📢 Our Science Policy Team is seeking to recruit two Student Assistants. Apply now!

https://www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career

#studentjob #job #hiwi #sciencepolicy #braunschweig #dsmz

The Science Behind The Covid-19 Vaccine in Pregnancy
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2025/06/06/covid-vaccine-pregnancy-science/
#NewsFeatures #ClimateChange #SciencePolicy

Calling researchers, practitioners & innovators!

There’s still time to submit your poster presentation for the GraspOS Conference: Opening Research Assessment.

We’re looking for original, relevant, and thought-provoking contributions that support more open, inclusive and responsible research evaluation systems.

*Deadline: July 5th

-Submission form & guidelines: https://graspos.eu/conference

#OpenScience #GraspOS #SciencePolicy #ResearchAssessment #OSmetrics #CallForPosters

US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war https://arstechni.ca/KRF5 #NationalAcademies #sciencebudget #Sciencepolicy #researchcuts #Science

Dysregulated: The Patchwork Policies of Ketamine Therapy
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2025/06/04/ketamine-therapy-regulation/
#NewsFeatures #HealthMedicine #SciencePolicy

At the Forest Service, Turmoil Upends Seasonal Research Plans
- ciundrk
https://undark.org/2025/06/02/forest-service-research-turmoil/
#NewsFeatures #EnvironmentConservation #SciencePolicy

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

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