Meagre science budget

Budget worries cloud Europe’s science plans

because the Commission had been unable to spend all of last year's money. " We accept that this is a priority area, but since you are already underspending, we don't believe they'll be able to spend more of it, " an official said. " It is unhelpful and unfortunate that the commission should choose to single out one country when, as presidency, we are representing the whole council and this is a...

Meagre numbers raise genome questions

Journalists believe they do not work to agendas. They will report on therapeutic cloning one day and on its opponents the next, regardless of their own views. Nevertheless, strong agendas do on occasions dominate news coverage. February’s announcement of the human genome sequence is a case in point. On the Sunday before Celera Genomics published its version in Science, and the public consortium...

Global Biodiversity Threatened by Science Budget Cuts in Brazil

Behavioral response of brown meagre (Sciaena umbra) to boat noise.

Underwater man-made noise is recognized as a major global pollutant in the 21st Century, and its reduction has been included in national and international regulations. Despite the fact that many studies have pointed out the ecological impact of noise on marine organisms, few studies have investigated - in a field context - the behavioral response to boat noise in fish. In the present study we m...

Managing pay for performance: aligning social science research with budget predictability.

Managers and policymakers are seeking practical guidelines for assessing the outcomes of emerging pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. Evaluations of P4P programs published to date are mixed-some are confusing-and methodological problems with them are common. This article first identifies and summarizes obstacles to implementing effective P4P programs. Second, it describes results from social sc...