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Brian Cox

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Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester

Somewhere in Spacetime Katılım Aralık 2008
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Brian Cox@ProfBrianCox·
Further, the overall settlement for UKRI was good, I would say. Nobody is asking for that high level decision to be reopened. It’s the internal decision making that appears to have caused the current crisis, and it would be entirely appropriate to review that. Indeed, the select committee asked for ‘… a full, independent audit of the circumstances and decision-making process that led to this episode, that identifies lessons learned and proposes reforms to avoid similar failings in future.”
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@JohnFingleton1 @andyburnham We don’t know who the decisions were made by - as I said, even the HoC Select Committee couldn’t find out. That’s on the record. This is one of the key questions.
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This is the result of many bad legacy decisions taken by UKRI hastily and without proper consultation, overseen by a government department that no longer exists. Surely the new @andyburnham government will want to take time to review this.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: The UK’s largest telescope for studying space is now set to close after the Government pulled its funding It supported various Apollo missions and tracked Soviet rockets in the Cold War

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@Sum1st Yes. I think so, although the lack of information about who made the decision to defund basic research means that we don’t know where the problem lies. Even the HoC Select Committee couldn’t find out.
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Sum1st@Sum1st·
@ProfBrianCox Maybe casualty of close a relationship with government where it ended up losing its core function and purpose. Moving from one shiny to another isn't going to take care of long time health of basic research in any area that might be wrongly perceived a luxury but instead is vital
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Jodrell Bank is the most visible causality of UKRI’s short sighted ‘vision’ for science, but as you’ll see below, there are many other valuable UK facilities and collaborations at risk. We became aware of the problem in the autumn of last year. It is not a result of the overall funding settlement for science after the spending review, which was quite generous I would say in the circumstances. Neither as far as we can tell is it a direct decision by ministers (all of whom have now gone in any case). Rather the problems appears to have been caused by senior management at UKRI focusing on short term economic ‘impact’ (whatever that means) rather than doing their job as custodians of the foundations of science. What must happen now is that the new ministerial team make the time (and space ;-)) to review the upcoming catastrophe, and instruct UKRI to do their job and focus on making Britain the best place in the world to do science, now and in the future.
Martin Bauer@martinmbauer

The announced closure of the UK's largest telescope at Jodrell Bank is only a small part of the cuts in UK physics

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RT @martinmbauer: The public outcry over the cuts to Jodrell Bank and UK physics is genuinely encouraging. It is not often expressed this w…
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@SteveDrums2 Current sparring partner … I’m still here :-)
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Steve Green
Steve Green@stevegreen39·
@ProfBrianCox Read Andy Burnham´s "Head North". He sets out the damage done to long term interests by the Treasury´s Green Book on investment appraisal.
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Brian Cox@ProfBrianCox·
@sc_wadsy Yes. We shouldn’t forget that this short term impact nonsense has damaged other equally valuable foundations in the UK.
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Hywel Davies
Hywel Davies@HywelCymru·
Science always moves on - but Jodrell Bank isn't a relic, it's a current suite of instruments, working with other telescopes, undertaking research *today*. And an inspiration to future scientists. Closing it to save just £3m would be so short sighted bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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LBC@LBC·
'Act of national self-harm': Observatory home to UK's largest telescope facing closure after research funding cut lbc.co.uk/article/jodrel…
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