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
#basicresearch
"A new study by Canadian scientists captured something interesting: a faint glow emitted by living organisms that faded as the species died.
The research may sound supernatural, but before you imagine glowing bodies or human auras, researchers want to be clear – this isn’t mysticism, it’s biology in action."
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
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.
/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
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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.
@KronoMoon toots use a variety of #hashtags:
• #Muticultural #Multilingual #Community #Connections & #Empathy
(because we need to peacefully coexist with others)
#native #aborigine #indigenous #intersectional #FirstPeople #POC #BLM #PWD #DEI #LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈
• #Philosophy & #Spirituality
#consciousness #mindbody #dualism
• #Microcosm & #Macrocosm
#quantumphysics #higherdimensions #topology #astronomy #basicresearch #cosmology
• #QuantumEntanglement & #Wormholes
#darkmatter #darkenergy #manyworlds
• #SciFi & #Speculative #Fiction
#movies #books #spokenword
• #Experimental & #Conceptual #Arts
#film #performance #dance #drumcircles
• #UAP #Ufology & #Alien #Intelligence
#experiencers #whistleblowers #researchers
• #Time #Timelessness & #TimeTravel
#entropy #evolution #ancient #history #migrations #fossils #cavepaintings #myths #stonecircles
• #Observation & #Documentation
#research #media #reporting #photo #digital #archives
Scientists @ucsandiego have found a key protein that causes cellular #mitochondria to break up and dysfunction, leading the body down a path to #obesity. #BasicResearch that points to leaning and possibly new obesity treatments.
https://conscienhealth.org/2024/02/tracking-obesity-into-cellular-mitochondria/
Three scientists win #nobelprize in #physics for probing #electrons https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/03/nobel-prize-physics-winners-electrons/ #Attosecond #AppliedScience #BasicResearch
Unusual repetitive DNA sequence in the E. coli genome --> CRISPR ---> genome editing
Ψ Pseudouridine ---> mRNA immunogenicity and potency ---> mRNA COVID vaccine
Dear funders, dear governments
please increase the basic research funding budget !
A heartwrenching coverage of a rare neurodegenrative disorder called spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) that runs in families in various parts of India that practice endogamy.
The apathy, the stigma, the need and lack of funds for basic research, the lack of funds for clinical support etc., etc., are all documented.
"The Indian government spends less than 1 percent of its Gross Domestic Product on scientific research. (China, in comparison, spends 2.2 percent, and Japan 3.4 percent.) In this year’s budget, the government has slashed funds for science by about 4 percent from last year. "
"Basic’ research, important for understanding the working of diseases at the cellular level, gets the short shrift in this approach. From data accessed under the Right To Information Act, I learnt that of the ₹32 crore received by the IGIB from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research between 2015 and 2021, only 2.5 per cent (₹80.5 lakh) was deployed for targeted basic research."
(32 crores is roughly 4 million $ and 80.5 lakh is 100K$ currently. That's it, and that's over 7 years and nation wide!)
https://fiftytwo.in/story/off-balance/
#India #Healthcare #NeurodegenerativeDiseases #RareDiseases #BasicResearch #Neurology #Ataxia #SocialStigma #GeneticDiseases
👩🔬🧪👨🔬A study from @UQ_News found Australia is lagging behind when it come to funding basic research #ScienceFunding #BasicResearch https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-slippery-slope-basic-research-underfunded-in-australia
It is remarkable that the equation | x^2 | = 2 has no rational solution. But it has a solution in special finite fields. I think the old Pythagorean would like the result.
#MathDay #BasicResearch #gimps #ChatGPT #OESI (41/n)
Here is the way I found this sequence independent from the handbook. Order the numbers in the Galois field G(p) symmetrically to zero. One half is denoted as positive numbers, the other as negative. If a is a positive number in this field, then the equation
| x^2 | = a has always a solution if p is a Safe prime.
Details can be found in my essay, will be published if time permits it.
#MathDay #BasicResearch #gimps #ChatGPT #OESI (40/n)
p is prime and 2p+1 is also prime. I just learned from the "The Handbook of Integer Sequences" ( https://oeis.org ) these are Sophie Germain primes or Safe primes if p and (p-1)/2 are prime numbers.
#MathDay #BasicResearch #gimps #ChatGPT #OESI (39/n)
In a free Editorial in this week's issue of Science Signaling, Holden Thorp (@holden) and Michael Yaffe underscore the continuing importance of basic scientific research. You can read it here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adg2868 #science #BasicResearch
The European Research Council (@ERC_Research) supports top scientists in #BasicResearch with grants worth millions. They are among the most important funding programs in #Europe. Our awardees: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/erc-grants #mdc30 #ERC @helmholtz_en
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