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Pallab Ghosh
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.@NASAArtemis 2 mission has obvious parallels with the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, which paved the way for the Moon landing a year later. It gave us a photo that changed the world. Can the Artemis programme do the same? 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Has Artemis II shown we can land on the Moon again? Has Artemis II shown we can land on the Moon again? 🧪https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj60nkd8nrko
Artemis II mission was a triumph. Now comes the hard part🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So what’s the scientific basis between the special bond between humans and dogs? A new ancient DNA study of a jawbone found in a cave in Somerset might have the answer.🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
.@UKRI_News says physics cuts needed because of poor financial planning by the previous management. Previous management flatly deny this to me saying that money must have been diverted.🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
.@LJScarsbrook : “He shows us his results, and we're like, '(Gosh), this guy might have actually found a dog that far back in time."
lachie’s actual language was more colourful, because he knew how big the breakthrough could prove.🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
.@NASAArtemis 2 mission has obvious parallels with the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, which paved the way for the Moon landing a year later. It gave us a photo that changed the world. Can the Artemis programme do the same? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Good to see @pallabg.bsky.social addressing this.
FWIW -was shocked in informal conversation with a high-up year or two ago, to be told that it wouldn't matter if the next 'Higgs' was discovered at a Chinese (pricey) collider if the (cheap) theory had a British name on it.
Lack of ambition??
Delays to funding are translating into widespread attrition of early-career researchers across PPAN science. This is not hypothetical, this is happening now.
Missing the international deadline has resulted in an effective 100% cut to new theoretical physics postdoc positions in the UK this cycle.
For those working in affected fields - particle but also astro & nuclear - it’s pouring. What really grates our gears is that we’re forced to have cuts so that facilities used almost entirely outside these fields can remain cut free. If EPSRC wants DIAMOND they should pay the electricity bill not us
