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🍴💧 🚱 Massive amounts of greenhouse gases and excessive water consumption: Intensive animal farming has consequences for our planet. 🌍 This calls for innovative solutions. Thanks to #BasicResearch, creative minds are able to develop tasty alternatives. 🥗 🌱 💡

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🤖🏭 In Switzerland, there are around 10,000 companies in the machinery, electrical engineering and metals sectors with over 300,000 employees.

Thanks to #basicresearch, they’re always up to date with state-of-the-art technology. ➡️ https://sohub.io/g60k

🔮📈 Iwan Stalder, Head of Group Accumulation Management at Zurich Insurance Group, explains why #basicresearch is crucial for the company's 75 million customers and more than 60,000 employees worldwide.

Read more ➡️ https://sohub.io/ppcc

❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖

Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc

#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡

🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: https://sohub.io/k1u5
📷 : ©Julien Busset

James Watson died a few days ago.

In 1953, together with Francis Crick, he had published a short text in “Nature”. It is written in a subdued style. One of the first sentences says “This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest”; another sentence is “So far as we can tell, it is roughly compatible with the experimental data, but it must be regarded as unproved until it has been checked against more exact results".

This was the first published description of the structure of DNA as a double helix. In 1962, Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize (unfortunately, the key role of Rosalind Franklin was not appreciated at the time). A few decades later, when the enormous importance of their discoveries is already known, it feels strange to read such cautious phrases: “novel features”, “considerable biological interest”, “it must be regarded as unproved”.

But this is the language of basic research that changes the world. And that is why this research needs to be financed, even though it does not immediately bring spectacular results.

Watson and Crick’s article (extremely brief): https://www.nature.com/articles/171737a0.epdf

On the role of Rosalind Franklin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5?

On racism and sexism in Watson's later life: https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/

#biology
#science
#DNA
#basicresearch

7 Basic Science Discoveries that Changed the World
#Science #BasicResearch #Scicomm
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03474-x

“Why Are We Funding This?”
Public funding of #science in #US has long been criticized for supporting studies that seem “silly” or irrelevant to public good. Such critiques are especially intense now.
Wide-ranging, curiosity-driven research has led to enormous benefits, ranging from anti-obesity drugs to the internet.
#Scientists need to speak to value of government-supported #basicresearch, so public understands how much damage will result if we continue funding cuts.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%80%9Cwhy-are-we-funding-this%E2%80%9D

Just how bad will #climatechange get? The only way to know is to fund #basicresearch
Predictions of #climate change are uncertain. That’s why we need to keep finding out how our atmosphere works.
How seriously should people be taking climate change? United Nations secretary-general António Gutteres considers it an existential threat. Yet, US President Donald Trump has decreed it a hoax.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02508-8?linkId=16229343

The EU / ERC just published a workshop report on Research & Innovation for a Competitive Europe: "Many participants pointed out that researchers’ mobility between sectors remains limited, with academic careers often requiring narrow specialisation rather than broader engagement."

The report includes calls for:
• Stable, reliable funding frameworks
• Trusting researchers with freedom to pursue promising directions

https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2025-07/Research-Innovation-Competitive-Europe-workshop-report.pdf

#erc #eu #basicresearch

“Trump Slashes Science Funding by a Third.”

#ScienceMatters #ResearchFunding #BasicResearch #TheInternetIsCrack #Ethics #FutureOfScience

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
https://archive.ph/A1bRu

How the federal government came to fund research at #universities : Planet Money : NPR
“This episode is part of our series Pax Americana, about how the #Trump administration and others are challenging a set of post-World War II policies that placed the U.S. at the center of the economic universe.” #HigherEd #basicResearch #research
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/1253247256/-higher-education-federal-funding-universities-science-research

In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.

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Trump team freezes new #NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The #NationalScienceFoundation is the latest #US agency to be disrupted by #ElonMusk’s #DOGE. With a budget of US$9 billion, the NSF is one of the largest funders of #basicresearch in the world.
DOGE is also reviewing a list of active research grants, assessed in February by NSF, for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI). It is considering terminating more than 200 of them.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01263-0

From a fruit fly’s wings, they learned how bodies are built (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Apr 11, 2025
https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281638196037429

A marcelous micro tale on the value of #BasicResearch

#science #medicine

With the cuts going on in the name of efficiency and so-called DEI imperialism it's no surprise science YouTube is in trouble. It's sad.

If you at all understand the progress in the 20th century, you'll know it's the result of a relay race involving both private and public sectors. In the coming week's I'll be talking a lot about "antirival" goods and why we need a better collective understanding of them.

#basicresearch #openscience #publicgood #science

https://youtu.be/LQjFGx9mEPw

/1 ‘Despair is not an option.’ How scientists can help protect federal research
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00290-1

* U.S. government scientists must be clear-eyed & continue to serve the public

#BasicScience #BasicResearch #epistemology #disease #health #PublicHealth
#NIH #CDC #NSF #academia #universities #OpenScience #FreedomOfSpeech

Mitochondria as you’ve never seen them
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-00269-y/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899168

Comments
me: former mitochondrial (mt) researcher, published
mt difficult to prepare/isolate intact/pure
extraordinary imagery shows why

Yet another "illustration" 😉 of crit imp. of fundamental research

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/gisbl/pi/mdnar
https://tools.niehs.nih.gov/polg/ --> mt. diseases ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_disease

#BasicScience #mitochondria #CellBiology #PolG #disease #BasicResearch #MolecularGenetics #PEO #mtDNA #NIEHS

The #KrononautMoon Project seeks to make contact with #TimeTravelers — i.e., extradimensional beings — by promoting decentralized community experiments during the #TotalLunarEclipse. There will be 3 #TLEclipses in the next 2 years. The first of the triad occurs next month on 2025 Mar 14, the night of the #FullMoon & March's #WormMoon. All are invited (even skeptics) to celebrate on Thursday or Friday evening under the stars — wherever you are.

🔗 http://KronoMoon.org 🔗 https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future 🔗 https://Pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-last-archive/the-krononauts

@KronoMoon on #Mastodon shares toots, articles & videos on various sub-themes and sub-theories, because any theory of #TimeTravel is polydimensional, beyond our current technology, and incomplete. Often associated with #UFOs or #UAP, a real-life encounter with a #spacetime ship or a #TimeMachine is less likely than some kind of #quantum #signal. It's possible that such signals have been beaming toward us for a long time. Please take lots of #photos of the #Moon and share them with @KronoMoonPhotos, so that we can document any anomalous phenomena. The plan focuses on Lunar Eclipses that are "Total" (typically occurring about once per year) and not other types of Eclipses.