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The Good Enough Manuscript
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough when it comes to sending your manuscript to a publisher, Laura Portwood-Stacer writes.
After Deals, Research Funding Starts to Flow Back to Columbia, Brown
About half of the frozen federal research grants and contracts at Columbia resumed in the last week. Brown officials say payments should resume in 30 days.
Abrupt Pause, Unpause of Grants Doesn’t End NIH Funding Concerns
As senators object to President Trump’s proposal to gut the National Institutes of Health’s budget for next fiscal year, questions linger over what’s happening with the money it’s currently supposed to be doling out.
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Study: Tenure Doesn’t Slow Average Research Output
However, tenured researchers who work in a lab had more publications than those in fields that don’t typically conduct lab-based research, according to a new paper.
Federal Grant Cuts Don’t Spare Red States, New Report Shows
The Center for American Progress says the Trump administration has targeted for termination more than 4,000 grants across over 600 institutions. Adjusting for statewide enrollment, South Dakota is hit harder than Massachusetts.
NIH to Limit AI Use, Cap PI Grant Applications at 6 per Year
The National Institutes of Health says its new policy comes after the agency “recently observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications.”
AI-Enabled Cheating Points to ‘Untenable’ Peer Review System
It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.
Congress Shows Resistance to Trump’s Plan to Slash Science Budgets
Congress’s proposed budgets would preserve more research spending than the president’s. It’s a rare rebuke from Republicans to the White House’s efforts to gut funding for several research support agencies.