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We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship! These outstanding researchers are shining examples of innovation and impact—and we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here: sloan.org/fellowships/2023-F… 🎉 #SloanFellow #STEM #ScienceTwitter
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Introducing… the winners of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship! These extraordinary researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today—and we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here: sloan.org/fellowships/2022-F… #SloanFellow
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We are pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of the Sloan Research Fellows. These extraordinary early career researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today! We are so thrilled to be able to support your work! #sloanfellow tinyurl.com/phsojiu9
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We have today announced the names of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows! Congratulations to these 126 outstanding early-career researchers: sloan.org/fellowships/2024-F…
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🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/2025-F…
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2025 Sloan Research Fellowship nominations are open! These two-year, $75k awards support early-career researchers whose accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. Nominate yourself or share with your network! More info: sloan.org/fellowships
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📢New grant opportunity for #OpenSource in universities! Grants up to $750K available for US #HigherEd institutions to launch Open Source Program Offices (#OSPO). Please share this around! Full details here: sloan.org/programs/digital-t…
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The revolution will be #opensource
How to Fix the Internet is a new podcast exploring optimistic solutions to today’s toughest technology problems, with support from @SloanPublic. Listen today for a brighter technological future: howtofixtheinternet.org
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We're excited to announce our first #HistoryOfScience open call, offering $75K-250K grants for original research in the history of science, technology, economics, and social science. Full details here, please share this around! sloan.org/grants/open-calls/… #HistSci #STS #STSTwitter
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Watch this space. 2024 Fellowships - two-year grants of $75K awarded to early-career scientists and scholars of exceptional promise - will be announced Feb 20! #SloanFellow
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Today, we're pleased to announce a $5M investment in Minority Serving Institutions to support equitable pathways into graduate study for Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o students! Meet our grantees here: sloan.org/programs/higher-ed…
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APPLY NOW: Grants of $500,000 - $750,000 available for interdisciplinary research projects on critical minerals and metals in the US, led by early- and mid-career scholars. DEADLINE: 12/18/2023 More details in thread👇
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NEW: Sloan is investing in #MSI Pathways to #STEM Graduate Education. Grants up to $500K avail. Submission deadline: June 1. (1/3) sloan.org/programs/higher-ed…
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We're offering $250K grants to U.S. #STEM doctoral programs advancing #DEI through a new initiative called the Sloan Centers for Systemic Change. Questions? Reach out to @lorelleespinosa & @Hallmark2032, and read the full details here: sloan.org/programs/higher-ed…
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Thanks for featuring us in @Forbes ! Sloan Research Fellows are among the most innovative young scientists in the US and Canada and must be nominated by their colleagues. #SloanFellow
The Sloan Research Fellows For 2024 Have Been Announced forbes.com/sites/michaeltnie…
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Last week, we welcomed 126 new Sloan Research Fellows👏Here's some context on their achievements: - 1,100 scientists were nominated - 2024 Fellows represent 51 different institutions - 57 #SloanFellows have won the #NobelPrize inc. last year's Chemistry and Economics winners🧠
We have today announced the names of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows! Congratulations to these 126 outstanding early-career researchers: sloan.org/fellowships/2024-F…
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*Fantastic* news for equity in #STEM today! @HHMINEWS just announced a $1.5 billion initiative that will support up to 150 early-career scientists advancing #DEI over the next 10 years. #FHScholars
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Our thoughts go out to the family, friends, and loved ones of Jim Simons. First as a mathematician, then as an investor, and finally as a philanthropist, Jim’s hard work, brilliance, and generosity set a new standard for those who followed. He will be missed. @SimonsFdn simonsfoundation.org/2024/05…
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That's one small step for @oshwassociation, one giant leap towards expanding open source hardware in academia. Congratulations to @amptMN, @DrCABerry, @DahlWinters, @JBalkind, @EliceiriK, and @ManuPra18599785! 🎉
Congratulations to each person chosen for our Open Hardware Trailblazers Fellowship! Please take a moment to meet each of them here: oshwa.org/2022/06/15/congrat…
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📢Together with @RockefellerFdn, @RWJF, @craignewmark, & @NSF, we're thrilled to support @ssrc_org's #MercuryProject! Read all about the 80+ social/behavioral scientists from 17 countries working to increase vaccination rates and essential health services at scale 👇
We’re proud to award $7.2M in direct research funding to the first #MercuryProject cohort. An announcement🧵 ⬇️ ssrc.org/programs/the-mercur…
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Grantee spotlight🔎 Neil Dasgupta and @icjennikins have scaled seed-funded ideas into federally-funded research! It's great working with @RCSA1 to facilitate #Scialog and see small, precise funding turn into big, impactful science! impact.sloan.org/meeting-of-…
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So excited to be partnering with @RCSA1 and @ThistledownFnd to support early career researchers working on cutting-edge technologies to reduce carbon emissions.
RCSA, @SloanFoundation and the Thistledown Foundation have made awards totaling $1,155,000 to 8 multidisciplinary teams from the U.S. and Canada in the inaugural year of #Scialog: Negative Emissions Science. bit.ly/3sYYBwa
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Congrats to @ProfSaraSeager on the #KavliPrize in #Astrophysics! She is currently conducting groundbreaking work into the possibility of life on #Venus, by determining whether the components of a DNA-like molecule can exist in Venus’ atmosphere. We're proud to support her work👏
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We're pleased to announce 21 grants supporting innovative partnerships between Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and other educational institutions to build, expand, and enhance effective, equitable pathways into #STEM graduate study. Read more here: sloan.org/programs/higher-ed…
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The Foundation has been committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM since the 1940s. Yet never have we, as an institution, stated that commitment explicitly and publicly. That changes today. #BlackHistoryMonth sloan.org/about/our-commitme…
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Whenever my mom sees an ad on public television from the Alfred P. @SloanFoundation, she yells with glee. They gave her daughter a grant to write a book! She reacts this way every time. #thealchemyofus
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📢 Grants up to $500K available for U.S. higher education institution and organizations developing equitable pathways to STEM graduate education for Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o students. Please share this around! Full details here: sloan.org/programs/higher-ed… #STEM #DEI
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"Without systemic change, efforts to remedy... discrimination in the STEM fields will continue to occur at the margins, reinforcing the status quo." @JuliePosselt & @lorelleespinosa in @DiverseIssues: diverseeducation.com/opinion…
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How much do you know about open-source hardware? We spoke to @oshwassociation Director Alicia Gibb Seidle and @DrCABerry about their mission to make hardware, inc. scientific equipment, freely accessible in academic environments. Read more👇 impact.sloan.org/celebrating…
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Nominations for the 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships are now open—two-year $75K fellowships for early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Find out more and apply here: sloan.org/fellowships
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Together, Math and Science Foundations Fund ‘Tabletop’ Physics That Could Transform Our Understanding of the Universe sloan.org/programs/research/…
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From all of us here at Sloan, *huge congratulations* to this year's graduating Sloan Scholars! We're incredibly proud to have supported you on your PhD journeys, and we're excited to see where you go next 🎉 @srebeducation @SloanNetwork
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Did Darwin ever doubt his own theories? What did he really think about women? Is dialogue part of the scientific process? The Darwin Correspondence Project @MyDearDarwin spent 50 yrs answering these qs and more. Read about it here: impact.sloan.org/a-new-side-…
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Congrats to Professor Li @DanaFarber on being named a 2021 #sloanfellow! We are so excited to be able to support you and your work! tinyurl.com/phsojiu9
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Nominations for the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships are now open—two-year $75K fellowships for early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Find out more and apply here: sloan.org/fellowships
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"We see language as a possible barrier to racial equity in computing... workforce hiring committees may be missing talented master’s and doctoral graduates." Exciting, important, and timely work we're proud to support. Huge congrats to @annie_woff @perezfelkner @bretsw 👏🧵👇
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We need a Program Assistant for our Technology & NYC programs—both led by the much admired (at least by us!) @epistemographer. $65-75K, hybrid schedule (Tues/Weds/Thurs at @rockcenternyc, Mon/Fri at home), and a welcoming team of supportive colleagues. Come join us!
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“We must do more to inspire young talent to go into #STEM, we have to make bigger investments in STEM education and training, and must work harder to retain people in STEM careers,” says NSF director @DrPanch. More on our initiative w/ @AAAS to advance #DEI here:
.@AAAS announces three awards totaling nearly $20M from @NSF, @SloanFoundation, and Tiger Global Impact Ventures to help create a more equitable system for the U.S. research enterprise, advancing global competitiveness aaas.org/news/aaas-awarded-n…
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Congrats to Professors Anari, Druckmann, Follmer, Good, Ma, Schumer, Sorkin & Zou @Stanford on each being named a 2021 #sloanfellow! We are so excited to be able to support you and your work! tinyurl.com/phsojiu9
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In case you missed it, we've got grants up to $750K for US #highered institutions seeking to launch #OpenSource Program Offices (#OSPO). 🧵
📢New grant opportunity for #OpenSource in universities! Grants up to $750K available for US #HigherEd institutions to launch Open Source Program Offices (#OSPO). Please share this around! Full details here: sloan.org/programs/digital-t…
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10 years - that's how long we've been funding interdisciplinary #energy research. Since 2014, we've awarded ~$107 M across 300+ grants. What is the role of philanthropy in moving the #EnergyTransition forward? Our program leaders are in @ISSUESinST today: issues.org/sloan-philanthrop…
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Exciting @LCOAstro news! New suite of telescopes set to begin surveys. Unlike other surveys, which focus on individual objects, the Local Volume Mapper will allow @sdssurveys to understand the cosmic ecosystem surrounding the Milky Way carnegiescience.edu/local-vo…
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We're thrilled to introduce this year's Sloan Research Fellows. 🧵 1/N
Introducing… the winners of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship! These extraordinary researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today—and we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here: sloan.org/fellowships/2022-F… #SloanFellow
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Proud to support @WHOSTP on its call to make equity in #STEMM a national priority. We can’t wait to collaborate with our @SOA_2050 partners @AAAS and @DorisDukeFdn to drive scientific excellence and a more prosperous and just future. #STEMMForALL STEMMopportunity.org
Next Monday 12/12, we'll be at @WHOSTP's Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence to elevate equity as a national priority. Co-hosted by @AAAS and @DorisDukeFdn, the event will explore systemic, fundamental change for the American STEMM ecosystem. Watch live: wh.gov/live
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We at the Sloan Foundation are thrilled to support @bprest, @cjwich & @Klpalmer7@JaereAere's Best Article Title Champions, 2023. 🤘 "RCTs against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?" CC: @tmorello
📢🏆🥇Announcing the inaugural @JaereAere March Madness Best Article Title Champion: "RCTs against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?" by: @bprest, @cjwich & @Klpalmer7 Read the winning paper: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Coming soon to our grant application guidelines: all proposals must include one pun, two haikus, and three stanzas written in iambic pentameter.
Would love to see a new line on Sloan applications soliciting spicy project titles! Just kidding!
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Join us for Energy Insights 2022! A day-and-a-half-long conference with @rff focused on cutting-edge research to inform decisionmaking on energy and the environment. Starts this Thursday, 12/8 @ 9:15 ET. Livestream here: piped.video/watch?v=idYees-7…
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Our grantee community accomplished some *incredible* things last year. And now, we're thrilled to share a selection of those successes with you! Read all about it in this year's Highlights: sloan.org/storage/app/media/… #sciencetwitter
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🖖*Nerd alert!* This new interactive map lets you scroll through the universe. Created by @JohnsHopkins astronomers with data mined over 2 decades by @sdssurveys, the map allows the public to experience data previously only accessible to scientists. hub.jhu.edu/2022/11/17/inter…
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The key to discovering extrasolar life may hide in an unlikely place. Read all about @AnatShahar (@carnegiescience)'s exploration of exoplanet atmospheres, and what her team's study of lifelessness might teach us about life. impact.sloan.org/how-to-find…
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Congrats to Dr. Renata @scrippsresearch on being named a 2021 #sloanfellow! We are so excited to be able to support you and your work! tinyurl.com/phsojiu9
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Feeling inspired after hearing @algore's remarks at The White House Effect #ClimateWeekNYC screening last night! An epic @SloanPublic documentary telling the story of how we got to where we are in the politics of #climate
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Absolutely—research software engineers are essential to the utility and durability of software in science. Happy #InternationalRSEDay to all!
Today is #InternationalRSEDay! I believe that Research Software Engineers are a critical part of a healthy academic research capacity and with the support of MSDSE @MooreFound @SloanFoundation & @NSF I’ve worked to support them and create career paths at NYU. 1/n
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It's difficult to choose the best twitter, but #chemtwitter is a strong contender.
Honored to join @psu_chemistry colleague @CotruvoLab as a #sloanfellow along with all-stars of #chemtwitter @RJGilliard, @JuliaKalow, @hanzyduzit, @Townsend_Lab, @WhittakerBrooks, @SchoopLab, and many others! Excited to be a part of this year’s awardees!!
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There'd be no greater honor @elmo ! Did you catch this moment on @colbertlateshow last night? piped.video/watch?v=crwjX4uI…
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It's been a long time coming... we are proud to announce the seed grantees for the new Sloan Centers of Systemic Change! These 10 institutions are committed to closing persistent equity gaps in STEM grad education🧑‍🎓 sloan.org/programs/higher-ed…
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Huge congrats from all of us at Sloan, @AnatShahar! 🎉
Congratulations! Carnegie geochemist @AnatShahar has been selected to give the Reginald Daly Lecture at the American Geophysical Union’s annual Fall Meeting in December. #AGU21 #CarnegieatAGU21 epl.carnegiescience.edu/news…
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"Building a scientific community of young investigators from a diverse array of institutions and backgrounds is a visionary way to both support science and change the way science is done." All the best to the negative emissions teams on their quest!
Eight teams advancing science in the removal of greenhouse gases from Earth’s atmosphere & oceans will receive awards in Year 2 of #Scialog: Negative Emissions Science, sponsored by RCSA & @SloanFoundation, with additional support from @climatepathfndr. bit.ly/3Atsk4F
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We commissioned this report into Black and Hispanic PhD students' experiences, bc we need to know what specific factors are contributing to disparities in STEM education. Supporting equitable and inclusive pathways through STEM education is a key goal of our Higher Ed program.
As the demand for STEM leaders grows, STEM PhD recipients must reflect the diversity of U.S. citizens. Our new white paper looks at data from 3 national education surveys to explore the educational experiences of Black & Hispanic PhDs in STEM. Learn more: bit.ly/46sn3Zy
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Huge congratulations to @HariBalakrish20 (#SloanFellow Class of 2002) for winning this year's @MarconiSociety #MarconiPrize for his contributions to mobile sensing, networking, and distributed systems! 🥳 marconisociety.org/press/202…
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We're looking for @RCSA1 x @SloanFoundation Fellows for our new #Scialog on sustainable minerals, metals and materials!🧠 If you're an early-career researcher working to achieve a sustainable and low-carbon energy system, we want to hear from you. More info in thread👇
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The Sloan Foundation is requesting Letters of Inquiry for social science research projects up to $500K on issues in energy insecurity, distributional equity and just energy transitions in the U.S. Deadline: Feb 1, 2021 sloan.org/programs/research/…
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Know someone interested in getting into science communications? The Sloan Foundation is accepting applications for an exciting new position in our comms department! sloan.org/about/careers#tab-…
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Happy Juneteenth (observed) to all! And a big thanks to all the advocates and allies who worked to ensure this important day in our history gets the recognition it deserves.
On JUNE 19, celebrate #Juneteenth with screenings of Julie Dash's DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING (in #35mm), and a special screening of the critically acclaimed MISS JUNETEENTH from @cgpeoples. Tickets on sale now: bit.ly/3yjvpD7
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"As a child growing up in Birmingham, I couldn’t have imagined a world like this... I never thought I’d see people from all of humankind studying, laughing, working together.”—Beautiful feature with Sloan trustee and President @UMBC, Freeman Hrabowski. diverseeducation.com/from-th…
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*Energy Insights 2022* with @rff is live! Join us online for a day-and-a-half conference focused on cutting-edge research to inform decisionmaking on energy and the environment. Livestream here: piped.video/watch?v=idYees-7…
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Very excited to be part of this collaboration. Dedicated funders working together with first class scientists to better understand an issue of singular importance: how open source software development is driving the modern economy and how to make it more robust.
From COVID resilience to climate change, open-source code powers modern society. Today we, @SloanFoundation, @mozilla, @OpenSociety & @OmidyarNetwork announced $1.3M in research grants to maintain and strengthen the field of digital infrastructure. fordfoundation.org/the-lates…
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Congratulations to the winners of this year's "Nobel Prize for #NYC public servants"—and to @FundforNYC for 50 years of honoring the people who make our city great. Here's to the next 50 years! 🥂 Full winner details here: fcny.org/fund-for-the-city-o…
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Together with our friends at @MooreFound @SimonsFdn @templeton_fdn, we're inviting applications to a one-time call aimed at advancing fundamental physics by funding small-scale experiments. Full details here: sloan.org/programs/research/…
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One of our favorite things about #sloanfellow announcement day is seeing the tweets of all the winning fellows that thank the hardworking postdocs, grad students and other researchers in their labs.
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At the Sloan Foundation, we’re asking ourselves how we can better invest in DEI STEM higher education. These two reports are informing our approach: sloan.org/programs/higher-ed…
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@thecarpentries, a not-for-profit organization based in California, is developing a faster, more inclusive way of equipping the modern scientist with the tools they need. Meet the community of coders bringing STEM up to speed: impact.sloan.org/meet-the-co…
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We make ~$90 million in grants to support science each year. Here are two under-studied areas we fund, highlighted by @InsidePhilanthr : 1. 'Matter-to-Life', which is "illustrative of the type of interdisciplinary research that private funding is more willing to take on."
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Replying to @DScol @DukePhysics
From all of us here at Sloan... Huge congratulations to you, Dan! (And we can't wait for Dan's Digital Sky Survey!) 🎉
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Huge congratulations to former Sloan Research Fellow (1994), Moungi Bawendi, who has been awarded the #NobelPrize in chemistry👨‍🔬🎉
"I’m supposed to teach at 9am today and I have no idea what’s going to happen." Exclusive: listen to our phone call with new #NobelPrize laureate Moungi Bawendi right after he found out he had been awarded the 2023 chemistry prize.
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"Fellow science journalists: We stand in solidarity with you. You are valued. Your work matters." #ScienceCommunication colleagues—please see the attached from @ScienceWriters offering a range of virtual trainings and fellowship opportunities. Feel free to share this around! #ScienceTwitter
ANNOUNCEMENT: The National Association of Science Writers expresses solidarity with journalists facing layoffs and job insecurity. "We stand in solidarity with you. You are valued. Your work matters." Share Today's @ScienceWriters Board Statement: nasw.org/article/nasw-scienc…
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Fantastic opportunity for Black computer science graduates (or near grads) looking to get a job in the software industry. Ten-week, virtual course on getting a job in tech. Open source dev, networking, mock interviews. And it's FREE. Deadline: 5/14. datascience.aucenter.edu/odx…
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“It doesn’t take a lot of money to have an impact on shaping the direction of scientific research... What it takes is the care, attention, and the know-how to bring the right researchers together in an environment that encourages imagination, collaboration, and taking risks.”
#Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage team @JRlLab, @Augustyn_NCSU & @JahanDawlaty, whose 2019 award sparked a successful collaboration, has received DOE funding to take their research on a new path into the area of direct air capture of CO2. bit.ly/3jl1jZL
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@MonikaEhrman will study the effects of a clean energy transition on certain petroleum-producing Native American communities and community members 👏
So this happened--> Univ. North Texas at Dallas Law Professor @MonikaEhrman Receives @SloanFoundation Grant news.untdallas.edu/unt-dalla…
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Huge congrats, @ainissaramirez!
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Congratulations also to @ainissaramirez for winning the 2021 Sally Hacker Prize for The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another! 🎉 Now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/books/alche… #history #science #technology
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Are you a postdoc investigating the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem? Grants up to $250,000 available for early-career researchers in the social sciences and humanities, read more and apply at here: apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo…
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