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purplecthulhu at 07:51am on 10/03/2008
purplecthulhu at 07:51am on 10/03/2008STFC cuts, and the threat to Jodrell in particular, appearing on Thought for the Day, with the 2.5 million cost of keeping Jodrell and eMERLIN open being described as 'petty cash' to government and comparison being made to US astronomy forging forward (which isn't actually correct but is a good rhetorical point).
I hope DIUS, the science minister and the appropriate Secretary of State are beginning to wonder what kind of storm they've started. If they'd cut DIAMOND's operating budget by 10%, instead, this could all have been avoided and the cuts would have been lost in the noise. Instead the whole message of the CSR for science is 'cuts cuts cuts' and newspapers are seriously reporting the 'end of Labour's love affair with science'.
I hope DIUS, the science minister and the appropriate Secretary of State are beginning to wonder what kind of storm they've started. If they'd cut DIAMOND's operating budget by 10%, instead, this could all have been avoided and the cuts would have been lost in the noise. Instead the whole message of the CSR for science is 'cuts cuts cuts' and newspapers are seriously reporting the 'end of Labour's love affair with science'.
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Maybe we can get the fledgling children's author, one Stephen H., to make a statement...
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A number of us will be saying things on panels, I expect, but something more organised might be a good idea.
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Someone with more experience ought to be able to draw up a better one, and Eastercon should create enough momentum to get the ball going. Right now, 25.000 signatures get you on the most popular page. Can fandom mobilise that many UK citizens? I'd like to try.
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Such a petition should really be publicised by someone who is attending all of Eastercon, for maximum exposure; but I shall _definitely_ mention it to the organisers.
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But if you can contact them as well, asking if there's going to be such an item it might give more weight to the proposal. And that goes for anyone else here who might want such an item.
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