#marsdenfund — Public Fediverse posts
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for over three decades NZ #MarsdenFund supported investigator-led research. It enabled ideas to flourish AND motivate applied results in a way that I don't think you see in bigger systems. And certainly in ways that I don't think decision-makers understood.
Well not anymore... I guess we'll see how it actually plays out. It certainly has all the words - bold, towards, ambitious, long-term, and of course.... "focus on delivering impact for New Zealand". This stuff is so great I should think we'd invest more rather than less?
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Maybe you've heard that the Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology #NZpol has seen fit to de-fund social science and humanities from the #MarsdenFund - well here's the Prez of the Royal Society Te Apārangi #RSTA responding.
The #RSTA is necessarily pretty conservative so for their Prez Prof Jane Harding to go this hard speaks to just how bad the decision is.
Plus we are talking about a pittance in govt terms.
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Amid cuts to basic research, #NewZealand scraps all support for #socialsciences https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences
"[...] the country’s center-right coalition government said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million #MarsdenFund, the nation’s sole funding source for #fundamentalscience, to “research with #economic benefits.” Moreover, the fund would no longer support any social sciences and #humanities #research, and the expert panels considering these proposals would be disbanded." 🤦♂️
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CW: NZPol Marsden fund
"If we could know the outcomes of a research project in advance, we could undoubtedly be more efficient ... . But if we knew the outcomes, it wouldn't be research, and any knowledge produced would not be new.
... the ideas that underpin real value in commercially viable science are often first prompted by discoveries in fundamental science. If it were something everyone already knew, it wouldn't be intellectual property."
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This current government of #NewZealand #Aotearoa has no understanding of what science, human, and economics mean. Without human science you cannot understand what results from core science research are actually beneficial to people, and how to maximise this benefit. #MarsdenFund
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I wrote this about the #MarsdenFund 8 years ago…
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New #openaccess publication #SciPost #physics
Magnetic impurity in a one-dimensional few-fermion system
Lukas Rammelmüller, David Huber, Matija Čufar, Joachim Brand, Hans-Werner Hammer, Artem G. Volosniev
SciPost Phys. 14, 006 (2023)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.14.1.006
@lmu_osc @bmbf_bund @dfg_public #MCQST
#TUDarmstadt #Dodd-WallsCentre #ExtreMeMatterInstitute #ISTA #FP7 #Horizon2020 #MarsdenFund