> The UK is slowly realizing that being all alone and isolated is no fun at all… I know a handful of people working on Horizon programmes. They all think Bre

> The UK is slowly realizing that being all alone and isolated is no fun at all… I know a handful of people working on Horizon programmes. They all think Brexit was nuts and has largely done irrevocable damage to UK science. Many of the good people have now been poached by EU-based research organisations or universities. In many cases only a very modest golden-handshake was required because they valued continued participation in Horizon more than anything else. Others are still working in the UK, but technically working for an EU organisation, because many organisations set up shop in the EU when they saw the writing on the wall given the governments dogged persual of hard brexit. In other words, in both cases, a loss to the UK economy and for the former, a loss to the UK science community.