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- OpenAI offers $10M pay packages to poach Google researchers https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-new-tack-in-talent-war-with-google-promising-recruits-a-quick-stock-bump 49 comments
- Research has found that 45% of workers would be willing to accept a pay cut in exchange for remote work flexibility https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009466 653 comments science
- Stanford’s New School of Sustainability Is a Gift to Fossil Fuel Companies | The university seems set to replicate the mistakes of past climate research: soliciting oil and gas funding, while paying lip service to environmental justice. https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/stanford-sustainability-school/ 8 comments climate
- Wall Street is offering big pay increases to build a crypto army. Firms are adding research teams and trading desks on crypto - Looks like they have accepted the inevitable https://www.inquirer.com/business/crypto-products-jpmorgan-wells-jobs-20211102.html 16 comments cryptocurrency
- India’s largest crocodile park may have as little as four months before it runs out of funds to feed animals, pay staff and do research, as ticket revenue shrinks after lockdowns...home to more than 2,000 crocodiles and alligators, reptiles such as turtles, tortoises, lizards and snakes. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-india-crocodile-park-money-lockdown-a9662491.html 240 comments worldnews
- Multinationals use an intricate system to avoid paying US$125 Billion in taxes every year, new research reveals. https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2019/10/06/multinationals-avoid-billions-tax/ 41 comments business
- The terms and conditions of your employment — including your pay, hours, schedule flexibility and job security — influence your overall health as well as your risk of being injured on the job, according to new research https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/09/26/pay-flexibility-advancement-they-all-matter-for-workers-health-and-safety-study-shows/ 28 comments science
- China Is Paying for Most of Trump's Trade War, Research Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/china-is-paying-for-most-of-trump-s-trade-war-research-says 37 comments geopolitics
- Government measures to tackle excessive executive pay in the UK have flopped, according to new research from a thinktank https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/06/measures-to-curb-executive-pay-have-flopped-says-thinktank?cmp=share_androidapp_reddit_is_fun 43 comments worldnews
- Duke to pay $112.5 million settlement for allegedly falsifying research https://amp.axios.com/duke-settlement-falsifying-research-52e3fa19-82e9-4e3e-95f7-b21a7127d9c5.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100&__twitter_impression=true 7 comments politics
- UK fans pay the most in Europe to follow the beautiful game according to research into the true cost of following football http://fcbusiness.co.uk/news/the-true-cost-of-watching-football-in-the-uk-revealed/ 22 comments soccer
- The Trump Administration Intends To Cut Cancer Research Funding To Pay For The Care Of Immigrant Children https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/cancer-research-cuts-migrant-children?utm_term=.ak2o37pp99#.ak2o37pp99 55 comments politics
- Kids may be paying more attention than you think when you say vegetables are good for them. According to a new study by Stanford researchers, teens who have health-oriented food rules at home (e.g. a vegetable must be eaten at dinner) are more likely to make healthy eating decisions on their own. https://news.stanford.edu/2018/05/14/food-rules-positively-influence-teen-food-choices/ 1732 comments science
- It doesn’t pay to be just nice – you also need to be intelligent. New research shows that people with a higher IQ displayed 'significantly higher' levels of cooperation, which led to them earning more money in experiments designed to understand factors that improve cooperatively in the workplace. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/march/cooperation-factors.html 14 comments science
- Medical Research Funding On Chopping Block to Help Pay for Border Wall http://monetarywatch.com/2017/03/medical-research-funding-chopping-block-help-pay-border-wall/ 4 comments business
- New Study Finds Uber Doesn’t Put Taxi Drivers Out of Work, But Does Drive Down Pay - by economic researchers from Oxford this week. http://fortune.com/2017/01/28/uber-taxi-oxford-labor-data/ 1424 comments technology
- Help us with a research study by forecasting NFL games and we'll pay you with reddit gold! https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/5idnl1/help_us_with_a_research_study_by_forecasting_nfl/ 96 comments nfl
- New research suggests that babies are highly selective in whom they will pay attention to. And even before their first birthdays, this research shows, babies distinguish between “people like me” and all others. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-infants-language-learn-20161017-snap-story.html 98 comments science
- The Gender Pay Gap Isn’t Just About Discrimination - Research shows "54% of the overall gender pay gap in the U.S. can be explained by occupational sorting." https://www.jibe.com/blog/the-gender-pay-gap-isnt-just-about-discrimination/ 53 comments business
- NYT: Russia pays for the "Internet Research Agency" to advance its interests in Ukraine and elsewhere with a "troll army" of Internet posters. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html 63 comments worldnews
- Researchers reveal phrases that pay on Kickstarter http://phys.org/news/2014-01-reveal-phrases-kickstarter.html 9 comments technology
- Georgia Tech Researchers Reveal Phrases that Pay on Kickstarter http://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/georgia-tech-researchers-reveal-phrases-pay-kickstarter 7 comments technology
- Microsoft pays $100k bounty to British researcher who found Windows 8.1 bug | Technology http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/10/microsoft-100000-british-researcher-windows-bug 20 comments technology
- Ever wonder why we pay twice as much for drugs as citizens in other countries? Big Pharma spends 19 times more on advertising than it does on research. http://patriotacts.com/big-pharma-ads/ 7 comments politics
- Credit cards make you pay attention to the benefits of products. From the latest Journal of Consumer Research http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201203/credit-cards-make-you-pay-attention-benefits 7 comments cogsci
- Refusing to fly has lost me my job as a climate researcher. It’s a price worth paying https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/12/fly-climate-breakdown-germany-climate-change-papua-new-guinea 102 comments environment
- New research indicates that the relationship between interest fit and job performance is more critical than the link to job satisfaction. Other things that lead to job satisfaction include the organization you work for, your supervisor, colleagues and pay. https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2020/november-2020/11112020-kevin-hoff-interest-job-satisfaction.php 2 comments science
- Over 2,000 doctors worked without pay at Japanese univ. hospitals - Japanese university hospitals have a practice of not paying wages to doctors -- many of whom are graduate students -- who treat patients as part of their research or training. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190628/p2g/00m/0dm/080000c 10 comments worldnews
- Behavioral ad targeting not paying off for publishers. In one of the first studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on publishers’ revenue, researchers suggest publishers only get about 4% more revenue for an ad impression that has a cookie enabled than for one that doesn’t. https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/05/weis_2019_paper_38.pdf 6 comments science
- While Jenny McCarthy is out protesting against vaccines, researchers are gradually discovering rare variants and de novo mutations that *actually* cause autism. And no one is fucking paying attention. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609131637.htm 464 comments science
- Women select lower paying majors than men, despite both sex’s desire to pursue a major with the highest potential earnings; researchers say that female students feel that certain high-paying jobs are not open or accessible to women https://thriveworks.com/blog/women-select-lower-paying-majors-than-men/ 87 comments science
- Not only did a private US company pay for the research for the inexpensive "space pen" NASA uses, but the pen worked so well that the Soviets bought it, too. http://www.rootuer.com/2018/01/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spent-millions-to.html 85 comments space
- Researchers find that mindfulness -- purposefully paying attention to everything going on around you in the present moment -- is not entirely inherent within people but is partly elicited and shaped by situations. https://www.news.vcu.edu/article/researchers_studying_motivational_aspects_of_mindfulness_find 117 comments science
- Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/researchers-detail-how-slashing-pentagon-budget-could-pay-medicare-all-while 13 comments politics
- No more big TV bundles? Revenue per channel stronger for streaming pay TV - Virtual pay TV operators in the US are making more than twice the revenue of traditional pay TV operators per channel per month, according to new research. http://www.netimperative.com/2017/08/no-big-tv-bundles-revenue-per-channel-stronger-streaming-pay-tv/ 7 comments technology
- We tend to think that simply giving people money makes them lazy. Yet a wealth of scientific research shows the contrary: free money helps lift people out of poverty. What’s more, eradicating poverty is an investment that more than pays for itself. http://www.techinsider.io/how-free-money-lifts-people-out-of-poverty-2016-4 10 comments science
- Would You Pay a Higher Price for 'Ethical' Clothing? - Research shows customers will pay more for safely made clothes, but only to a point. Look at photographs from Bangladesh garment factory collapse & you see clothing in the rubble destined for well known stores. http://www.npr.org/2013/05/01/180154279/would-you-pay-a-higher-price-for-ethical-clothing 5 comments politics
- Wireless Carriers Throttle Video for No Good Reason, Researchers Find - Paying to avoid unnecessary restrictions is the new normal in the post-net neutrality world. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjanw5/wireless-carriers-throttle-video-for-no-good-reason-researchers-find 74 comments technology
- UC Davis Will Pay Damages to Victims of Infamous Pepper Spray Attack: unfortunately the money will come directly out of the funds used to cover tuitions, scholarships and researchers' salaries, rather than out of the pockets of the top 1 percent.. http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/uc-davis-will-pay-damages-victims-infamous-pepper-spray-attack 16 comments politics
- The Case for Medicare for All Has Grown Stronger Than Ever. Despite an ever-present flood of misinformation from those making huge profits from the status quo, almost all reputable research and projections about M4A indicate that Americans overall would pay significantly less than we do now. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/30/case-medicare-all-has-grown-stronger-ever?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=iwar0gb4pkzq_3gfkjkfm96lrtcbcdkns4mpgsfszf0-lv7sioy244ryvrvqs 10 comments politics