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Your science is important. In the latest issue of American Scientist, we remind researchers that what they do has great value. And we have a request. Tell us about your work and why you do it! See the post for more details. And please share! www.americanscientist.org/article/your...

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Your Science Is Important Tallies vary, but it appears that recent terminations of grants issued by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies number in the thousands and amount to billions of U.S. dollars. Many scientists who have been swept up in these terminations have been posting online about their research that has been cut short. A common thread from these posts is that there is little public understanding of the level of oversight that goes into both grant proposals and grant management. As one researcher posted on social media, “I feel like some people must think that grants are like medieval patronage arrangements or something. Like we just show up with an open burlap sack and they shake a lot of money into it, and we go away and do whatever we feel like doing.” https://www.americanscientist.org/article/your-science-is-important