Kirsty Grainger
@kirstygrainger.bsky.social
By day: enabler of research & cheerleader of people. By night: sweary embroidery, speedcubing, books, parkrun. University of Bath (ex-UKRI). She/her
Time with my Independent Visitor volunteer's hat on yesterday. Time with a young person that wants to hang out*. What's not to like?
Saw pigs and played lots of pass-the-pigs and sky-jo in a café.
anotherwayoflookingatit.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/b...
*a rare thing now my kids are teens!
Saw pigs and played lots of pass-the-pigs and sky-jo in a café.
anotherwayoflookingatit.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/b...
*a rare thing now my kids are teens!
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Time with my Independent Visitor volunteer's hat on yesterday. Time with a young person that wants to hang out*. What's not to like?
Saw pigs and played lots of pass-the-pigs and sky-jo in a café.
anotherwayoflookingatit.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/b...
*a rare thing now my kids are teens!
Saw pigs and played lots of pass-the-pigs and sky-jo in a café.
anotherwayoflookingatit.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/b...
*a rare thing now my kids are teens!
Parkrun update: 101 home. Joy here today as tradition dictates that for a local event called runvember local runners (not me) run only wearing swimming gear. Old fashioned swimming gear the norm but there are always a few only running in Speedos!! No photo 🫣
www.runvember.co.uk
www.runvember.co.uk
HrH’s RunVEMBER Challenge, Swindon
Run 30 days through November with the people of Swindon, to raise money for Swindon Food Collective/Threshold/The Harbour Project Find out how it works and how to take part in this challenge on the Ru...
www.runvember.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Parkrun update: 101 home. Joy here today as tradition dictates that for a local event called runvember local runners (not me) run only wearing swimming gear. Old fashioned swimming gear the norm but there are always a few only running in Speedos!! No photo 🫣
www.runvember.co.uk
www.runvember.co.uk
In case you've missed it UKRI are currently actively asking for feedback. Respond by 31 December.
(although my internal debate on whether stakeholder is a word that should be banished remains)
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
(although my internal debate on whether stakeholder is a word that should be banished remains)
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In case you've missed it UKRI are currently actively asking for feedback. Respond by 31 December.
(although my internal debate on whether stakeholder is a word that should be banished remains)
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
(although my internal debate on whether stakeholder is a word that should be banished remains)
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Why is the use of PascalCase (where you capitalise each word) important in a hashtag?
So #LookingAtIt isn't misinterpreted or read by screen readers incorrectly and you don't end up #LookingATit
Always #PascalCase
So #LookingAtIt isn't misinterpreted or read by screen readers incorrectly and you don't end up #LookingATit
Always #PascalCase
November 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Why is the use of PascalCase (where you capitalise each word) important in a hashtag?
So #LookingAtIt isn't misinterpreted or read by screen readers incorrectly and you don't end up #LookingATit
Always #PascalCase
So #LookingAtIt isn't misinterpreted or read by screen readers incorrectly and you don't end up #LookingATit
Always #PascalCase
#parkrun update: away at Rothay Park Ambleside.
MY 100th PARKRUN!
Also my slowest ever parkrun as I'm injured from a cartoon-style fall last week. Probably* shouldn't have run but had planned for over a year for my 100th to coincide with the new age grading so did it. Mostly walked it
*definitely
MY 100th PARKRUN!
Also my slowest ever parkrun as I'm injured from a cartoon-style fall last week. Probably* shouldn't have run but had planned for over a year for my 100th to coincide with the new age grading so did it. Mostly walked it
*definitely
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#parkrun update: away at Rothay Park Ambleside.
MY 100th PARKRUN!
Also my slowest ever parkrun as I'm injured from a cartoon-style fall last week. Probably* shouldn't have run but had planned for over a year for my 100th to coincide with the new age grading so did it. Mostly walked it
*definitely
MY 100th PARKRUN!
Also my slowest ever parkrun as I'm injured from a cartoon-style fall last week. Probably* shouldn't have run but had planned for over a year for my 100th to coincide with the new age grading so did it. Mostly walked it
*definitely
In the very beautiful and very rainy Lake District. As always, casually looking at houses for sale. Accidentally finding William Wordsworth's house happens to be available! Anyone got a spare £2.5 million??
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
7 bedroom detached house for sale in Rydal Mount, Rydal, Ambleside, LA22 9LU, LA22 for £2,500,000. Marketed by AshdownJones, The Lakes and Lune Valley
www.rightmove.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In the very beautiful and very rainy Lake District. As always, casually looking at houses for sale. Accidentally finding William Wordsworth's house happens to be available! Anyone got a spare £2.5 million??
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Who are the researchers welcoming this initiative?? No intention to create a pile-on, I'm only observing that the subheading of this article is misleading as there is no resecher in the article quoted as going anything as positive as "welcoming" this.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Who are the researchers welcoming this initiative?? No intention to create a pile-on, I'm only observing that the subheading of this article is misleading as there is no resecher in the article quoted as going anything as positive as "welcoming" this.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This info was routinely published by UKRI prior to the the new funding service (TFS) which doesn't yet have the same capability, in some areas, as the old system Je-S had.
A long time ago RCUK (as was) did a review of award rates and concluded that anything less than 20% was inefficient.
A long time ago RCUK (as was) did a review of award rates and concluded that anything less than 20% was inefficient.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This info was routinely published by UKRI prior to the the new funding service (TFS) which doesn't yet have the same capability, in some areas, as the old system Je-S had.
A long time ago RCUK (as was) did a review of award rates and concluded that anything less than 20% was inefficient.
A long time ago RCUK (as was) did a review of award rates and concluded that anything less than 20% was inefficient.
Just spotted that the roses universities @yorkuniversity.bsky.social and @lancasteruni.bsky.social have used the same supplier for the pens they give away on open days.
October 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Just spotted that the roses universities @yorkuniversity.bsky.social and @lancasteruni.bsky.social have used the same supplier for the pens they give away on open days.
Parkrun update: have stupidly not built in illness contingency for my 100th parkrun party (with friends travelling from afar to run my 100th with me in a couple of weeks). This means parkrun number 98 must be a snotty slow one today 🤦♀️😆
October 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Parkrun update: have stupidly not built in illness contingency for my 100th parkrun party (with friends travelling from afar to run my 100th with me in a couple of weeks). This means parkrun number 98 must be a snotty slow one today 🤦♀️😆
@alexmaclaren.bsky.social season three of The Diplomat. Ten minutes in but so good.
October 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@alexmaclaren.bsky.social season three of The Diplomat. Ten minutes in but so good.
I've just refused to make a decision on the grounds I've had a long week (including illness) and I don't think it is sensible for me to make a decision right now. I absolutely know I am going to curse myself come Monday because that decision will still be there and still difficult, regardless.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I've just refused to make a decision on the grounds I've had a long week (including illness) and I don't think it is sensible for me to make a decision right now. I absolutely know I am going to curse myself come Monday because that decision will still be there and still difficult, regardless.
The Celebrity Traitors round table as training material for unconscious bias in peer review panels?
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Celebrity Traitors round table as training material for unconscious bias in peer review panels?
I will not take the bait.... I will not take the bait....
REF incentives stretch research funding, warns former UKRI boss.
Ottoline Leyser says quality-related distribution mechanism is leading to over-recruitment of principal investigators.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Ottoline Leyser says quality-related distribution mechanism is leading to over-recruitment of principal investigators.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
REF incentives stretch research funding, warns former UKRI boss - Research Professional News
Ottoline Leyser says quality-related distribution mechanism is leading to over-recruitment of principal investigators
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will not take the bait.... I will not take the bait....
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October 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Cheeky mid week gig with the fam. The Divine Comedy albums have mirrored stages of me and my peers lives given the proximity of age to Mr Neil Hannon. Latest album is about the death of his father. Sublime. Stand out tracks for me The Last Time I Saw The Old Man which is gloriously real 1/2
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Cheeky mid week gig with the fam. The Divine Comedy albums have mirrored stages of me and my peers lives given the proximity of age to Mr Neil Hannon. Latest album is about the death of his father. Sublime. Stand out tracks for me The Last Time I Saw The Old Man which is gloriously real 1/2
Parkrun update: home course, first run since the half last Sunday and yes it hurt! 49mph winds probably didn't help. I love the sense of quiet community (and smugness) on bad weather parkrun days.
Had to resist the urge to pick up all the conkers at the start.
Had to resist the urge to pick up all the conkers at the start.
October 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Parkrun update: home course, first run since the half last Sunday and yes it hurt! 49mph winds probably didn't help. I love the sense of quiet community (and smugness) on bad weather parkrun days.
Had to resist the urge to pick up all the conkers at the start.
Had to resist the urge to pick up all the conkers at the start.
You've probably already done this but reach out to your Jewish colleagues and friends today. You don't have to have the right words because there are none.
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
You've probably already done this but reach out to your Jewish colleagues and friends today. You don't have to have the right words because there are none.
Positive sub-tweet. I have the best colleagues @uniofbath.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Positive sub-tweet. I have the best colleagues @uniofbath.bsky.social
Reposted by Kirsty Grainger
Breaking: Labour government to bring back student maintenance grants.
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says grants will help “those who need them most”.
Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says grants will help “those who need them most”.
Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Labour government to bring back student maintenance grants - Research Professional News
Labour 2025: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says targeted grants will help “those who need them most”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Breaking: Labour government to bring back student maintenance grants.
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says grants will help “those who need them most”.
Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson says grants will help “those who need them most”.
Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Swindon Half! Thanks for all the encouragement. Unexpected benefit of marshalling #parkrun yesterday was that a fellow marshall said he was aiming for a 2.30 today. I saw him at the start made him my unofficial pacer and I did it! If I hadn't marshalled wouldn't have had aspirational pacing. #RunSky
September 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Swindon Half! Thanks for all the encouragement. Unexpected benefit of marshalling #parkrun yesterday was that a fellow marshall said he was aiming for a 2.30 today. I saw him at the start made him my unofficial pacer and I did it! If I hadn't marshalled wouldn't have had aspirational pacing. #RunSky
#Parkrun update: marshalled my first non-junior parkrun. Home course. Saving my legs for tomorrow. Took my tambourine which most runners seemed to appreciate as much as the kids normally do.
Apologies to the runners who hate the enthusiastic marshalls, I was that one today 😂 GREAT JOB EVERYONE!
Apologies to the runners who hate the enthusiastic marshalls, I was that one today 😂 GREAT JOB EVERYONE!
September 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#Parkrun update: marshalled my first non-junior parkrun. Home course. Saving my legs for tomorrow. Took my tambourine which most runners seemed to appreciate as much as the kids normally do.
Apologies to the runners who hate the enthusiastic marshalls, I was that one today 😂 GREAT JOB EVERYONE!
Apologies to the runners who hate the enthusiastic marshalls, I was that one today 😂 GREAT JOB EVERYONE!
The use of pink and blue to denote genders raises an eyebrow even when male is pink and female is blue as presented here.
September 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The use of pink and blue to denote genders raises an eyebrow even when male is pink and female is blue as presented here.
"The crucial point that seems to have been lost is that REF PCE never set out to measure culture directly. Instead, it aimed to assess credible indicators of how institutions enable and support inclusive, sustainable, high-quality research."
NEW on Wonkhe: Yolana Pringle and Ben Tatler make the case that the REF pause should be the moment to build on the most substantial sector-wide collaboration ever undertaken on research environments buff.ly/B53PxLd
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"The crucial point that seems to have been lost is that REF PCE never set out to measure culture directly. Instead, it aimed to assess credible indicators of how institutions enable and support inclusive, sustainable, high-quality research."
Who do you know that would be excellent at this job. Please nudge them to apply, everyone needs a cheerleader!
Policy Engagement Lead @uniofbath.bsky.social
PART TIME - 0.6 FTE starting from £47,389 pro rata
#SciPol
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
Policy Engagement Lead @uniofbath.bsky.social
PART TIME - 0.6 FTE starting from £47,389 pro rata
#SciPol
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
CC13048 Policy Engagement Lead - Jobs at Bath
www.bath.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Who do you know that would be excellent at this job. Please nudge them to apply, everyone needs a cheerleader!
Policy Engagement Lead @uniofbath.bsky.social
PART TIME - 0.6 FTE starting from £47,389 pro rata
#SciPol
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
Policy Engagement Lead @uniofbath.bsky.social
PART TIME - 0.6 FTE starting from £47,389 pro rata
#SciPol
www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...