Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Funding Social Science: A Primer on US Budgeting Process
Howard Silver examines the process in which federal research funding is arrived at — and points out how the process is, or isn’t, working in this Congress.
Three Countries, Three Methods to Preserve Social Science
A recent panel drew social science advocates from three countries – Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to the same stage to discuss preserving the disciplines’ sometimes tenuous hold on support from policymakers
Bill That Constrains Social Science Goes to Full Senate
The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has pushed a bill that deprecates federal research spending for social science to the Senate as a whole.
Social Science-Unfriendly Bill Advances in DC
Legislation that would squeeze out social science and geoscience spending from their traditional share of the National Science Foundation budget will be heard by the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
Federal Funding and the Famed Marshmallow Test
Were a psychologist to win federal funding for an experiment that involved offering 3-year-olds marshmallows, it’s likely that grant would eventually be cited on the floor of the House of Representatives as yet another example of silly and wasteful spending on social science.
Data, Democracy, and Janet Norwood
Making decisions without data soils the public policy process with ideology, partisan politics, and misinformation, all things the late Janet Norwood abhorred. Her voice, commitment, and professionalism will be sorely missed.
COMPETES Bill That Halves Social Science Budget Passes House
Republican-penned legislation that among other things cuts in half National Science Foundation funding for social science research passed the House of Representatives today.
Noose Narrows on NSF Social Science Funding
Options for changing legislation that would almost halve social science funding from the National Science Foundation are narrowing.
