mobilis in mobili

Welcome to mobilis in mobili.org.  I started this blog in order to journal my investigation of U.S. science funding.  I find the system to be incredibly confusing, and I am curious to find a way to simplify matters for myself and for others.  As a graduate student, I am often hearing about ‘the funding situation’ for public science, but I rarely hear complimentary statistics, if I hear statistics at all.

A second interest of mine is to explore science education and values surrounding research.  For example, I study electric fish biology, my interests are somewhat far removed from the public interest, at least in terms of health care improvement, but I still feel like it is important research.   Why is this?

At any rate- I’m new to the blogosphere, so I hope to learn a lot with this little venture… here goes!