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Francis Collins to head NIH

Linus wrote 1 week ago: Image credit: (Ted Thai/TIME/Time Pix) Barack Obama is nominating Francis Collins to head the Nation … more →

Tags: Science, Francis Collins, grants, NIH

More reading1 comment

Miriam Jones wrote 1 month ago: From the latest CAUT Bulletin: “Business Model Squeezes the Serendipity Out of Research, … more →

Tags: corporatization, Conservatives, CAUT Bulletin

Are you Pro-Test? Sign the Petition!!

speakingofresearch wrote 2 months ago: Join over the hundreds of people (1400+ at time of writing) who have signed The Pro-Test Petition! T … more →

Tags: News, americans for medical progress, Animal Research, Animal Rights Extremism, animal testing, animal welfare, Barack Obama, i am pro-test, medical advances

how to get science funding right

theanswers42 wrote 2 months ago: After the epic, epic failure that was the Bush administration, Obama has had an awful lot of work to … more →

Tags: Life, the Universe and Everything, Physics and Cosmology, Politics, STFC, clover cancellation, obama, USA

Research funding – Canada vs. the US

zlurie wrote 2 months ago:   A divide is starting to open between the United States and Canada when it comes to science funding … more →

Tags: Science, News, Canada, Canada and the US, Canadian Research

Obama Wants 3% of GDP to Science

nahnopenotquite wrote 2 months ago: Absolutely love this. Absolutely right. … more →

Tags: Science, Government

The roads go without saying3 comments

Planetologist wrote 3 months ago: Right now we’re Rome with crappy roads. We’re a mighty world power, but when it comes to … more →

Tags: Politics, High Speed Rail, HSR, obama

Workfare for scientists: cheaper AND more productive!31 comments

Paul Wells wrote 3 months ago: I’m going to get in trouble for the title on this thing, which is meant to be a bit satirical. … more →

Tags: Inkless Wells, Capital Read, Give me money

The OTA needs a rez

Planetologist wrote 3 months ago: At one time the United States had something called the Office of Technology Assessment. Renowned fut … more →

Tags: Politics, Office of Technology Assessment, ota

Who stole the curiosity?2 comments

niewiap wrote 3 months ago: I am just finishing the second of a duo of fantastic books about science and scientists. The first o … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Science, Conduct of science, Literature, BioMedical Research, hardships of lab work, NIH, Richard Feynman, Scientific Curiosity, Stephen Levitt

Deconstructing Conyers' ignorance about science

Planetologist wrote 4 months ago: In a previous post I attacked US Representative John Conyers’ bill HR 801, The Fair Copyright … more →

Tags: The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, Peer Review, John Conyers, H.R. 801

Publish and perish6 comments

Planetologist wrote 4 months ago: Phil Plait recently posted on his Bad Astronomy blog about the latest Congressional creep to try and … more →

Tags: The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, John Conyers (weasel-MI), FCRWA

The Obamite Death Cult & The "Science" of Cannibalizing Babies1 comment

Akira wrote 4 months ago: From View From the Right: OBAMA REVERSES BUSH ON STEM CELL RESEARCH By Lawrence Auster One of Georg … more →

Tags: Abortion, Barackmadinijad Crackmessedupmybrain Insane Obamessiah, corruption, Culture of Death, History, obama, Politics, Politics and Religion, President Obama

The New Respect for Science: Obama Reverses Bush Stem Cell Ban

mattusmaximus wrote 4 months ago: All I can say is… WHOO-HOOOOO!!! Watch the entire video clip, because President Obama … more →

Tags: Politics, Science, Medicine, Catholic Church, President Obama, President Bush, Embryonic Stem Cell, Stem Cell Research, adult stem cell

Stem cells are back on the menu3 comments

Planetologist wrote 4 months ago: And golly, they’re tasty. Today Obama helped greatly to put science back on track in the US, b … more →

Tags: Stem Cell Research, stem cell ban, Bush = ash heap of history

Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research4 comments

mattusmaximus wrote 4 months ago: In recent news, it seems the eight year ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research will … more →

Tags: Politics, Science, NASA, Medicine, Catholic Church, President Obama, Internet, President Bush, Embryonic Stem Cell

Final Word on Science Funding in the Stimulus1 comment

mattusmaximus wrote 5 months ago: It’s been a good week. It seems that all the rabble rousing done over the last couple of week … more →

Tags: Science, Politics, united states, Congress, Senate, Senators, President Obama, economic stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

In defense of the fishing expedition

niewiap wrote 5 months ago: When coming back from a conference recently, I had an interesting conversation with my PI about gran … more →

Tags: Conduct of science, Grantsmanship and biomedical writing, BioMedical Research, Science, Grantsmanship, NIH, exploratory science, Microarrays, Biomedical Science

Stimulus 2.0

Sarah wrote 5 months ago: The Senate passed the stimulus bill yesterday, 61 to 37. After hashing out the differences between … more →

Tags: Policy, stimulus, NSF


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