After my previous post on the parliamentary committees last week, I think it is worth highlighing this blog post by Lucien Heurtier.

Lucien is a postdoctoral research associate in theoretical physics at King’s College London. As well as having a valuable perspective on the committee meetings I discussed, he was also one of the group of fellows and early career researchers who signed letters (here and here) about the cuts to particle, astro and nuclear physics. As such, he had a meeting last Tuesday with Sir Ian Chapman and Prof Michele Dougherty (heads of UKRI and STFC respectively) and Prof Grahame Blair (STFC’s Executive Director of Programmes). I found his account of that meeting quite revealing.

The image at the top of this post is from a visit to the Wes Anderson exhibition at the Design Museum in London on Saturday. Fans will recognise it as props and costumes from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. They are also showing a selection of his short films, including his first (Bottle Rocket) and Hotel Chevalier, the rather haunting prequel to The Darjeeling Limited. The only connection to the above is that is was nice to get away from funding stress for a little while and I highly recommend it.