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April 11, 2025
Inexplicable Cuts at the Dept. of Education

Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences […]

Indirect Costs at NIH . . .

I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, […]

When is DOGE Going to Focus on Reducing Bureaucracy Rather Than Increasing It?

Government efficiency . . . reducing bureaucracy . . . eliminating barriers to innovation (such as permits […]

January 28, 2025
Addressing Research Fraud

The Good Science Project is launching a program to promote investigations into research fraud and other serious […]

January 23, 2025
The Slow Cancellation of Innovation: A critical look at modern funding

Aishwarya is a curiosity-driven systems thinker working at the intersection of technology and society. Her interests span human-AI […]

January 5, 2025
A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA

by Eric Gilliam Unlike the rest of the FreakTakes ARPA series, today’s piece does not have the […]