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Thanks for joining us @JirdeSado...lots achieved in 2024 but much more to be done in 2025. Really looking forward to working with you and Black SW Network next year.

🥳 Our Isambard-AI supercomputer has been recognised by UK Research and Innovation as one of their 12 highlights of #Christmas! What better way to celebrate the incredible hard work of our Bristol Centre for Supercomputing team than to make this remarkable list. 🙌 👉bit.ly/4gO3Ref

Dr Serena Dyer & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

It has been such a privilege to work with all of you on this. Congratulations on the publication and on all the work that led up to it.

We are delighted that the Government today revealed its #AI roadmap to economic growth! 🖥️ Our #supercomputer Isambard-AI will play a major role in advancing the nation’s AI capabilities and help transform the UK into a technological superpower. 🦸 brnw.ch/21wPY1u

Isambard-AI builds on the success of our GW4 #supercomputer Isambard. The world’s first Arm-based supercomputer to go into production use and the new cutting edge £10 million supercomputer Isambard 3 officially launched in December last year: gw4.ac.uk/news/cutting-e…

Excellent, important piece by Oliver Johnson on why thinking and reasoning about exponential growth is essential for good policy - including for AI

To everyone in our community who celebrates - have a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year! 🎆 We wish you and your loved ones joy, success and good fortune for the year ahead. We'd love to hear how you'll be celebrating in the comments below 👇

Come read about my exciting Royal School of Needlework discovery over at History Today! Learn about the earliest known needlework sampler from Barbados

In addition to the History Today article I tweeted about earlier today, my blog post about the earliest Barbadian sampler is now on the Royal School of Needlework blog. Read it here: royal-needlework.org.uk/archive-collec…. It goes in to different information than the HT article does, so check it out!

Great to join colleagues at the #FoF2025, Festival of Flourishing Regions, in Bristol. It was good to hear Professor Palie Smart announce the SouthWest Productivity Forum and Prof Helen Simpson's insights into Bristol's opportunities to drive regional growth at pace. University of Bristol

Vice-Chancellor Evelyn Welch attended a special event at Downing Street celebrating the UK’s #AI ecosystem. 🖥️ Our supercomputer Isambard-AI will be the UK's most powerful when it launches soon and aligns with the Govt's new AI action plan!🙌 brnw.ch/21wQuMK

Exciting to join so many AI experts to celebrate University of Bristol's contribution to our national AI infrastructure.

We’re on the rise! 🚀 Bristol has leapt to 68th in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2025! 🌍 Based on a global survey of senior academics, the rankings celebrate universities leading the way in research and teaching excellence 📖

Queen Mary II's patch box c.1694 Face patches were highly fashionable at this time. The queen's accounts show that during the last year of her life she was regularly buying 'paper for patches' costing 1s. a sheet from her milliner. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

Join us on Wednesday 2 April un London for launch of report from year-long project looking at what decisions students/grads think with hindsight they should have made. Is the grass always greener, or should we be listening very carefully to what they say?

.Bristol Temple Quarter is transforming. New jobs, growth, and homes are being created around Temple Meads, after I secured £95m from government. University of Bristol are investing £500m in regeneration, as Evelyn Welch & I saw at their new campus on the site of the old Royal Mail building.

Congratulations Tariq Modood - what a well deserved honour.

👏Congrats to Dimitra Simeonidou, FREng, FIEEE from University of Bristol Smart Internet Lab Bristol Digital Futures Institute for being appointed to the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission! The expert group plays a key role in contributing to science-driven EU policy-making and legislation 🇪🇺

Very happy to share that I am joining SantAnnaPisa as Principal Investigator of a Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (#FIS) Starting Grant project: Working Knowledge (#WorKnow) The Emergence of Practitioners in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Postdoc positions will open soon!