{"id":964,"date":"2011-03-18T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=964"},"modified":"2011-03-18T10:46:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:46:19","slug":"in-which-we-rev-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2011\/03\/18\/in-which-we-rev-up-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In which we rev up again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long, cold winter. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceisvital.org.uk\/\">Science Is Vital<\/a> has been in hibernation, but now we\u2019re back.<\/p>\n<p>After half a year since the government\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2010\/oct\/20\/science-is-vital-result\">Autumn Spending Review<\/a>, the implications of the science budget\u2019s cash freeze are starting to kick in. Inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sciencecampaign.org.uk\/?p=2763\">recent Campaign for Science and Engineering blog<\/a>, Stephen Curry <a href=\"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2011\/02\/01\/interesting-times\/\">proposed<\/a> that we lend a hand to the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/science-and-technology-committee\/news\/110126-sr2010---call-for-evidence\/\">who are seeking evidence<\/a> about how the proposed cuts are affecting scientists at the coal face. We want to make sure that <strong>al<\/strong>l voices, including those of early-stage researchers, are heard &#8211; not just eminent scientists or scholarly societies.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve organized a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceisvital.org.uk\/latest\/\">helpful page on our website<\/a> about how to prepare and submit your evidence, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceisvital.org.uk\/2011\/03\/17\/map-and-google-doc\/\">questionnaire<\/a> that will help us keep track of the cuts geographically. And we&#8217;ve just contacted everyone who helped out with the campaign to let them know &#8211; that&#8217;s the more than 37,000 people who supported us last time around.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d be grateful if you could help spread the word: the hashtag, as always, is #scienceisvital, along with the specific campaign tag, #CSRimpact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a long, cold winter. Science Is Vital has been in hibernation, but now we\u2019re back. After half a year since the government\u2019s Autumn Spending Review, the implications of the science budget\u2019s cash freeze are starting to kick in. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2011\/03\/18\/in-which-we-rev-up-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}