The week began (leaving aside a historic victory at Lord’s) with a meeting with several other funders designed to ensure joined-up strategies for the funding of research into animal health, a topic of considerable importance to BBSRC. Other activities included a useful dinner with the Technology Strategy Board, a monthly meeting of the RCUK (Chief) Executive Group, a talk from John Wilbanks (Executive Director of the Science Commons and a leading light at Creative Commons) at the British Library on Scientific findings in a digital world, and co-chairing a session on Systems Biology at the major biennial Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology meeting, held this year in Manchester. [...]