Jeffrey Brainard
Associate News Editor at Science Magazine
Associate news editor, Science magazine. Edits In Brief section, covers scientific publishing, peer review, other topics. Go Nats and Ephs!
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science.org | Jeffrey Brainard |David Malakoff |Monica Hersher
1.0x 00:00 00:02:35 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback It is almost certainly the most consequential 100 days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the end of World War II.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
ASTRONOMY Probe that observed 2 billion stars ends mission The European Space Agency (ESA) last week powered down its Gaia spacecraft, capping a 12-year mission to map the universe. In all, Gaia made more than 3 trillion observations, recording millions of quasars and other galaxies while also spotting hundreds of candidate exoplanets. It also made the most detailed map ever of the Milky Way.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
FUNDING U.S. budget deal keeps research spending flat The budgets for most U.S. research agencies will remain flat for the rest of this fiscal year under a governmentwide spending bill enacted on 15 March. The legislation, called a continuing resolution (CR), extends a current spending freeze through the fiscal year’s end on 30 September, although it adds $6 billion to overall military spending and subtracts $13 billion from civilian programs.
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1 month ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields—but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are for-profit.
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2 months ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Brainard
Trump tracker PROTESTING FOR SCIENCEThousands of researchers and their supporters demonstrated in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on 7 March against what they consider antiscience actions by President Donald Trump’s administration. About 30 such protests, collectively called Stand Up for Science, were held that day across the United States, with additional ones in other countries.
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