How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

tackling structural and bureaucratic rot

Earlier this week, the House and Senate appropriations committees released a bipartisan bill on NIH funding, along with a Joint Explanatory Statement that has a few paragraphs of metascience interest.

From Stuart:

'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'

An anonymous guest post

The Trump Administration recently issued an executive order titled “Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence,” with an accompanying announcement from the Department of Health ...

Recently, the federal government released a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” based on a proposal from investor Marc Rowan.

There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government efficiency.

Guest Column by Casey Handmer

Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.

This paper calls for NIH to fix outdated structures and bureaucracy while boosting innovation, transparency, and trust in biomedical research

Texas factory activity held steady in May, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions,...

Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.

Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.

With the latest fraudulent AI-econ paper, a number of colleagues from MIT, Brown, Princeton, Univ.

Within the science community, there is understandably a lot of consternation over the cancellation of research grants.

Just released today:

A few upcoming opportunities/deadlines:

Tuesday, as my lab gathered to celebrate the completion of one of our big studies, the National Institutes of Health announced that they…

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I would really like to stop writing about indirect costs, but federal agencies keep forcing my hand.

Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

Whatever happens with the court case as to NIH’s initial attempt to limit all indirect costs to a flat rate of 15%, virtually no one thinks that indirect cost calculations are going to stay the same g...

DOGE needs to completely rethink its efforts to increase the efficiency of the federal agencies that fund research in the US.

A few weeks ago, the Good Science Project newsletter discussed many ill-advised cancellations of education contracts by DOGE, including everything from randomized trials of reading programs, to the na...

As an initial matter, my friend Santi Ruiz just published “50 Thoughts on DOGE.” Well worth reading for anyone, especially those of us who have long been interested in governmental reforms, reducing b...

Universities accept less than their actual overhead costs from private sources because they're a minor piece of research budgets.

“I don’t know where all the money is"—CSIS expert Mark Cancian covers the facts behind Ukraine’s “missing” $100 billion.

Recently, DOGE has bragged about terminating 89 contracts worth a collective $881 million at the Institute for Education Sciences at the US Department of Education.

The ivory tower has been breached.

I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

Trump’s nominees have big plans for remaking the federal health agencies, with consequences for university scientists who receive billions in funding.

Guest article by Aishwarya Khanduja