Congress is out on recess, but the Senate (almost) finished passing all their approps bills through committee before they left: which means we've got R&D estimates and an approps recap for you: aaas.org/news/senate-fy…

I'll be at #acsfall2024 talking about the federal budget (Sunday 2:25) and then talking about how I got my job looking at the federal budget (Monday 8:50). Come see me at either (or both!) and also just around at my first ACS conference.

Today's the first day of FY 2025, so we did a little refresh of our report of the impacts of continuing resolutions (+ new data from CRS about lame duck sessions) TLDR: they cost money, time, and sci progress so it's best to have as few of them as possible aaas.org/news/impacts-c…

⏳ ICYMI - don't forget to register for our briefing on nominations for the Golden Goose Award! aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

🔔 Event Alert 🔔 Join AAAS and Science Magazine, alongside Pew Research Center, on November 14 at 3:15 p.m. ET as we dive into one of the most pressing issues affecting the scientific enterprise: The state of America's trust in science. Register now: bit.ly/48klbV6

Just 1 month remains to submit nominations for the 2025 Golden Goose Award! We're looking for research that may have sounded silly or odd but ultimately made a big impact. The submission deadline is Dec 13, 2024. Learn more & submit an entry here: goldengooseaward.org/nomination

The 6th issue of the Canadian Science Policy Magazine is available online! sciencepolicy.ca/cspc-magazine-… Don't miss editorials from some of Canada's premier minds in public policy, science advocacy, brain health, and research & innovation #CdnSci #CdnInnovation #CSPC2024

The US has 3 days of funding left, with either a CR or a shutdown afterwards. Uncertainty about funding has impacts, and in our latest in the Research on R&D Funding series we summarize the studies that look into it's effects on researchers. aaas.org/news/research-…

With the release of the skinny Presidential Budget Request, the FY 2026 season officially kicks off and the dashboard goes live! Because this is a -skinny- request not everything was mentioned, so we'll keep updating as more details roll out. aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…

All the major R&D agencies' budget justifications are now out, and thus the dashboard and PBR report are complete. You can now download the latest report for the (just added) summaries of Defense, NIST and NOAA. aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…

A whole lot of bills were just released by the House in the last 24 hours, and I've updated the dashboard with all of them. More details to come as the report language gets released after the markups, but there's already a lot to process: aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…

I've just released a new report that expands on the data that was featured in a certain NYT article last week. On top of how basic, applied, and developmental science fares in the PBR, it looks at agency R&D capacity and historical trends aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…