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@thehill An executive order to seize NIH grant approval authority is political interference in science — full stop. When politicians decide which research gets funded, politics replaces evidence. This will cost lives.
#ScienceFunding #GovernmentAccountability
ResearchHub is testing a crypto-powered alternative to traditional science grantmaking, aiming to reward openness, collaboration and other practices the current system can discourage.
Paul Karon Reports: https://t.co/v7mVNxfxix
#ScienceFunding #Philanthropy #ResearchHub
Small grants may be modest in value, but they can have a big impact on your science career! 💰
We hear from previous grant winners who told us how their career has benefitted from a small grant 🙌
Read here: https://t.co/XNJHxPBX4d
#sciencegrants #sciencefunding #lifescience
Scientists who turned to OnlyCreeps to fund marmot research receive crypto boost - The Guardian 🗣️ Marmots just proved that science funding now needs both viral marketing and a wallet address; should research rely on... #ScienceFunding #Scientists 🔽 https://t.co/vRUPUIYi23
Opinion: #AI systems will likely reorganize #science to sustain AI itself—reshaping the research enterprise in ways we’re only beginning to understand. In PNAS Front Matter: https://t.co/4cufkKXffb
#SciencePublishing #ScienceFunding #academia #evolution
Marmot scientists are using OnlyFans visibility to keep long-term wildlife research moving after federal cuts. 🏔️ #MarmotResearch #OnlyFans #ScienceFunding #WildlifeStudies https://t.co/3AZKVMyDRt
Opinion: Market forces & key stakeholders may drive #AI systems to reshape #science—perhaps unintentionally—so the scientific enterprise increasingly sustains AI itself. In PNAS Front Matter: https://t.co/GK2iReKsNQ
#ScienceFunding #academia #CreativeDestruction #evolution
Opinion piece: #AI will likely reorganize #science. Will #research remain a human enterprise? In PNAS Front Matter: https://t.co/oWsBj51CGV
#SciencePublishing #ScienceFunding #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #MachineLearning #ScienceEnterprise #CreativeDestruction #evolution
⚠️🌉 NEW! The AGU26 Postdoctoral Travel Grant is now open, helping cover costs of attending #AGU26 in San Francisco this December.
🗓️ Apply for this grant by 12 August: https://t.co/q1l5WVhtAg
#Postdoc #Grant #ScienceFunding
🚨 New for 2026! 🚨 Postdocs can now apply for the AGU26 Postdoctoral Travel Grant to help cover costs of attending the AGU Annual Meeting in person!
👉 Don't miss this opportunity—applications are due 12 August: https://t.co/nQnOufSfsI
#AGU26 #Postdoc #Grant #ScienceFunding
Decision to close Department for Science, Innovation and Trade signals Burnham government wants ‘fresh start’ on science funding, says ex-ministerial adviser. @jgro_the reports #sciencefunding #DSIT #reshuffle
https://t.co/1bMs41BgrD
'The number of students admitted to #PhD programs this fall dropped 15 percent from 2025, raising fears that the nation’s capacity to produce new science could be diminished,' reports the @NYTimes. #ScienceFunding #HigherEducation https://t.co/iWz4IZb5Q8
🌎🎓 2026 AGU Travel Grants are now open! Discover opportunities, primarily for students, to support travel to AGU meetings and conduct research in specific Earth and space science fields.
Applications are due 12 August: https://t.co/RsNNBoL0Uy
#StudentGrants #ScienceFunding
We are pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative.
Learn more: https://t.co/sq0kefnBY8
#bwfngp #MaternalHealth #ReproductiveScience #Research #ScienceFunding
UKRI and its fake promises:
“As I promised you, we are going to give you much better warning of when things go live,” said Chapman.😇
However, UKRI notes: “not all upcoming funding opportunities will be listed…in advance”.🤣
LOL
#UKRI #ScienceFunding
https://t.co/mZZIX0ucXL
I couldn't say it better than the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, in her letter to Nature.
"...whoever made this decision failed to foresee the disastrous and damaging repercussions for UK science and the economy."
🧪🔭 #UKRI #DSIT #STFC #ScienceFunding
https://t.co/fHYfqzasAV
Commentary-the importance of funding human research in Space ⭐️
#aerospacehumanfactors #spaceresearch #sciencefunding #AsHFA
Why Funding Space Medicine Matters More Than Ever.
—Investing in space health is not a zero-sum diversion from terrestrial medicine: It is a catalyst for it.
Commentary at @Medscape
https://t.co/zcCssUOa1o
@DrLeanaWen @EricTopol @nataliexdean @HelenBranswell 7/ June 2025: NIH terminated CREID — including the Argentina pilot studying Andes virus spillover. Trump admin also killed STOP Spillover, tracking zoonotic threats globally. We had surveillance. We chose to end it.
@DrTomFrieden @ashishkjha
#PandemicPreparedness #ScienceFunding
Another research programme that is already badly hurt by the funding uncertainty faced by PPAN science.
"almost 50 postdoctoral researchers supported by the programme have already been lost"
DSIT needs to take action 🧪🔭
#UKRI #PPAN #ScienceFunding
https://t.co/7m4VkrM9Oi
If you are a physics teacher in the UK, please have a look and consider signing. ✍️
This is about the career-to-come of young potential physicists. 🧪🔭
@imascientist
#STEM #ScienceFunding #Physics
https://t.co/bE7n4EPkPj
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