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ViewUS news roundup: 9-15 July

This week: an Alzheimer’s drug investigation, fixed-term visas and absent PhD students

ViewSpending bills set out budget increases for US science agencies

House backs 2022 boosts for education, energy and the National Institute of Standards and Technology

ViewNIH finds its budget fluctuations help established researchers

Top researchers—often old, white and male—gain most from budget shifts, grants chief Mike Lauer explains

ViewUS news roundup: 2-8 July

This week: science integrity, the student loan freeze and a phrasebook for informed consent

ViewUS environment agency accused of ‘doctoring’ risk assessments

Whistleblower support organisation says public health is at risk and asks Congress to investigate

ViewBudgets set to expand at US environment research agencies

Lawmakers match presidential ambition to boost R&D, but new climate innovation funder encounters resistance

ViewGates foundation gets $15bn top-up amid concerns over future

Largest contribution since 2000 from billionaire founders comes after tricky time for mega-funder

ViewUS news roundup: 25 June to 1 July

This week: NSF expansion, agriculture research funding, Covid-19 origins and a Russian blacklisting

ViewRepublicans accuse Biden of cutting Nasa budget

Politicians say president’s proposed budget for space agency is billions less than Trump wanted

ViewNIH primed to house $6.5bn ‘Darpa for health’ agency

Plans settle questions over status of breakthrough-focused health research funder

ViewResearch world welcomes approval of EU-UK data transfers

Medical researchers say data flows would have ‘suddenly stopped’ this week without the GDPR ruling

ViewUS news roundup: 18-24 June

This week: national science strategy push, US-Canada research agreement and NOAA administrator confirmed

ViewUS National Academies try to cool down Covid-19 origins debate

Research leaders urge use of scientific principles, as political tension mounts over lab-leak theory

View‘No major competitors for US and China in research’

Paper-mapping exercise shows US leads in medicine and social science while China dominates Stem

ViewUS news roundup: 11-17 June

This week: ‘oceanshots’, an artificial intelligence taskforce and moon missions

ViewParties unite to pass bills aiming to boost US R&D

Senate approves package for expanding National Science Foundation while House moves ahead with alternative

ViewNIH sets out actions on racism, harassment and animal research

National Institutes of Health seeks to tackle myriad social and ethical problems in biomedical research

ViewEU seeks deeper R&D links with United States and Canada

Talks to explore Canadian association to Horizon Europe, as EU-US Trade and Technology Council announced

ViewDiverse research nations ‘more agile in Covid-19 response’

“More even” research bases drove broader range of pandemic studies, says report

ViewBiden and Johnson agree ‘strengthened’ science ties

Agreement comes amid rising concerns over China’s growing science and technology prowess

ViewUS news roundup: 4-10 June

This week: ‘gain of function’ research, student loan repayments and Czech ties

ViewJabs are best bet for Covid-safe campuses, US government says

Department of Education backs vaccinations in disease prevention guidance for universities

ViewDiversity tops agenda for chief US science adviser

Eric Lander acknowledges US science and technology has been “unwelcoming” to underrepresented groups

ViewUS news roundup: 28 May to 3 June

This week: bipartisan R&D acts and the most powerful ever science adviser wins Senate support

ViewBiden’s full 2022 budget plan confirms aim for science splurge

President’s first budget boasts 9 per cent boost for civilian R&D, the “biggest on record”

ViewUS news roundup: 21-27 May

This week: planetary exploration, trust in medicine, and climate leadership

ViewRiders to National Science Foundation bill ‘risk witch-hunts’

Amendments “would likely result in racial profiling and persecution of Chinese Americans”, academic group warns

ViewBiden’s pick for top science adviser passes Senate hurdle

Committee chair expresses regret that newly empowered science position was not offered to a woman

ViewHigher education institutions join forces against cybercrime

Global initiative forms to counter rising number of ransomware attacks on universities

ViewUS news roundup: 14-20 May

This week: telescope problems, pandemic relief for universities and funding for biofuel R&D