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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1 week ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has launched a major downsizing to help it cope with a significant loss of federal funding since President Donald Trump took office.
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1 week ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
In a desperate attempt to stave off the loss of billions of dollars every year, a coalition of higher education groups has agreed with the U.S. government that it’s time to revamp how universities are reimbursed for the cost of supporting research on their campuses. But the group, led by a former science adviser to President Donald Trump, hopes to sell Congress on an alternative to a drastic cut in so-called indirect cost payments that the Trump administration has attempted to impose.
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3 weeks ago |
science.org | Jeffrey Mervis
The faculty at Williams College, an elite liberal arts school in Massachusetts, win only a handful of research grants each year from U.S. science agencies. Last week, Williams decided it is willing to run the risk of getting even fewer.
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3 weeks ago |
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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3 weeks 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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... 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