Applications now open for APEX Awards

PLUS: our response to the autumn budget [The Royal Society]( Scientists newsletter [Support for science in autumn budget]( Hello Yesterday's autumn budget committed support for the UK's growing tech sector and our schools. This included an additional £2.3 billion for UK R&D in 2021/22 and a commitment to meet a target of 2.4% of GDP invested in UK R&D within 10 years. We are pleased to see the government will invest £100m to upskill and train 8,000 computing teachers. This exceeds the call made in our recent [computing education report](, which highlighted the fragile state of computing education in the UK. This will be a significant boost to computing education and will help ensure the current generation of students have the skills they need for the future economy. You can read about the latest commitments for UK science and our response on our website: [Read our response]( [Image of rope]( [Applications now open for APEX awards]( APEX awards provide funding for up to two years and promote collaboration across academic disciplines. They are awarded in partnership with the British Academy and the Royal Academy of Engineering, with generous support from the Leverhulme Trust, to support outstanding interdisciplinary research which is unlikely to be supported through conventional funding programmes. The scheme is currently open to applications and closes at 3pm on 14 December 2017. To read the scheme notes, conditions of award and to find out how to apply, visit our website. [Apply]( [The birth of a new species]( PRIZE LECTURE Date: 6 December, 2017, 6.30pm – 7.30pm Location: [The Royal Society, London]( The 2017 Francis Crick Medal and Lecture is awarded to Professor Simon Myers for transforming our understanding of meiotic recombination and human population history. In this Prize Lecture, Professor Myers discusses how new species form and how a very small number of genes control formation of a new species. [Find out more]( [Tropical phenology]( SCIENTIFIC MEETING Date: 15 – 16 January, 2018 Location: [The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire]( Tropical ecosystems face unprecedented pressure from climate change and land-use change. This meeting will provide a cross-disciplinary platform to advance new methods and analytical approaches to detecting functional change in tropical ecosystems, conspiculously missing from contemporary models and meta-analyses of global change. [Request an invitation]( [Free-to-access articles on climate science]( [Image of a tropical grassy biome]( We have collated a collection of some of our most read articles on climate science, all of which are free to access. These articles, published in [our journals]( over recent years, provide a snapshot of the science involved in studying the Earth's climate. We always welcome research, reviews and theme proposals in this area. [Read articles]( Images The birth of a new species, © Thomas Lersch ©Highwaystarz-Photography Forest regeneration, © K Abernethy Tropical grassy biomes, Joseph W Veldman [The Royal Society logo]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( You are receiving this email from the Royal Society. [View this email online]( | [Amend your details]( [Add us to your address book]( [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy policy]( Copyright © The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, Registered Charity No 207043