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Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained
Academic Funding
March 14, 2014

Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

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UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle
Academic Funding
March 13, 2014

UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle

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UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST
Academic Funding
March 11, 2014

UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST

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How Much NSF Funding Goes to Social Science?
Academic Funding
March 10, 2014

How Much NSF Funding Goes to Social Science?

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Cuts to Behavioral and Social Science Funding Threatened

Cuts to Behavioral and Social Science Funding Threatened

Two pieces of upcoming legislation, the Frontiers in Research, Science, and Technology bill and American COMPETES, could include some unwelcome news for social and behavioral science if certain key legislators get their way.

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Look in the Mirror to Find Social Science’s Champion

Look in the Mirror to Find Social Science’s Champion

Addressing the value of social science, Skip Lupia argues it’s absolutely fair for Congress to hold the disciplines’ feet to the fire, and absolutely necessary for researchers themselves to come to their own defense.

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Federal Budget Backs Off Some Ties That Bind

Federal Budget Backs Off Some Ties That Bind

The benefits for social science of the just passed U.S. government budget is less what it adds and more what it doesn’t subtract.

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LSE Study Offers More Ammunition for Social Sciences’ Defense

LSE Study Offers More Ammunition for Social Sciences’ Defense

A live-streamed panel discussion this week will officially launch a new effort to demonstrate the pocketbook benefits of social science in Britain and beyond.

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Political science budget cut from NSF, scientists speak up

Political science budget cut from NSF, scientists speak up

Author’s note: I did this interview and originally published it in the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Member Central blog. […]

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Universities awarded £19.5 million for overhaul of quantitative social science training

Universities awarded £19.5 million for overhaul of quantitative social science training

            Fifteen universities across the UK will receive £19.5 million to overhaul their social science teaching over […]

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Attacks on US Funding of Social Science Will Continue to Intensify

Attacks on US Funding of Social Science Will Continue to Intensify

Recent events in Congress suggest the attacks on funding will not only continue but will intensify. It is also worth remembering that these attacks are just the latest in a long standing effort by conservatives to eliminate funding for social science.

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Save the Humanities—From Themselves

Save the Humanities—From Themselves

The humanities and social sciences in America could use a white knight, but instead they got a white elephant.

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