Claire Edwards

Fucking VAR has spoilt this game 😭😭😭

As more GiveToGain posts appear a reminder that it is a made-up theme by a for-profit company which makes money from theme based goods but has no charitable donations on its accounts for the past 10yrs

The UN #IWD2026 theme this is: Rights. Justice. Action.

www.unwomen.org/en/get-invol...

This is so worrying, yikes

This United-Newcastle match has been shit and boring apart from the last minute plus added time of each half

Indeed! It does rather go against everything I've been advocating for to have very fast paced calls only open to a select few but I guess that's our brave new world!

It's EPSRC not InnovateUK but the point still stands. I do think it'll be difficult to get the grant started on time even with a shorter assessment process

That's the impression I got from EPSRC last week also - DSIT driven although doesn't necessarily mean they don't have people in mind. It does slightly beg the question why this money wasn't routed through ARIA who seem to be more set up for these kind of fast-paced, stage-gated, major investments

I'm not sure any allowance has been made for anything tbqh

It's also supposed to begin by 1st May!

Hux holds up four copies of books, spines facing out. They are all by Lizzie Huxley-Jones and from left to right are hits different, make you mine this Christmas, under the mistletoe with you, and reality check.

A stack of four books on a bookshelf from top down they are reality check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, the layover by Beth Reekles, look up handsome by Jack strange, and wooing the witch queen by Stephanie Burgis

Hiya book lovers! Today is St David’s Day which is the national day of recognising Welsh people for being hot and talented and cool. How about you go read some Welsh books (here’s some fun romcoms!!) and enjoy a lil Catatonia and several Welsh cakes x 📚💙

This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read.

#c4news

Ooh I really enjoyed the Ski Mountaineering #Olympics

Australia suffering a batting collapse and being on the brink of elimination from the T20 world cup is pretty hilarious (sorry to any Australian followers...)

These billionaires always look like haunted dolls

A tax-avoiding billionaire who doesn't even live in the UK?

Parliamentlive.tv Science, Innovation and Technology Committee

Some thoughts on the select committee appearance by the boss of UKRI, Ian Chapman yesterday. It’s a long watch but can be seen here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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oh shit this piece is really good

It's all a bit depressing

I see "protecting" curiosity driven research looks a lot like defunding it

I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.

Ah no worries - wanted to suggest just in case!
You're doing amazing work btw :)

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Things to get me is a good non-amazon wishlist alternative and I think they do private shipping etc - however I have never used it for anything like this so don't know if it would handle the scale required. www.thingstogetme.com

Campaign is live now! I'm beyond proud to be one of the leads of the @transunityquilt.bsky.social with @goodlawproject.bsky.social - arts activism by and for trans people and our allies.

We're making an enormous patchwork quilt, telling our stories, celebrating community, and we need you!

I had sort of hoped that the ongoing experience at Nottingham was unique but it very much appears from this thread that this is a sector-wide issue 😔

This, 100%

Well that Manchester Derby was unexpectedly great! #MUFC

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial.

I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

It's so ridiculous!

Incredible scenes