RE: https://mastodon.social/@brembs/116296000606235617

This is great, great news!

… for European researchers.

Of course, UK ruled itself out of this. Because, y'know, Take Back Control.

I am LOVING these sunlit uplands.

#Brexit

@mike

❤️

You are not alone! Neither you personally, nor the UK: the rest of the world still needs to get something like this going and then connect them all up into one network.

Plenty left to do, this is just a beginning - but it makes me hopeful.

@brembs Such a good beginning.

Hey, you know, we really picked a great time to isolate ourselves from Europe, huh?

@mike

There is never a good time for such a thing. But who could have predicted that everything was going to slide downhill globally so dramatically from 2016 onwards?

@brembs Ten years ago today, Barack Obama was US president and the UK was a full member of the European Union, Single Market and Customs Union and looked like staying that way.

We went down the wrong leg of the trousers of time.