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
With the cuts going on in the name of efficiency and so-called DEI imperialism it's no surprise science YouTube is in trouble. It's sad.
If you at all understand the progress in the 20th century, you'll know it's the result of a relay race involving both private and public sectors. In the coming week's I'll be talking a lot about "antirival" goods and why we need a better collective understanding of them.
The #KrononautMoon Project seeks to make contact with #TimeTravelers — i.e., extradimensional beings — by promoting decentralized community experiments during the #TotalLunarEclipse. There will be 3 #TLEclipses in the next 2 years. The first of the triad occurs next month on 2025 Mar 14, the night of the #FullMoon & March's #WormMoon. All are invited (even skeptics) to celebrate on Thursday or Friday evening under the stars — wherever you are.
http://KronoMoon.org https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel#Absence_of_time_travelers_from_the_future https://Pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-last-archive/the-krononauts
@KronoMoon on #Mastodon shares toots, articles & videos on various sub-themes and sub-theories, because any theory of #TimeTravel is polydimensional, beyond our current technology, and incomplete. Often associated with #UFOs or #UAP, a real-life encounter with a #spacetime ship or a #TimeMachine is less likely than some kind of #quantum #signal. It's possible that such signals have been beaming toward us for a long time. Please take lots of #photos of the #Moon and share them with @KronoMoonPhotos, so that we can document any anomalous phenomena. The plan focuses on Lunar Eclipses that are "Total" (typically occurring about once per year) and not other types of Eclipses.
@KronoMoon toots use a variety of #hashtags:
• #Muticultural #Multilingual #Community #Connections & #Empathy
(because we need to peacefully coexist with others)
#native #aborigine #indigenous #intersectional #FirstPeople #POC #BLM #PWD #DEI #LGBTQ+ 
• #Philosophy & #Spirituality
#consciousness #mindbody #dualism
• #Microcosm & #Macrocosm
#quantumphysics #higherdimensions #topology #astronomy #basicresearch #cosmology
• #QuantumEntanglement & #Wormholes
#darkmatter #darkenergy #manyworlds
• #SciFi & #Speculative #Fiction
#movies #books #spokenword
• #Experimental & #Conceptual #Arts
#film #performance #dance #drumcircles
• #UAP #Ufology & #Alien #Intelligence
#experiencers #whistleblowers #researchers
• #Time #Timelessness & #TimeTravel
#entropy #evolution #ancient #history #migrations #fossils #cavepaintings #myths #stonecircles
• #Observation & #Documentation
#research #media #reporting #photo #digital #archives
2025 Sep 07