{"id":3219,"date":"2022-08-18T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T00:59:09","slug":"policy-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/policy-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that US science may get a 50% boost very soon&#8230; If it happens, I am pretty sure amazing things will come out of it, given all the cool research I see happening these days.<\/p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-style-wide aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aip.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/wide\/public\/2022-08\/chips-and-science-act-authorizations.png?itok=3enf30j3\" alt=\"Budget recommendations in the CHIPS and Science Act\" width=\"459\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>1. Chips and science bill (<b>voted<\/b>, July 29, 2022)<\/h3><p>\u2013formerly COMPETES (House) and USICA (Senate)<\/p>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/statement-secretary-granholm-congressional-passage-chips-and-science-act\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/statement-secretary-granholm-congressional-passage-chips-and-science-act', 'https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/statement-secretary-granholm-congressional-passage-chips-and-science-act']);\" >https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/statement-secretary-granholm-congressional-passage-chips-and-science-act<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cThe legislation invests $67 billion in the Department of Energy, including a <b>$50 billion authorization for DOE\u2019s Office of Science<\/b> to enable cutting-edge research and development in clean energy to fight the climate crisis and advanced computing and manufacturing to boost American competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>2. Inflation Reduction Act (voted, August 16)<\/h3><p>\u2013<b>$300M for BES Science Facilities<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucked into the $369B for climate in the Democrats&#39; new spending bill: <\/p>-$133M for DOE lab infrastructure<br \/>-$304M for high energy physics<br \/>-$280M for fusion<br \/>-$217M for nuclear physics<br \/>-$164M for supercomputing<br \/>-$295M for basic science user facilities<br \/>-$158M for isotope R&D <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/erLtDK7SPi\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/t.co\/erLtDK7SPi', 'pic.twitter.com\/erLtDK7SPi']);\" >pic.twitter.com\/erLtDK7SPi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FYI: Science Policy News (@FYIscipolicy) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FYIscipolicy\/status\/1552756121357766656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/x.com\/FYIscipolicy\/status\/1552756121357766656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw', 'July 28, 2022']);\" >July 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>3. FY2023: U.S. Senate calls for hefty research spending in 2023<\/h3><p>Science magazine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/u-s-senate-calls-hefty-research-spending-2023\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/u-s-senate-calls-hefty-research-spending-2023', 'U.S. Senate calls for hefty research spending in 2023']);\" >U.S. Senate calls for hefty research spending in 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that US science may get a 50% boost very soon&#8230; If it happens, I am pretty sure amazing things will come out of it, given all the cool research I see happening these days. 1. Chips and science bill (voted, July 29, 2022)\u2013formerly COMPETES (House) and USICA (Senate)\u2013https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/articles\/statement-secretary-granholm-congressional-passage-chips-and-science-act \u201cThe legislation invests $67 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-epistemology","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}