DeSci Blog (About Decentralized Science)

Public research funding should not be controlled exclusively by experts, citizens, or politicians. Politicians should determine the total public budget and broad national priorities; citizens should help identify social needs […]

A World Science Fund would not require a world government. It could operate as a federated, treaty-compatible funding network in which countries, foundations, universities, companies, and individual donors contribute under […]

Yes. Rich countries should finance research conducted in poorer countries when the funding supports locally led science, produces shared knowledge, and strengthens research capacity rather than extracting data, talent, or […]

Global funding can protect science from national political cycles, but only if it distributes financial and governance power across multiple countries, institutions, and funding mechanisms. An international label alone is […]

Science is financed mainly by national governments, but scientific knowledge rarely remains within national borders. A theorem proved in one country, a dataset assembled in another, and software maintained elsewhere […]

A truly global science fund would finance valuable research regardless of a scientist’s nationality, institutional prestige, discipline, or access to established grant networks. It would pool resources internationally, evaluate scientific […]

AI Internet-Meritocracy could reduce the Matthew effect by rewarding observable scientific contributions rather than prior grants, institutional prestige, or established reputation. However, AIIM would not eliminate cumulative advantage automatically. Without […]

Scientific recognition should be divisible because scientific progress is divisible. A discovery may depend on an original idea, an earlier theorem, a carefully maintained dataset, specialized software, experimental work, replication, […]

Yes—teaching, peer review, and dataset maintenance should count as scientific output when they produce identifiable, assessable, and reusable value. They should not necessarily receive the same kind or amount of […]

Scientific credit usually follows what is visible. The authors of a widely read paper receive citations, invitations, funding, and recognition. Yet many discoveries depend on people whose names never appear […]