Today, our joint response to her 26 March letter has been published on the Committee's webpage. In the interest of openness and transparency UKRI is also publishing it here: www.ukri.org/publications...
Climate change seems to be gathering speed even as politics increasingly seems to trump us doing the things needed to slow it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I turned a corner in NYC to see men in kilts as far as the eye could see. When I asked what was going on they heard my accent, handed me a banner for “Ancestral Scotland” and with a thousand bagpipers I marched in a parade down 6th Ave to Central Park.
STFC chief commits to making no further cuts to postdoc funds
Michele Dougherty also promises top-up funding for additional early career researcher positions after outcry
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Intriguing to be staying in the new Eddington. All part of Cambridge’s recent mass expansion. Quite the postdoc town from what I’ve heard.
Not entirely surprising to wake up to a bunch of “everyone that’s not far left is indistinguishable bad” attacks on the new Hungarian government. Sigh.
Very :)
Thanks. That’s awesome stuff.
What a monumental breathe of fresh air for Hungary. No easy task to reverse 16 years of Orban’s drive towards autocracy, but it’s wonderful they can begin that task.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Flailing around because he doesn’t have a clue what to do seems to be Trump’s reaction to many messes he creates.
Fingers crossed for the Hungarian elections.
@dreochapman.bsky.social Justice saw a paperwork copy of your new book in Paagman in The Hague. It’s travelled well!
I can’t remember a time when the STFC was anything other than “flat in cash terms, falling in real terms”. That’s been a recurrent theme over the last decade.
My new design UK passport has been nothing but trouble. Months after being introduced the design still doesn’t seem to be registered in lots of ID check systems.
A horrifying threat with genocidal connotation.
American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2
Such a gorgeous game.
That’s fantastic!
Translation:
"I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"
Two staff scientist positions at JPL in Dark Energy/Dark Matter Cosmology to make use of Rubin and Euclid. JPL is awesome and these would be amazing jobs.
www.jpl.jobs/job/R5541/Sc...
www.jpl.jobs/job/R5540/Sc...
Translation software is somewhat more clunky.
YMMV but I’ve seen plenty of junior people leave software engineering because the start up they worked at failed or got let go because their long project in a small company went nowhere. For sure it can be very different at the big end, but even there turnover over from a sector seems fairly high.
I often recall a wine maker saying he’d been 30 years in the trade and that meant he’d had 30 chances to make a good wine. Academia feels like that sometimes.
It is brutal. A big part of that is the time scale of projects. It’s much easier to be tolerant of failures when you complete projects every few months, much harder when it’s every few years.
Brunette woman tuning a green Roberts radio, next to a hardback book called "Radio Universe". A background of galaxies.
It’s TODAY!
Radio Universe is BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 📚💙
Episode 1 starts with the birth of radio astronomy, when one man heard a hiss in his headphones... 📡🎧
... the moment we realised we could listen to the universe, not just look at it 🔭
🎧 Listen now:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Project Hail Mary was thoroughly enjoyable. Captured the spirit of the book and had some very emotional moments. A movie worth seeing on the big screen. <jazz hands>
This letter followed evidence given by STFC Executive Chair Michele Dougherty to the Committee on 4 March.
Today, our response to the letter has been published on the Committee's webpage. In the interest of openness and transparency UKRI is also publishing it here: www.ukri.org/publications...
In my experience this has been a growing trend over the last 10 years. Even a decade ago students were grumbling about handwritten notes & delighted by nicely latexed ones. But it has become much more of an expectation, I think since COVID.
This really is an appalling situation for UK research in particle, nuclear, and astrophysics. Almost made worse by appearing to be collateral damage of thoughtless decisions more than deliberate intent.
I recognise this phenomenon far too well - “supervisor in essay crisis too proud to ask student for extension”. Overloaded markers failing to do the marking and unable to tell their colleagues, until a hiccup becomes a crisis.
