Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
How NIH Funding Works − Until It’s Gone
In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public source database […]
Long-Term Impact Requires Archiving Research Communication
In recent years there has been an increased focus on how research papers and supplemental data can be preserved openly. Andy Tattersall, Liz Such, Joe Langley and Fiona Marshall argue equal attention should also be paid to curating communication outputs aimed at engaging non-academic audiences.
Your Eyes May Widen at What Ted Cruz Designates as ‘Woke’
A few months ago, Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he had uncovered $2 billion of science grants funded by former President Joe […]
Tracking Current Federal Changes Affecting U.S. Education and Science
The arrival of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president brought with it a dramatic, chaotic and generally ideological assault on the […]
Those ‘Indirect Costs’ Targeted by DOGE Directly Support America’s Research Excellence
Biomedical research in the U.S. is world-class in part because of a long-standing partnership between universities and the federal government. On Feb. […]
From the University to the Edu-Factory: Understanding the Crisis of Higher Education
It is a truism that academia is in crisis, in the UK as much as in many other countries around the world. […]
New Initiative Offers Grants for Canadian Research on Research
Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the British Columbia-based Michael Smith Health Research BC […]
Deadline Nears for Comment on Republican Revamp Proposal for NIH
Republican legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives, arguing that “the American people’s trust in the National Institute of Health has been broken,” have released a blueprint for reforming the agency.
