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Author(s): Hannah Safford, Austin Brown Author Affiliations: Communicating science to policymakers: six strategies for success Greta Thunberg, an environmental activist from Sweden, speaks to politicians, the media and guests at [...], Scientists can improve how they inform politicians and other policymakers on how to make decisions, say Hannah Safford and Austin Brown. Scientists can improve how they inform politicians and other policymakers on how to make decisions, say Hannah Safford and Austin Brown.

Scientists and their professional societies are seeking to increase their influence in shaping policy decisions. A recent call for natural resource professional societies to endorse position statements on economic growth [...]

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Author(s): Lauren Morello US Senate Republicans have lots of questions for Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - 1,038 of them, to be [...]

Author(s): Daniel Sarewitz (corresponding author) [1] What do you get when you cross science hype with conservative politics? The answer is the High Quality Research Act, a draft bill that [...]

As an April Fools' Day joke, Jack Gibbons told some of his staff that he intended to resign as President Bill Clinton's science adviser and retire from government service. The [...]

Don't look for Neal Lane this week at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia. The NSF director is on 'The Ice,' accompanying Representative James Sensenbrenner [...]

The ouster of Harold Liebowitz as president of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) last week marks the end of the most tumultuous year in the institute's 32-year history. But [...]

Beneath his laid-back appearance lies a hard-driving biochemist with a strong sense of what he wants to do as president of the National Academy of Sciences. Meet Bruce Alberts This [...]

Over the past year, Japan's scientific activities have been notable for many reasons, from widely publicized misconduct in stem-cell research to breakthroughs in efficient blue light-emitting diodes that won the [...]

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years. Republicans in the US Congress have put the agency under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual [...]

Author Affiliations: Europe has ambitious plans for continent-wide digital access to research data. Erik Isakson/Getty The European Commission has its critics, but no one can doubt it has ambitious plans. [...], Now that the major players have agreed to the giant European Open Science Cloud, it's time to get the project moving.

Science benefits society in myriad ways--but how to identify and encourage work with high impact is an obsession of funding agencies the world over. Last month, the United Kingdom brought [...]

There are repeated calls for scientists worldwide to become involved in guiding government decisions concerning science. In the United States, science policy-making positions span the gamut from political appointees (through [...]

The State Department now has a 12-step self-help plan for producing science-savvy diplomats. A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel last week sent Secretary of State Madeleine Albright a dozen [...]

A government watchdog that monitors the treatment of patients and animals in federally funded research may be about to develop a more powerful bite. A panel recommended last week that [...]

Public Policy Report for 7 December 2009 * AIBS Webinar to help students, young professionals explore careers in science policy. A growing number of people seek employment that allows them [...]

A rift in Israel's science establishment is threatening the country's long-term planning of civilian science. All 15 members of its National Council for Research and Development, now subordinate to the [...]

As advances in genetics continue to flow from the laboratory into the clinic--and, increasingly, into courts--it's crucial to parse the influence of gene-based technologies. The Genetics & Public Policy Center [...]

European scientists don't have too much to complain about these days. More than 50 billion € (US$70 billion) is budgeted for research in the European Union's (EU) Seventh Framework Programme [...]

As high-energy physicists and astronomers learned long ago, when making the case for investments in science it is helpful or even essential to present a coherent front to outsiders, not [...]

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- On a visit to Iraq's science ministry one morning last March, Abdalla Alnajjar, president of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), recalls how impressed he was [...]

TOKYO -- The job market for academic scientists has gone global. Job seekers routinely mail or e-mail applications across borders. Search committees are multinational, the better to ferret out candidates [...]

Late last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the US Department of Health and Human Services announced an immediate pause in all new government funding [...]

A Baltimore radiologist with an entrepreneurial bent is expected to be named the next director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Washington rumor mill was humming last [...]

The U.S. government last week took the first steps toward developing a coordinated scientific effort to combat terrorism. Despite an official blackout on the event, Science has learned that White [...]

Australia's incoming government will do without a science minister--or so it seems from Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott's cabinet, announced on 16 September. Abbott avoided explicitly naming science in any minister's [...]

The 3-week shutdown of much of the federal government may have ended last week, but the impact on some science programs could linger for months as affected agencies dig out [...]

Spain no longer has a ministry of science. In the last days of 2011, its new government transferred national science policy to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, a duty [...]

'All the day dreams must go; it will be a wearisome return.' Written almost exactly a century ago, in the diary of doomed Antarctic explorer Robert Scott, those words mark [...]

The nomination of physicist Neal Lane provost of Rice University, to be the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is intended to send a clear signal to the [...]

Japan's budget: Science projects in Japan emerged with minor scars from the new government's 2010 budget, after researchers protested against recommendations for drastic cuts. A supercomputer project fell just [yen] [...]

President Obama's call for science to be restored to its proper place' excites science policy advocates. Science, it appears, may play an important role in informing societal decisions and restarting [...]

For nearly a century, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been keeping detailed records of the growth of tens of thousands of trees as part of an effort to manage [...]

Next month, voters choose the next president of the United States. Whether they elect Senator Obama or Senator McCain, the president's responses in coming years to national and global problems [...]

The Second World War left the United States with enormous energy among its scientists and great advances in technology--for example, radar, the proximity fuse, nuclear weapons and the ability to [...]

Scientists--and the scientific press--are accessories to the crime of letting extreme voices dominate the public debate over science-based policies on everything from climate change to evolution. So says Rita Colwell, [...]

Two years ago, as head of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, John Tesoriero handed out $25 million a year in research funding to universities and high-tech companies, [...]

A new player is set to burst on the U.S. science policy scene. Congress this week put the finishing touches on legislation to create the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), [...]

Science and Technology (S&T) strongly affect foreign policy, and vice versa. Although both are low-saliency topics in the public mind, the importance of this relation has been long recognized. Presidents [...]

In the spring of 1997, the assistant secretary of state for Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs (OES) (1) triaged the last remnants of the Department's enfeebled science and technology [...]

Representative Robert Walker (R-PA), at the zenith of his carder in Congress, last week apparently took to heart the old saw of quitting while you're ahead. The House Science Committee [...]

The National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)(*) is enjoying substantially enhanced funding and status at a time when most U.S. research and development (R&D) organizations face uncertain futures. Direct [...]

Tucked in among the ideas for cutting waste and red tape in Vice President Al Gore's plan for reinventing government is a proposal that could have a significant impact on [...]

'An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, and no institution fits that description better than the government of a country. Whether the title is [...]

Just last year, the suggestion that the National Science Foundation (NSF) needed a separate bureaucracy to fund social and behavioral sciences was greeted with disinterest--if not outright hostility--by NSF's top [...]