Danny van Dyk 🇪🇺

🧑‍🔬 Assoc. Prof. @IPPP_Durham (@Durham_Uni, @DurhamPhysics)
👨‍🍳 experimental cook by conviction
💻 @EOSFlavor lead developer
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[Danny van Dyk 🇪🇺 @DannyD82]

Very happy to start at @IPPP_Durham as an Assistant Professor in Particle Physics Phenomenology on August 1st! Looking forward to work with @martinmbauer, @spannowsky and all the other fine people at IPPP!

[Lucien Heurtier @LucienHeurtier]

Excellent summary of the cuts to grant funding that the PPAN community is now facing at the @ioppublishing.bsky.social APP and HEPP meeting, and how we should respond to it as a community. 🧪🔭

#UKRI #PPAN #ScienceFunding

#APPHEPP26

[Arttu Rajantie 🇪🇺 🇫🇮 #FBPE @ArttuRajantie]

This is pure 1984: Lord Vallance promises that there will be no reduction in UK particle theory postdoc numbers from ~20 per year. The actual number awarded in the last round in 2022 was 58.
https://t.co/jzKazZRK5k

[Conor Fitzpatrick @Fitzparticle]

And yet, UKRI continues to tell us there are no cuts. https://t.co/B3lxww0XaU

[Science, Innovation and Technology Committee @CommonsSITC]

We’ve written to @SciTechgovuk minster Lord Vallance and @UKRI_News, pressing for urgent clarification on science research funding cuts.

Find out more: https://t.co/BA7WsNttWt

[Lucien Heurtier @LucienHeurtier]

“PPAN trained scientists have enabled us to create industry leading AI technology.” 🧪🔭🤖

— Dr David Evans, Head of Data Engineering @FreeAgent

Developments in #UKRI funding are being watched “with alarm.”

👉 https://t.co/sCmQlUUbsB

#PPAN #AI #ScienceFunding

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

"It may be that the government has decided that our field is not strategically important, so heavy cuts are appropriate... they should do so with their eyes wide open to the potential implications in the future for the UK workforce"

Malcolm Fairbairn

https://t.co/rsbuhaWMVp

[Lucien Heurtier @LucienHeurtier]

📢Postdoctoral support in UK theoretical particle physics has dropped from 58.33 to 19.5 PDRA years per year — a ~67% reduction.

These positions are central to research, training, and the skills pipeline into industry.

The impact will extend well beyond academia.

#UKRI

[HEPData @HEPData]

New feature: observer access to @HEPData records in preparation. https://t.co/SYTUIuWqPH

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

I asked the Science Minister @CommonsSITC how he would address the financial mismanagement at @STFC_matters resulting in consistent overspends and cuts.
He denied it was mismanagement but confirmed the ambition should be that predicted expenditure meets actual expenditure.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Higgs Boson breakthrough was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts https://t.co/x5luDrdgpK

[Pallab Ghosh @BBCPallab]

For ⁦@SciTechgovuk⁩ Lord Vallance says: “"It is not right to portray this as a massive cut. It's not, it’s about managing a budget responsibly". He added that the UK was and would continue to be the second biggest funder experiments @CERN.
https://t.co/SaXaO26RKl

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Great read by @BBCPallab on the current crisis in UK physics!

https://t.co/WwU181YHYP

[Pallab Ghosh @BBCPallab]

Minutes of ⁦⁦@STFC_Matters⁩ record the Council's head of strategy describing "a major shift of funding from curiosity-driven research to priority areas and targeted programmes". @UKRI say this was a “misstatement” https://t.co/SaXaO26RKl

[Lucien Heurtier @LucienHeurtier]

Good. This is becoming a problem for a government that claims to invest in innovation.

Let's keep pushing them to actually "sort it out"🧪🔭

[Research Fortnight @ResFortnight]

‘We need to sort this problem out’: Liz Kendall tells MPs on STFC cuts

Science secretary assures House of Commons “we strongly back curiosity-led research”, despite impending cuts

https://t.co/tQYGint0EE

[Pallab Ghosh @BBCPallab]

UK particle physics and astronomy are facing “catastrophic” cuts while science spending received a record increase. Documents seen by ⁦@BBCNews⁩ suggest money has been diverted away to government research areas. https://t.co/SaXaO26RKl

[Conor Fitzpatrick @Fitzparticle]

Excellent writeup of the @UKRI_News debacle by @BBCPallab . "I do not understand how we ended up with a 30% cut in the particle physics and astronomy budget unless at some point there must have been a choice to reduce that aspect of the budget." https://t.co/rULZQwJVJ0

[Paras 🇺🇸(🧢) 🇬🇧 𝕏(3872) @DrNaikIsAwesome]

If you're interested in how often the ground state neutral charmed meson decays to two-body kaon/pion final states look here! Each new average will have a permanent DOI so that you can cite the version you use in your next great physics paper. Cool, huh?

https://t.co/VMfms7OX9B

[Science, Innovation and Technology Committee @CommonsSITC]

Tomorrow at 1.30pm we're questioning Science Minister, Lord Patrick Vallance at @SciTechgovuk and @SeemaMalhotra1, Minister at the @FCDOGovUK in our final session of our inquiry examining the UK's science diplomacy capabilities.

Read more: https://t.co/pOnp1rSbvM

[Danny van Dyk 🇪🇺 @DannyD82]

@demystifysci https://t.co/TcXsDvkaf6