Adam Spencer on the CSIRO job cuts - ABC listen

Adam Spencer on the CSIRO job cuts - ABC listen

Our peak scientific body, the CSIRO, has made extraordinary discoveries and invented everyday wonders like Aerogard, plastic banknotes and WiFi.  But once again the CSIRO is axing jobs, saying the cost of doing science has outpaced its funding and it needs to refocus on big issues.  Today, Adam Spencer, ambassador for mathematics and science at Sydney University on what happens when science is underfunded.  Featured:  Adam Spencer, science co

‘Sad day for science’: 350 jobs go at CSIRO - Campus Review

Australia’s leading science and research agency will cut hundreds of jobs across the nation as rising costs outpace funding. The CSIRO has announced up to 350 science jobs will be lost as the organisation faces long-term financial sustainability challenges fuelled by the rising cost of running a modern science agency. The 100-year-old organisation has stretched its resources for decades and has now reached a critical point where it can no longer…