Nursing success – what next for UK science?

It’s certainly been a busy month for UK research. There’s been the budget and the first outline of the plans for the new Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). This was joined by the Nurse review of R&D that has been in the pipeline for two years. And the news that the UK and EU have found a political solution to Brexit’s Northern Ireland border issues also looked like a win for science – finally clearing the way (almost) for the UK to associate to Horizon Europe. Yet just as senior researchers across the country breathed a sigh of relief, it appears that the prime minister may have got cold feet about joining the EU’s huge collaborative research scheme.