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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · May 8

#academicsky #researchfunding #equity

Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · May 8

The scheme offers a flexible funding package of up to £200,000 for project expenses plus salary if required for research activities or activities adjacent to research to support successful onward career progression in academia.

More information can be found here: wellcome.org/research-fun...

Accelerator Awards | Grant funding | Wellcome

Eligibility and applications details for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards, which will support Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani researchers in the UK to make successful career transitions.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · May 8

🚨NEW FUNDING: Introducing the 2025 Round of the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Accelerator Awards! 🚨

Our funding scheme for researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani applications has reopened.

💰 £200,000 per researcher
🗓️ Up to two years
✅ Apply by 15 July 2025
⤵️https://lnkd.in/e6PT-TQR

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · May 2

It was back to work today for me after 6 beautiful months of parental leave with my little family.

I wrote about how going back to work makes me feel on LinkedIn here: www.linkedin.com/posts/shomar...

❤️ to wonderful @wellcometrust.bsky.social colleagues past and present who made this happen.

#paternityleave #worklifebalance #parenting #ukworkplace | Shomari Lewis-Wilson | 16 comments

*Back to Work for Me: 6 Months of Precious Time with My Son* It's back to work for me after reaching the end of an incredible six months of fully paid paternity leave, covered by my employer, Wel...

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 18

Article of the year and it is only January: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

How this dovetails with other sector activity and the wider corporatisation of culture is something we are very aware of and observing.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

Yes I fully recognise that element. We made it a condition of grants to share progress and findings as part of this social experiment so by the end we should have *something* useful for everyone (I hope!)…

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

and we plan to share what we find from this exercise as a resource for everyone. It will also be helpful for us - IFRC was an experiment for us. If we do it again or another call like it, we will have loads of learning to help inform more equitable approaches in the future.

Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

We have contracted a social research team (Studio Susegad) whose role is to help us piece together what we are finding out from these grants and what these findings then say about the academic system and Wellcome’s role in it. The community is open to everyone in the call (incl those not funded)…

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

Of course, but (hopefully) this isn’t the end of the road for funding like this or the opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing that will come out of it.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

that doesn’t mean the good work and knowledge from the grants needs to be closed as well. See here: zenodo.org/records/1436...

Launching Wellcome's Institutional Research Culture Community

The paper presents Wellcome's creation of the Institutional Research Culture Community (IRCC) aimed at uniting 42 organisations involved in advancing positive institutional research environments. This...

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 8

Currently away on parental leave so am distant from current day to day goings on but this is why we are trying to create an outward facing and transparent community with the outputs of the grants. The competition was closed to institutions where most Wellcome £ goes for strategic reasons but

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Jan 7

Is BlueSky our only hope?

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Dec 17

Concern as some universities get early access to REF guidance.

Staggered release of people, culture and environment guidance causing “significant amount of anxiety”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Simone Sacchi (he/him) @simosacchi.bsky.social · Dec 16

Are you working on making a meaningful change in your academic institution? You think people and values should be at the heart of the process? Then the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute is for you. Join my @humetricshss.bsky.social colleagues today for an info session at 18:00 CET!

HuMetricsHSS @humetricshss.bsky.social · Dec 13

We're holding VELI information sessions on Dec 16 at Jan 21 at 12pm Eastern. Sign up or find out more: humetricshss.org/values-enact...

Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI) – HuMetricsHSS

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 13

Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were worthy GOTYs. You can only play Nintendo games on Nintendo hardware (legally)

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 12

We are so finished.

Starmer and Badenoch's lunchtime sandwich split www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch's lunchtime sandwich split

The Conservative leader says sandwiches are "not real food" while the PM says they are a British institution.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 11

The absolute wickedness of the mother who reported this young man to the police 😦. May she find no peace.

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Briton, 18, jailed in Dubai for sex with 17-year-old girl, campaign group says — The Standard

Detained in Dubai said Marcus Fakana ‘feels abandoned by the British government and Keir Starmer’.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · Dec 10

Given that BlueSky has so few employees, I suggest that people do most of the work of closing right-wing grifters down themselves. Don’t name them or share them at all and block them individually. If the grifters are only talking to themselves, that will be enough to drive them off.

What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable?

Called rage-baiting, making people angry with social media posts can be a business.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 10

I wonder what Elon Musk thinks about this CEO murder and the legions of blue tick weirdos on the bad place endorsing violence. Is that healthy discussion?

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · Dec 9

Counterpoint: Do

Headline from a rich person who writes: "Don't replace the culture war with the class war"

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 9

Yeah, if anything it just makes him look more suspected.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 9

Pretty crap statement to be honest. It’s giving “come and get me if yuh bad”.

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Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 8

Agree in principle but the media ecosphere is not sympathetic at all. Things not told leaves room for perverse narratives to land, even when they are nonsensical so it is a problem for this Labour Party if they can’t describe how they are delivering well.

Shomari Lewis-Wilson @shomarilw.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thank you!

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