mdspar.bsky.social
@mdspar.bsky.social
Research funds are being cut - research into how to improve education, including for disabled individuals, and scientific research. Not only is research essential to evolve and grow and lead, it is eerily reminiscent. Democracy relies on an educated populace www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Musk’s DOGE Announces Millions in Cuts to Education Dept. Amid Legal Pushback
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team said that it had “terminated” 89 of the department’s contracts, apparently targeting its research arm.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted
“It is a misnomer to call these funds indirect costs. They are essential to the safe and ethical performance of research. The environment in which research is conducted is highly specialized and costly.” 🧪
Great editorial by @holdenthorp.bsky.social in @science.org
A direct hit
Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...
www.science.org
February 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM