- Both MRC and BBSRC responsive modes now withdrawn until further notice. Existing applications unlikely to succeed (late 2025 round expecting 1-5% success rate). Listen, I get that UKRI wants to pivot. But killing both at once is devastating. Let's hope at least one opens by summer... #AcademicSky
Jan 31, 2026 23:12
- @ukri.org if there ia any chance to at least keep BBSRC responsive mode open, and normal, during the downtime of MRC... Otherwise this pivot will absolutely not boost the academic sector's collab with industry. It will kill it. We'll all lose our planned staff and lab continuity will be broken.
- Like... @ukri.org if continuity of local induction and training is lost, we'll all be set back 1-2 years of productivity. Just devastating.
- @ukri.org not to mention all the wasted effort of the entire sector on summer/fall 2025. I was just prepping a responsive mode for April too.
