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(Now Back to the Science) Moving Forward with Phage and Their Bacterial Hosts
A Different Kind of Science-Forward Post
Beginning in February 2025, Science Matters has grown from an initial post on the significance of missed paychecks for NSF postdoctoral fellows to a catalogue of more than 60 posts read by nearl...
What is NIH Leadership Trying to Hide from Researchers & the Public?
The stakes
Science is hard. It takes long-term, substantial, and stable investment. For decades, the federal government has been a partner in funding basic science and biomedical research at universities, hospitals, and research instit...
A Compromised Mission at the National Science Foundation
Bottom line up front:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is America’s epicenter for use-driven basic research. Founded more than 75 years ago, NSF’s mission is to promote the progress of science. NSF accomplishes its mission primari...
An Emperor of All Malice: On White House Efforts to Seize Control of NIH Funding
The White House and its Office of Management and Budget (OMB) view investigator-initiated research with disdain. Tens of thousands of comments on a recent OMB proposal to politicize funding decisions made it clear that the American public r...
Decoy effects and the White House vision of transferring federal funding of science to corporate interests
Nihilism and its Alternatives
As a The Washington Post subscriber and admirer of many in their news team, it was shocking (but not surprising) to read Scott Atlas’ July 2nd OpEd: “Abolish the NIH“.
Atlas, a former special adviser to t...
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