12/10/25: China is leading the world on AI governance: other countries must engage (Nature) The past few years have seen no shortage of international dialogues, white papers and recommendations from advisory groups on the development and use of artificial intelligence. Yet when it has come to turning these into globally agreed rules to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of AI, there has been a leadership vacuum. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03972-y
12/9/25: OMB Unveils President’s Management Agenda (ExecGov) The Office of Management and Budget has released the President’s Management Agenda , outlining the Trump administration’s priority goals to improve the federal government’s performance and management. https://www.executivegov.com/articles/omb-presidents-management-agenda
12/9/25: ‘A huge rupture in everything’: US science faced major upheaval in 2025 (C&EN) The Donald J. Trump administration’s array of policy and funding actions in 2025 amounted to one of the biggest upheavals in the US federal government’s approach to science in the past 80 years, analysts tell C&EN. https://cen.acs.org/policy/nih-nsf-ostp-science-research-funding-cuts/103/web/2025/12
12/8/25: Policy Notice: Implementation of Policy Changes to Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1, Supplement 1 (NSF) The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is releasing a Policy Notice for its 2024 Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG). The PAPPG documents the agency’s proposal and award process, which govern the management of grants and cooperative agreements. NSF will defer release of the 26-1 version of the PAPPG, previously developed and planned for publication in Fiscal Year 2026, to ensure alignment with forthcoming Uniform Grant Guidance updates. NSF will issue policy revisions via supplemental Policy Notices in the interim. https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/pappg24-1-supplement-1
12/8/25: Ten people who helped shape science in 2025 (Nature) A fired public-health official, a mosquito breeder and a baby with a smile seen around the world. These are just a few of the remarkable people chosen for Nature’s 10. https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03848-1/index.html
12/8/25: Fiscal Year 2025 Domestic Annual Reports to the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (NOT-OD-26-003) This Notice is to remind domestic institutions with an approved Domestic Animal Welfare Assurance that Annual Reports for the reporting period October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025, are due to the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) by December 1, 2025. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-003.html
