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Archives: science funding

Guest Post — The US Government’s New Guidance for Federal Grants and The Case for Scholarly Societies

Today’s guest post is an urgent call for the SSP community to push back on the US government (OMB), which is poised to overhaul the concept of federal research grants.

  • By Darla P. Henderson
  • Jun 15, 2026
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Proposed Uniform Guidance Revisions Would Eliminate Journal Subscriptions and APCs as Allowable Federal Grant Costs

New guidance from the US government on research funding makes publishing and journal subscription costs unallowable.

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Jun 1, 2026
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.”

Grieving my father’s death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jun 26, 2025
  • 12 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Why Knowledge for The Pure Sake of Knowing is Good Enough to Justify Scientific Research

Duke University’s Sheila Patek makes an elegant argument in favor of funding basic research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 3, 2016
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Going APE — Thoughts and Insights with a European Perspective

The Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) meeting in Europe is 10 years old, but feels as fresh and frisky as some of the meetings in the US used to. This report touches on some of the most interesting threads of two days’ worth of interesting presentations and conversations.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 26, 2015
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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