What are universities for? With pressures on funding, academic freedoms under scrutiny and volatile global demographic changes, the need to prove new knowledge can have tangible outputs has never been greater. Simon Linacre looks at one university in the UK which is leading the way in research transformation.

Today's episode of TL;DR Shorts takes us back to the West Coast and Courtney Hohne who is talking about how we need more engaged innovation, whereby members of our broader society are involved in creating and implementing new ideas in the real world.

It's TL;DR Tuesday and this week's TL;DR Shorts episode features Dr Ernest Mwebaze, Executive Director of Sunbird AI, who talks about the impact that his community engagement initiatives have had on the research landscape in Uganda.

Discover the methodology behind the new Altmetric 500 - our initiative to highlight the impact and influence of academic articles.

This TL;DR Tuesday we're talking about civic science - the democratisation of knowledge production through engaging with impacted communities to co-produce scientific solutions - as a tool for building trust in research with Boston University's Mariette DiChristina, Dean of the College of Communication.

In this week's TL;DR Shorts episode we hear Dr Astro Teller's thoughts on climate change. As the co-founder and Captain of Moonshots at X, the Moonshot Factory at Alphabet based in California, USA, it is perhaps no surprise that Astro approaches the challenge of climate change in an holistic manner, calling it a systems problem that can only be overcome with a suite of innovative solutions.

In this episode of our Speaker Series, Suze meets meet Dr Maria Avxentevskaya, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Dr Ben Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. In this chat, Maria, Ben and Suze discuss the history and philosophy of science, exploring topics such as the role of scientific institutions, cycles of complexity in science, ethical considerations in scientific research, and the ever-changing, transformative landscape of research practices. They also tackle the impact of new technologies, such as AI, on the scientific community and society, and the importance of science communication and public engagement.

This episode of TL;DR Shorts features Esther Dyson sharing her thoughts on the future of research. Esther makes a compelling and convincing case for researchers and innovators to intelligently examine existing knowledge to see what else could be implemented from research that may have been overlooked in favour of creating new knowledge.

There are many different roles in a university, not just researchers. If you have one of these roles, we’d love to hear from you. How did you get there? How is it changing? As part of our commitment to the academic community, we have created a global survey, designed to assess the evolving roles in academia, the challenges on the horizon, and the impact of technology and other external forces on these changes.

It's time for another TL;DR Tuesday, and this time we're chatting with Boston University's Mariette DiChristina, Dean of the College of Communication about articifial intelligence. Mariette discusses the challenge and opportunities in AI for research.