SaveOzScience

Grassroots campaign to improve investment in research in Australia #SaveOzScience Leadership starts here | starts now We must act before it is too late

[SaveOzScience @Save_Oz_Science]

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[InnovationAus @Innov_Aus]

Australia’s future economy hangs on a resilient science system | @NanoJagadish

@Science_Academy #FMiA #Science

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[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

@DrShaneRRR Imagine where this country could be if we funded science, research, and education like we do defence, fossil fuel subsidies, and housing and financial concessions for the richest...imagine.

[SaveOzScience @Save_Oz_Science]

Is it time? #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars

[Dr Shane Huntington OAM @DrShaneRRR]

Costs go up, funding goes down - a perfect storm to destroy Australian research excellence.
The ARC budget needs to be tripled in the next budget, minimum.

[James Murphy @pseudokinase]

Big congrats to Prof @Isa_Lucet and @dr_opatel Huge achievement. I’ll be raising a glass to you. This is a long game and folks out there assessing grants should take notice that drug discovery is about base hits, not home runs

[#Go8 @GroupOfEight]

Go8 Chair Brian Schmidt warns government must step up for research funding, in today’s @australian editorial. Leaving universities to pay for growing research with international student fees risks our research effort, it states, as COVID demonstrated. https://t.co/FQHbShB9GZ

[Dan Wheelahan @Danwheels]

This is the league table of how countries are currently investing in R&D as a % of GDP. The figures continue a 14-year⬇️trend in national R&D investment for Australia. If we keep going the way we are, in 5yrs years we'll be among the lowest of all @OECD countries #Auspol2023

[Australian Academy of Science @Science_Academy]

“We need to move towards a knowledge-based economy […] do we really want to be so vulnerable as an economy and as a country?” — Academy President Prof Chennupati Jagadish AC (@NanoJagadish) quoted in this article from @ConversationEDU.

[Dan Wheelahan @Danwheels]

This decline is especially concerning because Australia has one of the world’s least differentiated economies - 93rd in the world, which places us between Uganda (92)and Pakistan (94). Australia is overly dependent on exporting agricultural products and natural resources.

[#Go8 @GroupOfEight]

The @GroupOfEight agrees with Professor Jagadish, President of The Australian Academy of Science. Australia is going in the wrong direction as it relates to its commitment to R&D and productivity.
https://t.co/Cp8A5nBzua

@NanoJagadish @Science_Academy @abcnews @ThomsonVicki

[Australian Academy of Science @Science_Academy]

@PatsKarvelas @OECD @NanoJagadish @RNBreakfast The Prime Minister @AlboMP acknowledged earlier this month that real, enduring reforms that change a country for the better take time. Investing more in R&D requires us to play the long game. But we must rush to get to the starting line. https://t.co/9RxZNsEAWp

[SaveOzScience @Save_Oz_Science]

Elevating investment in R&D and science is an imperative #SaveOzScience

[Australian Academy of Science @Science_Academy]

Today Academy President Prof Chennupati Jagadish AC spoke with @PatsKarvelas about the 14-year ⬇️ trend in national R&D investment. Australia is well below the @OECD average (21st) and if this trend continues, within 5 years we'll rank among the lowest of all OECD countries. Listen: https://t.co/soH7NjiXeW

[Nick Everett @neuronick_]

we need an @ NHMRC_tracker to put pressure on @nhmrc Investigator announcements 😬 the random interval schedule of punishment that is "late Aug/early Sept" isn't great.

[Christian Barton @DrChrisBarton]

@nhmrc Any idea when 2023 #InvestigatorGrant applicants will be notified?

The lack of a defined dates and efficiency for these types of communications about grant assessment is a little nuts.

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