🧠 Stop reacting to the headline number. The topline cuts are theater. The institute eliminations and structural changes are not.

Call your reps. Be specific. Name the institutes. Name the structural changes.

Do not let another year of relief cover another year of damage.

#NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy

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Meet the 2026–2027 AAI Public Policy Fellows!

In its 16th year, this program empowers early-career researchers to advocate for federal funding and the future of immunology. Join us in welcoming the new class!

🔗 https://ow.ly/5Ge950YASvJ

#Immunology #SciencePolicy #AAIadvocacy #AAInews

📢 Science Europe shares outcomes of its 17th ERA High-Level Workshop (Oslo, Nov 2025), co-organised with Research Council of Norway & @ukri.org

Full report👉 bit.ly/3NYOas2

#ERA #HorizonEurope #SciencePolicy

Great news from the Convention on Migratory Species @cms.int
Marine #flyways are recognized for #seabirds. 🌊 🪶 www.seabirdtracking.org/special/mari...

>30% seabird species are threatened and >50% are declining.

Great example of #science informing #policy. #sciencepolicy

Reflections on Leadership: Former Board Chair Dr. Peter Cowhey on Two Decades with CCST - California Council on Science & Technology (CCST) After nearly 20 years of service with CCST, Dr. Peter Cowhey leaves behind an organization that has grown in reach, credibility, and impact.

For nearly 20 years, Dean Emeritus Peter Cowhey showed what it looks like to lead where science meets policy. Proud that GPS has been part of that story. Read his reflections on two decades with the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST): https://ow.ly/qrw650YBSNz
#SciencePolicy #GPS

An image of a wheat field and text that reads "ASPB Advocacy and Science Policy Update: ASPB Calls for Critical USDA Agricultural Research Service funding"

Agricultural research powers innovation from crop resilience to food safety.

ASPB supports increased funding for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to sustain long-term, science-driven impact.

📄 Learn more: buff.ly/XYjfNvL
#AgResearch #PlantScience #SciencePolicy

To Keep Climate Science Alive, Researchers Are Speaking in Code This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly...

The problem with this approach of course, is that it makes spotting research trends more difficult in the future, but probably an acceptable price to pay to keep it going. #ClimateChange #SciencePolicy #Academia

Working on Open Science policy or monitoring?
Applications are now open for the Open Science Policy Programme 2026.

🗓️ Apply by 19 April 2026
🔗 www.openaire.eu/open-science...
#OpenScience #SciencePolicy

Trump’s new science panel includes 9 tech billionaires—and just one scientist There’s a glaring hole in the president’s new science and tech council

Trump’s new science panel includes 9 tech billionaires—and just one scientist #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SciencePolicy #TechBillionaires #Innovation

www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-new-scien...

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ASPB supports strong funding for USDA APHIS programs that defend against pests, diseases, and emerging threats.

📄 Read more: buff.ly/CGXSFRk
#AgBiosecurity #SciencePolicy

Russell Vought's NIH Funding Cuts Threaten US Research Advantage | TK Kozai posted on the topic | LinkedIn 🚨If you are a federally funded scientist and you don't know who Russell Vought is, fix that today. Vought runs the Office of Management & Budget. OMB controls whether money Congress already appropria...

#BasicScience #AnimalResearch #SciencePolicy

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How Congress can restore the independence of US science | TK Kozai 🚨 Why the slight NIH budget increase is not translating to new grants for researchers, and what D.C. insiders are calling the "new toolkit" for 2026. Congress delivered a modest win. FY2026 appropria...

www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai...

#NIH #NSF #ResearchFunding #SciencePolicy

UK bets big on homegrown fusion and quantum — can it lead the world? Nature - UK government announces multibillion-pound science investments — but what impact will this have on the global race in these fields?

The UK just dropped billions on fusion and quantum - James Bond wants a DB5 with a flux capacitor. www.nature.com/artic... #STEM #scifi #sciencepolicy

🎓 SciPol102 with OSPN!

Join us March 27 | 11 AM-12 PM (virtual) to hear from Jeff Kinder, a leader in science, technology & innovation policy with 35+ years of experience across the US and Canada: forms.gle/ojtgzGS6RrHf...

#SciPol #SciencePolicy

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AAAS LSEN: Sharing Your Research Story with State Lawmakers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Scientists and engineers are often trained to talk about their research in the context of federal funding decisions, but engaging state lawmakers requires a different approach. In this interactive, wo...

How do you make your research resonate with state lawmakers?

Join today’s @aaas.org LSEN workshop (2 PM ET) to learn how to craft compelling, locally grounded research stories that connect with policymakers.

Register: https://bit.ly/4t9ZvnR

#SciencePolicy #STEM

Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.

Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #SciencePolicy #Technology #Innovation

arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trump-st...

TP Organics joined the Round Table on “Science & Policy” at the EP.

Key Takeaway:
Policy cannot simply “follow the science”. We need a transparent and inclusive science–policy interface.

🌱 Precautionary Principle
🌱 Independent Science
🌱 Accountability

#TPOrganics #Agroecology #SciencePolicy #EU

How NIH's Center for Scientific Review is Addressing Animal Methods Bias. CSR uses the ENQUIRE process to continuously evaluate and update study sections. Recent ENQUIRE evaluations have highlighted the need for study sections to cover NAMs. Study section descriptions are being updated, and new study sections are being formed to better fit emerging methods. CSR is actively recruiting reviewers with NAMs expertise. Applicants can initiate CSR’s bias reporting mechanism. All reports are investigated and affected applications are considered for re-review.

Last year, we urged NIH to take concrete steps to address #AnimalMethodsBias in grant review.

Here's what we learned from the conversation 🧵

#SciencePolicy #SciPol #PeerReview #GrantReview #ResearchFunding #NAMs #NIH #CSR 🧪

The Future of Earth’s Future - Eos With the expansion of the journal’s scope, the Editor-in-Chief of Earth’s Future appoints three Deputy Editors to oversee new thematic areas.

With the expansion of the journal’s scope, the Editor-in-Chief of Earth’s Future appoints three Deputy Editors to oversee new thematic areas.🌍️

🔗 Learn more in @eos.org: buff.ly/2pMpFyZ

#AGUPubs #ClimateChange #Climate #Sustainability #ClimateResilience #SciencePolicy @wileyecology.bsky.social

China’s Control Over US Drug Supply Alarms Lawmakers. America relies on China for many of its most essential hospital and outpatient medicines, particularly generic drugs, which account for 90 percent of prescriptions filled in the U.S. www.forbes.com/sites/arthur... #SciencePolicy #SciPol

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EGU & MEP4ECS: Fueling New Voices in Soil Science!

For ECS, EGU’s grants cover lodging, training and materials for the MEP4ECS program. Dive into soil systems, policy, and innovation for 2.5 days

📅 Deadline: 28 March

🔗 Apply: www.issnova.eu/mep4ecs/

#EGU #SoilScience #EarlyCareer #SciencePolicy

Rival ‘shadow’ group to RFK, Jr.’s autism science committee meets in D.C. Autism researchers are working to counter a federal autism advisory panel that they say has vaccine skeptic members and a “striking absence of scientific expertise”

Rival ‘shadow’ group to RFK, Jr.’s autism science committee meets in D.C. #Science #Other #AutismResearch #SciencePolicy #HealthDialogue

www.scientificamerican.com/article/rival-shadow-gro...

National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’ A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many scientists are reeling

What does a year+ of #SciencePolicy disruption & #PoliticalInterference look like for the US researchers? A deeply frustrating, self-inflicted wound.

For more, check out the results from STAT's nationwide survey of ~1,000 NIH-funded researchers.

www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

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Ioannidis, J.P.A., Baas, J. Most science is published from countries lacking in democracy and freedom of press. Res Integr Peer Rev 11, 4 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-026-00190-6

A new paper by Ioannidis & Baas highlights a shift: most scientific publications today come from countries that are not full democracies and have limited press freedom. In 2006, about 2/3 of global science was produced in full democracies. In 2024 – only 22%! doi.org/10.1186/s410... #SciencePolicy

🎓 SciPol102 with OSPN!

Join us March 27 | 11 AM-12 PM (virtual) to hear from Jeff Kinder, a leader in science, technology & innovation policy with 35+ years of experience across the US and Canada.

#SciPol #SciencePolicy

The Appropriations Rollercoaster: Which Sciences Won and Lost? Written by SNAP members Brendon Davis and Becca Blyn

Which #science fields were the winners and losers for federal funding? Find out here, in this excellent piece by @snapcoalition.bsky.social members @bdavisbio.bsky.social and Becca Blynn on the #SciencePolicy in a SNAP blog!

#SciPol #FedFunding

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Blasting this out occasionally to the #GreenSky #ClimatePolicy #SciencePolicy community:

I am on the job market! Looking for positions in ag methane and related climate policy work. Portfolio link in bio.

Some recent work: 🧵

There Are 10 Million Tons of Manure Missing in California - Inside Climate News Stanford researchers found serious loopholes in factory farm regulation—and it’s not just in California.

California’s manure accounting is off… by 10 million tons.

#GreenSky #ClimatePolicy #SciencePolicy

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