When I was younger, a friend of mine once had a big argument with his parents and so he moved out (he was 25). He didn’t really speak to his parents for a month. After a month, he went back round with his all his dirty washing and his mother refused to do it for him, to which he got really angry again.
>”The EU is in clear breach of our agreement, repeatedly seeking to politicise vital scientific cooperation by refusing to finalise access to these important programmes. We cannot allow this to continue,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in the statement.
Amusing since the UK has still not built the customs facilities in Northern Ireland required by the protocol under the TCA and apparently has no plans to actually ratify this agreement correctly.
Maybe the EU will think of finalising the UK’s access to Horizon Europe when the UK fulfils its obligations under the agreement.
holy crap someone actually using the disputes mechanism
I’m shocked i thought the done thing was to just insult each other.
As like: This is stupid, I quit! Why am I not allowed to play along? Oh, I can play along even when I’m out! Good! These rules I’m changing… Hello?
>*A few months ago, Teresa Thurston, a cellular microbiologist at Imperial College London, could not have imagined losing her €1.5 million European research grant. But the United Kingdom’s role in the European Union’s €95 billion Horizon Europe funding program is now crumbling thanks to lingering Brexit disputes, forcing many U.K. grant winners like Thurston to give up grants they thought they could count on.*
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>*The impasse over U.K. participation in Horizon Europe deepened this month after the U.K. Parliament began pushing through legislation that would unilaterally override part of the 2020 Brexit agreement that deals with trade in Northern Ireland*
Brexit means Brexit!
Purely political, as the EU is not under contract to do this within any timeframe.
They chose to leave and now they have to live with it.
It’s sad because the UK produces a lot of papers which are not necessarily good but they pride themselves in publishing a lot so I don’t see why they’d need partners.
“I can’t believe the other side is not delivering their side of the deal I loudly and proudly announced I wouldn’t deliver my side of”
Entitlement/stupidity, not sure what it is but really sick of it after 6 years.
What a bunch of dotards the British have turned out to be. Hilarious.
r/Europe:
UK doesn’t fulfil TCA obligations = bad
EU doesn’t fulfil TCA obligations = UK also bad
They are at the part where they deny, another 20 years and we’ll get to the part where they face reality that all of this mess is an actual thing and is only their single and solemn fault.
Politics aside, check this out, relevant because
> “This is a very exciting study that highlights a potential anti-ageing treatment,” says Roman Bauer at the University of Surrey in the UK.
But mostly because this is fascinating, also listen to the fun (give it a few minutes if it doesn’t instantly appeal) podcast Smartless with David Sinclair guest, to quote:
> Listen folks, he’s reversed the age of an eye in a mouse and made the mouse see again. So grab a green-juice and listen up.
Usually they have movie people since they’re 3 actors hosting the podcast.
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When I was younger, a friend of mine once had a big argument with his parents and so he moved out (he was 25). He didn’t really speak to his parents for a month. After a month, he went back round with his all his dirty washing and his mother refused to do it for him, to which he got really angry again.
>”The EU is in clear breach of our agreement, repeatedly seeking to politicise vital scientific cooperation by refusing to finalise access to these important programmes. We cannot allow this to continue,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in the statement.
Amusing since the UK has still not built the customs facilities in Northern Ireland required by the protocol under the TCA and apparently has no plans to actually ratify this agreement correctly.
Maybe the EU will think of finalising the UK’s access to Horizon Europe when the UK fulfils its obligations under the agreement.
holy crap someone actually using the disputes mechanism
I’m shocked i thought the done thing was to just insult each other.
As like: This is stupid, I quit! Why am I not allowed to play along? Oh, I can play along even when I’m out! Good! These rules I’m changing… Hello?
[https://www.science.org/content/article/u-k-set-abandon-europe-s-top-science-funding-program-go-it-alone](https://www.science.org/content/article/u-k-set-abandon-europe-s-top-science-funding-program-go-it-alone)
>*A few months ago, Teresa Thurston, a cellular microbiologist at Imperial College London, could not have imagined losing her €1.5 million European research grant. But the United Kingdom’s role in the European Union’s €95 billion Horizon Europe funding program is now crumbling thanks to lingering Brexit disputes, forcing many U.K. grant winners like Thurston to give up grants they thought they could count on.*
>
>…
>
>*The impasse over U.K. participation in Horizon Europe deepened this month after the U.K. Parliament began pushing through legislation that would unilaterally override part of the 2020 Brexit agreement that deals with trade in Northern Ireland*
Brexit means Brexit!
Purely political, as the EU is not under contract to do this within any timeframe.
They chose to leave and now they have to live with it.
It’s sad because the UK produces a lot of papers which are not necessarily good but they pride themselves in publishing a lot so I don’t see why they’d need partners.
“I can’t believe the other side is not delivering their side of the deal I loudly and proudly announced I wouldn’t deliver my side of”
Entitlement/stupidity, not sure what it is but really sick of it after 6 years.
What a bunch of dotards the British have turned out to be. Hilarious.
r/Europe:
UK doesn’t fulfil TCA obligations = bad
EU doesn’t fulfil TCA obligations = UK also bad
They are at the part where they deny, another 20 years and we’ll get to the part where they face reality that all of this mess is an actual thing and is only their single and solemn fault.
Politics aside, check this out, relevant because
> “This is a very exciting study that highlights a potential anti-ageing treatment,” says Roman Bauer at the University of Surrey in the UK.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2332402-transfusing-blood-from-an-old-mouse-to-a-younger-mouse-causes-ageing/
But mostly because this is fascinating, also listen to the fun (give it a few minutes if it doesn’t instantly appeal) podcast Smartless with David Sinclair guest, to quote:
> Listen folks, he’s reversed the age of an eye in a mouse and made the mouse see again. So grab a green-juice and listen up.
Usually they have movie people since they’re 3 actors hosting the podcast.