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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Dec 12
A quick reminder of the Trust's current open funding rounds and schemes opening in January! Read more and apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/schemes-at-a...
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What advice would you give to a researcher at the beginning of their academic journey?

‘Don’t be afraid to carve your own path’ says @deseonu.bsky.social in to Ep 1 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR

Watch now on the @britishacademy.bsky.social YouTube channel: bit.ly/4r7rYts
January 23, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
📢 New paper: Life on New Earth: biodiversity change & humanity in a novel future

A counterpoint to collapse based narratives of biosphere futures by accounting for how ecological novelty, gains & past human experiences can help us navigate accelerating biodiversity change.

doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Life on New Earth: biodiversity change and humanity in a novel future
Abstract. Accounting for ecological novelty, gains and past human experiences through social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) can help society navig
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January 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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If you are considering applying for the Trust's Early Career Fellowship scheme, listen to some of our former and current Fellows from universities across the UK talk about their areas of research and their experiences.

media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/leverh...

Deadline: 19 February 2026, 4pm
Leverhulme Early Career Fellows share their experiences
The Trust is proud to support early career researchers develop their ideas and become leaders in their field
media.leverhulme.ac.uk
January 23, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Research has instrumental value in real world outcomes and intrinsic value in pursuing knowledge for its own sake.

@annavignoles.bsky.social on why research matters, tune in to this @expeditions.bsky.social 🎬 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/anna-v...

#EducationDay
January 23, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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extinctionleeds.bsky.social
We are thrilled to present our new podcast, 'Edges of Extinction'! In our first episode Diane Nelson and @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social talk to @katatrepsis.bsky.social about insect extinctions, what these mean for the world, and how they can be averted extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...
Edges of Extinction Episode 1: A Wonkier World | Extinction Studies at Leeds
Sicily Fiennes and Diane Nelson talk to Chris Hassall about insect extinctions, what these might mean for the world, and how they can be averted. The first episode of our new 8-episode podcast series ...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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naturerecovery.bsky.social
We're really looking forward to this lecture tomorrow. Join us on-line or in person, followed by a drinks reception.
Register here. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...
January 22, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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📢JOYCE YOUINGS LECTURE 2025-26 IS NEXT WEEK📢

Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England

🗓️ 28 January, 3pm, followed by drinks reception
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom

🗃️ All welcome, register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...
The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture 2025-6: Professor Jane Whittle
Work and gender, status and power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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Leverhulme Research Fellow @c3ds.bsky.social, Saffron O'Neill's new book shows how images can be powerful tools to engage viewers and enable them to connect different issues together. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/visual...
The Visual Life of Climate Change
Images can play a key role in communication – but climate change imagery can be formulaic and narrow in perspective. Going beyond polar bears and wildfires, Saffron O’Neill's book is a manifesto for o...
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January 22, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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chrisnsimms.bsky.social
This is a fascinating bit of research diving into why some octopuses have larger brains than others. #science #intelligence #evolution
It was great talking to @michael.muthukrishna.com, @pkatz.bsky.social and Robin Dunbar about this for @newscientist.com
🧪 🦑 🧠

www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
Octopuses prompt rethink of why animals evolve big brains
A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests something else is going on
www.newscientist.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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New research by @uclgeography.bsky.social scientists including Leverhulme Research Fellow, David Thornalley, published in @nature.com finds critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during the last ice age and continued to transport warm, salty water.
Critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age
During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ac...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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A new study by Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner Harrison Steel, @gabriel-abrahams.bsky.social and others has proved for the first time that it is possible to deliberately engineer quantum mechanical processes occurring inside a protein, and use these to create new sensing technologies.
January 22, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Researchers have engineered magnetically controlled fluorescent proteins that can be remotely dimmed and brightened in cells and living animals

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‘Remote controlled’ proteins illuminate living cells
The discovery that some fluorescent proteins are sensitive to magnets could lead to the development of switchable drugs and biosensors.
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January 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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royalholloway.bsky.social
Pioneering use of AI to aid scientific discovery 🪐

Dr Alessio Spurio Mancini, from our Department of Physics, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award to develop a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) hub.

Read more: https://ow.ly/UX7t50Y0488
ECLIPSE - Environment for Computational Learning Interdisciplinary Physics and Scientific Excellence
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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christineduffield.bsky.social
The Leverhulme DTP in Ecological Data Science is currently recruiting the next cohort of PhD candidates for enrolment in October 2026, with an application deadline of 6th March.

Read about the programme and available projects here:
ecological-data-science.github.io

@uofgecodatasci.bsky.social
Group photo of participants in the Leverhulme EDS conference at SCENE on Loch Lomond, October 2025
January 21, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Eilidh Thompson introduces her PhD research into the decline of fish numbers in Ullswater. Piecing together sources of historical information, including fishing guides, romantic literature & newspaper reports, she hopes to be able to model the history of the lake.

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
January 21, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
Event: Dr Maya Indira Ganesh and Dr Milena Ivanova will be speaking about AI and visual culture at Cambridge Digital Humanities event on Monday 26 January.
More info and registration👇
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41229...
Machine Visual Culture x Cambridge Digital Humanities - CDH
Digital humanities and critical AI studies are increasingly tightly bound. The Machine Visual Culture research group examines the reciprocal relationship between AI and visual culture, emphasising how...
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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mechanicsoflife.bsky.social
Today at 15:00 GMT - our next #ForceTalk is with Professor Edouard Hannezo @ehannezo.bsky.social - online and open to all, details on how to join 👇
mechanicsoflife.bsky.social Mechanics of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme @mechanicsoflife.bsky.social · 15d
Join our next #ForceTalk with Prof Edouard Hannezo @ehannezo.bsky.social of @istaresearch.bsky.social on "Robustness of morphogenesis via mechano-chemical feedbacks"

🗓️ 21 January 2026
🕒 15:00 - 16:00 GMT

Online & open to all 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/force...

#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
Background of DNA strand with logos of King's College London and the Leverhulme Trust and text 21 January 2026 Robustness of morphogenesis via mechano-chemical feedbacks Professor Edouard Hannezo Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) Force Talks Mechanics of Life Leverhulme DSP seminar series
January 21, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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The book "Palaeontology in Public" is one year old today! 🦣🦖🦕🎂🎉

We've apparently had 7,756 downloads (!!), so many thanks to @uclpress.bsky.social for publishing it and making it open access, and to all the contributors, and to everyone who has read it so far
chrismanias.bsky.social Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · Jan 21
"Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time" is out today, and is freely downloadable as an open access pdf, published by @uclpress.bsky.social !

uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...

🎺🦕🦕🦕⚒️🎥🦖🦖🦖📖📰🦣🦣🦣🎺
A book cover, featuring the text "Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time. Edited by Chris Manias." The cover image depicts a large long-necked Sauropod dinosaur, modelled after the famous animation "Gertie the Dinosaur" in a park, with a city skyline in the background. A range of humans are standing around Gertie, pointing at and admiring her. There is also a man in a ringmaster outfit standing on Gertie's shoulder.
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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danieljamesyon.bsky.social
A few more weeks left to apply for this PhD position 👇

Deadline 22nd Feb

@birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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leverhulmecal.bsky.social
The Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life PhD studentships are now open here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... If you are looking for an interdisciplinary PhD programme within a vibrant community of researchers, this could be the place #algorithms #AI #PhD
Funded PhD opportunities - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
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January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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amoorelouise.bsky.social
The @leverhulmecal.bsky.social PhD studentships are now live here leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/leverhulme-c... Are you looking for a PhD programme that supports interdisciplinary approaches to algorithmic life? Closing date 26 February
Funded PhD opportunities - Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life
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January 19, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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northernenvhistory.bsky.social
Firstly, we have a really exciting workshop comming up in April in York, with a deadline for the #CfP on the 31/01! The theme is 'Yuck: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Non-Human Life', considering unwanted life as historically produced, its sources, and the future of more-than-human-histories 2/4
Call for papers, Northern Environmental History Network in-person workshop. 'Yuck: Historical Approaches to Unwanted Non-Human Life'. Humanities Research Centre, Uni of York 09-10/04/2026 This two day workshop will bring together researchers of all career stages and various disciplines to discuss the historical production and perception of categories of unwanted non-human life, such as weeds, vermin, and germs. Our aim is to facilitate wide ranging, critical discussions through a series of themes and research questions; beginning with an overarching inquiry into how unwanted life is historically produced, followed by considerations of the conceptual problems this research faces, and ending with reflections on the future of this nascent field. Each theme (outlined in more detail below) will be discussed in break-out groups over the course of the 2 days, and participants would be expected to prepare a reflection (up to five minutes) on each theme in advance. The workshop will also feature two keynote papers. This is an in-person only event. To facilitate attendance for unfunded PGRs, we hope to provide a limited amount of financial support. Workshop Themes and Questions: 1 - Producing the Unwanted What material and discursive practices are involved in the production of unwanted natures? How do they, and their production, differ across historical contexts? 2 - Agency How can the agency of non-humans be historicised, and related to the production of unwanted life? What issues does an emphasis on agency raise, especially as regards the operation of power in the categorisation of non-human life as unwanted? 3 - Source Material and Archives What demands do these different sources make on historians? How do archival practices contribute to the construction of unwanted life? How does non-human life relate to the archive? 4 - Future of the Field [continues next post in thread]
January 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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mechanicsoflife.bsky.social
📢 We're recruiting! We have a fully funded doctoral scholarship open to UK applicants for the project "Development of optogenetic mechanical tools to control protein translocation across biological pores."

Find out more 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

#mechanobiology @kingsnmes.bsky.social
Background of DNA strand with logos of King's College London and the Leverhulme Trust and text Mechanics of Life Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme PhD Opportunity Development of optogenetic mechanical tools to control protein translocation across biological pores Deadline: 4 February 2026
January 20, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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What makes an Early Career Researcher in today’s ever-changing academic landscape? Hear from Dr Ayşe Burçin Başkurt and @deseonu.bsky.social on finding your voice and defining your academic journey in Ep 1 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR

🎬 youtu.be/KomUWcQtFvQ?...
January 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Andrew Hill reflects on the Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting where he presented the theory behind his current project titled ‘The Never-Wildwood: Humans and Beavers in Britain’s Woodlands in the Mesolithic and the Present’.

@tag2025york.bsky.social

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The Historic Environment and Biodiversity at TAG 2025
PhD student Andrew Hill reflects on the Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting.
www.york.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:16 AM