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R&D is the backbone of long-term innovation, but warning signs are emerging.

This new piece from Brookings highlights how declining funding, tighter grant access, and talent barriers could slow U.S. progress in areas like AI and quantum.
🔗 brookings.edu/articles/attacks

Support for open science, global collaboration, and public research matters more than ever.
#Research #SciencePolicy

MDPI as a corruption indicator? A new preprint shows a striking trend across Europe 🇪🇺: more MDPI papers → higher perceived corruption → lower innovation.

👉 arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282v1

It’s not that MDPI = bad. But when it dominates, it signals a broken system chasing quantity over quality.

Ukraine? 🇺🇦 Not in the study, but we see the same rise of #MDPI. We could build better. Instead, we copy the worst.

BREAKING: Inger Andersen, Exec Dir of @unep has designated Neville Ash (Director UNEP-WCMC) to serve as Officer-in-Charge of IPBES secretariat when Exec Sec Anne Larigauderie completes her term at end of April, until new Exec Sec appointed.

Welcome back Neville!

"'The new administration is actively, and with unprecedented speed and ferocity, apparently seeking to tear down and undermine some of the very scientific foundations upon which our leadership has been so painstakingly built,' [Ranking Member Zoe] Lofgren said. 'I just don’t know how anyone reconciles the rhetoric about competing with #China with pulling the rug out from under our own #research enterprise.'"

ww2.aip.org/fyi/new-republican

AIP · New Republican Science Chair Sketches Priorities, Sidesteps Chaos from Funding FreezesThe new House Science Committee chair called for reducing red tape in research and did not comment on the disruptions caused by Trump’s executive orders.