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Halfway Through the Fiscal Year, NIH Has Only Obligated 15% of Research Funding

The science community fears the funding agency’s slow contract and grant making could result in another rush of multiyear obligations at the end of the fiscal year. The NIH director has said, “Don’t pay attention to the hype.”

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Studies Flag Inequities in NIH Grant Cuts, Threats to Science Pipeline

Women and early-career investigators were disproportionately impacted by the thousands of National Institutes of Health grant terminations in 2025, according...
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Group Formed to Recommend Changes to Battered NCES

A group has formed to recommend changes to the National Center for Education Statistics, a fundamental higher ed data source...
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Federal Grant Makers May Lose Job Protections: 5 Things to Know

Trump has created a new employee category that he previously dubbed Schedule F. It allows for easier firings of those who are “subverting presidential directives.”

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How DOGE Gutted the NEH in 22 Days

Internal documents show how leadership at the National Endowment for the Humanities handed over the grant termination process to DOGE and ChatGPT.

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Opinion

No, I Don’t Want My Article Turned Into a Podcast

Scholars who don’t want Academia.edu to use AI to generate adaptations of their work should delete their accounts.

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Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations

References used to be one of the last things journal editors checked before publishing a paper. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

Opinion

Extraordinary Higher Education Scholar to Lead World’s Largest Education Research Association

It is nearly impossible to write anything good or credible about campus climate, diversity and inclusion, sense of belonging, the success of students of color in STEM fields, or Hispanic-serving institutions without citing her studies.