Hacker News with Generative AI: Research Funding

Harvard is no longer eligible for new federal research grants (thehill.com)
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to Harvard on Monday telling the university it will no longer be eligible for new research grants from the government as it and the Trump administration do battle on multiple fronts.
Education, Politics, Research Funding
17 points by Geeek 3 days ago | 0 comments
NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants (nature.com)
A new policy from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will end billions of dollars of funding to laboratories and hospitals outside the United States, imperiling thousands of global-health projects and clinical trials on topics such as emerging infectious diseases and cancer.
Science, Health, Research Funding, International Relations, Government Policy
8 points by rntn 7 days ago | 0 comments
NIH to update policies and practices guiding subawards (nih.gov)
The National Institutes of Health’s mission is powered by the public’s investment. As such, NIH continually seeks ways to improve transparency in all that we do, especially in accounting for every dollar spent in support of lifesaving biomedical research, both here and abroad. Today I am announcing changes to NIH’s award structure that will enable NIH to maintain strong, productive, and secure foreign collaborations while better tracking how dollars are spent.
NIH, Research Funding, Government Policy, Biomedical Research, International Collaboration
5 points by weksf54 7 days ago | 1 comments
Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns (nature.com)
Fresh turmoil has hit the US National Science Foundation (NSF): hundreds more of the agency’s research grants were terminated today on top of the hundreds already terminated last week, Nature has learnt.
Science, Government, Research Funding
74 points by rntn 12 days ago | 37 comments
Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf] (nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov)
Science, History, Research Funding, Government Documents
109 points by otras 23 days ago | 16 comments
Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates Climate Anxiety (nytimes.com)
The Trump administration announced it is cutting nearly $4 million in federal funding for climate change research at Princeton University, saying that the work promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats” and increased “climate anxiety” among young Americans.
Politics, Climate Change, Research Funding, Environment
10 points by pmags 30 days ago | 4 comments
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll are now considering leaving the US (nature.com)
Cuts to research funding in the US have forced many scientists to rethink their careers.
Science, Research Funding, United States, Academia, Immigration
25 points by jslezak 42 days ago | 5 comments
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving (nature.com)
Cuts to research funding in the US have forced many scientists to rethink their careers.
Science, Research Funding, United States, Careers
11 points by dluan 42 days ago | 1 comments
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving (nature.com)
Cuts to research funding in the US have forced many scientists to rethink their careers.
Science, Research Funding, United States, Careers
18 points by sohkamyung 43 days ago | 3 comments
Europe looks to poach US researchers as Trump cuts funding (politico.eu)
A group of European countries is devising a strategy to poach researchers in the United States in response to American government cuts in education and research.
Europe, Research Funding, Science, Politics, United States
11 points by JumpCrisscross 50 days ago | 3 comments
Universities are facing big cuts to research funding (apnews.com)
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
Education, Research Funding, Universities
11 points by hydrolox 61 days ago | 1 comments
U. of Pittsburgh pauses Ph.D. admissions amid research funding uncertainty (wesa.fm)
Amid uncertainty about frozen research aid from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Pittsburgh has put its Ph.D. admissions on ice.
Research Funding, Higher Education, Science, Universities
142 points by jslezak 75 days ago | 13 comments
Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts (thedp.com)
Penn directed department chairs to significantly reduce admissions rates across graduate programs in the face of federal research funding cuts, multiple faculty members told The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Higher Education, Admissions, Research Funding
331 points by strangeloops85 75 days ago | 656 comments
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 87 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 90 days ago | 0 comments
All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice (bsky.app)
Science, Research Funding, Government, Announcements
11 points by runarberg 102 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 104 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 116 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 286 days ago | 1 comments
Philip Morris International has funded Japanese academics (bath.ac.uk)
Tobacco Industry, Research Funding, Japan, Academia
79 points by XzetaU8 307 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 383 days ago | 5 comments