California Moves to Create Its Own Science Institute Amid Federal Funding Cuts - teleSUR English

California Moves to Create Its Own Science Institute Amid Federal Funding Cuts - teleSUR English

The proposed California Institute for Scientific Research aims to protect critical research on diseases and drug safety. California lawmakers are racing to build its own National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the U.S. administration pushed deep federal funding cuts that experts warned could cripple innovation, damage the economy, and put future medical breakthroughs at risk. RELATED: Judge Thurston Halts U.S. Border Patrol’s Warrantless Sweeps i…

How Science and Culture Are Under Attack—and What We Can Do About It

We at the Greater Good Science Center recently learned that one of our books was pulled from the shelves of the United States Naval Academy Nimitz Library, as part of a larger systematic purge of 381 books that mostly explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Beacon Press published Are We Born Racist? New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology in 2010. Drawn from the pages of Greater Good magazine, many of its essays were writte…

The fact that the current U.S. government is not friendly to science is a big risk not only for the U.S., but frankly for the whole world, said US researcher Jennifer Doudna on Monday in front of journalists in Vienna. This raises questions for career planning, especially among the boys. It is hard to say what [...]

Delaying progress: federal research funding on the chopping block

With the dismantling of scientific institutions nationwide due to broad reforms to federal science policy under the Trump administration, the future of American research is uncertain. Leading institutions like Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania — along with dozens of other schools — face actual or potential federal funding freezes, and government agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Founda…

California moves to create its own science institute amid federal funding cuts

California lawmakers are racing to build its own National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the U.S. administration pushed deep federal funding cuts that experts warned could cripple innovation, damage the economy, and put future medical breakthroughs at risk. The proposed California Institute for Scientific Research (CISR), aiming to protect critical research on diseases, climate change and drug safety as federal support evaporates, was set for a h…