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politics-and-policy3 days ago•27 min saved

Vance Orders Labor Dept. to Subpoena Nine Universities Over J-1 Visa Allegations

Vice President JD Vance announced that the Department of Labor is investigating nine major universities for alleged J-1 visa fraud, claiming they use these visas to undercut American wages. The targeted institutions include Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Brown, Caltech, Arizona State, UC Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh. While Vance asserts these schools use foreign postdocs at a rate of 61% versus a national average of 38%, critics argue the move undermines U.S. scientific leadership and benefits China. The administration has also suspended tech giants like Microsoft from visa programs, sparking legal and economic backlash.

via Inside Higher Ed|

#higher-education #immigration-policy #j-1-visa

technology9 days ago•399 min saved

Kyoto Vision: 16 Nations Sign Pledge to Accelerate AI-Driven Science

The United States and 15 other countries are set to release a joint statement in Kyoto endorsing AI as a catalyst for a 'golden age of science.' The document, spearheaded by White House official Michael Kratsios, promotes the integration of 'super intelligence' and 'metascience' into research. While the initiative aims to democratize discovery through automated labs, it faces criticism for contradicting recent federal budget cuts to scientific agencies.

via NBC News|

#artificial-intelligence #international-relations #metascience

science-and-education18 days ago•28 min saved

LSU Secures $20M Grant to Study Biological Speed Mechanisms

Louisiana State University has secured a $20 million grant to investigate the biological mechanisms behind some of nature’s fastest organisms. The funding aims to unlock secrets related to speed in biological systems, potentially advancing fields such as robotics, medicine, or materials science. This significant investment highlights LSU’s growing role in cutting-edge scientific research within the Baton Rouge area.

via Baton Rouge Business Report|

#biology #grant #louisiana

politics22 days ago•5 min saved

NIH Director Defies Trump on Harvard Funding, Sparking New Political Control Push

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya refused President Trump’s demand to cut Harvard’s federal research grants during a Friday Oval Office meeting. In response, Trump directed OMB Director Russ Vought to draft an executive order creating a political board to veto NIH grants, marking a major escalation in the administration’s effort to control biomedical research funding.

via The Harvard Crimson|

#harvard #jay-bhattacharya #nih

politics22 days ago

White House Drafts Order to Place NIH Grants Under Political Veto

The White House is drafting an executive order to create an external board with veto power over National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding. The move, driven by OMB Director Russell Vought, aims to block research deemed 'woke' or misaligned with President Trump’s agenda, replacing traditional peer review with political oversight. This follows a contentious Oval Office meeting where Trump demanded cuts to Harvard funding, which NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya refused.

via The Guardian|

#jay-bhattacharya #nih #politics

politics22 days ago•12 min saved

White House Drafts Order to Place NIH Grants Under Political Veto

The White House is drafting an executive order to create an external committee with veto power over National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, aiming to align biomedical research funding with President Trump’s political agenda. The move follows a contentious Friday meeting where OMB Director Russell Vought clashed with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya over funding priorities, including a failed attempt to cut Harvard University’s grants. While the NIH asserts all appropriated funds will be spent, the proposed board would require unanimous decisions, effectively giving political appointees control over the agency’s $48 billion budget.

via The New York Times|

#executive-order #jay-bhattacharya #nih

health-policy29 days ago•3 min saved

ADA Members Launch Formal Boycott Over Unresolved Conference Ejection Dispute

Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) have initiated a formal boycott, halting participation in meetings, grant reviews, and manuscript processing for the journal Diabetes Care. The action follows the removal of five researchers from the June annual meeting in New Orleans for distributing an editorial on federal funding cuts. Critics demand an independent structural review, rejecting the ADA’s internal investigation as incomplete and biased.

via MedPage Today|

#american-diabetes-association #health-policy #journal-ethics

education2 months ago•16 min saved

NIH grant cancellations cost Pitt more than $40 million, upending neighborhood-focused research

Two NIH grants at the University of Pittsburgh were canceled, ending a combined research effort worth over $21 million and costing the university about $5.04 million in the final years of the awards. The losses hit Alzheimer’s researcher Ann Cohen and epidemiologist Tamara Dubowitz, including Cohen’s $3.5 million and Dubowitz’s $1.54 million, with at least seven staff downsized and ripple effects across labs and community studies involving about 1,100 participants. Since President Trump took office, Pitt has lost roughly $40.7 million in NIH funding, highlighting a broader funding crunch that Pitt says it will navigate while continuing its research and community-health work.

via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|

#community-health #education #grants

science2 months ago•8 min saved

Tiny Research Teams Fade as Big Collaborations Proliferate

An analysis of Nature Index data (2015–2024) shows the share of one- and two-author papers fell from 10.8% to 7.1%, while papers with 3–50 authors rose, indicating a shift toward large, multi-author teams across the natural and health sciences; funding incentives, infrastructure needs, and increasing research specialization are driving this trend, with patterns varying by country and field (Japan showing relative stability, while the US, UK, Germany and South Korea show declines in small-team output).

via Nature|

#authorship #collaboration #nature-index

technology2 months ago•13 min saved

White House's 'New Golden Age' for science sparks debate over funding and coherence

Ars Technica analyzes the White House OSTP report Science: A New Golden Age, which argues for streamlined grants, looser peer review, and closer ties between science and industry to accelerate science and AI innovation, but critics say the proposal is incoherent, ignores prior funding cuts, overstates its premises, and offers few clear mechanisms to move basic research into commercial advances.

via Ars Technica|

#innovation #ostp #research-funding

science-policy3 months ago•7 min saved

China expands NSFC grants for early-career scientists, adding 12,000 projects

China's main research funder, the NSFC, will fund an extra 12,000 projects for its Young Scientists Fund this year, boosting the budget by about 3.6 billion yuan (US$531 million) and aiming to ease intense competition for entry-level researchers, though experts caution that the expansion may not fully resolve job security or tenure pressures.

via Nature|

#china #early-career #nsfc

politics4 months ago•2 min saved

Trump admin targets tighter political grip on federal research funding

The Trump administration unveiled a 400+ page proposal to overhaul federal grantmaking, aiming to codify tighter political control over federally funded research by reducing emphasis on peer review, restricting how grant funds can be used for publishing or conference travel, and granting political appointees broader power to terminate grants; if formalized, the rules would apply government-wide.

via statnews.com|

#federal-grants #peer-review #political-control

science5 months ago•4 min saved

Canada’s Science Talent Push Attracts Global Researchers to Toronto

Toronto’s University Health Network is expanding its Canada Leads program to recruit 100 early- to mid-career scientists from around the world, backed by federal funding aimed at boosting Canada’s leadership in life sciences. About 80 researchers have joined so far, with hundreds more expressing interest, including Dr. Ariel Levine from the U.S. NINDS who will study spinal cord injury. The initiative follows U.S. funding cuts and positions Canada as a magnet for global scientific talent, supported by Canada Global Impact + Research Talent Initiative funding of about $1.7 billion over 12 years.

via CTV News|

#canada-leads #international-researchers #research-funding

science-policy5 months ago•56 min saved

White House Dismisses Entire NSF Board, Sparking Science-Policy Alarm

The White House fired the entire National Science Board that oversees the NSF, leaving the agency without a board, director, or deputy and offering a rationale linked to a 2021 Supreme Court decision. Critics warn the move could undermine NSF’s independence and hand more control to the executive branch, risking instability in U.S. scientific leadership; lawmakers and scientific groups urge oversight and a rapid reestablishment of governance with diverse expertise while leadership vacancies are addressed.

via Inside Higher Ed|

#national-science-board #national-science-foundation #research-funding

health6 months ago•4 min saved

Growing evidence sparks call for pregnancy-focused Lyme research

A peer‑reviewed paper and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation argue that decades of case reports and acknowledgments from the CDC and NIH indicate mother‑to‑child transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi is plausible, prompting a push for large, prospective real‑world studies, long‑term tracking of children, and biorepositories to determine how often transmission occurs and its health effects, given around 500,000 Americans are diagnosed with Lyme annually.

via LymeDisease.org|

#congenital-transmission #health #lyme-disease