Sloan Foundation
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We fund research, engagement and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics. Also @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
📢 We're hiring a Communications Officer! A strong candidate can: 🧑🔬 Understand, summarize, and synthesize complex technical and scientific topics into accessible language, and work productively with academics. ✍ Write content and feature articles for our website and impact…
We are delighted to receive a grant from @SloanFoundation to support our work led by Chris Snyder @DartmouthEcon on applying the tools of economic theory to questions of innovation funding including how we can dangle market incentives to attract and motivate innovators to tackle…
Christopher Snyder's research shows how commercial incentives can speed up innovation. A nearly $1M @SloanFoundation grant will expand his @UChi_MSA work at Dartmouth, recruiting researchers to study funding approaches that best solve global challenges. bit.ly/4jmooZi
By stripping cells down to their chemical fundamentals, Jack Szostak @SzostakLab hopes to reveal how life’s earliest forms emerged. Read our latest impact feature here: impact.sloan.org/dont-call-him-…
Here's how philanthropy can sustain DEI: Lorelle Espinosa is in @InsidePhilanthr today: insidephilanthropy.com/home/from-fati…
Very excited to join with @open_phil on an all-out sprint to answer some of the thorniest practical questions in economics. First question: What return do we get when we invest in R&D?
What’s the return on government support for R&D? To try to get a credible answer, @open_phil and @SloanFoundation are committing up to $1 million to trying something new: we call it a Pop-Up Journal. Today, we’re inviting organizations to bid on a five-year contract to…
#UNC chemist Sidney Wilkerson-Hill is using a @SloanFoundation Research Fellowship to develop new pesticides to combat malaria-causing mosquitoes. The impact could be far-reaching — an estimated 247 million cases of malaria occurred globally in 2021. go.unc.edu/k3R7C
🌌🎬 This weekend #FilmIndependent, in partnership with the @SloanFoundation, is holding the #SloanSummit25 to bring together over 100 award-winning filmmakers, scientists and scholars. Stay tuned for livestreamed events and learn more #ontheblog: filmindependent.org/blog/we-are-re…
#NEW: FPF has launched a major initiative to study the economic and policy implications of AgeTech. Read more about our two-year research project in partnership with @UArizonaEller, with support from @SloanFoundation, here: fpf.org/press-releases…
Christopher Snyder's research shows how commercial incentives can speed up innovation. A nearly $1M @SloanFoundation grant will expand his @UChi_MSA work at Dartmouth, recruiting researchers to study funding approaches that best solve global challenges. bit.ly/4jmooZi
The mathematicians Rachel Greenfeld, Marina Iliopoulou and Sarah Peluse have proved that large sets of points with integer distances between them must lie almost entirely on a single line or circle. This is the first major progress in the subject for nearly 80 years.…
In March, campus leaders in open source and open scholarship were recognized at the @UWMadison Open Awards sponsored by the Data Science Institute, Open Source Program Office and @UWMadLibraries, with support from the @SloanFoundation. dsi.wisc.edu/2025/04/08/ina…
Applications are now open for the Sloan Science and Technology Project Pitch, supported by @SloanFoundation, which gives four creators the chance to pitch their film or episodic content featuring science/technology themes at #TIFF50. Apply by June 10: tiff.net/industry-sloan…
The OSPO-RADAR Project aims to build a sustainable ecosystem for #OpenSource software in research. A @SloanFoundation grant is enabling this effort to improve research code management. softwareheritage.org/2025/04/02/osp… #openscience
Two Johns Hopkins faculty members named Sloan Research Fellows - JHU Hub - Xiongyi Huang, Yaojun Zhang among 126 scholars selected for prestigious fellowship. Xiongyi Huang points to a computer screen, looking back to talk to ... - ift.tt/vy8M9Hz
🧠 Decoding the brain + 🧊 Mastering phase transitions = 2 Yale Engineers recognized for excellence! Congrats to our own Shreya Saxena and Amir Haji-Akbari on being named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows. Learn more about their pioneering research: loom.ly/R63NpY0
Congrats to 13 members of RCSA’s community awarded 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships!🧵1/2 #CottrellScholar 2022 & #Scialog ABI Fellow Scott Cushing; MND Fellow Cesar de la Fuente; NES Fellow Ariel Furst; CS 2022 Ryan Hadt ... bit.ly/4boBRfY
#Congratulations to YSM's @tgeiller, who was among 4 Yale University faculty members to win 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships from @SloanFoundation. The award recognizes outstanding early-career #scientists and #scholars: brnw.ch/21wRyQh
🚨Excited for incredible lineup at @nberpubs conference on **Energy Markets, Decarbonization, and Trade** 🗓️This Thurs/Fri 3/20-21: Organized w Natalia Ramondo, supported by @SloanFoundation Full agenda and streaming link in next post below👇