{"id":501,"date":"2009-02-16T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-02-16T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T15:24:36","slug":"is-the-era-of-worrying-about-science-funding-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/is-the-era-of-worrying-about-science-funding-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the era of worrying about science funding over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And will it keep postdocs for asking my advice about careers in science writing? Crom, I hope so.<\/p>\n<p> The NIH is slated to get<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sciencemag.org\/scienceinsider\/2009\/02\/1000000000000-f.html\"> $10 Billion<\/a>.  That&#8217;s American dollars and, roughly, three times what they were originally slated to get in the stimulus bill. Thanks to Arlen Specter, that&#8217;s not a problem anymore. (Go Arlen, I told all my hyper-Dem friends that he was worth keeping around, for the sake of Pennsyltucky, at least!)<\/p>\n<p>The NIH famously doubled its budget a few years back, but then the budget stabilized and, in fact, failed to keep up with inflation. I have heard said that it would have been better if the doubling hadn&#8217;t happened, since so many institutions invested heavily in new programs and infrastructure that a level NIH budget just couldn&#8217;t sustain.<\/p>\n<p>So now the question is, I guess, what the hell will they do with all this money? How much of this will go to fulfilling research grants? How sustainable will this be&#8230;or should the scientific community just take this and run with it best they can knowing that this will be a one-time respite from their regularly scheduled budget woes? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And will it keep postdocs for asking my advice about careers in science writing? Crom, I hope so. The NIH is slated to get $10 Billion. That&#8217;s American dollars and, roughly, three times what they were originally slated to get in the stimulus bill. Thanks to Arlen Specter, that&#8217;s not a problem anymore. (Go Arlen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,18,8],"tags":[66,43],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-science-fandom","category-sciencegeek-porn","tag-nih-budget","tag-politics","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}