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UK participation in Horizon 2020 continues to fall

September 6, 2018
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It is no secret that the UK has greatly benefitted from full participation in European Union research funding programmes. UK organisations and researchers received over €7bn worth of funding from...
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Tier 2 campaign leads to policy change

August 17, 2018
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Our campaigning, with the support of collaborators across sectors and MPs across Parliament, has led to a change in immigration policy... We often talk about immigration in this column, mostly...
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How to talk to your experiments

August 13, 2018
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Troubled by experimental errors? It’ll definitely be down to pesky equipment and there is only one way to deal with technical gremlins says Dr Matthew Partridge… talk to themExperiments are...
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A nation in space, or insane?

August 3, 2018
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A space-bound utopia or bizarre ego trip from a millionaire scientist? Russ Swan fails to get to the bottom of Asgardia… Great news for those exercised by the announcement of...
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Evidence week, or weak?

July 16, 2018
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The tail end of June saw Parliament’s first ‘Evidence Week’ - important, sure, but isn’t this head slappingly obvious?During the week, the first of its kind, Sense about Science –...
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A big boat and some excessive capitals

July 2, 2018
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Fuel giant Shell says this month will see the successful implementation of a project that they hope will revolutionise natural gas production - and it involves a rather large boat...Motivation....
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The great conference call checklist

June 27, 2018
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To travel is to be free. It is to seek out like-minded scientists and share in their expertise… unless the lab’s travel budget is cut – in which case you’ll...
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Consensus and conspiracy

June 14, 2018
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Time, I think, to talk about scientific consensus. It is a tricky beast – sometimes friend, sometimes foe. In scientific circles, genuine consensus – that is to say a position...
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FOI request draws government on STEM immigration problems

June 14, 2018
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An FOI request reveals the number of visa application refusals affecting STEM We have talked much about immigration in our column over the last few months, particularly the issues surrounding...
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Democracy is dead, long live scientific sentimentocracy

June 7, 2018
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As political unrest spills across the globe, could science have the answer? Democracy is dead, long live scientific sentimentocracy says Russ Swan… at the very least it could put the...
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