Category Archives: Science Policy

What does a pentaquark mean to you?

Posted on 18/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Almost – but not quite – buried on the icy plains of Pluto this week, the Large Hadron Collider revealed a completely new type of particle. What does that tell us? At the Guardian.

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Inside the Rad Lab

Posted on 09/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Review of Michael Hiltzik’s Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex in Nature.  

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Research funding: Is size really the most important thing?

Posted on 31/05/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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A follow up on research impact and the REF

Posted on 16/01/2015 by Jon Butterworth

Anyone connected with UK academia, who follows news about it, or indeed who has met a UK academic socially over the last couple of years, will probably have heard about the Research Excellence Framework (REF). All UK universities had their … Continue reading →

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