In addition to creating the bogus accounts, which were designed to spread misinformation and influence US voters, Facebook said the Kremlin - linked Internet
Research Agency spent $ 100,000 on over 3000 ads displayed around the time of the election.
Facebook previously reported that the Internet
Research Agency spent $ 100,000 on Facebook ads that reached 10 million users.
Russian information troll farm the Internet
Research Agency spent just 0.05 percent as much on Facebook ads as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's campaigns combined in the run - up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, yet still reached a massive audience.
Not exact matches
Despite extensively
researching and interviewing PR and crowdfunding
agencies to give his campaign the best possible chance, Thomson
spent $ 20,000 with a well - known crowdfunding PR
agency, only to be greatly disappointed in its work.
Initially, sources had flagged $ 4,700 in ad
spending by Russia's so - called Internet
Research Agency, and Google finally confirmed the number Monday.
Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad
spending market, including macro-level economic conditions; historical trends of the advertising market; historical trends of each medium in relation to other media; reported revenues from major ad publishers; estimates from other
research firms; data from benchmark sources; consumer media consumption trends; consumer device usage trends; and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad
agencies, brands, media publishers and other industry leaders.
Johnson pointed out that it was the City Council's
research that discovered that about 323,000 NYCHA residents had
spent time without heat or hot water during the winter, noting that the
agency failed to disclose it.
Paul Brennan, Director of Purchasing for Rockland County, advised that «the use of the SmartProcure Database allows county procurement staff to
research price history on almost any product or service, discover new vendors and increase competition for our solicitations, analyze our own
spending, and increase the opportunity for cooperative contracts among government
agencies.»
Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary
spending — a category that covers just about every
research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.
The nation's defense
agencies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year funding cognitive neuroscience
research, Moreno noted, citing
research projects to better understand and model «human behavior in social and cultural contexts» and explore systems for «direct neural interfacing to receive and react to operationally relevant environmental, physiological and neural information.»
Some
agencies like the National Institutes of Health won increases in
research funding, while other
agency research spending accounts remained flat or decreased.
The Senate Appropriations Committee's approval July 20 of its fiscal 2018 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill, for instance, would restore
spending for the Advanced
Research Projects
Agency - Energy and reverse the proposal to eliminate the program as outlined in the president's fiscal 2018 budget plan.
Among the largest deficits have been researchers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine — areas largely funded by high -
spending agencies such as the Medical
Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council.
President Donald Trump today signed into law a $ 1.3 trillion
spending package that largely rejects deep cuts to
research agencies proposed by the White House and, in many cases, provides substantial increases.
Renamed the National Institute for
Research on Safety and Quality (NIRSQ), the new institute would receive a 12.5 percent reduction from its 2017
spending from all sources as a separate
agency, with several programs eliminated.
Assuming the winner didn't capture a majority of the vote, second place would have been good enough to get Westin into a May runoff for the chance to unseat Representative John Culberson, a nine - term Republican who chairs a
spending panel that shapes the budgets of several federal
research agencies.
The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to
spend 90 % of the
agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the
agency to maintain at least 16,670 training
research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).
«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other federal
research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016
spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.
Those left most major
research and development
agencies at or near their pre-sequestration
spending levels, even after adjusting for inflation, according to the AAAS analysis by Hourihan and David Parkes.
Early - career scientists who wish to win
research funding from federal
agencies face a number of obstacles, not least of all the formidable competition: senior researchers who have
spent years improving their grantsmanship skills.
The mandate, which applies to federal
agencies that
spend more than $ 100 million a year on
research and development, will eventually make hundreds of thousands of papers once hidden behind paywalls available to anyone with an Internet connection.
► «The next CEO of Australia's leading
research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is in hot water after suggesting the cash - strapped organization spend scarce research dollars investigating water divining, or dowsing
research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation (CSIRO), is in hot water after suggesting the cash - strapped organization spend scarce research dollars investigating water divining, or dowsing
Research Organisation (CSIRO), is in hot water after suggesting the cash - strapped organization
spend scarce
research dollars investigating water divining, or dowsing
research dollars investigating water divining, or dowsing.»
The good news for the
research community is that the 211 - to - 198 vote by the House largely rejects deep cuts to science programs proposed by President Donald Trump earlier this year — and even calls for
spending increases at a few
agencies, including $ 1.1 billion more for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Trump's FY 2019 budget proposal, released February 12, includes a last - minute addendum that would keep science
spending roughly at 2017 levels for some major
research agencies, including NIH, NSF and the Department of Energy Office of Science.
Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute,
spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various
agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National
Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The
agency's total
spending on cancer
research rose from just over $ 2 billion in fiscal year 1995 to almost $ 5 billion in FY 2005.
R&D
spending includes everything from the Defense Advanced
Research Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of th
Research Project
Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to
research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of th
research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of the brain.
Research and development (R&D)
spending is mostly concentrated in six major
spending bills that encompass programs in nine federal departments and at least nine other
agencies, and includes both discretionary accounts —
spending that Congress adjusts and allocates annually — and mandatory accounts — direct
spending that has dedicated funding streams established by law.
Climate change
research also got a warm reception — a 6 %
spending increase spread out over 13
agencies — and NASA was excited to find a plan to kidnap a small asteroid in its budget proposal.
The bipartisan compromise, proposed by moderate Senators Ben Nelson (D - NE) and Susan Collins (R - ME), chips away at funding levels for several
research agencies that were contained in the original
spending measure.
That's what House Democrats, science lobbyists, and officials at the National Science Foundation (NSF) may want to ask themselves as they attempt to salvage the 5 - year, $ 82 - billion reauthorization to boost
spending for
research, education, and innovation at NSF and two other science
agencies.
Although actual
spending levels for all of these activities and more are determined by appropriations committees, the authorizing language represents the science committee's considered opinion about the relative importance of various
research activities within those
agencies.
Science Business has a long chat with Fotis C. Kafatos, the president of the European
Research Council, about how the young funding
agency is doing and his hopes that it will relatively soon have a budget approaching the $ 30 billion or so that the U.S. National Institutes of Health
spends annually.
Since the discovery of carp DNA in the waterways near Chicago in 2009, the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, which consists of federal, state, and local
agencies, has
spent $ 100 million on carp
research and control.
Vicky Whittemore, the
agency's CFS point person in Bethesda, Maryland, delivered on a promise that NIH Director Francis Collins made last year by announcing that NIH
spending for
research on the poorly understood disease should rise to roughly $ 15 million in 2017, doubling the estimated $ 7.6 million handed out in 2016.
«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a
spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.
• Last Friday on ScienceInsider, Jocelyn Kaiser reported that «Congress took a small step toward expanding a requirement that science
agencies make federally funded
research papers publicly available,» in the form of a 1 - year provision found on page 1020 of the 1582 - page
spending bill approved last week.
After hearing rumors in Australia that there would be Aus $ 400 million cut from the National Health and Medical
Research Council budget, researchers mounted a vigorous protest campaign that was successful in maintaining current spending for the major research a
Research Council budget, researchers mounted a vigorous protest campaign that was successful in maintaining current
spending for the major
research a
research agencies.
Glover, a senior sustainable agricultural systems
research adviser at the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID),
spent years as a researcher at the Land Institute in Kansas.
The coalition agreement promises an increase of 3 % per year for
research agencies such as the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and the Max Planck Society as well as increasing research spending from 2.9 % of gross domestic product t
research agencies such as the Helmholtz Association of German
Research Centres and the Max Planck Society as well as increasing research spending from 2.9 % of gross domestic product t
Research Centres and the Max Planck Society as well as increasing
research spending from 2.9 % of gross domestic product t
research spending from 2.9 % of gross domestic product to 3.5 %.
This year
research agencies will
spend a total of $ 2.3 billion on the program, which provides companies with nearly $ 1 million in two phases to get their technology ready for the marketplace.
Each
agency that
spends more than $ 100 million a year on
research allocates 2.5 % of its budget to the SBIR program, and 0.3 % to STTR.
Under a new agreement, they will be able to
spend up to a year at labs funded by the European
Research Council (ERC), Europe's basic science
agency.
NSF believes that having academics
spend anywhere from 2 to 4 years at the
agency before returning to campus helps it identify and fund cutting - edge
research.
The Senate bill would allow three key
research agencies — NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy — to
spend up to 25 % of their SBIR and STTR funds on such start - ups, and the other eight
agencies up to 15 %.
Advocates for biomedical
research note that the small increase won't allow
agency spending to keep pace with inflation.
NSF is one of the major funders of marine
research; its oceans office has
spent some $ 350 million annually over the past few years, and the
agency has played a major role in building costly new ships, automated seafloor observatories, and networks of instrumented buoys and floats.
Mikulski, a long - time booster of science, is also chair of the Senate
spending panel that funds NSF, NASA, and the key
research agencies within the Department of Commerce.
► «The National Science Foundation (NSF) is... rethinking Science and Engineering Indicators — the
agency's massive biennial statistical bible covering everything from
spending on
research and education to regional development, trade, and public attitudes toward science,» Jeffrey Mervis reported late Wednesday.
The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal
spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major
research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic
research granting
agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science
agency.