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Self-Organised Scientific Crowds to Remedy Research Bureaucracy
In an era where research bureaucracy is the biggest burden bestowed upon scientists, some are seeking practical solutions.
Maximizing the Local Economic Impact of Federal R&D
Federally funded research and development (R&D) is a hallmark of the U.S. economy but, it's under siege. To maximize and make apparent the economic returns from R&D, the next administration should seek to improve the local economic impact of federal R&D.
The Influence of Peer Reviewer Expertise on the Evaluation of Research Funding Applications
The Influence of Peer Reviewer Expertise on the Evaluation of Research Funding Applications
On the importance of identifying variables explaining the underlying differences in individual reviewer decision-making.
Budget Cap Would Stifle Brazilian Science
Constitutional amendment would freeze public spending at current levels for 2 decades.
Freeing a Scientific Mind to Envision Big Research: Packard Fellowship to Will Ratcliff
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
Business Backs the Basics
Long-term basic research, substantially funded by the U.S. government, underlies some of industry's most profitable innovations.
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.