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Select committees

Posted on 08/03/2026 by Jon Butterworth

Well, the fight to stop the decimation of particle, astro and nuclear physics continues. The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology select committee session I mentioned in the previous post happened. The above picture is one of the lighter … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Science Policy | Tagged Catherine Heymans, gravitational waves, Higgs, John Womersley, Liz Kendall, Lord Drayson, Mark Thomson, Michele Dougherty, nobel prize, Parliamentary Committee, Patrick Vallance, Politics, research, Simon Williams, STFC, UKRI, universities | 2 Comments

Experts

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Jon Butterworth

It has been a bit of a week. I am just back from the Congress Centre – which is a hall underneath Congress House, the headquarters of the TUC – where I was a late stand-in as a speaker on … Continue reading →

Posted in Rambling, Travel | Tagged ATLAS, brexit, CERN, DESY, Isidore Rabi, Mark Thomson, New Scientist, Oppenheimer, Particle Physics, physics, Robin Ince, Science | Comments Off

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