Shovel-Ready Science Drives DOE Decisions

A Grand Experiment in Shovel-Ready Science

The 2009 stimulus package released a burst of pent-up creativity in the applications submitted by US researchers, but there was a complicating factor with funding decisions: the need for quick results. Quinn Eastman provides a progress report.

Shovel-ready science: Moses applies for a GO grant.

Thank you for making Dr. Moses’ proposal available for public discussion [see Gerald Weissmann (2009) Shovel-Ready Science: Moses Applies for a GO Grant. FASEB J. 23: 2337–2340]. After reading this proposal, I am deeply concerned over his failure to acknowledge any of the research done by my team. Our work is based extensively on that of Dr. Moses’ important early studies, and we have achieved ...

Public credibility drives vaccination decisions.

COVER A male stick insect (Timema knulli) sitting on its host redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve, Big Sur, California. The process of Timema populations adapting to different hosts has repeatedly initiated parallel genetic changes in this group of insects. In turn, these replicate instances of differentiation have resulted in predictable and repeatable patterns...

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions Choosing a Biological Science of Choice

Behavioral ecologists argue that evolution drives animal behavior to efficiently solve the problems animals face in their environmental niches. The ultimate evolutionary causes of decision making, they contend, can be found in economic analyses of organisms and their environments. Neurobiologists interested in how animals make decisions have, in contrast, focused their efforts on understanding ...

Eleventh DOE / BES Heterogeneous Catalysis and Surface Science