science funding

What I told my students about the threats to evolutionary science

I was floored by the question, but it matters. With U.S. funding crashing, what will happen to the future of the field?

May 4 •

How the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is slowly turning into a dissertation grant

Most winners are already enrolled in graduate programs with well-defined research topics.

Apr 1, 2015 •

Data access to fossil hominins, reflecting on the NSF policy

In a post from 2005, I reflect on why access to data from fossil hominins is of central value to progress in paleoanthropology.

Apr 16, 2005 •

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