Andy Lawrence on cuts to Astronomy in Utrecht, the importance of rocking the boat, and a realistic perspective of the debt crisis; see also an old post of mine here that uses the same figure to make a similar point: the cuts are based on politics, not economics ….
As you may have heard, the University of Utrecht has taken the extraordinary decision to completely shut down its Astronomical Institute SIU by 2014. You can read about in a blog post written last week by Sarah Kendrew, and there is also a press statement issued by the SIU. This is the scariest astro-disaster since the INAF panic. Utrecht is a significant fraction of Dutch astronomy; it is one out of five universities in the NOVA alliance , alt … Read More
via The e-Astronomer
In the Dark 