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After years of concerns about the ARC – about political interference and low success rates – the review is a welcome step. But will it tackle the big issues?
The United States has formally established the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, as an independent entity within the National Institutes of Health. Anthropologist Adam H. Russell will head the new agency as acting deputy director
The White House announced last week that the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council will re-commission the Social and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee of the Committee on Science.
What does this year’s U.S. Executive Branch budget suggest for key agencies that provide social and behavioral science funding?
The U.S. National Science Foundation last week announced it would create a new directorate focused on Technology, Innovation and Partnerships.
As the U.S. Congress nears passage of its fiscal year 2022 spending plan six months behind schedule, it appears the […]
The National Science Foundation in committing $38 million to establish a new platform to wrangle the ever-increasing amount of social […]
Two members of the Australian Research Council College of Experts explain why a political veto of several expert-vetted grants led them to resign from the advisory panel.
In an open letter, 63 Australian Research Council laureate fellows complain vigorously to the minister and to the chief executive of the ARC about a recent instance of political interference in the funding of basic research.
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in […]
In the wake of the pandemic of suspect “facts” shared about COVID-19, social and behavioral scientists from around the world […]
What are the three biggest challenges Australia faces in the next five to ten years? What role will the social sciences play in resolving these challenges? The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia asked these questions in a discussion paper earlier this year. The backdrop to this review is cuts to social science disciplines around the country, with teaching taking priority over research.
