Postdoc Bridge Funding Initiative (PBFI) – Robert L. Read, PhD, Public Invention, April 2025 In early 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF)’s normal funding processes were disrupted. Every year, there are about 62 thousand postdoc positions in the United States. It is possible that a significant number of these […]
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(The source version of this essay can be found at Open Source Medical Supplies, long with other explanation: https://opensourcemedicalsupplies.org/gosqas) Free Lightweight Global Distributed Tracking for Makers Written by: Robert L. Read, Christina A. Cole, and Victoria Jaqua (October 25, 2023) Lightweight Tracking Of an Object Tracking an object or make
What is Public Infrastructure? Why is it important? Who is impacted by it or involved in it? All of these questions are valid and crucial to understanding the limitations of current supply chains and enterprise-based innovation. More specifically, a critical weakness of production, manufacture, or supply of commodities by corporations is the lack of modularization
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Have you ever wondered where all those individuals that take part in humanitarian efforts come from? Like how do they get initial funding and grow? Even if a group like this existed and took off, how could I contribute to something like this? Well look no further because we are a membership who seeks out
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Out of a pressing need I discovered as a volunteer for Engineers Without Borders USA, Public Invention has been working on a portable incubator for several years now. We recently got a great new volunteer, Melanie LaPorte, who is being invention coached by Forrest “Lee” Erickson. We’ve create our first crowdfunding campaign to raise money
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Public Invention has defined over 75 project ideas. Some of these have been gifted to us by readers like you who are willing to donate an idea to the whole world by publishing it; many were thought of by myself. Some ideas are very well-developed, others are just a paragraph. One of the better ideas
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Invention is not exactly the same as engineering, but both require problem solving and innovation. Public Invention is proud to assist Glia, a Canadian firm, in its “Stop the Bleed” project making an open-source tourniquet for the terrible conflict in Ukraine. Not being a first responder, I only recently learned how important these devices are,
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Greetings inventors, friends and supporters, Here is the jeopardy game from our July Inventor Gathering. This was created by our Outreach Coordinator, Megan Cadena. Please enjoy this slide deck and share it with others! It’s already available for you to use at your next virtual game night. Link to Game: invention-qs Sincerely, The Public Invention
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When I began Public Invention six years ago on my 50th birthday, I wanted to create a movement. Creating the non-profit also called Public Invention was a tool for doing that, but I always imagined it would be much smaller than a global movement to create open source hardware inventions by “Inventing in the public,
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I recently read the Global Open Science Hardware Roadmap published by the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH). It lays out a real program for promoting Open Science Hardware (that is, roughly speaking, lab equipment and field instruments.) I strongly support it, and have signed the manifesto petition. As it states, if we can make
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