Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck.bsky.social
Executive Director, Good Science Project
A Top Scientist's Ideas as to NIH
An anonymous guest post
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November 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
New post!
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AI and Pediatric Cancer Research
The Trump Administration recently issued an executive order titled “Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence,” with an accompanying announcement from the Department of Health ...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
New post!
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Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination?
🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t...
@stuartbuck.bsky.social
Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination?
🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t...
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The Case for Crazy Philanthropy
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August 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination?
🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t...
@stuartbuck.bsky.social
Once, eccentric patrons funded wild dreams — radar in a mansion, secret codes in Shakespeare, scrolls from Vesuvius. Today, philanthropy feels safe and bureaucratic. What if wild giving could revive science, health and imagination?
🔗 www.palladiummag.com/2025/08/22/t...
@stuartbuck.bsky.social
Maybe we should have a Department of Government Efficiency:
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The Case for a "Department of Government Efficiency"
There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government efficiency.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Maybe we should have a Department of Government Efficiency:
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Carl Bergstrom blocked me for this post! Didn't know he was like that.
Good point. In fact, one might as well denounce anyone who has ever criticized anti-Semitism because they are somehow responsible for Trump weaponizing that idea against Columbia and Harvard.
June 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Carl Bergstrom blocked me for this post! Didn't know he was like that.
New guest post!
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NASA Is Worth Saving
Guest Column by Casey Handmer
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June 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
New guest post!
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Reposted by Stuart Buck
Showing which proposals do AND don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science, @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy write. In fact, US funding agencies are required by law to provide much of this data already:
Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day
Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.
issues.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Showing which proposals do AND don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science, @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy write. In fact, US funding agencies are required by law to provide much of this data already:
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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This 2017 "classic" from @edyong209.bsky.social might as well have been written today including the quotes from me, @stuartbuck.bsky.social, @cragcrest.bsky.social, Hilda Bastain, and others.
"How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It"
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"How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It"
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May 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This 2017 "classic" from @edyong209.bsky.social might as well have been written today including the quotes from me, @stuartbuck.bsky.social, @cragcrest.bsky.social, Hilda Bastain, and others.
"How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It"
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
"How the GOP Could Use Science’s Reform Movement Against It"
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Actual quotes from the Dallas Fed's monthly manufacturing report:
"Business sucks"
"DOGE has killed us. Our customers are fighting tariff increases and dramatic funding cuts from USDA and USAID."
"We have a large order delayed until 2026."
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
"Business sucks"
"DOGE has killed us. Our customers are fighting tariff increases and dramatic funding cuts from USDA and USAID."
"We have a large order delayed until 2026."
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
Texas manufacturing production flat, new orders fall
Texas factory activity held steady in May, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions,...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Actual quotes from the Dallas Fed's monthly manufacturing report:
"Business sucks"
"DOGE has killed us. Our customers are fighting tariff increases and dramatic funding cuts from USDA and USAID."
"We have a large order delayed until 2026."
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
"Business sucks"
"DOGE has killed us. Our customers are fighting tariff increases and dramatic funding cuts from USDA and USAID."
"We have a large order delayed until 2026."
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...
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Federal science agencies rarely share publicly what grant proposals they choose *not* to fund. @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy make the case for why they should: issues.org/unfunded-gra...
Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day
Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.
issues.org
May 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Federal science agencies rarely share publicly what grant proposals they choose *not* to fund. @stuartbuck.bsky.social & @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy make the case for why they should: issues.org/unfunded-gra...
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Im sorry for empowering trump to attack science by my asking people to use better data management and statistical practices. I take full responsibility for my actions and apologize to those who could so obviously see how my efforts would be responsible for ending American science.
May 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Im sorry for empowering trump to attack science by my asking people to use better data management and statistical practices. I take full responsibility for my actions and apologize to those who could so obviously see how my efforts would be responsible for ending American science.
Another new post about a ton of new policy briefs on R&D and industrial policy!
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The Techno‑Industrial Policy Playbook
Just released today:
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May 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Another new post about a ton of new policy briefs on R&D and industrial policy!
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The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security.
More here:
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More here:
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This will kill us: restricting animal research
Tuesday, as my lab gathered to celebrate the completion of one of our big studies, the National Institutes of Health announced that they…
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May 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security.
More here:
medium.com/@eblissmorea...
More here:
medium.com/@eblissmorea...
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(#metascience) A good article by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the Fluoride and IQ meta-analysis: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear.... Summarizes some of the points in our forensic review of it (see the forensic review as a pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/os...). Very nice excerpt below:
April 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
(#metascience) A good article by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on the Fluoride and IQ meta-analysis: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear.... Summarizes some of the points in our forensic review of it (see the forensic review as a pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/os...). Very nice excerpt below:
New piece: goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear...
The Research on Fluoride and IQ
Robert F.
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April 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Latest piece:
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Indirect costs at DOE, cuts to evidence/data, and other news
I would really like to stop writing about indirect costs, but federal agencies keep forcing my hand.
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April 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Latest piece:
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Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social.
Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...
Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...
March 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social.
Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...
Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...