http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:18 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification by Martin Enserink PARIS—France's collective brainpower may be headed for a massive boost in the government's long-awaited economic stimulus plan. A panel chaired by two former prime ministers recommends spending more than €20 billion on boosting research, higher education, innovation,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/research-set-to.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/research-set-to.html Budget Europe Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:18 -0500 by Dennis Normile TOKYO—Nothing rouses a research community like a threat to its funding, as could be seen this week here in Japan after a task force recommended deep cuts (subs req) in the Ministry of Education's budget for fiscal... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/japans-scientis-1.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/japans-scientis-1.html Asia Budget Top Story budget Japan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:53 -0500 by Daniel Clery The scientific and engineering team building the ITER fusion reactor was hoping for a green light today for its final design, schedule, and cost estimate, but given the project has a pricetag in the billions of euros... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/iter-fusion-rea.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/iter-fusion-rea.html Budget Physical Science Top Story fusion ITER Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:27:44 -0500 by Jeffrey Mervis Has science become a one-party issue in Congress? A coalition of university organizations with a new Web site touting the benefits to the country from the $21 billion being spent on basic research via the American Recovery... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/pelosi-leads-pa.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/pelosi-leads-pa.html Budget Physical Science Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:02 -0500 by Jeffrey Mervis Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) finally got his long-awaited roll-call vote last night to strip out political science research from the 2010 budget of the National Science Foundation. And while his amendment was soundly defeated, 36 to 62,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/political-scien.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/political-scien.html Budget Top Story Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:08:12 -0500 by Erik Stokstad Congress wants the Department of Interior to figure out what it doesn't know about Arctic ecosystems in order to better plan for oil and gas exploration. Tucked into a House-Senate conference report (pdf) for the fiscal year... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/interior-depart.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/interior-depart.html Budget Environment/Climate Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:41 -0500 by Jocelyn Kaiser The results are in for National Institutes of Health's much-discussed Challenge Grants, and the news is only slightly better than expected: The agency funded 840 projects, which puts the portion of the mind boggling 20,000-plus applications funded... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/where-nihs-stim-1.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/where-nihs-stim-1.html Biomedicine Budget Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:14:35 -0500 The Department of Energy and EPA are partnering to fix the broken Energy Star Program. Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy (D–VT) wants to work with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) to schedule debate on the stalled patent reform bill before... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1016-lu.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1016-lu.html Budget Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:51:46 -0500 by Jeffrey Mervis Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) has long been a critic of the National Science Foundation's funding of the political and social sciences, believing that the research it supports is more political than scientific. But the conservative Republican couldn't... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/mikulski-cites.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/mikulski-cites.html Budget Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:51:27 -0500 by Eli Kintisch Ocean-research advocates are rallying the troops today to build opposition to a proposed $172 million cut from the 2010 budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of debate on the $65 billion Commerce, Justice,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/texas-justice-v.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/texas-justice-v.html Budget Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:16:40 -0500 by Elisabeth Pain First impressions can be deceiving. The 2010 science budget the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry presented to Parliament last week has now spread concern and uncertainty among the Spanish scientific community. In an open letter published a... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/spanish-science.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/spanish-science.html Budget Europe Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:56:28 -0500 by Andrey Allakhverdov and Vladimir Pokrovsky Last Friday, in the leading Moscow business newspaper Vedomosti, a letter addressed to Russia’s president and its prime minister and signed by more than 100 Russian researchers who permanently work abroad complained of “the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/russian-expats.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/russian-expats.html Budget Europe Russia science Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:40:18 -0500 by Eli Kintisch The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a $33.5 billion spending bill for energy and water spending in fiscal year 2010, and Senate action could come next week. In the joint House-Senate spending bill that was hammered... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/us-physical-sci.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/us-physical-sci.html Budget Physical Science Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:42:34 -0500 by Barbara Casassus PARIS—Higher education and research are one of the few budgetary bright spots on a landscape of gloom in France, as the economic crisis is predicted to push the country’s public deficit to a record high next year.... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/bright-spots-fo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/bright-spots-fo.html Budget Europe budget France Pecresse Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:31:46 -0500 by Elisabeth Pain A 2010 national budget plan (in Spanish) was given to Spain’s Parliament yesterday and funding levels for the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation are staying more or less the same as last year’s levels, despite the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/spains-science.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/spains-science.html Budget Europe Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:21:25 -0500