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• in Technology
  Future of US Scientific Research Unclear After Fiscal Cliff
  Although the US fiscal cliff has been averted, the future of US science research is still not clear.
  by jobertv / on Jan 6, 2013

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “nsf”

 

• LIGO to capture gravitational waves from space: Graphic

  
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  Animated graphic shows how the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) would gather data from gravitational waves to prove part of Albert Einsteins theory of general relativity.
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• Upgraded Livingston observatory poised to help prove Einsteins gravitational wave theory

  
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  Tucked away in rural Livingston Parish, about 80 miles from New Orleans, an L-shaped 2 ½-mile-long scientific observatory is undergoing a multimillion-dollar upgrade aimed at proving a key part of Albert Einsteins theory of general relativity that explains the role...
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• Partisan Politics and Scientific Peer Review

  
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  AIP FYI: Eighteen Former NSF Assistant Directors Criticize House Science Committee Bill and Inquiry "The draft bill mandates a certification process for NSF awards that frankly requires the Director to accurately predict the future. The history of scientific discovery suggests this is just not feasible and we, as ...
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• Proposed bill that would regulate NSF research funding faces backlash

  
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  Over the past several months, Congress has gotten rather upset by some of the research funded by arms of the federal government, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. That displeasure eventually prompted the House Science Committees chair, Lamar Smith (R-TX), to float a bill ...
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• Hearing: Exoplanet Discoveries: Have We Found Other Earths?

  
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  Hearing charter "The purpose of the hearing is to review the recent discovery of three super-Earth sized planets by the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Kepler space telescope. The hearing will also assess the state of exoplanet surveying, characterization, and research; NASAs Exoplanet ...
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• Power Company, Research Center Partner on Wind Forecasts

  
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  (National Renewable Energy Lab) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado and the electric utility Xcel Energy are collaborating on a new forecasting system to improve the company’s wind energy operations. Financial aspects of the two-year partnership, which continues an existing ...
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• Temperature Simulator Saves Food Companies Money

  
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  National Energy Technologies has released an Eco Cube for refrigeration that the company says can cut energy use between 10 and 20 percent and save businesses money on food and beverage preservation by more accurately measuring food temperature. The company’s Food Temperature Simulator is a device that fits over the ...
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• Week in Review, or Politicizing Science

  
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  In betwixt ongoing budget battles, and even during recess break, research continued to get politicized this week with House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith again vocal in his bid to overhaul the peer review process at NSF. On Monday, Chairman Smith released the text of the draft bill — the High Quality ...
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• ESA Policy News: May 3

  
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  Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by Science Policy Analyst Terence Houston.  Read the full Policy News here. NSF: SCIENCE COMMITTEE LEADERS WEIGH IN ON BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH INVESTMENT A letter to National Science Foundation (NSF) Acting-Director Cora Marrett from House Science, Space and ...
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• Kim Kardashian Looks Casual Chic in Denim

  
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  Seeing these airport pictures of Kim Kardashian makes us rethink that she’s actually pregnant; her choice of outfit did wonders to hide her baby bump last Thursday, May 2. In recent weeks, the famous reality TV star wore black outfits to constantly hide her growing bump, but it seems like she ditched her all-black ...
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• TESS (not of the d’Urbervilles)

  
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  TIME-SHARING EXPERIMENTS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (TESS) James Druckman and Jeremy Freese pass this message along: We are pleased to announce that Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences ( TESS ) was renewed for another round of funding by NSF starting last Fall. TESS allows researchers to submit ...
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• US House Science Committee Attacking Science, Again…

  
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  This has been a rough week for me on the funding front, getting two NSF grant proposals turned down.  I expected it at some level, since the odds have gotten so bad (about 10-12% in astronomy, last time I saw hard numbers).  So you have to have a great proposal, or at least one that is uniformly viewed as great.  I ...
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• New advances in the battle against a major disease threat to cattle and people in Africa

  
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  An 8-month old cloned Boran calf named Tumaini (meaning ‘hope’ in Kiswahili), on the left, is part of a long-term ILRI research project to develop cattle for Africa that are genetically resistant to trypanosomiasis (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), a ...
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• Injecting Partisan Politics into Scientific Peer Review

  
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  Letter from Rep. Lamar Smith, Chairmain, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology to NSF Director Cora Marrett "During the course of the hearing, I asked Dr. Holdren about taxpayer funding for social, behavioral and political science studies at the National Science Foundation (NSF), and how we can better ...
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• Briefing highlights importance of social science research

  
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  By Terence Houston, Science Policy Analyst In recent months, there have been multiple congressional attempts to interfere with  the  National Science Foundation’s support of the nation’s fundamental research particularly  related to social and behavioral science research.  Such attacks have happened ...
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• Announcing The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: How to Optimize Brain Health and Performance at Any Age

  
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  Writ­ing a fore­word to this book against a tight dead­line is a some­what chal­leng­ing task. As you will learn later in the book though, there is rea­son to believe that such men­tally stim­u­lat­ing, novel activ­i­ties are ben­e­fi­cial for keep­ing my brain sharp as I gain in wis­dom — and in ...
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• Changing the players, or changing the goals?

  
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  A story from Science is making the round on the social media via my fellow scientists. It’s about draft legislation led by Lamar Smith that would affect the National Science Foundation. It starts with a dramatic lede: The new chair of the House of Representatives science committee has drafted a bill that, in ...
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• Week in Review, or Picking on Peer Review

  
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  As the impacts of sequestration continue to emerge, mounting airport delays due to the across-the-board spending cuts spurred Congress into action last week. The Senate and House both passed bills ( S.853/ H.R. 1765 ) which would give the Department of Transportation additional flexibility to move funding between ...
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• Storified tweets from the #UCDavisADVANCE Symposium on Increasing Diversity of STEM Faculty

  
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  I live tweeted a symposium at UC Davis yesterday that was part of the UC Davis ADVANCE project to increase diversity of STEM Faculty. Here are the notes.  [ View the story "#UCDavisADVANCE symposium" on Storify ] For more on the project see Chancellor-led center aims to boost womens numbers in STEM ... ...
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• NSF official stresses importance of government investment in big data

  
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  Despite a constrained budget environment across government, continued investment in big data is extremely important to the future of the country, said Farnam Jahanian, assistant director for National Science Foundations computer and information science and engineering directorate. Jahanian spoke during an April 24 ...
  3 weeks ago

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