Report: “New Database Tracks Canceled NSF Research Grants:
From the University Daily Kansas (U. of Kansas):
A crowdsourced database is helping researchers at the University of Kansas and other institutions in the U.S. make sense of contradictory information put out by news agencies and the National Science Foundation after the federal government began canceling N.S.F. research grants last week.
The public database, compiled by Noam Ross, executive director of the nonprofit rOpenSci, and Scott Delaney, a researcher at Harvard University, was launched on Friday night and tracked over 430 terminated grants within days, all of which had been cancelled last week.
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Ross and Delaney began compiling a similar list on cancelled NIH grants a few weeks ago, he said.
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