Hacker News with Generative AI: Research Funding

States sue to block new NIH funding policy–court puts it on hold (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a sudden change to how it handles the indirect costs of research—the money that pays for things like support services and facilities maintenance.

Lawsuits, Government, Science, Research Funding

5 points by bikenaga 11 days ago | 0 comments

NIH's drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to US research (statnews.com)
The National Institutes of Health has made a landmark decision that could irreparably damage the backbone of American scientific innovation: a dramatic reduction in the indirect cost rate for research grants.

Science, Research Funding, Government Policy, Healthcare

5 points by Leary 14 days ago | 0 comments

All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice (bsky.app)

Science, Research Funding, Government, Announcements

11 points by runarberg 26 days ago | 0 comments

'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly (nature.com)
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

Science, Research Funding, Public Health, Biomedical Research

150 points by anigbrowl 28 days ago | 111 comments

Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt? (colorado.edu)
CU Boulder geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson win $1 million in support from W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and to extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years

Earth Science, Evolution, Geology, Research Funding

4 points by isaacfrond 40 days ago | 3 comments

Von der Leyen gives nod to €100B 'CERN for AI' proposal (euractiv.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Science, Research Funding

5 points by khaled_ismaeel 210 days ago | 1 comments

Philip Morris International has funded Japanese academics (bath.ac.uk)

Tobacco Industry, Research Funding, Japan, Academia

79 points by XzetaU8 232 days ago | 33 comments

Alan Kay: principles for funding and organizing breakthrough research (twitter.com)

Research Funding, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation

16 points by tosh 307 days ago | 5 comments