Posts by TRT 9611 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Sep 2009
As a manager (not at the BBC, I might add, but still in a creative industry) I made sure I could and did do some of the job of every single one of my technicians on at least three days every year, at both easy and difficult times. Usually shadowing them, but also on my own so they could take extraordinary leave. It's a real eye opener and something I'd recommend to anyone who has to listen to feedback from the staff who actually do the work.
reverting Windows 10 back to the Windows 7 Pro that the users wanted and indicated that they wanted when they clicked "No, I don't want Windows 10" when asked.
Feedback? As if anyone will listen.
Eventually people will be using it, but they'd prefer their microscopes, genome sequencers, electrophysiology rigs, proteomics rigs, automated fluorescence assayers etc etc to keep working until they are ready to make the change. Probably when they buy a new one, which won't be for years considering how expensive they are.
I agree with Ridley. If there is such value in it, then a way around will be found. And perhaps opening up the woeful way business and government in the UK treats science research is going to be a good thing. The emphasis on translational research to the exclusion of all else is just nuts. Then there's this EU data repository business - dubious at best.
On top of that, there's the whole overseas student draw. With the volume of students enjoying completely visa-free trans-european study, the government has restricted the ability of non-EU students to come here. I know this from personal experience - you need to show you have £20k in the bank and a firm offer of a course at a named and registered institution before you get a visa. Then there's a 20-hr a week restriction on employment whilst studying - with London rents, these can be very hard working people living in the cheapest accommodation possible, usually illegal dives, travelling long distances to London universities, virtually living in the LRCs. It's not a pretty way to live at all. And at the end of it, very little prospect of UK employment.
Interesting times.
the last time, when we did a trip to Dinorwig, we were woken at 5am by the farmer coming round and banging on the tents saying "Everyone up! The river's rising... higher ground, people." And the time before that, which was after a charity trek up and down Snowden, the farmer didn't bother to get us up, and we awoke to water lapping over the top of the the bucket sewn-in.
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