I was going to call this "Please help save my job", but having been the victim of a previous cut, I am hoping that even if this thing goes through, I'll still have a job. But you never know. In any case, some of my colleagues won't be so lucky.
There's a
petition to 10 Downing Street to reverse an £80M shortfall in funding for UK research into Particle Physics and Astronomy. Please sign the petition if you agree with it (and you are British citizen or resident - sorry, those are the rules of the petition system). I've seen several Downing Street petitions, but never one where I knew the proposer and so many signatories (I haven't looked through them all, but I did notice
mr_snips in there).
Having been out of the country until yesterday, I haven't been following the news, but I did hear about these:-
- BBC web site article
- Item on the Today Programme from last week (mp3)
- Another item on the Today Programme this morning (mp3)
(ETA mp3 of this morning's Today Programme item and comment on who can sign.)