Early career scientists affiliated with an EU institute who are looking to work independently and lead a new research effort should consider applying for the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant program. More

Starting this fall, NIH will require researchers who are involved in certain types of grants to link an ORCID ID number to their grants. More

Psychological scientists who are in the Washington, DC, USA area and are interested in applying their science to improving public policy should know about an upcoming October 30, 2019 event in DC organized by the Office of Evaluation Sciences. More

If you’re involved in a science policy group that’s interested in improving civic engagement and promoting the value of scientific research, you’ll want to learn more about two new “microgrant” funding opportunities. More

U.S. scientists who challenged a new rule that would require them to register their basic studies of the human brain and behavior in a federal database of clinical trials have won another reprieve. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, says it now understands why some of that kind of research won’t easily fit the format of ClinicalTrials.gov, and the agency has delayed for the reporting requirements for another 2 years.

A new report titled “Evidence Works: Cases Where Evidence Meaningfully Informed Policy” presents 20 case studies describing instances in which evidence was used for government policymaking at the federal, state and local levels, and where policymaking processes were designed to incorporate evidence. More