WIKIMEDIA, VAUGHAN LEIBERUMBritons yesterday voted in favor of leaving the European Union (E.U.). While the effects of this decision on science will likely play out over the coming months and years, researchers in the U.K. and their collaborators abroad are bracing for change.
Most researchers interviewed by news organizations expressed their disapproval of the decision. As Nature reported: “It was the result that most scientists didn’t want,”which isn’t surprising given the number of researchers in the U.K. who work with scientists elsewhere in the E.U.
“Collaboration on major E.U. projects will be put in jeopardy. We’re not going to be seen as a trusted partner, so even though there’s still two years to come, I think we’ll feel that straight away,” Stephen Curry of Imperial College London told BuzzFeed News. “British scientists will have to work hard in the future to counter the isolationism of Brexit if our science is to continue to thrive,” Paul Nurse of the Francis Crick Institute told reporters (via Nature).
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