Our Innaugural Post

Hello,

I’m David Vitrant the Executive Director of FundScience Inc. Here at FundScience we are looking to get the public to fund individual pilot research projects. This will drive innovation in many scientific fields, and open up complex scientific discussions to the public. In the end research is meant to help understand nature and for the benefit of society in general. With our blogs, wiki’s, forums, and soon project proposals we hope to bring a community of scientists and laypeople together to discuss the future of science and help fund our future generation of scientists.

The aspect of introducing the public to the life of a scientist, how scientists think, how we tackle problems, what our problems are, is critical to this step and I hope that by providing these blogs you will be able to peer into the life of a scientist, and go past political pandering, and marketing, to arrive at the issues and possibly the solutions.

In order for us to be Successful we need your help though in the following aspects:

1) We need content and bloggers to talk about the issues. If you know somebody please spread the word help us find scientists willing to blog (or laypeople willing to blog about science)

2) Are you interested in a specific topic, want to understand some research as a layperson? Email us or make a post on our forum. We will see what we can do.

3) Digg our posts please. This will help get our word out and get attention to our site.

4) Are you willing to fund a research project or have thoughts on how to do so? Email us again.

Lastly, we are all here to learn about science, talk about science, and collaborate. So please be courteous and don’t be shy to ask questions.

Thanks for joining us,

David Vitrant