Sarah Otner

Excited & proud to become a @BritishAcademy_ #Innovation Fellow, launching my #PerfumeProject #research! Phase 1 partners with @FragranceFDN_UK to study identity & talent in #Fragrance #Careers. We're planning a national tour so please join & collaborate. #ILoveMyJob

Recent research by @SarahOtner found that teenagers value reputation, challenge, good pay, work/life balance, and passion in a job. To attract talent, industries should engage with schools, be proactive, and clarify job roles. More: bit.ly/4bFGUsh #TalentManagement

As we celebrate #NationalCareersWeek, The Fragrance Foundation UK has teamed up with ERIC to showcase the artistry, innovation, and career diversity within the fragrance industry to secondary school students. 🌐 Head to our website for career resources: buff.ly/KmakNAK

Celebrate the incredible contributions of women in fragrance and beyond this #InternationalWomensDay! Want to find out more? Don't miss our Scent on Scent series on YouTube: buff.ly/ToImD5b

@Marrisajoseph @nytimes It has a different subtitle in other markets.

I'm a bit behind with my reading from the #FinancialTimes longlist, but looking forward to delving into this @nytimes #Bestseller. Investigative work such as this is why teaching and researching about the #media and #creative #industries is so interesting!

Science of Science/Metascience researchers: we study commercialization—now it's time to commercialize our own work! (led by @jbell_masterson and @krisgulati) Join HackSoS @ UC Berkeley (Mar 8–9) to bridge academia & industry, and build innovative tools that supercharge reproducibility and impact. Win $2.75K in prizes! Register now: hacksos-at-ucb.devpost.com #ScienceOfScience #hackathon cc: @marxmatt @michael_nielsen @patrickc @MishaTeplitskiy @Ioannidis

In November 2024, the British Academy and Skills England co-hosted a roundtable on AI skills, focusing on skills policies the UK could pursue in response to the adoption and diffusion of AI technologies across the economy. Read the full summary here: bit.ly/4b6wP7w

@michael_nielsen @andyserkis I would love to try my Waze navigation in that. (Might love it once; might grate on you 14th time.)

I spent a couple of hours over the weekend listening to @andyserkis read "The Two Towers" This morning, as I work, I'm occasionally hearing commentary from Gollum / Smeagol ("that's not a very good paragraph is it, Precious?") It's a little disquieting 😅! What an incredible, iconic character Tolkien / Serkis created

Exciting news! @BennettInnovate has won the 2025 @FT Award for Academic Research with Impact! Congratulations to @MatthewAgarwala, @PatrycjaKlusak and their colleagues @matt_burke1, @KamiarMohaddes, @UliVolz, @MoritzKraemerDr. bit.ly/40pKjGM #Innovation #FTAwards

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

Read the new #report from @digitcentre highlighting five key challenges for the #digital transformation of work. ow.ly/YsTt50UIuwu @ESRC @LeedsUniBSchool #DigitalTransformation #Work

@johnjhorton @BenSManning @YannaiGonch 1) It is very small on mobile. 2) I would rather drag-drop them into my order or tap arrows up-down than peck out the number from a list 13 times. Sorry! Hope that helps?

If you've got a second, can you rank-order your favorite subjects? Trying to test out a little interface we're making for a project: prefs-survey.replit.app/?custom_survey… cc: @BenSManning @YannaiGonch

🤔 The usual narrative with evaluation of new ideas is evaluators select against them because, perhaps, they are more threatening or lower expected value. ❓Anyone know of research on whether more novel ideas are harder to clearly *express* (in, say, a grant proposal)?

I’m excited to share a funded year-long PhD student fellowship, combining non-partisan economic policy research & public service at: - Congressional Budget Office - Congressional Research Service - Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Deadline is Thursday 30 January 2025

2024 has been a special year for Paddington Rotary, as they celebrated their 100-year anniversary. The club hosted a celebration, which showcased their century of humanitarian work and raised over £20,000 towards their Ukrainian hospital project. magazine.rotarygbi.org/paddington-cen…

We are live at the 2024 CFXS conference at @INSEAD Fontainebleau and are looking forward to two days of presentations on experimental research in strategy, entrepreneurship, and productivity! Stay tuned for more updates #CFXS2024

📢 Exciting new job opportunity! We are recruiting a Data Scientist to join the Data and Technology Unit at the Innovation Growth Lab (IGL). If this sounds like the role for you find out more and apply by 3 January👇 nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-scie…

Hot off the press, our 2024 newsletter has been published! 📰 stapleytrust.org/_files/ugd/71d…

I would LOVE to hire someone awesome to lead UKRI’s work on data and how we use it to understand the R&D system. Great opportunity for someone with strong data skills who cares about technology, research and progress! careersportal.co.uk/UKRI-careers/j…

Are you a researcher considering responding to @Ofcom's consultation on data access? If so, check out my guidance on what @Ofcom are looking for & issues to cover: docs.google.com/document/d/1QD… @psa_TIP @digitalgoodnet @ESRC @tas_hub @SmartDataRes @BritishAcademy_ @AcadSocSciences

The Longitude Prize on ALS will launch in 2025 and see global teams of #ALS researchers and #AI gurus compete to discover and validate new drug targets for ALS. Sign-up to find out more about the groundbreaking programme als.longitudeprize.org #LongitudePrizeALS #MND #MotorNeuronDisease #drugdiscovery #innovation