Scott Summers

I am pleased to announce that the Managing & Sharing Research Data book I co-authored with colleagues from the @UKDataService has now been published. It contains lots of practical and useful guidance on managing & sharing all types data #RDM #GDPR #description" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/mana…

📢 Speakers for the UK Animal Law Conference 2026! Dr David Reader & Dr Scott Summers will present on animal welfare in veterinary markets. Jenny Elliott-Bennett will speak on shark protection in Bahraini waters. 📅 3-4 June 2026 📍 Uni of Birmingham alaw.org.uk/animal-law-con…

After a short 15-minute break, we moved into the panel discussion. From left to right: Ossama Shafiq, Alexandra Davenport, Dr Dietmar Heinke, Dr Scott Summers, and Dr Stefano Faraoni. A great session bringing together diverse perspectives on AI and research! ^YZ #BEARPGRConf26

Welcome our afternoon keynote speaker, Dr Scott Summers, who delivered an insightful talk on maintaining academic research integrity in the age of AI. The session emphasised the importance of responsible, transparent, and ethical use of generative AI in research. ^YZ

Kicking off #BEARPGRConf26 with a warm welcome from Dietmar Heinke, Chair of the BEAR User Group. Huge thanks to the PGR Conference Committee for all their hard work in making today’s event happen! ^YZ

What nonsense. First, they are defendants, not offenders, as they are innocent until proven guilty (a schoolboy error for the Justice Minister) Second, a defendant electing a Crown Court trial is a legal right, and cannot be dismissed as "choosing to delay". The REAL facts are that the system is underfunded, insufficient court sitting days, insufficient judges, courts closing, etc. Juries remain for the 'most' serious offences, he says. Yet most people would consider a 3-year prisons sentence rather serious - THIS is what they're planning to kill your right to trial by jury for. Don't listen to this drivel.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out. To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored. People's work is not the government's to give away. If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

71 court rooms shut today. That’s 1 in 7 of all available Crown Court rooms shut. Government claims it has no choice but has to take “radical action” because of the backlog and so it will axe the right to trial by jury. A good choice would be to pay to open more court rooms.

Morning again David Lammy! Could we please open and pay for these 70 closed courtrooms and hold rape trials in them? Instead of restricting jury trial for thousands of people? If not, why not?

The one “generational reform” he refuses to consider is actually opening the courtrooms. Y’know, the tens of thousands of court days lost each year because Mr Lammy’s government refuses to pay for the courts to stay open.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

There’s always a tweet.

Incredibly worrying times - juries form a fundamental part of the checks and balances in a functioning legal system.

I hate saying ‘I told you so’ about the Online Safety Act, but I really DID - I also gave evidence to parliament It’s mad I was made to feel somehow subversive for defending free speech 🫠 The Act is a total disaster… We need to revive free speech in British culture ASAP

Excited to be presenting today @ccp_uea with @davidmreader on our research project which explores the UK veterinary services market. The presentation will take attendees through our journey, exploring how it came about, what we have found out so far and where it might be going!

@DrScottSummers @davidmreader @CatsMatterUK @FOAWales @unitetheunion what a brilliant evening of #questions #Discussion #Insights #veterinary #corporates #AnimalWelfare

I am looking forward to presenting at the @UKRIO webinar tomorrow on using gen-AI tools in research projects. I will be exploring the potential legal & ethical issues & how to operationalise an effective system at a university / institutional level to address those considerations

I am happy to announce that I am now an Associate Professor in Business Law at the @NorwichBSchool (@uniofeastanglia)

Calling all #photographers and those interested in #photography - I’m still looking for participants to take part in this survey - please do if you can! Thank you!

Really happy to have published a piece with my former colleague @davidmreader all about what has been happening over the last few years in the #veterinaryservices market (and the competition considerations that warrant exploration here) #privateequity pymnts.com/cpi-posts/paws…

📢 For now, we conclude that @Microsoft has not acquired control of @OpenAI under 🇪🇺 Merger Regulation. We will keep monitoring the relationships between all key players in the AI sector, incl. Microsoft & OpenAI. #GenAIVirtualWorldsWorkshop