Category Archives: NSF

Friday action item: An awful budget, now with detail

Posted on 26 May, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

On Fridays while the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! There’s a detailed Federal budget proposal out this week, … Continue reading →

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Friday Action Item: Cuts to funding even sooner than we thought

Posted on 31 Mar, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

On Fridays while the current administration is in office we’re posting small, concrete things you can do to help make things better. Got a suggestion for an Action Item? E-mail us! You’re already all too familiar with the cuts to … Continue reading →

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Have we got the power?

Posted on 9 Mar, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Sabrina Heiser wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sabrina grew up in Germany, completed a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology at Plymouth University (UK) and then lived … Continue reading →

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The road ahead

Posted on 22 Nov, 2016 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s been almost two weeks since we woke up to the reality that Donald Trump — the failed casino mogul, the virtuoso tax-dodger, the reality-show star, the self-described serial sexual assailant, the Ku Klux Klan endorsee and darling of white … Continue reading →

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House science committee is digging for dirt in NSF's confidential records of peer review

Posted on 3 Oct, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

ScienceInsider reports that aides for the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology have been spending the summer digging through records of grant the grant review process that the National Science Foundation usually keeps confidential: The Republican aides were … Continue reading →

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The #IcedBudgetChallenge: Tell Congress to thaw out funding for NSF and NIH!

Posted on 26 Aug, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

So a friend nominated me in this viral scheme to raise funds for ALS research, about which you may have heard lately. I’m all in favor of finding a cure for ALS—my grandfather died of it—but I’m also pretty skeptical … Continue reading →

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Congress takes a worrying interest in peer review at NSF

Posted on 29 Apr, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Science Insider reported yesterday that Lamar Smith, a Republican congressman from Texas and the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology, is planning to introduce legislation to change the way the National Science Foundation decides how to … Continue reading →

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Give the NSF a piece of your mind

Posted on 12 Sep, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

Cross-posted from Denim and Tweed. This last year, the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation—one of the biggest single funders of ecology and evolutionary biology research in the U.S.—introduced a new process for reviewing grant proposals. Lots of … Continue reading →

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