shameful.
The Society for Neuroscience will hold
#SfN21
as a fully virtual experience, eliminating all in-person options that had been planned for McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois.
See our October 8 statement for more details.
First COVID-19 test samples being processed at
@TheCrick
labs. So proud of our amazing staff for getting testing for NHS staff up and running so fast.
Delighted to see our
@DeepMindAI
research published
@nature
today - super-talented team, great work, huge potential impact!
A clinically applicable approach to continuous prediction of future acute kidney injury
A packed crowd for the
@in2scienceUK
celebration - generously hosted by
@DeepMindAI
and helping hundreds of disadvantaged young people into STEM degrees at universities like
@ucl
Congratulations to my fabulous colleague Sasha Roseneil - a big loss for
@ucl
but a fantastic appointment for
@SussexUni
!
University of Sussex appoints Professor Sasha Roseneil as next Vice-Chancellor
Really pleased that we can offer this, which will complement and work alongside NHS Test and Trace. One part of a comprehensive public health approach to keeping staff and students safe on campus - and the result of a lot of hard work by many colleagues over the last few months.
As there are so many problems with the government's
#coronavirus
testing system,
@uclnews
has just joined the list of universities offering their own tests to staff & students - "up to 1,000 tests every day for symptomatic staff and students by the start of term" says president.
A fab crowd gathered to celebrate the opening of Grand Challenges Grand Impacts - showcasing 15 years of
@GrandChallenges
@ucl
Come down to the cloisters to view the amazing and diverse impacts of the GCs!
And it’s done! Delighted to be helping the sport return
@kemptonparkrace
and looking forward to
@FPparkrun
returning. Also pleased my legs didn’t snap off.
Graduation always the most wonderful time of year- very proud to see our wonderful
@ucl
@ucl_slms
students graduating and looking forward to hearing of how they will make the world a better place
#UCLgrad
Depressing to see five male candidates making up the entire slate for election to
@acmedsci
Council - diversity and inclusion should be a top priority for
@acmedsci
and we need to do better than this
@allmalepanels
Yes; and in the UK, that also means funding the full economic cost of science so that it can truly thrive - Science funding must remain after the crisis via
@financialtimes
Delighted that we continue to be ranked in the top ten worldwide and many thanks to my thousands of colleagues who work incredibly hard to make that so!
UCL ranked ninth best university in the world | UCL News - UCL – University College London
Amazing response from my extraordinary colleagues:
COVID-19: UCL academics mobilise to provide critical advice and expert comment | UCL News - UCL - London's Global University
Massive cuts to projects supported by the UK’s foreign aid budget risk devastating damage to the country’s scientific reputation and raise questions about the direction of its research policy, sector leaders said. via
@timeshighered
It's
#WorldPrematurityDay2018
so a heartfelt thank you to Queen Charlotte's Hospital
@ImperialNHS
who took such good care of our 25 weeker Milly over Christmas 2002. She's now a happy and healthy 15 year old with her whole life ahead of her. Changed my perspective on life forever
Thanks to the lovely train manager on the cancelled
@LNER
11:03 to Leeds for looking after our unaccompanied children on the next train north. Upgrade to first and checking they're ok - superb customer service in difficult circumstances!
Great to be back on campus this afternoon learning our fab new one way system from
@UCLEstates
and a big shout out to Hassan and his colleagues
@UCLSecurity
who are doing a great job keeping us safe!
Very proud to be a small part of this 'team science' effort at
@UCLHD
@UCLIoN
led by Sarah Tabrizi!
Major Wellcome Trust award to UCL will drive forward translational research in Huntington’s disease
Postdocs are having a (very) tough time. We need to do better as a community (funders as well as universities and research institutes, working together) to support them
Postdoc survey reveals disenchantment with working life
Tonight, as figs show the % of contacts traced by England's Test& Trace scheme at the lowest level on record, suggesting it may have failed altogether, I can reveal a 5 person crack team of BCG consultants have been masterminding the system.
For £25k a day
My marvellous colleague Professor Sarah Tabrizi, from
@ucl
Queen Square Institute of Neurology, receives the 2018 Cotzias Award from the Spanish Society for Neurology
Incredibly excited that
@ucl
@IOE_London
will be leading this critically important (and very large) programme supporting schools across the UK!
Ministers put £15m towards tackling decline in language learning in England
Check out our
@UCLHresearch
@ucl
take in
@Nature_NPJ
on what a research hospital should be in the age of
#AI
and high dimensional inference...
Redefining the research hospital
Hugely important funding for innovation and impact, and we are delighted to receive funds from every UKRI council to enable colleagues across
@ucl
in every discipline to help deliver impact from their research and scholarship
Congratulations to all my fabulous colleagues!
UCL retains top global ranking for education and architecture & built environment | UCL News - UCL – University College London
Great article highlighting success of the UK higher education sector in generating export earnings - £25.6bn a year, so more than aerospace or pharma. Or fish.
Fish exports are a drop in the ocean next to overseas student fees
New job opportunity at BEIS - Director of International Research and Innovation and quite an important one as "This role is currently leading on the final stages of seeking association to EU R&D programmes"
Wise words from the wonderful and very talented
@beckyneuro
from whom I have learned much about how to encourage independence and whose achievements I am very proud of - The quest for postdoctoral independence
Excellent news...
Equalised pay and benefits confirmed for UCL’s security, cleaning, portering and catering staff | UCL News - UCL - London's Global University
Excellent news for
@UKRI_News
PhD students: 10% increase in the minimum stipend for 22/23 just announced.
Will likely have consequences for the future (fewer studentships) and for universities (major increase in costs) but it is the right thing to do.
@jonroiser
We do have this responsibility and in my Faculty we have for many years taught this history on genetics courses (eg BIOL0003 and MBBS0056 )to biologists and medical students in a critical and reflective fashion aided by colleagues such as
@AdamRutherford
@ucl
very proud to receive major funding announced today by
@wellcometrust
to create a Discovery Research Platform in Naturalistic Neuroimaging
@WCHN_UCL
@UCLBrainScience
. One of eight new research platforms across UK and Africa
Come and join us! This is a very large
@ucl
and
#KCL
AI-neurology project funded by
@wellcometrust
that will commercialise our academic work. It’s a hugely exciting opportunity and I’m looking forward to working on it with my very talented colleagues
And we have ignition!! 12-14 * junior or senior PostDoc positions to help us deliver
#AI
in Neurology - a 4 year
#Wellcome
funded project with the primary aim of improving patient care. Join the
#KCL
team () or our
#UCL
partners ().
Fantastic investment
@ucl
@GDIHub
that will support millions more people with life-changing accessible technology
UK Government awards £31m to UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub | UCL News - UCL – University College London
Enormous thanks to our REF team, who have been amazing and worked incredibly hard to tight deadlines in difficult circumstances. It has been a huge amount of work for a very large number of colleagues...
Keep applying for funding! As we say to colleagues
@ucl
, the only certain way not to get an EU research grant is not to apply for it in the first place…
Congratulations to my fab colleagues in securing these awards - training opportunities to deliver tomorrow’s research leaders
UCL receives £54m boost to doctoral training in engineering and physical sciences | UCL News - UCL – University College London
UCL bringing forward harmonisation of sick pay for all cleaning, security, portering and catering staff in response to the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis.
UCL Statement regarding staff working for contractors | UCL News - UCL - London's Global University
Lunchtime run in Lower Manhattan is quite something! Back to Midtown as more work awaits. Looking forward to the
@UCLAlumni
reception this evening!
Worrying suggestions that research funding may be subject to major cuts. Research & innovation through universities and companies makes a huge contribution to growth, wealth and prosperity.
Spectre of return to austerity raises alarm in Whitehall