Postdoc Bridge Funding Initiative (PBFI) – Robert L. Read, PhD, Public Invention, April 2025 Note: This work is now obsolete; it was a prelude to a workshop. The project has evolved, we suggest you look here. In early 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF)’s normal funding processes were disrupted. […]
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Scenario: The Head Invention Coach is Incapacitated In 2024, the President is Robert L. Read, who is also the Founder and Head Invention Coach, and the only Public Inventor working full time (although he is unpaid). If he were incapacitated, it would seriously harm the viability of Public Invention. However, the board would still have
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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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Public Invention has raised $37,000 for a project run by Glia of Canada to make a completely open source desktop injection molded tourniquet, most immediately for Ukraine but usable by anyone. I’m proud of Glia and our support for them, and want to report a little on what they have done. One of our requirements
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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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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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Disaster relief is different than the steady work of research, whether the disaster is natural or caused by human folly and greed. It is bursty and uncertain, urgent and unclear. When Russia invaded Ukraine, I thought the war would be over before Public Invention could possibly do anything. I was traveling to Auburn Alabama, in
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The COVID-19 pandemic has cost five million lives so far with the real death toll likely five times higher. It has exposed an urgent need for effective global action while highlighting our collective lack of preparedness to respond to acute global health crises. Humanity must learn from this experience and be better prepared for future
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