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Science Policy in our New Administration: Challenges Facing Early Career Researchers

by futureofresearch | Feb 7, 2021 | Diversity in science, Ideas for change, News

In the week before he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, then President-elect Biden took the unprecedented step of elevating the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to a cabinet level position. In doing so, Biden...

Police Brutality, Racism, and the killing of Black civilians

by Fátima Sancheznieto | Jun 5, 2020 | Diversity in science, News

Dear Future of Research Community, At a time when there is a continued need for as much collective grieving as there is for concrete actions, writing a statement can feel hollow. When so many in the Black community, on a regular basis, decry the systemic,...

U.S. Senate Finance Committee meeting on foreign influences highlights federal agency urgency without clarity

by Gary McDowell | Jun 7, 2019 | International scientists, News, NIH, Policy

On Wednesday, the United States Senate Finance Committee met to discuss Foreign Threats to Taxpayer – Funded Research: Oversight Opportunities and Policy Solutions. The webpage includes a video of the session (which begins approximately 30 mins in) and written...

Postdoc Salaries: New salary threshold for overtime proposed for Fair Labor Standards Act

by Gary McDowell | Mar 12, 2019 | Data, News, Policy, Postdoc benefits, Resources

The data above is from our paper “Monitoring the compliance of the academic enterprise with the Fair Labor Standards Act” showing how institutions were expecting to change salaries after the last FLSA update was blocked.   The Fair Labor Standards...
NIH to discuss Next Generation of Researchers, and Sexual Harassment, today (Dec 13th)

NIH to discuss Next Generation of Researchers, and Sexual Harassment, today (Dec 13th)

by Gary McDowell | Dec 13, 2018 | Diversity in science, Ideas for change, News, NIH, Policy, Sexual Harassment

Today in the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the NIH will report out the results from the Next Generation Researchers Initiative Working Group (mandated by Congress, responding to the National Academies...
New publication: Assessing the landscape of postdoc salaries in 2016

New publication: Assessing the landscape of postdoc salaries in 2016

by Gary McDowell | Dec 4, 2018 | Data, Diversity in science, Ideas for change, News, NIH, NSF, Policy, Postdoc benefits, Resources

A plot of the National Institutes of Health’s National Research Service Awards Year 0 stipend by Financial Year. Also includes a comparison of salaries with their approximate value in 2017, using the Personal Consumer Expenditure Index.   In 2016, the very...
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