Gift link: on.ft.com/4455d0e

Link to the original research article. 2/2 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

'The White Paper asks us to specialise; we’ve done it before (for example marine sciences, offshore renewable energy) and will do it again. But we also serve the South West of England....Specialism must be balanced with serving our communities in Devon, Cornwall and the wider region.' 2/2

'In the past weeks, Air quality index (AQI) measurements have regularly soared to more than a hundred times higher than is deemed safe by global heath bodies and residents routinely describe the city as akin to a gas chamber. Pollution now kills more people in Delhi than obesity or diabetes.' 2/2

'“Following a summer of further racist disorder, it is little wonder a growing number of nursing staff report feeling unsafe, particularly when having to work on their own and often at night.' 2/2

I just mute that post when it happens. Only takes a few secs.

no time to say sadly.

Then you might be interested in this Politics & International Studies Impact Case Study from the Institute of Policy Studies at the University of Bath on the case for UBS nationally and internationally. @uniofbath.bsky.social

results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/1f464...

Reformation of Science Publishing: The Stockholm Declaration can be accessed without a Royal Society login from PubMed. Vital reading for our times. 3/3

'These problems include the costs and inequalities of publishing with open access under the for-profit, author-pays model as well as the “flood” of low-quality papers that has been produced under the model, according to the Stockholm Declaration, published on 5 November.' 2/3

That's just the tip of this iceberg. Citizen research, enhanced archival practice, better-informed health care professionals and co-produced museum exhibitions all feature in this Impact Case Study.

We lose more than Humanities when we lose university Humanities research. Humanity & policy. 4/4

What's more "The coal industry and its workers, via Friendly Societies, Trade Unions and Mutual Aid societies, were innovative in responding to disability via sickness benefits, provision of medical care and assistive technologies." Food for thought for today's policy-makers? 3/4

Research by @profdavidturner.bsky.social et al "challenged the notion that disability inevitably led to the end of a person’s working life by showing that the occupationally diverse nature of the coal industry allowed opportunities for those left impaired by accidents to return to work". 2/4