Just how bad will #climatechange get? The only way to know is to fund #basicresearch
Predictions of #climate change are uncertain. That’s why we need to keep finding out how our atmosphere works.
How seriously should people be taking climate change? United Nations secretary-general António Gutteres considers it an existential threat. Yet, US President Donald Trump has decreed it a hoax.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02508-8?linkId=16229343

The EU / ERC just published a workshop report on Research & Innovation for a Competitive Europe: "Many participants pointed out that researchers’ mobility between sectors remains limited, with academic careers often requiring narrow specialisation rather than broader engagement."

The report includes calls for:
• Stable, reliable funding frameworks
• Trusting researchers with freedom to pursue promising directions

https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2025-07/Research-Innovation-Competitive-Europe-workshop-report.pdf

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
https://archive.ph/A1bRu

https://www.alojapan.com/1310997/phc-announces-exclusive-distribution-of-maxcyte-expert-platform-in-japan/ PHC Announces Exclusive Distribution of MaxCyte® ExPERT™ Platform in Japan #BasicResearch #BiomedicalDivision #CellEngineering #ChiyodaKu #ExPERTPlatform #Japan #JapanNews #MaxCyte #news #PHCHoldingsCorporation #Tokyo Left : ExPERT ATx (For basic research)／Right : ExPERT STx (For basic research/ process development) Left : ExPERT GTx (For commercial manufacturing)／Right : ExPERT VLx (For commercial manufacturing) — Enabling Scalable, Non-Vira…

In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.

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Trump team freezes new #NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The #NationalScienceFoundation is the latest #US agency to be disrupted by #ElonMusk’s #DOGE. With a budget of US$9 billion, the NSF is one of the largest funders of #basicresearch in the world.
DOGE is also reviewing a list of active research grants, assessed in February by NSF, for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI). It is considering terminating more than 200 of them.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01263-0

From a fruit fly’s wings, they learned how bodies are built (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Apr 11, 2025
https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281638196037429

A marcelous micro tale on the value of #BasicResearch