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 […]
How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Scientific institutions are in full scramble. No amount of diplomacy or charity can interpret the modern moment as anything other than an […]
What Can We Learn From The Women Of The Iron Age?
In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge examines new research into prehistoric gender dynamics – and what this tells […]
Your Eyes May Widen at What Ted Cruz Designates as ‘Woke’
A few months ago, Sen. Ted Cruz announced that he had uncovered $2 billion of science grants funded by former President Joe […]
Two Legal Scholars Unpack Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance to Higher Ed
The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion have continued in the form of a “Dear Colleague” letter from the U.S. […]
What Does RFK’s Confirmation Tell Us About the US and Health Care?
The constitutional processes are now complete and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed as U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services […]
Tracking Current Federal Changes Affecting U.S. Education and Science
The arrival of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president brought with it a dramatic, chaotic and generally ideological assault on the […]
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. […]
What Would Be the Point of Abolishing the US Education Department? An Anthropologist Explains
UPDATE: On February 10, the Department of Government Efficiency, of DOGE, posted on X both that “Today, the Department of Education terminated […]
