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 […]
UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle
A bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government spends on social science research advanced after passing in a House of Representatives subcommittee on a party-line vote this morning.
UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST
Thursday’s mark-up of a bill that nearly cuts the National Science Foundation’s social science spending in half is stirring up the academic community.
How Much NSF Funding Goes to Social Science?
The social and behavioral component of the National Science Foundation’s budget is a small part of the total but of paramount importance to the discipline’s researchers, a relationship brought home as Congress gets ready to discuss funding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. […]
