<div dir="ltr"><h3 id="m_6467614256981747261gmail-h.1ydsl8ady6v8" dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;font-weight:300;text-decoration-line:inherit;line-height:1.27;padding-top:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;max-width:100%"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">The <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">Fund Consciousness Science!</span></em></span> project aims to align US-based consciousness science with mainstream funding mechanisms by <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">identifying and nurturing overlap in goals between government-based funding sources (e.g. NIH, NSF) and consciousness researchers in the United States</span></span>.</font></div></h3><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">The current state of funding for consciousness research in the United States is challenging <span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41562-019-0531-8&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHRmqCCTwOPFDoq_dz5L67i_jTCrw" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">(Michel et al. 2019)</a></span>, with mainstream government-based funding mechanisms, such as the NIH R01 mechanism or similar, often seeming to be misaligned with stated goals of consciousness researchers. To remedy this, we are running a pilot project to align US-based consciousness science with mainstream funding mechanisms, such that consciousness science in the United States can compete for funding and thus scientific progress at rates on par with other regions such as the E.U. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:14px 0px 0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;line-height:1.55;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">The project includes:</font></span></span></p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:6px 0px 0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:0;padding-top:0px"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;outline:none;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">a <span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">two-day workshop</span></span> on March 24-26, 2022 (Washington, DC) bringing together Early Career Researchers in consciousness science with senior researchers and program officers, plus </font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:6px 0px 0px 15pt;outline:none;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:0;padding-bottom:0px"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;outline:none;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;line-height:1.55;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box">subawards of about $30,000 USD</span></span> intended to provide pilot data for an NIH R01 proposal or similar  </font></p></li></ol><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications are now open! Applications are due on <u>November 1, 2021</u>.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Please see our website for further details: </span></font><a href="https://sites.google.com/uci.edu/fundconsciousness" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/uci.edu/fundconsciousness</a></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to seeing many of you in the spring, </div><div>Brian Odegaard and Megan Peters</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Brian Odegaard, PhD<br><span><span>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Psychology, Univer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