12/ The bottom line: Public health decisions shouldn't be based on junk science, conspiracy theories, or invented studies. Let's demand more integrity and less political manipulation in our health policy. 💯👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️
#PublicHealth #IntegrityInScience #SciencePolicy #StopTheSpread

Amid Turbulence, the NIH’s Jay Bhattacharya Era Begins
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2025/05/27/jay-bhattacharyas-nih-reform/
#NewsFeatures #Coronavirus #HealthMedicine #SciencePolicy

Why I'm Resigning from the National Science Foundation

https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

#HackerNews #Resignation #NationalScienceFoundation #SciencePolicy #CareerChange #ResearchCommunity

My rare disease was getting closer to a cure. RFK Jr could undermine that | Jameson Rich https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/06/rfk-jr-disease-breakthroughs-funding-cuts #Trumpadministration #RobertFKennedyJr #Sciencepolicy #UShealthcare #USpolitics #AidsandHIV #JDVance #Health #USnews

Who put science in isolation? 🔬 The NIH is temporarily halting funding to international research labs and hospitals. Because nothing says "fighting global diseases" like going solo, right? Thousands of vital health projects now in limbo. #GlobalHealth #SciencePolicy

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/1858210/nih-to-suspend-funds-for-research-abroad-as-it-overhauls-policy-report-says

Concerning news: Trump's HHS ordered a crucial NIAID facility studying Ebola to stop all research indefinitely. This pauses vital work.
#PublicHealth #Research #SciencePolicy

Horizon Europe 2025: Vorabveröffentlichung des Arbeitsprogramms
Die EU hat Entwürfe zu #Forschung, #Innovation & #Technologie für 2025 veröffentlicht – u. a. zu Gesundheit, Kultur, Sicherheit, Klima & Digitalisierung.
Offizielle Annahme im Mai erwartet.
https://www.bayfor.org/de/aktuelles/news/news-detail/5156-horizon-europe-vorveroeffentlichung-des-arbeitsprogramms-2025.html
#HorizonEurope #EUResearch #SciencePolicy #DigitalEurope #GreenDeal

Republican Senator Collins said that China is catching up with the U.S. in biomedical research, and that the U.S. should not take its hard-earned position as the “world leader in scientific research” for granted.

Her comments come at the beginning of a hearing on American biomedical research at which no Trump administration officials are testifying.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-cuts-threaten-american-research-says-senator-in-call-for-restored-funding/ via @STAT

#science #nih #nsf #research #health #healthcare #medicine #sciencepolicy

five hours a week is not #academicResearch, that's a hobby: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/serbia-limits-academics-research-time-to-just-one-hour-a-day/4021399.article #science #SciencePolicy #serbia

📊 New study reveals parallel citation universes in US politics! Democrats cite scientific papers 1.8x more than Republicans, while left-leaning think tanks show 5x higher citation rates. With only 5-6% overlap in referenced studies, it seems the scientific method isn't the only thing that's peer-reviewed! 🤓 #SciencePolicy #PoliticalScience

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/25/04/25/1854224/how-democrats-and-republicans-cite-science

NSF Director Panchanathan out early as agency faces drastic 55% cuts, layoffs & $1B grant cancellations under DOGE pressure. A critical moment for US scientific leadership & research funding. #NSF #Research #SciencePolicy

Saw this. Another effort:
"Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress.

Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public."

#scicomm #misinformation #sciencepolicy

https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/

US science policy shifts could be Europe's gain. Researchers eye relocation, with France leading recruitment efforts. A potential boost for the continent's tech and climate innovation scene?

#TechTalent #SciencePolicy #Europe

A brilliant new paper in #ResearchEvaluation 📄 compares how the UK, Norway, and Poland implemented research impact assessment - with very different results:

🇬🇧 UK built infrastructure, #REF became a strategic tool.
🇳🇴 Norway took a soft, formative approach.
🇵🇱 Poland copy-pasted, spent big - got confusion, “point-chasing” and no culture shift.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf010

🇺🇦 A lesson Ukraine risks ignoring again.

#ImpactAssessment #SciencePolicy #ResearchImpact #AcademicCulture

MDPI as a corruption indicator? A new preprint shows a striking trend across Europe 🇪🇺: more MDPI papers → higher perceived corruption → lower innovation.

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282v1

It’s not that MDPI = bad. But when it dominates, it signals a broken system chasing quantity over quality.

Ukraine? 🇺🇦 Not in the study, but we see the same rise of #MDPI. We could build better. Instead, we copy the worst.

#AcademicPublishing #SciencePolicy #ResearchAssessment #Bibliometrics #CorruptionIndex

A solid collaboration between Italian and Armenian colleagues just published in #Scientometrics:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05312-3

At first glance, the gap seems overwhelming: only 28.3% of 🇦🇲 researchers had at least one WoS-indexed publication (2017-2021), compared to 98.1% in 🇮🇹.

If we treat this not as a competition, but as a diagnostic baseline, it becomes a valuable tool. Imagine repeating this in 5 years – it could offer real insight into whether reforms are working.

#SciencePolicy

🇧🇷 vs 🇳🇱 in #ResearchEvaluation? A sharp comparative study shows how Brazil’s high-stakes, performance-based model contrasts with the Netherlands’ strategic, decentralized approach.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf013

Takeaway: Evaluation isn’t one-size-fits-all - context matters.

#ResearchAssessment #SciencePolicy #HigherEducation #ResponsibleMetrics #AcademicEvaluation

Elon Musk slams reports of Trump’s NASA cuts as “troubling,” marking a rare public split as science funding faces the axe. #NASA #ElonMusk #budgetcuts #sciencepolicy https://buff.ly/B8juysd

@wissenschaftimdialog
Thanks! Some stark contrasts in these data on German public opinion, both male/female and based on education. For example,
"Among respondents with low and medium levels of formal education, 70 per cent each consider it important for citizens to be involved in decisions about research topics. Among individuals with high levels of formal education, this figure is around 50 per cent.

The opposite trend is observed when it comes to interest in direct participation. Respondents with high formal education levels are particularly interested in actively participating in a scientific research
project (59 per cent) or taking part in a discussion format with scientists (56 per cent). In contrast, about one-third of respondents with a low level of formal education expresses interest in participating in research projects, while slightly fewer (28 per cent) are interested in taking part in discussion formats with scientists."

#SciencePolicy #governance

BREAKING: Inger Andersen, Exec Dir of @unep has designated Neville Ash (Director UNEP-WCMC) to serve as Officer-in-Charge of IPBES secretariat when Exec Sec Anne Larigauderie completes her term at end of April, until new Exec Sec appointed.

Welcome back Neville!

#SciencePolicy