Pallab Ghosh

The @CommonsSITC questioned Ministers on science cuts yesterday, @BBCPallab has a really good deep dive on the concerns bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@RogerHighfield @BBCPallab Of course, if they said that’s what they were doing, then we could debate whether that’s necessary or good. To pretend that it’s all the result of bad planning seems like such a Sir Humphrey wheeze. “No cuts were made… they just somehow happened in the absence of any decision”

.⁦@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. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

.@royalsociety president Sir Paul Nurse says the new science funding system that has allegedly led to cuts has been rushed. “Some of the problems that have arisen could have been avoided if things had just been taken more slowly, in a more considered way." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

For ⁦@SciTechgovuk⁩ Lord Vallance says: “"It is not right to portray this as a massive cut. It's not, it’s about managing a budget responsibly". He added that the UK was and would continue to be the second biggest funder experiments @CERN. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

.⁦@ChiOnwurah⁩ tells @BBCNews MPs on the science select committee were “very disappointed to learn that we couldn't actually track how science funding was changing .. whether curiosity-driven research in particle or nuclear physics being cut or not." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Minutes of ⁦⁦@STFC_Matters⁩ record the Council's head of strategy describing "a major shift of funding from curiosity-driven research to priority areas and targeted programmes". @UKRI say this was a “misstatement” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

UK particle physics and astronomy are facing “catastrophic” cuts while science spending received a record increase. Documents seen by ⁦@BBCNews⁩ suggest money has been diverted away to government research areas. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

What does science have to say about soulmates? Is there someone out there just right for you, or is it a Hollywood Rom Con? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The moment humans first learned to make fire has been pushed back by hundreds of thousands of years. Read the astonishing detective story that found the earliest known evidence of human created fire was in the east of England. bbc.co.uk/news/resources…

Britain’s research visa restrictions “shooting ourselves in the foot” says new ⁦@royalsociety⁩ President Sir Paul Nurse in interview with ⁦@BBCNews⁩ bbc.com/news/articles/…

.⁦@SciTechgovuk⁩ sets out an ambitious plan to eliminate all animal experiments except under exceptional circumstances. Is this a credible plan or one to be seen to meet a hard to deliver manifesto commitment? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The science of #CelebrityTraitors : How we think we’re great at spotting a fake, but are actually terrible! bbc.co.uk/news/resources…

📢#WCSJ2027 Founding Partners announced 👇 🎉The Royal Society, Springer Nature, Wellcome and UK Research and Innovation🎉 @royalsociety @Springer Nature @wellcometrust.bsky.social @UKRI_News 📆World Conference of Science Journalists will take place in London in September 2027

The discovery of continuous stone tool use for thousands of generations in Kenya 2.75 million years ago suggests not only were the very first humans inventors but that innovation is innate to our Genus. bbc.com/news/articles/…

"We are trying to anticipate that future, before the big tech companies come in and deploy these things without asking us what we think about them" So now is the time to develop the right regulations to ensure that the #robots work for us..rather than the other way round. #care

The robots are coming. We need to be ready. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The crew of @NASAArtemis II say they are ready to fly to the Moon "for all humanity". All four say they have been inspired by the Apollo Moon missions of the 1960s and early 1970s. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Meet the punk rock dinosaur. More on @BBCNews