STFC have just released their plan based on currently available funding. It doesn’t make pretty reading so let’s start with the good news.
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1. Our membership of ESO, which provides for access to the VLT, VISTA and, in the future, ALMA.
2. Long term planning for the next generation of telescopes, an Extremely Large (optical) [...]
Posts made in December 11th, 2007
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Update : Apparently the decision to reduce funding to UKIRT from 2010 was made back in May 2006, and the fact that this email came out today is a complete coincidence.
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Warning : If you don’t care about the funding of astronomy in the UK, I’d take the next couple of days off.
Obviously we still [...] -
Today, Tuesday, is not going to be a good day for astronomers in the UK unless I’m very much mistaken. Particularly for post-docs whose contracts run out in the near future (like me). We already know that we’re going to lose access to the Gemini Observatory. But the real picture is almost certainly much worse [...]
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