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Nobel laureate says scientific breakthrough ‘would not be possible’ today
Saul Perlmutter tells that there is a ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of the purpose of research
A lifeline for Greek science—or living on borrowed time?
The Greek government is trying to stop the nationwide brain drain stemming from global financial crisis. This week, the parliament was expected to take up legislation to create the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), modeled after the German Research Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Replication Studies
Replication Studies
Researchers with a PhD who are employed by a Dutch research institution can request funding for the replication of 'cornerstone research'.
Matthias Egger is the new president of the SNSF
Matthias Egger, internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health expert, will be the new president of the National Research Council of the SNSF as of 2017.
An efficient system to fund science
This paper presents a novel model of science funding that exploits the wisdom of the scientific crowd. Each researcher receives an equal, unconditional part of all available science funding on a yearly basis, but is required to individually donate to other scientists a given fraction of all they receive. Science funding thus moves from one scientist to the next in such a way that scientists who receive many donations must also redistribute the most. As the funding circulates through the scientific community it is mathematically expected to converge on a funding distribution favored by the entire scientific community. This is achieved without any proposal submissions or reviews.
Science Editor-in-Chief Highlights Need for Steady Science Funding
In an editorial in the 26 August issue of the journal Science, Jeremy Berg, the journal's 20th editor-in-chief, examines the importance of funding science steadily, with predictable budget cycles that allow science-funding agencies to do long-term planning that research projects typically require.
The Unpredictable Art of Science — and a Tentative Manifesto to Foster It
If we continue on the current path of adding ever tighter controls and conformities to research without understanding their effects on the impact and quality of that research, then we will likely be wasting money.
NSF tries two-step review, drawing praise—and darts
Thousands of conservation and environmental biologists must now survive two rounds of peer review before getting funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF says that the two-stage review process, which it launched 4 years ago as a pilot project in two divisions within its biology directorate, has resulted in a more manageable workload and fuller consideration of the highest-quality proposals.
Qualitative Evaluation of completed projects funded by the ERC
Evaluation by the European Research Council (ERC) which serves as a pilot exercise for the future evaluation of ERC‐funded projects.
Agencies must show that basic research is worth the investment
The European Research Council has begun to evaluate the impact of its grants; others should do the same.
Mellon Foundation grant of nearly $1M to fund open access platform MUSE Open
Mellon Foundation grant of nearly $1M to fund open access platform MUSE Open
Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.
The evolution of research collaboration within and across disciplines in Italian Academia
The evolution of research collaboration within and across disciplines in Italian Academia
A paper exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary research in Italy over 10 years of scientific collaboration on research projects.
Policy Implications of Aging in the NIH-Funded Workforce
Aging of the NIH-funded independent investigator workforce is an accumulation of multiple factors including a shift in perceptions, expectations, and the general structure of the extramural workforce, as well as global macroeconomic factors.
NWO makes 3 million available for Replication Studies pilot
The pilot focuses on replicating studies that have a large impact on science, government policy or the public debate.
Canada's health funder agrees to meet with researchers outraged by peer-review changes
U.K. research charity will self-publish results from its grantees
Wellcome Trust looks to save money and time communicating the research it funds.
Joe Biden: Agencies don't report clinical trials should lose funds
At a national cancer summit, Vice President Biden threatened to cut funds to medical research institutions that don't report their clinical trial results.