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New NIH Approach to Grant Funding Aimed at Optimizing Stewardship of Taxpayer Dollars
NSF’s Uphill Road to Making Prestigious Early Career Award More Diverse
Applicants for the Waterman will get more time to demonstrate excellence.

Horizon 2020 Success Rates Are Higher Than They Appear
Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.

If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less
If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less
The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.

Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.
Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
Federal Funding for Basic Research Led to the Gene-Editing Revolution. Don't Cut It.
Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

Moore Foundation Rolls out New Open Access Policy
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation recently announced a new Open Access Policy that will help to maximize the impact of research.

How A Budget Squeeze Can Lead To Sloppy Science And Even Cheating
The hypercompetitive world of biomedical research occasionally drives scientists to cheat. More often, scientists make decisions that undercut their results. That can lead colleagues astray.

Social Scientists Tell Congress: 'Don't Cut Our Funding'
Linguists, anthropologists and political scientists take to Capitol Hill to defend their research.

Bulgaria Risks Losing Funding for Research Infrastructure Modernisation
Bulgaria is set to lose millions of euros in EU funding aimed at modernising the country’s research infrastructure and stimulating its innovation potential, apparently due to its inability to select independent evaluators.

With This New System, Scientists Never Have to Write a Grant Application Again
An approach that may be tried in the Netherlands would do away with peer review and just let researchers give each other money.

EMBL Opens New Lab for Tissue Biology and Disease Modeling in Barcelona
EMBL Opens New Lab for Tissue Biology and Disease Modeling in Barcelona
First new outstation in 18 years strengthens city's biomedical profile

March for Science Geneva
On April 22nd, 2017, the March For Science, Geneva, will be one of hundreds of marches taking place around the world to affirm that science is crucial to society — and belongs to everyone.