Sally McArthur

@sallymcarthur.bsky.social

Sustainable Materials, HealthTech and collaborative research and skills translation with industry and community partners. Love big ideas and making things happen. #academickindness Director, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University

The idea that you can somehow hyperoptimize the results of research by explicitly saying that "these" types of science will lead to the desired outcomes while "those" types won't, is, quite frankly, ridiculous. And must be an opinion from someone who's never actually been a researcher. 🧪

Gregor Kalinkat@gkalinkat.bsky.social · 2y ago

What an incredibly dumb move, and even dumber statement, from the NZ center-right government 'the fund should focus on “core science” that supports economic growth and “a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs”' 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...