📣"RAS Fellows urged to lobby against unprecedented cuts" 📣

🔭The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is calling on its members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science.🧪⚗️🚀🛸🛰️🌌

#stfc #ukri #saveSTFC

Read and share: www.ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

On the difficult situation of young UK researchers 🧪🔭

Thanks @fionamcintyre.bsky.social and @isaacbarbosa1.bsky.social for the interview & excellent article.

#stfc #ukri #saveSTFC @ukri.org

UKRI funding changes ‘pushing junior researchers abroad’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

I'm a Dr in physics, but in the UK...

📣Many researchers are facing the same reality: contracts ending, careers cut short, talent lost. 👥📉

UKRI needs to change course — now. 🧪🔭⚗️

If you’re affected, post your own photo and share this message. Visibility matters.

#stfc #ukri #saveSTFC

🎙️Our ECR open letter now has a sibling: an open letter from advanced fellows!👥📣

ECRs: ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html

Adv. Fellows: advancedfellows-openletter-stfc.github.io/index.html

Together, we hope UKRI and the government will hear the many voices across the PPAN community. 🔭🧪📡⚗️

The president of the Royal Astronomical Society urged the government to prevent a “catastrophe” in science. “You lose a whole generation,” he said. “As a nation, we can’t afford for that to happen.”

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Article in the @theguardian.com this afternoon:

"UK 'could lose generation of scientists' with cuts to projects and research facilities"

Highlighting the open letter from ECRs to UKRI in response to the new funding framework for STFC

#STFC #UKRI

Our open letter is gaining weight!

Current status: 628 signatures from ECR working in the UK

Young people can't pay the price of "outcome-driven strategies". #stfc #ukri @ukri.org @iop.org

ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

If you are a postdoc or PhD, read and sign! 🧬🔭🔬⚗️🧪📡🛰️

Early-career researchers are rightly worried about the road ahead, and have drafted an open letter to UKRI & #STFC, calling for a "strategic correction" to avoid irreversible loss of curiosity-driven UK research - an essential part of future discoveries, tech, & growth. bsky.app/profile/si-w...

UKRI reprioritisation threatens Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics (PPAN) in the UK, risking the loss of an entire generation of young researchers.

Curiosity-driven research underpins long-term technological leadership and resilience.

#STFC #UKRI

We’ve drafted an open letter from early-career researchers in response to UKRI reprioritisation and the funding crisis in Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics (PPAN).

This risks losing an entire generation of young researchers from UK science. We cannot let that happen.

#STFC #UKRI

Open letter from Early Career Researchers to the UKRI investment plan.

We can't let young people pay the price of "outcome-driven strategies". #stfc #ukri

ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

If you are a postdoc or PhD, read and sign! 🧬🔭🔬⚗️🧪📡🛰️