Funding Science with Science: Cryptocurrency and Independent Academic Research Funding

Science funding and science policy: Big data as a tool for supporting the research funding process

ÜberResearch pursues a comprehensive approach to big and small data to aid science funders in operations and analysis. We seek to consolidate global award data and funders’ internal data, with a focus on data harmonization, natural language processing and disambiguation. In this article, firstly, I give a definition and some examples of big data. Next, I look at the relevance of big data in sci...

International Space Station life science research funding.

Britain pledges science funding boost

The British chancellor, Gordon Brown, last month set out spending plans that, if carried out, would lead to the largest sustained increase in science spending for a generation, but many researchers are concerned that such is the pressure on funds, there would be very little money left over for new research. Brown’s ten-year investment framework for science pledged that research and development ...

Corporate Funding of Food and Nutrition Research: Science or Marketing?

Weed Science Research and Funding: A Call to Action

Weed science has contributed much to agriculture, forestry and natural resource management during its history. However, if it is to remain relevant as a scientific discipline, it is long past time for weed scientists to move beyond a dominating focus on herbicide efficacy testing and address the basic science underlying complex issues in vegetation management at many levels of biological organi...