Category Archives: NSF

The PhD Glut Isn’t Just Biomedical: Welcome to the Sh-tstorm, Chemists

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

Economist and author of How Economics Shapes Science Paula Stephan notes that there’s a PhD glut in chemistry too (boldface mine): It did not take long, however, for this to change. Faculty quickly learned to include graduate students and postdocs … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Funding, Jobs, NIH, NSF | 4 Comments

Sequestration and Science Funding

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

I’ve written before about sequestration, the automatic cuts that the Republicans forced through during the debt ceiling hike fiasco (by the way, Republicans are now crapping their pants about sequestration since it’s not just targeting those people hitting programs they … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Funding, NASA, NIH, NSF | 1 Comment

NIH, NSF, and DOE Could Get Clobbered Thanks to Fiscal ‘Austerity’

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

This is why all the concern about the fake crisis of the U.S. budget deficit is so harmful–it has real effects on people’s lives, including scientists.
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Posted in Funding, NIH, NSF | 6 Comments

Coburn’s NSF Idiocy

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Sound and fury, signifying crapola.
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Posted in Conservatives, Funding, NSF | 5 Comments

The Future of Science Funding Is a Microcosm of What Happened in This Election

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

Standard operating procedure for Democrats.
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Posted in Democrats, Funding, NIH, NSF | 4 Comments

Republicans Tank Science COMPETES Bill with Bogus Anti-Porn Clause

Posted on May 14, 2010 by

Killing the COMPETES Act with a poison porn pill.
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Posted in Conservatives, NSF, Pig Screwer, The War on Science | 6 Comments

Hannity and Carlson’s War on Entomology

Posted on March 16, 2010 by

It’s nothing more than Palinist politics of the blood, with scientists cast in the role of the ‘unreal’ Americans.
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Posted in Conservatives, Funding, Insects, NSF, The War on Science | 11 Comments

Why I Am Voting for Martha Coakley

Posted on January 18, 2010 by

Brown is horrid–do we really need another ideologically crazed movement conservative blow-dried haircut? So vote Coakley, even if she did run a horrible campaign. And remember: Republicans don’t fund science very well either.
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Posted in Democrats, Funding, NIH, NSF, The War on Science, Voting | 7 Comments

Thoughts on the Demise of The Boston Globe

Posted on July 7, 2009 by

So The Boston Globe is failing (me, anyway). Should we worry about it’s demise?
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Posted in Boston, News Media, NIH, NSF | 4 Comments

The Stimulus: Better Than It Looked…

Posted on February 17, 2009 by

Could have been worse.
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Posted in Funding, NASA, NIH, NSF