Science™ is fighting back! In case you were worried. The final straw was the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decreeing in February that indirect cost reimbursements on research grants would henceforth be cut to about 25 percent of their current rate. Hard to see what the complaint is there. Indirect costs mostly fuel administrative bloat, […]| Minding The Campus
Daniels: Proposed cap on reimbursement of indirect research costs would deal 'staggering blow to the nation's vital interest'| The Hub
$15 Billion Saved from Indirect Costs Boosts Research| Minding The Campus
Admit it: science has gone woke. What once seemed like an ideological virus confined to the arts and humanities has now infiltrated every corner of academia, including the STEMM fields. That’s why Minding the Campus is doubling down on our scrutiny of the sciences with this series, “Minding the Sciences.” In this ongoing series, we delve into topics like wokeism in STEMM, scientific ethics, research funding, climate science, scientific organizations, and much more.| Minding The Campus
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission. Indirect costs are a hot topic right now, set off by the Trump administration floating a proposal for the National […]| Minding The Campus
WATCH: Science Gets Bad Budget News, Filling In the Details of Out of Africa, and Sharks Fear the Reaper| Minding The Campus
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