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New report from @canorthld and National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise highlights the urgent need for affordable housing in rural #Northumberland. ๐ก Nearly 50% of businesses cite the issue as a major barrier to growth. Read more: tinyurl.com/yubfsj82


Congratulations to Sophia Long and Emily Stevenson on their success at the Student Rep Awards, winning in the category 'PG School Rep of the Year'. Both have put so much work into improvements for the PG community on top of their own studies - Well done! ๐๐#WeAreNCL


Researchers including experts from Sciences at Newcastle have developed a new material which dramatically improves the next-gen of solar technology ๐ The research could accelerate the global transition to #RenewableEnergy. Read more: tinyurl.com/yuhjey8a


Great to play a very small part in this work. Congratulations to Erli Lu Group, Roly Armstrong, Dr Claire McMullin, Nathan Davison and the whole team! Newcastle Chemistry, Sciences at Newcastle, UoBChemistry



Great to see this work on Peterson-type methylenation with Erli Lu Group , Dr Claire McMullin and Hopkinson Research Group out in Chemical Science today. Sciences at Newcastle Newcastle Chemistry UoBChemistry The Leverhulme Trust Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artโฆ


New in Science Advances: Clownfish can shrink to survive heatwaves and social conflict! Led by Melissa Versteeg, with Chancey MacDonald Morgan Bennett-Smith Pete Buston ๐ Sciences at Newcastle Newcastle University NCL Marine Boston University Mahonia Na Dari Walindi Resort science.org/doi/10.1126/scโฆ

We're inviting exceptional researchers to apply for support on major Sciences at Newcastle fellowships (UKRI, ERC, MSCA, Royal Society + more). ๐ฉ Apply with a 1-page proposal + CV to [email protected] #STEM #PhD



National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise has launched a website which collates #netzero reporting data of major global food businesses. It's hoped that easily accessible data will transform stakeholder awareness, trust and transparency in an effort to meet net zero goals. Read more: tinyurl.com/4yjmx376


Shrinking Nemo - New research from Theresa Rueger finds that clownfish have been shown to shrink in order to survive heat stress and avoid social conflict ๐ ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/news-โฆ


๐ชถ๐One puffin, two puffin, three puffin, four: The National Trustโs puffin count gets underway on the Farne Islands Country Life. Dr Richard Bevan is quoted in this article about the Farne Islandsโ growing puffin population. tinyurl.com/mrjpc9sa #WeAreNCL #puffin


Article in The Conversation about our shrinking study from last week with Chancey MacDonald & Melissa Versteeg. The study: science.org/doi/10.1126/scโฆ theconversation.com/clownfish-shriโฆ

.Newcastle University is number 1 in the world for #RuralDevelopment research and impact. Congratulations to @Sally_shortall and Mark Shucksmith from Sciences at Newcastle who are ranked in the world's top 5 in the field. See more: tinyurl.com/bdhu4m7z



The Centre for Rural Policy is delighted to host Betty-Ann Bryce from the OECD who will give our seminar this afternoon on crafting Rural Policy GRASS CEILING Project Sciences at Newcastle Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering @oecdrural

