Jeffrey Mervis
Senior Correspondent at Science Magazine
Senior correspondent at Science magazine, where I cover science policy, large and small. All comments are my own.
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science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) hopes to broker a truce in the long-running battle over how math should be taught to U.S. students from kindergarten through graduate school. NASEM has recently lost federal funding for many of its activities, triggering scores of layoffs, but a grant from the Gates Foundation is enabling the academies to stand up a new unit, called the Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB), to try to reconcile the opposing views.
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4 days ago |
science.org | Meredith Wadman |Jeffrey Mervis
Last Saturday, the morning after a news article announced major job losses coming at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt wrote an apologetic memo to employees. Her statement to STAT that 250 people could lose their positions by summer’s end had come as news to the NASEM staff, which numbered 1383 as of 2023. McNutt told staff “no decisions [have been] made” about the number of coming layoffs.
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6 days ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and it’s not a pretty sight.
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1 week ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
The future of the U.S. government’s premier training program for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduate students is uncertain after a recent scaling back of the program has led to talk that it will be essentially privatized. Anticipating a drastic cut to its next budget, the National Science Foundation (NSF) decided in early April to shrink the size of its Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) this year to 1000, less than half the usual annual number.
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1 week ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
From lobster fishing bans to school closings during the COVID-19 pandemic, the misuse of science by federal agencies and individual researchers has fueled the public’s growing distrust of science. So says U.S. President Donald Trump in a new executive order designed to promote “gold standard science” through transparency, replication, and taking swift action to correct errors and punish misconduct.
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... oops. The deadline for Arecibo proposals for a "reimagined" center is 28 February. And NSF expects to make one 5-year award.
NSF commits $5 million for a STEM education and research center at site of destroyed Arecibo telescope. Its press release on the solicitation [https://t.co/8D093qlxje ] cites a mandate in the new CHIPS and Science Act to enhance the work of the observatory. Proposals due Feb. 23
What you need to know about the new research security provisions in the CHIPS and Science Act--and how NSF is gearing up to use data analytics to spot scientists failing to disclose foreign ties. https://t.co/9sWTI1381T