#marsdenfund — Public Fediverse posts

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?

#research #knowledge #nzpol

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/science-and-technology/science-and-innovation/funding-information-and-opportunities/investment-funds/transition-research-fund-2027

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.

https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/open-letter-on-importance-of-the-social-sciences-and-humanities/

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." 🤦‍♂️

#capitalism #politics #education

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