Not all think like that. At someone’s retirement do I recall many senior people commenting how they would never get hired nowadays with much fiercer competition and expectations! I can recall twenty years ago pretty much anyone who wanted a postdoctoral could get one easily, nowadays that’s not true

They do for STFC too nowadays. I believe there was no restriction at some point in the past

Even if you get one many universities won’t convert to permanent posts at the end now. I know someone who had to leave the university sector recently once their Royal Society fellowship ended.

Was it significantly higher in the past? I think it’s always been very low in the STFC equivalent.

Now he is claiming he is only doing the same thing that experimental particle physicists do.

And now the politicians are trying to put the blame for the financial mess on universities, to avoid taking any responsibility themselves.

Presumably the Netherlands government is subsidising the cost of teaching?

Because the uk government no longer pays the costs of university education. Fees were introduced to replace direct funding of teaching by the government. Then the government froze fees for almost ten years whilst inflation went on, meaning a very large drop in real terms.

“All Labour governments since the War have passed laws to extend public access to nature – does this Labour government want to be the first that fails to do so?”

You should have mentioned the open journal astrophysics which has demonstrated a way forward. It is punishing several hundred articles a year I believe. The person who set that up claims it will scale to very large numbers of publications.

Journalists need to be paid somehow.

This means these aircraft appear vulnerable 2 subatomic particles from space changing tiny bits of data in computer software causing said computer to malfunction.

This issue has been suspected to affect other planes, famously an Air Qantas flight. But it's v hard to be conclusive about such cases.

But there’s no evidence the wow signal was aliens anyway? So even if the direction matched I font see how that improves anything about ET.

I keep oscillating between thinking they really are this incompetent and they can’t be this incompetent, hence they really want to damage/shrink the university sector.

Did you walk up the hill?

I doubt it’s that simple. Empty houses aren’t much use if they aren’t where people want or need to live for their work.

Maybe the pilot pressed the wrong button!