Like me, many in the science and innovation community were fervent Remainers and will have shared my shock at the outcome. Others will be Brexiteers. You may still have been shocked.
Most will be directly affected by EU funding, collaboration or free movement implications of the negotiation which is coming and must be deeply anxious in the face of this personal uncertainty. I understand that and share many of those emotions but rending our garments is not going to protect the world class science & innovation ecosystem we have all worked so hard to build up.
Image: Chancellor George Osborne and Nicola Blackwood MP, chair of the House of Commons science and technology committee, talk with Dr Simon Hughes during a visit to Begbrooke Science Park in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
