mastodon 4.7.3executive director @investinopen@indieweb.social. cares a lot (especially about governance). makes things out of clay.
As always, Sam and the Copim community’s take on the recent news from KFG about sunsetting PubPub is nuanced, informative, thoughtful — and well worth a read if you’re just catching up to some of the complexity that’s been at play for over a year.
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https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/pubpub-update-thoughts-from-copim
Rapid response funding of $25K for those disrupted by federal funding cuts, particularly the recent cancellations at NSF
https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/rapid-response-bridge-funding-program
Meanwhile, at NIH.
None of this is normal.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-insiders-trump-dismantling-and-destroying-everything
“In 2021, basic science funding from the US federal government was almost $50 billion. By contrast, philanthropy provided approximately $5 billion each to universities + to nonprofit research institutes.”
More from Adam Falk, recent pres of the Sloan Foundation 👇
@mattl@social.coop ooo do you like spice? their elote corn chips and guacasalsa are tasty on the go.