CMVM Postdocs and Early Career Researchers

Join EORI online for our next ReproducibiliTea event on Wednesday 4th March from 10am-11.30am. We welcome Associate Professor Fergus Guppy and Dr Peter Bankhead to talk Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. Join our mailing list at edin.ac/3JFv5sF for the event link.

Get onto this, folks. If you lament the metricisation of academic work, this is valuable. What should be counted, and how does the counting happen?

#AcademicSky

Join Edinburgh Open Research Initiative on Wednesday 4th February in the EFI Cafe ("Canopy"), at 10am for our next Honest Research Conversation. Expect an open, honest chat on the theme of Working Reproducibly: Costs, Benefits and Responsibility. We hope to see you there!

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🔔 The SULSA Early Career Development Fund is now live — offering up to £4,000 for travel, training, consumables & facilities access!

🗓 Apply by: 16 March 2026 at 5pm

Learn more and apply at shorturl.at/5SaMP

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Calling all early career clinical lecturers! 🚀

Apply for an Academy Starter Grant to receive up to £40k in funding (up from £30k!) 💷 ✨

What sets Starter Grants apart?
- Feedback for all applicants
- Mentoring & careers support

Apply by Thurs 26 Feb 🗓️

👉 bit.ly/4qTA8Wk

A quote from Helena Wells, Research Manager at Wellcome: "These awards will support transdisciplinary teams to lay the foundations for discoveries at the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society."

What if genomics, other disciplines and wider society came together to shape research?

This is the goal of our Genomics in Context Awards.

Find out more ⤵️
https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/genomics-in-context-awards?utm_source=&utm_medium=o-wellcome&utm_campaign=bluesky&utm_content=

Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 | Library | Library Find out how to submit a contribution for for the 2026 Open Research Conference. This year our conference centers on UNESCO's "Recommendations for Open Science", reflecting our new institutional…

Happy New Year! Here's a resolution... "I will get more involved in opening up research". Yeah? Great! Oh, wait - hey - I think we can help with that! Why not submit a talk or poster to EORC2026? library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup... That way we can meet, chat, and perhaps support one another!

A quote from Peter Kilroy, Senior Research Manager at Wellcome: "This call will support new teams to explore the intersection of genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society from the earliest stages of research."

We’re funding new collaborations between genomics, humanities, social sciences and wider society. 🧬

Level: up to £500,000
Duration: up to two years
Deadline: 16 March 2026

Find out more about our Genomics in Context Awards: https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/genomics-in-context-awards

Professor Grant Trewartha, Cross-Sector Experience Awardee, next to a quote that reads: "The Award has provided the unique space to experience new environments, prioritise career development and create a collaboration built on solid foundations."

Do you work to improve human health?

Apply for our Cross-Sector Experience Awards to

💸 Receive up to £100K in funding
🤝 Work 3-12 months in a new sector
🚀 Gain cross-sector experience to drive health innovation

Check eligibility & apply by Fri 20 Feb: https://bit.ly/48gcvkx

📣Job opportunity: To analyse neuroimaging, cognitive, and biological data from the UKRI MRC-funded PREterm Neurodevelopment and COGnition study (PRENCOG), the Theirworld Edinburgh Birth Cohort (TEBC), and other early life image datasets available to the research community.
More info: edin.ac/4pz9kux

📆 SULSA OPPORTUNITIES WEBINAR!

Register for our webinar to discover how to make the most of SULSA in 2026 - including how we can support your research & career development, plus details on upcoming funding, networking opps, & training designed to help you thrive 🙌

👉 forms.office.com/e/HwqXwZqkjH

Applications are still open for our CATAC 2026 competitions!

Apply by Thurs 8 Jan to
📑 Showcase your research
🤝Grow your network
💬 Connect with peers across disciplines

Learn more and see eligibility to apply: https://bit.ly/4pQurYV

The BHF Cardiovascular Biomarker Laboratory is recruiting a full-time technician. Closing date 5 November 2025. More info and application: edin.ac/43BA701

vacancy senior research technician closing 18 November 2025

📣Job Opportunity: To provide comprehensive support and manage all technical aspects for a clinical research project entitled ‘Protecting spermatogonial stem cells from chemotherapy-induced damage for fertility preservation in childhood cancer'.
More Info: edin.ac/49ni8hx

Job vacancy Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics closing 8th december 2025

📣Job Opportunity: Play a central role in supporting researchers using single-cell and spatial transcriptomics approaches at the Institute for Regeneration & Repair.

More info: edin.ac/3Wuxlpt

Job Vacancy Lab Services Lab Technician closing date 4th November 2025

📣Job Opportunity: We are seeking a dedicated individual to join our Lab services team providing day-to-day technical support for IRR’s research.
More Info: edin.ac/4qFIJwL

Join us for another inaugural lecture showcase, with two professors from our Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, exploring what keeps dogs healthy and how nutrition and new technologies are transforming farm animal health.

📅 Tue 4 Nov | 🕒 5–7:30pm | 📍 Easter Bush Campus

👉 edin.ac/47fQUYV

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How does research move beyond academic journals to influence policy, practice, and public understanding?

I'll be chatting with Francesca Brazzorotto from @kargerpublishers.bsky.social on Tuesday 4th Nov as part of their People & Science Live series.
Register Free
www.linkedin.com/events/73834...

For anyone wanting to revisit Dr Taryn Bell's excellent PI Network session on Narrative CVs - video and session materials are now live on our Portal: bit.ly/3LvMzIr

(including the link to Taryn's wonderful curated Padlet of all things NCV!)

We are delighted that Rosalyn has won the Outstanding Postdoc Award - well done Rosalyn! You are a great example to us all!

Well done to Lizi for winning the Student Support and Supervision Award! Keep doing what you are doing! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

Well done to Soraya for winning the Scientific Advancement Award! We are looking forward to seeing how your career progresses! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Well done to Danai for winning Contributions to Citizenship! Such an important part of working in academia - great work! @edinunineuro.bsky.social

Well done to Ambre for winning Contributions to Communities, Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement! A very worthy winner of this award! @roslininstitute.bsky.social

🪧We are delighted to announce the winners of the CMVM Postdoc Appreciation Week Awards 2025 - we received lots of super nominations so congratulations to everyone nominated - see🧵for results...

The Royal Society's #PairingScheme26 is now open for applications for researchers. This scheme pairs scientists with UK parliamentarians or civil servants. Find out more and apply now for this unique scheme: https://royalsociety.org/grants/training-mentoring-partnership-schemes/pairing-scheme/

Our partnered project 'Breaking Barriers in Research Funding Applications: Evaluating Narrative CVs and Co-designing Solutions' has come to an end! Thanks @edicaucus.bsky.social @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social University of Surrey. Here's an overview of what we have been working on and our key findings

The Royal Society's Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme is now open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern. Find out more and apply now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/dorot...