🚨 Job alert! We're hiring a Policy Adviser to join our Data & Digital Tech team at the The Royal Society, working on a new project on social inequalities & taking forward our work on climate change. Desirable: Experience working w/ marginalised communities. careers-royalsociety.icims.com/jobs/1555/poli…

Today Department for Culture, Media and Sport published its plans to reform the UK’s data protection regime in ways that will make it easier for organisations to conduct data-driven R&D, tackle fraud and better develop trustworthy and ethical AI systems. Read our full analysis here ow.ly/35a750JzWyW (1/4)

We’re joining forces with The Francis Crick Institute! We will be setting up a research laboratory to bring together the world-renowned research institute’s expertise with machine learning and AI techniques to advance our understanding of biology. Learn more: dpmd.ai/dm-crick

Fab to have the Alliance for Data Science Professionals in the building The Royal Society tonight accrediting their first cohort of data scientists. Great work to develop the standards to ensure we can all have confidence in how data is used.

Tonight Rishi Sunak & @TrussLiz debate the opportunities and challenges facing the UK - but will they #BackRDI? The next PM must ensure the 🇬🇧 stays a world leader in RDI: 🧪research 🧪development 🧪innovation Read our joint statement acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/call… #BBCOurNextPM

🗣️Interested in football? 👀 We (The Alan Turing Institute x Ofcom) have analysed over 2 mil tweets from the 21-22 English Premier League season⚽ We created state-of-the-art AI to detect and track abuse towards players 🤖 Here's a 🧵on our methods and findings \n tinyurl.com/35n9enyn

In his speech today, Xi Jinping reiterated - as it expected - the importance of advancing science & technology to build China into “a modern socialist country.” Here are some relevant tidbits from the speech, which lasted nearly two hours:

Do you want a job that combines a love of politics with a passion for all things science, innovation and tech? I'm looking for a new Public Affairs Adviser to join our team at The Royal Society Deadline 7 Nov, details here: careers-royalsociety.icims.com/jobs/1614/publ…

With talk of online voting in the Conservative leadership race, it seems an apt time to share this Tom Scott video again. "Attacks against [paper voting] don't scale well... With electronic voting, that's not the case." youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-…

To build on this, my personal belief is most counter-disinformation work fails to address the fundamental issues that lead to the creation of disinformation, and generally misunderstands the source of disinformation in the first place.

Science needs a long-term strategy - President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith and former President Venki Ramakrishnan are among the signatories of a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of the #AutumnStatement next week: ft.com/content/a5da3f…

Big thanks to shadow science minister Chi Onwurah 💙 for coming to speak at The Royal Society on Labour’s priorities for research & development. “An industrial strategy council on statutory footing would secure long term investment and stability for r&d”

It was a pleasure to talk to The Royal Society about Labour's vision for #science! We discussed: 🏭Labour's Industrial Strategy 📈Increasing R&D investment 🇬🇧Spreading Science opportunities across the country 👩‍🔬Diversifying STEM

A thread on the new The Royal Society report launched this week on how GM crops can help reduce environmental impact and increase resilience of food production: royalsociety.org/news/2023/10/g…

Provocative, futuristic discussion with members of the UK Young Academy on the 'taboo' factors shaping what science will look like in the year 2040.

We're about to go live with our hustings on science, technology and innovation, co-hosted with Academy of Medical Sciences, The British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering, CaSE and The Foundation for Science and Technology, and chaired by Anjana Ahuja. Tune in now & ask your questions on Slido: #SIThustings24 youtube.com/user/RoyalSoci…

How does science benefit the economy? Some outcomes are tangible, for example new medical treatments, some less so, like the innovations that underpin our infrastructure. Our new 'Science and the economy' report explores these paths to economic impact: royalsociety.org/news-resources…

For a deeper dive into the economic value of research, chair of the report Professor Richard Jones FRS explores its findings over on our blog: royalsociety.org/blog/2024/07/o…

On Monday it will be 100 years since Gabriel Fauré died. His haunting Requiem will be sung up and down the country in November, and whether you have heard it a thousand times or never, it is always worth seeking out.

Launching the The Royal Society Science 2040 interim report I praised our amazing science base, whilst considering the challenges science faces here and abroad, and the evidence Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has heard about the state of UK science during our ongoing inquiries. royalsociety.org/news-resources…