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 […]
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.
New Fellowship for Community-Led Development Research of Latin America and the Caribbean Now Open
Thanks to a collaboration between the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), applications are now being accepted for […]
NSF Looks Headed for a Half-Billion Dollar Haircut
Funding for the U.S. National Science Foundation would fall by a half billion dollars in this fiscal year if a proposed budget the House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee takes effect – the first cut to the agency’s budget in several years.
NSF Responsible Tech Initiative Looking at AI, Biotech and Climate
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s new Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program supports research, implementation, and educational projects for multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams
New Report Finds Social Science Key Ingredient in Innovation Recipe
A new report from Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences argues that the key to success for physical science and technology research is a healthy helping of relevant social science.
