I'm writing just to voice my wholehearted concurrence (no reply needed)
with the pro-EU argument voiced in your recently distributed spring
update.  As I'm a university reader in receipt of an EU Horizon 2020
grant, 20% of my salary and most of my research costs over three years
are funded by the EU, and furthermore the ERASMUS travel scheme funds
100% of my travel to scientific meetings in Europe -- interactions with
colleagues in France and Italy, in particular, have greatly benefited my
research on autism.  As you note in your argument, exit from the EU
would jeopardise British research; this chilling effect on science
would be in addition to the broader economic costs in terms of trade
and fiscal uncertainties - costs that markets are taking very seriously
as evidenced in the pound's recent slide and the dip in UK business
investment.  Although you and I have our political differences this
is one issue on which we emphatically agree, and I do hope that the
majority of the British people will see reason on 23 June and not be
swayed by the shrill arguments of the anti-EU faction; I lost a great
deal of respect for Boris Johnson when he put his own political
ambition ahead of what he must surely know, on economic grounds,
is good for the country.