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
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 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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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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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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Dear Friend of Public Invention, As you probably know, there is a terrible humanitarian crisis in India right now. The COVID-19 disease is rampant, the medical system is overwhelmed, it appears that the infections may actually be increasing, and deaths and infections are almost certainly being undercounted. I would like to tell you that Public
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Recently, Public Invention President Robert L. Read and other volunteers assisted a project with students from Fraunhofer Institute. The Institute released a press release summarized here: In April, COVID-19 began straining healthcare systems as we saw supply-chain breakdowns leading to ventilator shortages. To help mitigate this, individuals, communities, companies, and research institutions began to design
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