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I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukJodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social

“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪

Richard Harris

@beeblebrox.com

I have now pretty much given up on expecting the UK to understand the connection between knowledge, discovery and success as a nation. The fundamental illiteracy and innumeracy of politicians was codified by CP Snow in 1961 in his Two Cultures essay, and things have gone much further downhill since

27/7/26, 11:02 am14 reposts76 likes

Springy

@formerspring.bsky.social

27 July

Three cultures now, with accumulated wealth dominant. I feel no hope for the future.