Science money:
That there is something of a "culture war" going on between the Bush Administration and the American science community is fairly clear (although the invective is pretty one-sided, making me wonder if the Admin thinks it is in a war...
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Posted on September 14, 2006 12:48 AM • 16 Comments
It's an issue I bring out from time to time, most recently in yesterday's Lieberman science support post. To wit: science R&D backers and grant supplicants like to whine about getting screwed by The Man in budget season. The endless...
Posted on August 11, 2006 12:12 PM • 4 Comments
Say what you want about Joe Lieberman and the political scene, but scientists who haven't watched Congress closely probably don't know that Lieberman for years has been one of the biggest cheerleaders for science and technology. His fingerprints are all...
Posted on August 10, 2006 2:00 PM • 12 Comments
Leave it to the SB uppers. They ask a question made for
Janet and me but then only want us to write 300 words on it. Anyway, here goes: Nobody has a patent on the justification for why the U.S. government funds science, but...
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Posted on May 26, 2006 4:06 PM • 5 Comments
I got two interesting emails from a high-traffic list I'm on. I'm not going to identify the list or the email authors, but the list includes lots of beltway and former beltway types that also have connections to science. First,...
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Posted on May 19, 2006 1:34 PM • 6 Comments
Lately it's been the biomedical community playing their own misinformed crying game. They've clearly become spoiled by an incredibly rapid rise in funding, including a doubling of NIH's budget from 1990 to 1999 and a 50% increase from 2000 to 2003. People relying on NIH largess and related funding have apparently come to feel
entitled to massive annual budget increases.
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Posted on April 10, 2006 12:43 PM • 7 Comments
Well not directly. I'm 99.9% sure he doesn't know who I am, much less has ever read this blog. Carl Wieman is a hyper-popular physics professor at the Univ. of Colorado (my current employer) who won the Nobel Prize in...
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Posted on March 21, 2006 3:48 PM • 8 Comments
As if some debates around PlanetBlogO'Science aren't worth having? (Well, maybe, but whatever...) Last October a National Academy of Sciences panel, chaired by an industry titan and big W supporter, put out a report titled Rising Above the Gathering Storm....
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Posted on February 28, 2006 11:46 AM • 8 Comments
Worth a look...click on the image to get the big (readable) one. Original story....
Posted on February 8, 2006 5:05 PM • 1 Comments
It's absolutely about resource allocation and can't be about anything else. The Prez intends to allocate 7
billion dollars to Avian Flu when NSF's
entire budget is less than $6 billion, spending on the entire suite of global change research is far less than that, and Congress just passed a $70B tax cut while tacking on new spending worth far more than that.
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Posted on February 3, 2006 3:43 PM • 2 Comments
Get ready, academia. John McCain (R-AZ) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) have taken off the gloves and announced that they "plan to challenge every single earmark that appears in appropriations bills this year." You may not be one of those researchers...
Posted on January 26, 2006 5:22 PM • 1 Comments
This started as a comment to this Aetiology post, but then grew so long that I figured it would be better as a standalone post. I think it's a good discussion and continues something started in some posts last week....
Posted on January 23, 2006 3:55 PM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Pay now or pay later? Late last month the Multihazard Mitigation Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences finished a report on hazard mitigation. The report, funded by FEMA at the behest of the 106th Congress, is here. The...
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Posted on January 13, 2006 2:59 PM • 2 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
