#funding — Public Fediverse posts

Revealed: inside the US military’s plan to tap huge sums from the NIH

Scientists work in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which could lose research…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #funding #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #infection #multidisciplinary #Politics #Science #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/719270/

https://www.europesays.com/people/215503/ Schumer: Funding on the way for aging infrastructure at former Plattsburgh Air Force base #ChuckSchumer #funding #Infrastructure #NewYork #PlattsburghAirForceBase #PLATTSBURGHTOWN #schumer #wcax

https://www.europesays.com/videos/88411/ Nigel Farage defends himself over foreign donation claims #Birmingham #conference #donations #farage #funding #investigation #itv #ItvNews #money #NigelFarage #party #police #politics #reform #ReformUK #report #undercover

https://www.europesays.com/videos/88381/ Nigel Farage dismisses foreign donations claim – Watch Friday’s ITV Evening News #aid #Animals #asia #conference #disaster #donations #Emergency #farage #flood #football #funding #Health #insects #investigation #itv #ItvNews #money #mosquito #Nepal #news #NigelFarage #party #politics #reform #ReformUK #rescue #Scandal #species #SuperLeague #Tibet #uk #undercover #Women

Crusoe AI Raises $3B at $30B Valuation

Data center developer that powers Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI triples valuation in 10 months as Jane Street signs $13B cloud deal.

https://pulseofnations.lol/crusoe-ai-raises-3b-at/

#AiInfrastructure #Crusoe #DataCenters #Funding #Ipo

Pensions from Capital: How Pension Funds in the United States, Japan and Europe Invest -and What Private Investors Can Learn from Them

By Roland Rupprechter This paper examines the pension funds of the large industrial countries — with more than…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #2026 #Europe #funding #Nihon #OccupationalPensions #PensionManagement #US
https://www.europesays.com/japan/86195/

https://www.europesays.com/videos/88217/ Nigel Farage dismisses foreign donations claim – Watch Friday’s ITV Evening News #aid #Animals #asia #conference #disaster #donations #Emergency #farage #flood #football #funding #Health #insects #investigation #itv #ItvNews #money #mosquito #Nepal #news #NigelFarage #party #politics #reform #ReformUK #rescue #Scandal #species #SuperLeague #Tibet #uk #undercover #Women

Friday, September 4, 2026

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Friday, September 4, 2026

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Friday, September 4, 2026

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Friday, September 4, 2026

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Friday, September 4, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/09/friday-september-4-2026/

Zum Wochenende die #Job- und #Funding-Schätze dieser Woche:

Die Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin sucht eine:n Projektmanager:in Digitalisierung (Berlin):
https://jobs.technikmuseum.berlin/Projektmanagerin-Digitalisierung-mwd-de-j177.html.

Das IBI – Institut für Bildung in der Informationsgesellschaft sucht eine:n Open Source Platform Specialist, Schwerpunkt E-Mail, Webportale & Kommunikation:
https://www.ibi.tu-berlin.de/images/Stellenausschreibungen/202603_OpenSource_PlatformSpecialist.pdf.

Die @riffreporter suchen eine:n Frontend-Entwickler:in
https://www.getbaito.com/de/job/frontend-entwickler-mwd-riffreporter.

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Recently an #ECR colleague was told for a ~£5,000 grant that they had no evidence of delivering on something like their submission successfully.

Given that they have a substantial publication record and they had applied the same methods multiple times and delivered (just without third-party funding), this was surprising.

I am wondering how to advise ECRs about getting their first PI grants, if this is really is the situation we are in...

#Funding #AcademicChatter

Indian snacks brand Jagdish Farshan raises Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding led by Sharrp Ventures

Jagdish Farshan Pvt Ltd has raised Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding, marking the Gujarat-based snacks and…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #angelinvestors #AU #Australia #Brand #Business #funding #investment #supplychain
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/879228/

Indian snacks brand Jagdish Farshan raises Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding led by Sharrp Ventures

Jagdish Farshan Pvt Ltd has raised Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding, marking the Gujarat-based snacks and…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #angelinvestors #AU #Australia #Brand #Business #funding #investment #supplychain
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/879228/

Indian snacks brand Jagdish Farshan raises Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding led by Sharrp Ventures

Jagdish Farshan Pvt Ltd has raised Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding, marking the Gujarat-based snacks and…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #angelinvestors #brand #Business #Funding #Investment #supplychain
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/835673/

Indian snacks brand Jagdish Farshan raises Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding led by Sharrp Ventures

Jagdish Farshan Pvt Ltd has raised Rs 43.5 crore in Series A funding, marking the Gujarat-based snacks and…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entrepreneurship #angelinvestors #brand #Business #Funding #Investment #supplychain
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/835673/

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117207765997753962

Has VC stopped being VC? @anildash thinks so and his argument is pretty convincing.

#startups #funding

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117207765997753962

Has VC stopped being VC? @anildash thinks so and his argument is pretty convincing.

#startups #funding

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117207765997753962

Has VC stopped being VC? @anildash thinks so and his argument is pretty convincing.

#startups #funding

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117207765997753962

Has VC stopped being VC? @anildash thinks so and his argument is pretty convincing.

#startups #funding

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/117207765997753962

Has VC stopped being VC? @anildash thinks so and his argument is pretty convincing.

#startups #funding

https://www.europesays.com/people/213685/ Elon Musk Starts Spending Millions on Midterms. Texas and Maine Emerge as Key Senate Targets. #AmericaPAC #ElonMusk #funding #midterms #Musk #SpaceX #Tesla #Texas #Trump

Protein Industries Canada invests more than $2 million into AI for AgTech

Two projects will seek to develop AI solutions for crop disease, grain monitoring.
Protein Industries Canada (PIC)…
#Canada #agtech #AI #briefs #funding #globalinnovationclusterprogram #govt #Lidar #metoscanada #Prairies #ProteinIndustriesCanada #regina #rockymountainequipment #Saskatchewan #southviewfarms #supergeoaitechnology #terravision360
https://www.europesays.com/canada/194843/

Protein Industries Canada invests more than $2 million into AI for AgTech https://www.byteseu.com/2333726/ #agtech #AI #Briefs #Canada #funding #GlobalInnovationClusterProgram #govt #LiDAR #MetosCanada #prairies #ProteinIndustriesCanada #Regina #RockyMountainEquipment #Saskatchewan #SouthviewFarms #SupergeoaiTechnology #terravision360

Hillingdon considers asylum seeker funding legal action

Hillingdon Civic Centre. © Peter_Fleming / Shutterstock.com.Hillingdon Council is considering legal action against the Government after the Home…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Hillingdon #asylum #Funding #Housing
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/20068/

Saturday, August 29, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/saturday-august-29-2026/

Edit: raised $50 so far. Please help us get that other $700 covered ASAP? If you can't cover it all, any part of it you can cover is less still to raise.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if we can't raise Atha and Inara the $750 to cover immigration bureaucracy within the next week, a cascade of problems will unfold that jeopardizes the future of not only Atha and Inara, but also the entire project of the Vulpibus. Problems including a $500 fine imposed in court, points on the license, more expensive insurance, inability to get paid work in the USA and probably inability to leave the USA for any chosen reason too. Problems also potentially including deportation of Atha back to the UK.

USCIS made a mistake and they are leaving it to us to pick up the pieces, and fast.

Can you help?

@athamanatha on Paypal
$athamanatha on Cashapp
https://ko-fi.com/athakitsune
Wise also available on request.

Other payment options than these may need specific arrangements.

#mutualaid
#queermutualaid
#fucktrump
#vulpibus
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#helpplease
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Saturday, August 8, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/saturday-august-8-2026/

“REVEALED: QATAR AND ISRAEL TOP WESTMINSTER LOBBYING LEAGUE TABLE”

by Martin Williams in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
@uk_politics
@ZackPolanski
@UKLabour

“Exclusive: Since July 2024, donors have paid for MPs to go on some 658 overseas junkets, at a cost of £2.2m. The majority were funded by private companies, charities or wealthy individuals.

But we found 165 trips were either funded by the foreign government concerned, or by UK-based ‘Friends Of’ groups dedicated to promoting the country in Westminster.

In total, these 165 trips were valued at almost £695,000”

https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-qatar-and-israel-top-westminster-lobbying-league-table/

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Westminster #Lobbying #Junkets #FriendsOf #Israel #Qatar #Taiwan #Influence #Corruption #LFI #CFI #Funding #Proxies #Transparency

"Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/trump-state-grants-canceled.html

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Meritocracy #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Are you crowdfunding for an upcoming release on Mirlo? Putting out a compilation for a good cause using our fundraiser functionality? Inquiring birds want to know...

Oh and you can also set the platform cut to 0% for fundraisers. 🪙🐦‍⬛

#Crowdfunding #Funding #MutualAid #Fundraiser #Fundraisers #Fundraising #Touring #Musicians #Music

International Brain Research Organization: New tool helps researchers discover neuroscience funding opportunities. “The Transmitter has launched the Neuro Funding Finder, a searchable database powered by Scientify Research that brings together hundreds of grants, fellowships, and funding opportunities for neuroscientists at every career stage. Users can browse and filter opportunities by career […]

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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“When you mix science and politics, you get politics:*…

Tina Hesman Saey on a looming threat to the U.S…

Soviet scientists in the 1930s knew what could happen if they bucked the party line: denunciation, firing and banishment from the scientific establishment, even imprisonment and death. Political reprisals against those who opposed the views of dictator Joseph Stalin and his followers — and the dubious science they endorsed — led to the starvation of millions, as well as to decades of lost progress in fields from agriculture to molecular biology.

Now, scientists are warning that history could repeat itself — but in the United States.

A new proposal from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget would put political appointees in charge of funding decisions traditionally overseen by scientists. In recent years, the federal government has funded about 40 percent of basic science research in the United States.

The OMB’s more than 400-page proposed rule change would let political appointees decide how to hand out federal research funds and who can get them. It would cut funding for collaboration with scientists in other countries and restrict scientists’ ability to communicate their findings. What’s more, it could prevent research on matters that President Donald Trump’s administration has deemed “not in the national interest” — such as studies on health disparities, mRNA-based vaccines and research that doesn’t recognize biological sex as a strict binary.

The new rules would also give OMB the power to rescind previously approved research funds. The proposal “poses a sweeping threat to federal grantmaking and the responsible stewardship of American taxpayer dollars,” the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science Foundation said in a report. In addition, it would impact nonscientific grants supporting services for mental health, housing, education, veterans and Tribal nations, affecting the health and well-being of millions.

So far, OMB has received more than 98,000 comments on the proposal. The public comment period closes July 13. It then will be up to OMB to decide whether to keep the rule as is, revise it or scrap it.

These far-reaching measures are already drawing parallels to dark moments in scientific history. Some researchers say the recent mass firings, policy changes and grant cancellations at federal research institutions, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, closely mirror what happened in the U.S.S.R. under Stalin. “A similar threat now hangs over U.S. science,” the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine wrote in June.

Its editorial invoked the example of Trofim Lysenko [see here], an agronomist and astute political operator who rose to power in the 1930s Soviet Union under Stalin.

Until the 1930s, “the Soviet Union was a real powerhouse in the field of genetics,” says Lee Dugatkin, an evolutionary biologist and historian of science at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Then, Lysenko came along. “This guy was your sort of classic charlatan,” Dugatkin says. “He had the equivalent of a mail order degree in agriculture, but he was quite good with the press, and he started to basically spread this idea out there that he was capable of dramatically increasing crop yield, particularly wheat.”

Lysenko’s supposed innovation was a process called vernalization and amounted to soaking seeds in freezing water. The resulting plants — and all their offspring — should be resistant to the U.S.S.R.’s famously cold winters, Lysenko reasoned.

His reasoning was based on a disproven idea in evolutionary biology called Lamarckian inheritance. French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his followers thought that things an organism experiences in its lifetime can be handed down to the next generation. The classic example is a giraffe that has to stretch to reach leaves producing offspring with long necks.

This idea ran counter to Mendelian genetics, which holds that genes — not environmental influences — control traits and are passed to offspring. Mendelian geneticists thought it would take five years to breed more cold-tolerant crops. Lysenko said he could do it in two to three years.

Stalin didn’t have time to wait. He was trying to get collective farms going and needed to increase crop yields to feed more than 150 million people. Large parts of the country had already suffered from famine in 1932 and 1933 and about 6 million people died. Some resorted to cannibalism.

Stalin embraced Lysenko’s quick-fix approach. That decision, says Michael Gordin, a historian of science at Princeton University, was “something that the majority of people at the time, and everyone since, considers the wrong side of the dispute.”

Lysenko was put in charge of a prestigious genetics institute and forced his scientifically unsound farming practices on the collective farms. His methods were disastrous.

Soaking seeds in freezing water hampered germination, leading to crop losses. Millions starved. Meanwhile, Mendelian genetics was branded a “whore of capitalism,” and geneticists were forced to renounce their views or lose their jobs. Many were jailed, and almost a dozen were executed or died in prison.

The Soviet Union lost its scientific leadership role and sat on the sidelines for important scientific discoveries of the 1950s and beyond. One, Gordin says, was the development of “massively” productive hybrid corn. The country also missed out on the discovery of DNA and the advent of molecular biology, putting Soviet genetics decades behind the rest of the world.

Soviet genetics did not recover from Lysenko’s influence until after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gordin says. “I think you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who thinks that … Russia is today, or Ukraine, or any post-Soviet successor state, is a leading molecular biology country.”…

The Soviets did it, and it didn’t end well: “Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science,” from @thsaey.bsky.social in @sciencenews.bsky.social.

See also: Idiocracy

* John M. Barry

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As we remember the past so as not to repeat it, we might recall that it was on this date in 1834 that the Spanish Inquisition (finally) ended. Authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1478, the Inqusition was initially led by inquisitors (Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín) who were appointed by the future Catholic monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. It was originally (ostensibly) intended primarily to identify heretics; its aim, to maintain Christian orthodoxy. But it became an effective instrument of state power by replacing the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control.

Over its course, the Inquisition prosecuted an estimated 150,000 people for various offences. An estimated 3,000–5,000 were turned over to the state for execution, particularly in the initial 50 years, mostly by burning at the stake. Other punishments included penance and public flogging, exile, enslavement on galleys, and prison terms ranging from several years to life. In many of these punishments an important motive was the confiscation of all the victims’ property.

As Monty Python observed, “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” And nobody expected it to last 356 years.

#NousResearch, the startup behind the #opensource #Hermes #agent, is finalising a new #funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company is raising at least $75 million to expand Hermes’ products and business model. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/hermes-agent-maker-nous-research-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-1-5b-valuation/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

#Valarian, a London-based startup, raised $50 million in Series A #funding to help governments and enterprises maintain #control over their #AIsystems and #data. Their software, #ACRA, acts as a #securelayer around #AIworkloads, ensuring #datasovereignty and mitigating risks associated with the U.S. #CLOUDAct. This funding round, led by #NEA, marks the firm’s first defence and dual-use investment in #Europe. https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

#Valarian, a London-based startup, raised $50 million in Series A #funding to help governments and enterprises maintain #control over their #AIsystems and #data. Their software, #ACRA, acts as a #securelayer around #AIworkloads, ensuring #datasovereignty and mitigating risks associated with the U.S. #CLOUDAct. This funding round, led by #NEA, marks the firm’s first defence and dual-use investment in #Europe. https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

#Valarian, a London-based startup, raised $50 million in Series A #funding to help governments and enterprises maintain #control over their #AIsystems and #data. Their software, #ACRA, acts as a #securelayer around #AIworkloads, ensuring #datasovereignty and mitigating risks associated with the U.S. #CLOUDAct. This funding round, led by #NEA, marks the firm’s first defence and dual-use investment in #Europe. https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

#Valarian, a London-based startup, raised $50 million in Series A #funding to help governments and enterprises maintain #control over their #AIsystems and #data. Their software, #ACRA, acts as a #securelayer around #AIworkloads, ensuring #datasovereignty and mitigating risks associated with the U.S. #CLOUDAct. This funding round, led by #NEA, marks the firm’s first defence and dual-use investment in #Europe. https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

#Valarian, a London-based startup, raised $50 million in Series A #funding to help governments and enterprises maintain #control over their #AIsystems and #data. Their software, #ACRA, acts as a #securelayer around #AIworkloads, ensuring #datasovereignty and mitigating risks associated with the U.S. #CLOUDAct. This funding round, led by #NEA, marks the firm’s first defence and dual-use investment in #Europe. https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/?Pirates.BZ #Pirates #Tech #Startup #News

“Who is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain?”

by Josiah Mortimer and Max Colbert in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]

“EXCLUSIVE: Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK”

[..]

“Little is known about Restore Britain’s funding. The far-right party, seen as a disrupter on Reform UK’s right flank, was only formally registered as a party in February, meaning further donations records will begin to appear in the coming months, should they cross the threshold for declaration.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/who-is-really-bankrolling-rupert

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #FarRight #RestoreBritain #Lowe #Musk #Funding #X #Crypto #DarkMoney #CromwellClub #Donations

The #Trump admin, which has systematically rolled back #firearms #regulations since returning to office, has also gutted federal #GunViolence prevention efforts, slashing #funding for programs & #research & even SUPPRESSING #taxpayer-funded reports aimed at reducing #gun injuries & deaths.

#law #guns #idiocracy #MassShootings #SchoolShootings #PublicHealth

Chinese satellite manufacturer Hongqing raises $191 million

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/chinese-satellite-manufacturer-hongqing-raises-191-million/

Community Foundation of Lorain County launches new LGBTQ+ affiliate fund amid funding and legislative challenges

The Community Foundation of Lorain County partnered with LGBTQ+ Lorain County to create a fund to suppor...

#cindy-andrews #community #community-foundation #community-foundation-of-lorain-county #cynthia-andrews #funding #grants #lgbtq+-lorain-county #lorain #megan-mikolay
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/06/18/lgbtq-lorain-county-fund/

https://gitlab.vulpinedesigns.com/TheGUESSUniversalEditingSuiteandSDK/GeFi/-/blob/master/GeFi.ui
This is a WIP storyboard of the work Atha and Inamruzui are doing at @vulpinelabs
Each module handles a different aspect of the body with gene editing and transformational goals in mind.
If you want to get involved in developing any of the hundreds of submodules for the GUESS Universal Editing Suite and SDK for the gene editing system, please get in touch!
This stuff can't happen without basic needs being met. Please be kind and donate if you can.

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Cashapp $Athamanatha
And more options on DM request.

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