policy, funding, science funding

The revision allows more time on previous extensions due to COVID-19 and other life events such as childbirth that disproportionately impact early-career women in science.  

A bipartisan bill aims to increase the National Science Foundation’s budget over the next five years and form a new technology directorate.

After refusing to pay the ransom demanded by those behind a cyberattack, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has been out of action since February 8.

The state will take on additional debt to finance CIRM, which will now continue to fund stem cell research, training, and clinical trials.

Scientists have attacked the government’s spending policies after it locked down nearly half of the money that had been allocated for science funding.

Overall, men received more money on average, but R01s were an exception.

Demonstrations took place in the country’s capital on Tuesday following what many researchers see as a threat to academic freedom.

The budget is smaller than what some researchers hoped for, and too high for at least one EU member state.

NIH, NSF, and the DOE’s Office of Science will be among the agencies with budget increases if the omnibus bill is passed.

The agency announces that the fixed offices and staffing will be replaced with short-term expeditions to foster collaboration.

The federal budget, expected before the end of March, may substantially raise funding for research.

The $88 million agreement is part of efforts by the UK government to increase transatlantic collaboration as the country prepares to leave the European Union.

The $1.23 trillion budget includes an increase in NIH funding, but the package is unlikely to make it unscathed through the Senate.

Researchers have criticized their countries’ initiatives, which some suspect were launched in reaction to a perceived anti-science sentiment from the Trump administration.

The United States government is concerned over the declining levels of state funding for public research universities, citing a threat to overall economic health.

The Senate approves an increase of about 0.3 percent for the 2013 NIH budget, but the Department of Energy doesn’t fare as well.

The University of Michigan is funding exploratory ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries with $20,000 a pop.

Petitions asking for more funding for the federal research agency are gaining bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

Congress sets aside a large pot of pork-barrel funds for research projects in 2012, but not nearly as much as seen in pre-recession years.