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29 Mar, 22 tweets, 25 min read
Starting new 🧵 on #odacuts #UKRIcuts #gcrfcuts with this

“I wrote,  along with the other National Academies to the Foreign Secretary on the value of ODA-funded research, and again in March to the Chancellor on the need to protect the science budget.”

acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/supe…
SIGN. SIGN. SIGN - this is the easy bit folks

Only a few hundred signatures needed on the #UKRIcuts #odacuts #gcrfcuts Parliament Petition before Govt has to respond 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👏🏼🙌🏾👏🏼
Comment piece in Telegraph from CEO @ICR_London “Slashing research funding is a blow to Global Britain. The Government will do long-term damage if it reduces support for the UK’s university research base.”
(Paywalled)

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/1…
Starting to see copies of letters sent by and received back from MPs on #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts
Whilst opposition MPs’ responses are of course supportive hearing of strong support & commitments to raise concern from senior members of Government #odacuts #gcrfcuts #ukricuts
And here from @GCRF @MIDEQHub director @heavencrawley - it beggars belief the fiasco unfolding here let alone the unconscionable effects of #odacuts #ukricuts #gcrfcuts

But do join us to hear about @AKNetwork1 from @charlesforsdick tomorrow 👇🏼We never sleep 😴
Article from @GCRFGenderHub 👇🏼 in TimesHigher on #odacuts #ukricuts #gcrfcuts
“UK Research and Innovation has announced a large cut to the Global Challenges Research Fund (#GCRF) [..] established to target the best of Britain’s research effort at the big problems facing the world” from @UniversityLeeds #ODAcuts #UKRIcuts #gcrfcuts leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4…
Hard but strong decision here from @juliapgjones (@glasgow_kat) 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼) 👇🏼
Statement here from @RoyalSocChem

Funding cuts and uncertainty leave UK researchers in the lurch | News | Chemistry World: chemistryworld.com/news/funding-c… (@VolcanoJenni @kentbuse )
Unrolled 🧵from @MaryRARyan @UofGGCID on breadth and depth of projects in progress and at risk and that’s just at one HEI @UofGlasgow #UKRIcuts #odacuts #gcrfcuts
Handy info graphics here from @devcomms on #ukricuts #oda it’s #gcrfcuts 👇🏼
Physics World article on #gcrfcuts #odacuts #ukricuts “UK researchers decry ‘shameful’ cuts to international support fund”

physicsworld.com/a/uk-researche…
“More than 1,000 jobs at risk at global hubs facing research cuts.
A dozen flagship UK-led hubs make up around half the active grant funding from under-threat #GCRF budget “ @profrichdawson timeshighereducation.com/news/more-1000… #odacuts #ukricuts
Here are the two open letters and blog from @VolcanoJenni

“These projects were tackling these problems, across the world. Appalled by these ferocious cuts, thousands of researchers have signed two open letters demanding an immediate reversal”

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This news to further invest in deadly weapons comes shortly after cutting of UK’s aid budget a complete contradiction to the values of peacemaking, reconciliation and justice, love and compassion.

Condemnation of #oda its #ukricuts from @ionacommunity iona.org.uk/2021/03/26/ion…
Remembered this Solnit quote after call with @GioFassetta yesterday, doubled up in wonderful uncontrollable laughter at the sheer ‘you-couldn’t-write-it-ness” of our Monday this week.

Manic coping mechanisms and a genuine glimpse of hope! #odacuts #ukricuts #gcrfcuts 🙌🏾🙏🏾💚🤩 Image
“Just when we started feeling confident manoeuvring through the COVID precautions and fieldwork, we were presented with the unfortunate news of the #ODAcuts the night before we left for fieldwork.” @livingdeltas by @SumanaB2401 livingdeltas.org/fieldwork-amid… #ukricuts #gcrfcuts
And Petition reaches 10k #odacuts #ukricuts #gcrfcuts - that’s a lot of very smart, caring people who really understand what’s at stake for the future 👇🏼
So @JoBeall1 @FiddianQasmiyeh @ZoeNorridge @OlivetteOtele & Ayesha Siddiqi & I now joined by @kevinmarsh8 from #GCRF Advisory who has now resigned over ‘disasterous’ cuts @ResProfNews

👉🏼 bit.ly/3wbYfEi #gcrfcuts #odacuts #ukricuts Image
For the late crowd looking for hope here’s the open letter to sign.

#odacuts #UKRIcuts #gcrfcuts
“These initiatives, including two notable malaria programmes, are now likely to be abandoned after the government scaled back its #ODA ... #UKRI has said it can only fund projects until the end of July and that almost 900 projects are affected.” independent.co.uk/news/science/c… #UKRIcuts
More impacts of the #ukricuts reported - this time from @ARISEHub for what it’s will mean for their work in Kenya #odacuts #gcrfcuts

ariseconsortium.org/letter-to-ukri…

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26 Mar
“Slashing funding will limit research spending in the UK and may harm the economic recovery.”

Important Op-Ed by @UofGVC⁩: Cuts mean science superpower claim won’t fly ⁦@thetimes⁩ ⁦@UofGlasgow⁩

(paywalled) #odacuts #ukricuts #gcrfcuts thetimes.co.uk/article/cuts-m…
Greg Clark MP has written to PM saying cuts amount to “a devastating reduction which would reverse two years of intended increases and mean that the ambition for Britain to be a science superpower would be deferred for much of this parliament”.(paywalled) thetimes.co.uk/article/devast…
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25 Mar
Everyday since news of #ukricuts #gcrfcuts broke another set of previously unimaginable consequences occur:-
1) end of peer review for grants - it was already on a shoogly peg but who is now going to donate labour to laborious review of proposals - including risk assessments? 😐
2) Applications for funding - it takes two years constant work to go from idea to successful application with success rates low. To do this needs trust that if successful your work will be funded throughout (stage-gated). Right now I can’t imagine why I would EVER apply again.
3/ Partnerships. It takes years to build towards equitable partnerships in contexts of conflict & impoverishment. Some of mine are over 14 years in making. Steady, constant care. This is why they worked. Why they were funded. 1 secretive stroke of a 🇬🇧 pen and ‘poof’ - #ukricuts
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24 Mar
“The University will continue to use all available channels to make the case to reverse these cuts.”
 
Strong Statement from @UofGVC @RachelSandison @cjpearce on #UKRIcuts #odacuts #gcrfcuts

👉🏼 gla.ac.uk/research/az/gc… Image
@UofGVC @RachelSandison @cjpearce @UofGlasgow @UofGEducation @UofGUnescoRILA @kentbuse @UCUScotland @MIDEQHub "This decision undermines the UK’s role in combatting the world’s most pressing challenges...[and] will lead to job losses in the UK and in low- and middle-income countries, with early career staff particularly badly affected." @DrJoGrady @ucu
researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-res… (paywalled)
@kentbuse "The government has said the reduction of UK aid spending from 0.7 to 0.5 per cent of gross national income is a temporary measure."
Why such damage to 'National Interest" if temporary?
bit.ly/3tQVk1W by @RobinBisson quote from @kentbuse, @stuarttaberner1 & @DrJoGrady
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13 Mar
On Monday we launched our major £2 million #GCRF #UKRI peace building project. Yesterday the Govt announced cuts to international science the savagery of which has never been seen before, to make war #WDMs ⁦⁦@CMonaghanSNP⁩ ⁦@alisonthewliss⁩ theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…
The savage cuts are taking immediate effect. The length, depth and consequences are as yet unknown but they will result directly in increases in poverty, violence against women & girls & the crumbling of civic cultural institutions - as our research to date shows. #ODAcuts #SDGs
#ODACuts to international science & research budget with our international partners in the global south are estimated at £125million “The MoD has said developing the next generation of Dreadnought submarines to carry the new warhead would cost £30bn plus a £10bn contingency.”
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