With respect to climate
science funding as a proportion of domestic discretionary spending the cut is 23 %.
That's an undeniable strength of
big science funding — just about every project makes a Nature paper.
Overall science funding is stable, although some missions in development will not go forward and others will see increases.
Specifically, I wanted to learn more about establishing priorities for science initiatives in regions that traditionally do not receive
significant science funding.
There is no good reason I can see
why science funding could not be made subject to democratic decision - making.
Similarly, ongoing issues that affect all scientists; such as
governmental science funding and funding mechanisms require an engaged sector with effective advocacy skills.
With
poor science funding my postdoctoral time only increases leaving me unable to pay my loans off.
Maybe what he is really talking about is he doesn't
like science funded that doesn't agree with his biases.
There is considerable interest among policy - makers in documenting short - term effects
of science funding.
The work was financially supported in part by the
Austrian Science Fund FWF and the Templeton World Charity Foundation.
McKeon is a prominent former banker and chair of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, its main agency
for science funding.
«I would attribute a lot of the holding the line
on science funding on sustained activism from scientists and their supporters,» says Michael Halpern at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She is the author of two «lab lit» novels inspired by her scientific experiences, and is founder of the Science is Vital organisation, which successfully campaigned against UK
science funding cuts in 2010
The prospect of joining that group, which today comprises 10 labs in the Center for Chromosome Biology, combined with
increased science funding in Ireland and a gloomy funding scene in the United States prompted Sullivan to move.
«Morale is going to be low,» says Samuel Rankin, chair of the Coalition for
National Science Funding, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «He needs to take advantage of the fact that he's new and push for more funding.»
The Trump administration's proposal to slash federal
science funding by 13 percent, or $ 4.3 billion in the 2018 budget strikes across the nation's science organizations.
Within NASA, Senate appropriators would carry out a large $ 234 million or 12.7 percent cut to Planetary Science, while keeping
Earth Science funded at last year's levels — the inverse approach to their House counterparts (see chart at right).
The research was financially supported by the European Commission and the Austrian
Science Fund FWF.
Sequestration also axed hundreds of government - funded research grants, one of the fundamental sources of
science funding at academic institutions.
The government has allocated most of # 4.7 billion of
new science funding to UKRI, ramping up over 4 years, as part of a new industrial strategy.
You try what was seen in an award - winning essay suggestion from the 2008 «Roscoe Hogan Environmental Law Essay Contest,» that such testimony may be ignored because it is unreliable
junk science funded by corporations that's irrelevant in the face of settled science.
Pyne, as Abbott's minister of education and training, followed the government line, overseeing cuts of AU$ 300 million from university research grants, AU$ 174 million from research training, and AU$ 75 million from the country's major
science funding body the Australian Research Council (ARC).
In the lengthy negotiations over Horizon 2020, the bloc's 7 - year
science funding program that has just started, ITRE has consistently pushed for a bigger science budget while cost - conscious member states tried to keep it down.
The latest melee in the culture wars over
public science funding comes from conservative CNS News, who apparently just discovered a government - funded study from 6 years ago on duck genitalia.
A note on the Web site of CONICYT, Chile's
main science funding agency, says (translated): «It is a tremendous loss for us, for the country, and for science to see years of investigation destroyed.»
Also:
Planetary science funding from NASA is in trouble, so a delegation led by Bill Nye the Science Guy descended on Washington DC last week to sound the alarm.
This all matters for
science funding because discretionary spending and R&D tend to move hand - in - hand: individual agencies may fare better or worse in different years, but the discretionary budget is essentially the center of gravity around which science agencies cluster, fiscally speaking (see chart at right, for instance).
«That would be a disaster for Europe,» says Bart De Strooper, a neuroscientist at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium, who helped launch a grassroots petition last month to reform
European science funding (Science, 2 April, p. 29).
Emily Lakdawalla presents a guest blog entry that features splendid images from Mars Express, while Bill Nye traces the convoluted ways of
space science funding in Washington.
Phrases with «science funding»