'Proposed staff cuts at some of the UK’s leading science departments should prompt ministers to reconsider whether the future of subjects key to industrial strategy ambitions are left to the markets, experts have said.' 1/2
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With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, Nottingham staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider failures. Juliette Rowsell reports
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Letter to The Times this morning about the cuts to Nottingham Physics.
"Killing a goose that lays golden eggs is a short-sighted response to difficulties paying for goose feed."
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If you haven't already, please support our campaign by writing to your MP to tell them that funding fundamental physics is crucial and important for both science and the economy. 🔭
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"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why."
The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩🔬🧪🔭
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@uniofnottingham.bsky.social in the news again.
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Clare Burrage
Margot Finn
Clare Burrage
Times Higher Education (THE)
If 2,700 signatories, including six physics Nobel laureates, are not enough to convince them, then I don't know what they need...
Hopefully this will end well 🤞
If not, many UK academics should fear for the stability of their careers these days... 🧪🔭
📣 Calling UK particle physics, astronomy and nuclear (PPAN) researchers. The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is co-hosting an event for MPs on 15 June as part of our campaign to reverse catastrophic funding cuts. Write to your MP and encourage them to attend!
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Ministers urged to intervene as proposed cuts to highly regarded chemistry departments threaten UK government’s skills and growth plans
Write to [email protected] Sir, Alan Milburn’s report on young people not in education or training (Neets) has rightly been warmly welcomed but it falls short of suggesting that benefits
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is co-hosting a parliamentary drop-in event on 15 June as part of an ongoing campaign to reverse catastrophic funding
cuts plan...
