Follow COGR on LinkedIn4/6/26Inside Higher Ed
Trump Once Again Pushes Steep Education, Research Cuts
Congress broadly rejected the president’s proposed gutting of research funding agencies for this fiscal year. But his new budget proposal still attacks them, and ED. Here are our five takeaways.
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4/5/26New York Times
Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.
The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.
4/3/26Science
Offering scientists cash to spot errors in published papers doesn’t work
A project that offers researchers a cash bounty for finding mistakes in published scientific papers has run into trouble: It can’t find enough reviewers to do the work. Now, organizers of the Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research (ERROR) project are planning to throw in an additional incentive, by publishing the reviews in a new peer-reviewed journal.
4/3/26Higher Ed Dive
DOL seeks to hike H-1B visa holder wage rates to curb ‘abuse’ of program
Employers should expect the changes, which revive a regulatory effort from the first Trump era, to disrupt their skilled worker hiring plans, one attorney said.
3/27/26The Atlantic
The Shocking Speed of China’s Scientific Rise
If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement. Neither will there necessarily be a dramatic Promethean demonstration, a bomb flash in the desert, a satellite beeping overhead, a moon landing. It will be a quiet moment, observed by a small, specialized subset of scientists who have forsaken the study of the stars, animals, and plants in favor of a more navel-gazing subject: the practice of science itself.