Shomari Lewis-Wilson

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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.

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...

🚨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

#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...

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.

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

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

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

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!)…

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.

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)…

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.

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

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

Is BlueSky our only hope?

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...

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!

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

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.

We are so finished.

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

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’.

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

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What is rage-baiting and why is it profitable? Called rage-baiting, making people angry with social media posts can be a business.

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.

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?

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

Counterpoint: Do

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

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

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.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Goodness me there are a lot of homophobes in football. 🙃❌

#BlackinSTEM

Faith Uwadiae on LinkedIn: Competitive Procurement RFP | 12 comments 📢 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲!!! 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨… | 12 comments on LinkedIn

We have a contract opportunity live @wellcometrust.bsky.social at the moment seeking a partner organisation to help us deliver up to £1m in small grants to Black-led academic researcher initiatives and networks 🧫🔬🧪👨🏾‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬. More info is available below.

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**Black UK PhD students**

This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care.

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