11/19/25: If the AI bubble bursts, what will it mean for research? (Nature) The rise in artificial-intelligence technologies is unprecedented, but some predict a stock-market crash that could have knock-on effects for funding and jobs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03776-0
11/19/25: Europe’s brain drain is accelerating. America can soak it up. (Washington Post, Opinion) There’s a huge opportunity in welcoming Europe’s overtaxed, underpaid professional and entrepreneurial classes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/19/immigration-entrepreneurs-wealthy-europe-trump/
11/18/25: ‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed (New York Times, Guest Essay) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opinion/university-higher-education-trump-politics.html
11/18/25: Reminder of Compliance Requirements for NIH Extramural Recipients Related to Renegotiated Aims, Objectives, Titles, and Abstracts (NOT-OD-26-007) Reminder to NIH awardees that changes in scope represent new terms and conditions, with which recipients must comply. This reminder applies to grants, cooperative agreements, and other transactions. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-007.html
11/18/25: As New Federal Research Funding Resumes, China May Already Be Outspending U.S. (Inside Higher Ed, COGR quoted) A research advocacy organization says China was projected to outpace America in R&D funding even before Trump retook power. The government shutdown probably didn’t help. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/11/18/china-may-already-be-outpacing-us-research
11/18/25: Updated Terms and Conditions of Award – Termination and Compliance with Court Orders (NOT-OD-26-009) https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-009.html
11/18/25: Trump Spending Freeze Appeal Complicated by NIH Grant Ruling (Bloomberg Law) A US court’s lifting of President Donald Trump’s government-wide spending freeze stoked concerns months later as appeals judges weighed whether an intervening US Supreme Court ruling complicates the reprieve. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-life-sciences/trump-spending-freeze-appeal-complicated-by-nih-grant-ruling?context=search&index=6
11/18/25: NIH cuts impacted 74,000 clinical trial patients: study (Axios) The Trump administration’s termination of federal research grants earlier this year disrupted about 1 in 30 clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health, new research shows. https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/nih-clinical-trials-funding-cuts-impact
See also: Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear. (Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/17/clinical-trials-nih-funding-cuts/
11/17/25: NSF FAQs: Resumption of Operations at NSF: https://www.nsf.gov/resumption-operations
11/17/25: Are the Deals to Save Research Funding Good for Research? (The Chronicle) While some researchers have recouped money by joining lawsuits against the government , these scientists are now rebuilding under widely criticized conditions that were adopted by their institutions. In interviews, some said their faith in the country’s once-steady scientific enterprise is shaken — a disruption no deal can fix. They expressed uncertainty over the National Institutes of Health’s future research budget, and said they’d heard from younger scientists who plan to leave the United States or academe altogether. https://www.chronicle.com/article/are-the-deals-to-save-research-funding-good-for-research
