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 Eli Kintisch On 18 December, the last day of the Copenhagen climate meeting, what will President Barack Obama tell the world that the United States is prepared to do? With a month to go, that's the challenge. We already... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/can-obama-bring.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/can-obama-bring.html Asia Environment/Climate Europe Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:02 -0500 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/europeans-take.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/europeans-take.html Europe Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:52:26 -0500 A U.S. delegation of top nongovernmental policy and science officials is visiting Cuba to discuss research and science policy. The animal rights group PETA says it will file complaints today with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Department... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1111-vi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1111-vi.html Europe Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:57 -0500 by John Travis The outrage among scientists over the firing of U.K. drug policy adviser David Nutt continues to bubble. Thursday, Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society, offered his first thoughts on the matter, saying: Scientific advisers are... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/uk-science-advi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/uk-science-advi.html Europe Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:07:37 -0500 by Eli KintischIn the U.K. newspaper The Guardian today, Home Secretary Alan Johnson defended the firing of drug adviser David Nutt:Professor Nutt is indeed a reputable scientist whose views on drugs policy are well known. However, his role as my... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/both-sides-spea.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/both-sides-spea.html Europe Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:46:05 -0500 by John Travis Illicit drugs, science and politics can be a volatile mix, no doubt. So it's not a total surprise that David Nutt, a respected psychopharmacologist at the Bristol outpost of Imperial College London, was canned today as the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/uk-drug-czar-ou.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/uk-drug-czar-ou.html Biomedicine Europe Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:22:18 -0500 by John Bohannon The conservative Austrian government has nominated its science minister, Johannes Hahn, 52, for the top job in European science policy, that of Commissioner for Research. Hahn has been dogged by criticisms from some scientists in his own... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/austria-nominat.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/austria-nominat.html Europe Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:31:06 -0500 by Martin Enserink A "distinguished scientist"—and for the first time not a civil servant—will become the next head of the European Research Council. ScienceInsider has learned that the European Commission will announce on Thursday that it has heeded the advice... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/science-in-char.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/science-in-char.html Europe Top Story ERC Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:33:16 -0500 by John Travis LONDON—A call for more money for agricultural science and greater attention to soil management and irrigation schemes? With recommendations such as those in a new report on how to address the world's growing demand for food, it’s... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/royal-society-r.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/royal-society-r.html Europe Top Story Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:24:50 -0500 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/a-bonus-french.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/a-bonus-french.html Europe Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:34:43 -0500 Scientists and policymakers are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, this week as part of the international DIVERSITAS program of biodiversity science. 300 farmers in 60 locations across Benin have signed up as part of a program supported by the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1013-em.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/roundup-1013-em.html Europe Swine Flu Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:55:03 -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 Daniel Clery The European Union has some pretty ambitious goals for energy use and climate change, such as cutting 80% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Today the European Commission unveiled a series of technology road maps that will... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/european-union.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/european-union.html Environment/Climate Europe Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:18:25 -0500