Call for the internet. As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge.
Does scientific attention - as expressed through citations, media coverage, or practitioner knowledge - accrue to quality or reward the real contributors of breakthroughs? Or does attention in scientific publishing create a closed loop?
"Changes to student support within existing arrangements; efficiency savings and prioritisation across universities, science and research; some switching of modes of study in higher education; and reductions in budgets that do not support student participation."
Critique: An inward-looking scheme which must eventually collapse doe to failure to recruit new talent (and lack of a proper career structure will speed that up). Bye bye UK science.