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Issues Reducing Unnecessary Bureaucracy Federally-funded scientists spend too much of their time waiting to hear whether a proposal was approved, filing bureaucratic reports, etc. We need to streamline practices so that scientists can waste less time jumping through hoops, and spend more time on science. View More Funding High-Risk, High-Reward Science Breakthrough scientific ideas have often been unpopular, and can have particular trouble getting funded. We need to experiment with different funding mechanisms and peer review models to see what works, and what might be more open to new ideas. View More Improving Scientific Quality Too much low-quality science gets funded and published every year. Funding practices can actually create perverse incentives that encourage such work. Funders need to bend over backwards to incentivize good science rather than low-quality science. View More Funding Exploration Goal-directed research (such as a "cancer moonshot") is often more popular than fundamental, exploratory research. Funders need to ensure that a substantial part of their portfolio goes to fundamental science, which sets the stage for advancement in the future. View More Rebalancing the Research Enterprise There are arguably too many people being trained as graduate students and post-docs compared to the number of academic positions available. At the same time, there are too few career options for people who would be excellent at managing research labs, writing research software, etc. We need to have better calibration between the number of trainees and the amounts and types of research careers available. View More Latest Articles April 9, 2022 INTERVIEW: Mark Rossi This is the first in a series of interviews with practicing scientists. 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[...] March 8, 2022 The Kariko problem: Lessons for funding basic research New scientific institutes are springing up all over the place these days: Arcadia Science, New Science, Arc [...] View All Articles About [Stuart-Buck_0085-1-185x18] Stuart Buck Executive Director Board [Brian-Nosek-185x185] Brian Nosek Co-Founder and Executive Director, Center for Open Science [Goroff-5-185x185] Daniel Goroff Vice President and Program Director, Alfred P. 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