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Six months to Brexit: how scientists are preparing for the split

Seven researchers and campaigners tell Nature how Britain’s break-up with the EU is affecting research.
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  1. Ehsan Masood
  2. Inga Vesper
  3. Richard Van Noorden
A man holds flags during Brexit protest

In London, a demonstrator protests against Brexit. Credit: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty

The incredible is fast becoming the inevitable. Just six months from now, unless a political earthquake intervenes, the United Kingdom must leave the European Union. Yet the details of the March 2019 break-up are still muddy, and scientists are growing increasingly anxious — and angry — about how Brexit will alter their research and their lives.

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Nature 561, 452-454 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06781-8

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 05 October 2018: An earlier version of this feature affiliated Beatriz Mingo Fernandez with the Open University in Bristol. She is, in fact, based in Milton Keynes, UK.

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