Category Archives: Research

Science Cuts: One Day Left

By Ian | Published: October 19, 2010

The results of the Comprehensive Spending Review are being announced tomorrow and the feeling in the astrophysics community is increasingly pessimistic about the size of the cuts to research funding. With one day to go until the broad outline of the cuts is given, rumours are running wild that STFC will have to cut major [...]

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Inspire Beta: New Interface to SPIRES database

By Ian | Published: October 12, 2010

A colleague mentioned today that the front page of the venerable SPIRES database of High Energy Physics papers is now promoting the new Inspire interface which was announced a few years ago. The website for the current beta phase of the project is http://inspirebeta.net. It is unclear to me whether “Beta” is part of the [...]

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Scientists on the march*

By Ian | Published: October 11, 2010

On Saturday many bemused tourists wandering around Westminster were treated to the unusual sight of scientists roaming free from their offices and labs to gather in protest at the government’s planned cuts to research funding. The rally was organised by Science is Vital who are also organising a petition and lobby of MPs which I [...]

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Science is Vital

By Ian | Published: September 30, 2010

As a practising scientist you might expect me to believe that Science is Vital. “He would say that wouldn’t he,” you might say. Objectively speaking though, science research has a large impact on the wealth and success of a country. Even during these times of austerity, most developed countries are investing in science research, anticipating [...]

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Durham UK Cosmo meeting

By Ian | Published: September 8, 2010

Durham University, and in particular the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology hosted the annual two-day UK Cosmology meeting this year. There were lots of very interesting talks, and I hope to give a flavour of some of the issues that were mentioned over the course of the meeting. The list of participants and the programme [...]