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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Codebases

Enabling stable preservation of ML algorithms in high-energy physics with petrifyML

Andy Buckley, Louie Corpe, Martin Habedank, Tomasz Procter

Paper:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 78 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.78

petrifyML-v2.1:
SciPost Phys. Codebases 78-r2.1 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCodeb.78-r2.1

#GlasgowUniversity #UCA #LPCA #JagiellonianUniversity
#PLGrid #UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Integrable models from 4d holomorphic BF theory

Lewis T. Cole, Ben Hoare
SciPost Phys. 21, 044 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.21.2.044

#DurhamUniversity #EdinburghUniversity
#UKRI

UK Research and Innovation confirmed it is withdrawing funding from Jodrell Bank Observatory’s e-MERLIN telescope network, please consider signing this petition to reverse this decision:

https://c.org/mtwsRd4yT2

#JodrellBank #Science #Space #UKRI

“Without additional funds, the risk is that [scientific and other research funding] is diverted to support more immediate economic goals. With university research already being squeezed by the loss of income from overseas students, that could be calamitous.” #HigherEducation #Research #UKRI

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The STFC Cuts

News came out yesterday of the results of the latest funding prioritization exercise by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The total savings being made by cuts to astronomy and particle physics are less than the funds allocated to just one AI lab! It seems STFC has to bear the brunt of savings needed so that UKRI, the organization under which STFC sits, can gamble much more on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technology. It seems to me that these are two bubbles ready to burst and the decision to sink money into them is not only unwise, it places the UK science base at serious risk of collapse.

Anyway, you can find the list of specific cuts here. Radio astronomy is hit particularly hard. The interferometric network e-Merlin is not prioritized and its funding will run out in 2028. That puts Jodrell Bank Observatory in danger of complete closure unless an alternative source of funding can be found. The last time STFC had a financial crisis was in 2009 and e-Merlin might well have been cut then but survived thanks to political intervention at the highest level. I suppose that could happen again, but I wouldn’t bet on it. More bad news is that the UK Square Kilometre Array Regional Centre, with SKA itself already financially troubled, is also earmarked for cuts.

And that’s just radio astronomy and Jodrell Bank is one of the highest-profile casualties. There are cuts and cancellations in many other areas too; see here for a full list.

The Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Catherine Heymans, has used her platform to campaign against these damaging and short-sighted cuts to UK astronomy, including on social media:

https://bsky.app/profile/astroroyalscot.bsky.social/post/3mrmvzyziv22r

The same can’t be said for the Astronomer Royal herself, Prof. Michele Dougherty. The reason for that is Prof. Dougherty is also Executive Chair of STFC and is therefore responsible for implementing the cuts. How it is possible for her to remain in both posts is nothing short of a scandal. Such a glaring conflict of interest cannot be allowed to stand. Indeed, Prof. Dougherty was elected to serve as President of the Institute of Physics from October 2025 but stepped down in January 2026 citing concerns of a conflict of interest with her role at STFC. It’s a slap in the face to the Astronomy community that it is not deemed worthy of such consideration.

As if UK research funding wasn't bleak enough at the moment, it's hard to have any faith in #UKRI when one arm (#STFC) is cutting funding to core facilities while another (#EPSRC) is finding more money to burn on AI related projects.

What I want to know is that were these funding cuts because of Patrick Vallance or despite him? Because they seem very short-sighted and industry-led. #UKRI #UKPolitics #JodrellBank

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Gutting news for NW England - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo

"UK's iconic Jodrell Bank telescope faces axe in science cuts… scientific observations at Jodrell are expected to cease on the 1 April 2028 unless alternative funding can be found.“

UKRI’s announcement is draped in managerial bullshit, claiming that investment will now focus on projects that deliver the "greatest long-term impact” even as they dismantle the foundations of cooperative science&astronomy research in the UK.

#JodrellBank #UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A hydrodynamic theory for non-equilibrium full counting statistics in one-dimensional quantum systems

Dávid X. Horváth, Benjamin Doyon, Paola Ruggiero
SciPost Phys. 21, 007 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.21.1.007

#KCL
#UKRI

For biosciences researchers in the #UK interested in #FAIR and #OpenScience

BioFAIR Fellowship Programme - BioFAIR - https://biofair.uk/biofair-fellowship-programme-2/

#BioFAIR #UKRI #Funding #FAIR #Biosciences #Neuroscience #Genomics #Transcriptomics

If you think UK Higher Education is struggling there is one area where this is most pronounced and it’s the one I lead on in my University.

The number of publicly-funded doctoral studentships is falling sharply despite increased spending (partly because UKRI rightly increased stipends).

The biggest drop is in Engineering and Physical Sciences.

I knew all this but the actual numbers are terrifying.

So much for a knowledge economy.

#ukri #ukristudentships #highereducation #phd #DoctoralResearch #researchfunding

https://www.ukri.org/publications/ukri-doctoral-studentships-and-fellowships-financial-years-2015-to-2025/ukri-doctoral-studentships-and-fellowships-2015-to-2025/

I'm checking out the #StepUp2026 / #RSLondon conference today at the #FrancisCrickInstitute ✨

https://step-up.ac.uk/events/step-up-2026/

https://step-up.ac.uk/events/step-up-2026/schedule/

STEP-UP is:

> A Strategic TEchnical Platform for University Technical Professionals. Supporting "digital Research Technical Professionals" (dRTPs) and researchers working with research software, research data and research computing infrastructure, in the London region and beyond.

#London #RSE #dRTP #ResearchComputing #UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Les Houches lecture notes on tensor networks

Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper, Weronika Wiesiolek, Frank Verstraete
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 128 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.128

#GhentUniversity #Cambridge
#UKRI

"I can only imagine the team meeting searching for the perfect metaphor for explaining how the money is spent. Yet I can also really imagine that someone mumbled “**ck it”. Someone else heard “bucket”. And somehow, that’s how we ended up where we are." 😂👌 #UKRI #STFCCuts

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A 'clinical research training fellowship' offers #funding for #healthcare professionals to undertake a #PhD
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/professional-doctorate-clinical-research-training-fellowship/
Also open to international applicants!

Research can focus on any area of the #MRC remit to improve human health.

#UKRI #ProfDoc
#Nursing #AHP #ClinicalPsychology

'Clinical research training fellowships' offer #funding for #healthcare professionals to reacquire research skills
https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/capacity-building-clinical-research-training-fellowship/

Research within the #MRC remit from the study of disease mechanisms to the translational and developmental.

#UKRI #PostDoc
#Nursing #AHP #ClinicalPsychology

Regional Accounts for Clinical Researchers initiative by #UKRI #MRC
https://www.ukri.org/news/new-mrc-investment-supports-clinical-research-careers-in-the-uk/
#RACR

❗Important❗
They conceive "clinical" broadly:
open to nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, #AlliedHealthProfessions

The #Scotland Partnership Advancing Research Careers for Clinicians will offer 'SPARCC awards' w buy-out for a defined time and purpose.

Details to be announced soon, applications opening in July 2026, awards commencing in 2027.

#DundeeUni #ClinicalPsychology #Nursing #Funding

Just discovered that #UKRI grant proposals are now presented as HTML to reviewers.

I wonder how they are submitted. Any UK academics?

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Lattice models for phases and transitions with non-invertible symmetries

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Lea E. Bottini, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki, Apoorv Tiwari
SciPost Phys. 20, 134 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.5.134

#Oxford #NBI
#UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

A pedestrian’s guide to the topological phases of free fermions

Frank Schindler
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 122 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.122

#ImperialCollegeLondon
#UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Medicine show: A Calogero model with principal series states

Tarek Anous, Jackson R. Fliss, Jeremy van der Heijden
SciPost Phys. 20, 119 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.119

#QMUL #Cambridge #UBC
#UKRI

I am in a fascinating meeting about the costs of doctoral training in the UK. #UKRI #researchfunding #phd #DoctoralTraining #AcademicCosts #HigherEd

New Value: increasing cost of UKRI research grants

https://quantixed.org/2026/04/22/new-value-increasing-cost-of-ukri-research-grants/

#funding #funding #GtR #research #Rstats #UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

From gauging to duality in one-dimensional quantum lattice models

Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper, José Garre-Rubio, Frank Verstraete, Kevin Vervoort, Dominic J. Williamson, Laurens Lootens
SciPost Phys. 20, 113 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.113

#GhentUniversity #ViennaUniversity #IFT #Cambridge #USYD
#UKRI

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Hydrodynamic noise in one dimension: Projected Kubo formula and how it vanishes in integrable models

Benjamin Doyon
SciPost Phys. 20, 111 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.20.4.111

#KCL
#UKRI #YITP

Hi #digipres folks 👋🏽 This Thursday afternoon, it's #DPConnect time again! Please join our guest host Teagan Zoldolske (#UKRI UK Research and Innovation) and the #DPC team to discuss all things #digitalpreservation. Sign up to receive the joining details 👉🏽 https://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/605/-/dpconnect-europe

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#EngineeringBiology will be right at the heart of the #CircularEconomy ♻️, and we sustain society only if we are near-💯 circular 💚...
so here's another hit from #EdinburghUni Centre for Engineering Biology.🍞🍞🍞 -> H2

#UKRI

Our workshop "Cross-government policy modelling of long-term health and wellbeing impacts" brought 5 #microsimulation teams together with policy makers, public sector and other researchers.

#HealthEconomics

SimPaths
https://www.microsimulation.ac.uk/jas-mine/simpaths/

SIPHER
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/sipher/

WELLMOD
https://chanse.org/wellmod/

Sheffield Tobacco and Alcohol Policy Model
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hec.3105

The event was part of our #UKRI #MRC funding
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX002837%2F1#/tabOverview

And a #PrePrint from our work:
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/234125/