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 […]
D.C. Event Helps Policymakers See Past the Abstract
Several recent reports from members of Congress that take potshots at what a quick look suggests is silly scientific research has led a pair of coalitions to explain just how important it is to look at whole story before rushing to judgment.
Can’t Keep a Good Survey Down: Add Health
From the ashes of the aborted American Teen Survey arose one of the most important longitudinal surveys in the social and and behavioral arsenal, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. This is a story of government spending gone terribly right!
Social Science Gets Surprisingly Warm Reception on Hill
At the scene of many a dismal day for partisans of social and behavioral science, a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill saw proponents of the disciplines loud and proud. However, those hoping for an $8 billion budget next year for the NSF had less to be happy about.
Archived Webinar: US Funding Picture for 2016
In this archived version of a webcast held on February 17, Mark Vieth — senior vice president of the Washington government relations firm CRD Associates – addresses these issues and others, including what the just-released federal budget from the White House means for federally funded research.
NSF’s Three “Sensational Surveys” Survive and Thrive
This election season, spare a thought for the travails of the American national Election Study and two other data-rich surveys promoted — and protected — by the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Econoic directorate.
Timeline of US Government and Social/Behavioral Science
Vannevar Bush’s post-war review of American science priorities set the tone for the federal funding of social and behavioral science ever since.
Omnibus US Funding Bill Smiles on Social Science
UPDATED with COSSA analysis: Social and behavioral science funded by the U.S. government appears to have received an early Christmas present as leaders in the House of Representatives unveiled a $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the federal enterprise funded in 2016.
SBE Draws Three Flags in Football-Themed Waste Report
Picking up where Tom Coburn left off, the new U.S. senator from Oklahoma has released a punny compendium of what he sees as wasteful federal spending , including the inevitable shots at social and behavioral science grants.
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