There's two CR drafts in play and a future debate on appropriations, and if any of that confuses you - we created a new course on @aaas.org's Learning Hub to help provide some of the context needed to keep up with the Federal R&D Budget Take it here: learninghub.aaas.org/courses/265745

The last House bill will be marked up tomorrow, so there's enough info out in the world for the FY 2027 House R&D Report! This report exists in tandem with appropriations dashboard, explaining some of the context and highlighting funding-related language in the bills. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2027...

FY 2027 R&D Appropriations: the House R&D Report | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Based on @oecd-ocde.bsky.social data, China surpassed the U.S. in total R&D spending in 2024. This means the U.S. is now #2 in all metrics we track The 2026 Global Context report is out now, with details of how the U.S. compares against the other major R&D superpowers: www.aaas.org/news/us-rd-a...

U.S. R&D and Innovation in a Global Context: the 2026 Data Update | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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All week you've seen the FY 2027 Appropriations dashboard update numbers without context but fear not: the PBR Report is now out! I tried to collect all the impacts to R&D agencies, so this is a summary of the administration's hopes for the next fiscal year. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2027...

It's Budget Day and I'm working on going through the request as fast as I can. Early numbers from the fact sheets are currently in the FY27 Appropriation dashboard, and I'll be going through the appendices today to update them with more details Hot, new dashboard link: www.aaas.org/news/fy-2027...

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The U.S. administration released the FY 2027 Budget Request this morning, proposing deep cuts to science funding once again. While there are similarities in the proposed cuts between FY26 and FY27, the final FY26 appropriations show the impact of advocacy in action.

Want to learn about the federal R&D budget? Want to celebrate the R&D Budget and Policy program turning 50? Feel the urge to roleplay a congressman? Have burning questions about the budget process? The #AAASmtg will have a talk for each of your highly specific needs. Come hang out with me in Phoenix

With appropriations for FY 2026 96% finalized, I offer to you my report on how science funding fared so far. From the numbers Congress has provided for the agencies, funding looks like approximately FY 2025 levels for most. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations: Final R&D Report | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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The NYT published a story that highlights how Congress has pulled back from the PBR's proposed cuts. The numbers show more favorable outcomes in the House and Senate for R&D. Damage was done in 2025, but these potential funding outcomes are better than what was feared.

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

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I come back from my winter PTO and day one Congress drops the text of a minibus. The dashboard has been updated with the Senate Homeland numbers, and all the info in the CJS-Int-E&W minibus. A House vote is scheduled tomorrow night, and Senate likely later this week. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Today I got to close out the Forum on S&T Policy, and one of the big things I highlighted was that the Historical Dashboard has been revamped! It's out now, with more data, fun new visualizations, and a excel sheet if you want to play with the data yourself Check it out: www.aaas.org/programs/r-d...

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Another lit review incoming: this time looking at the impacts of federal shutdowns. While this report is a little bit broader than just the R&D ecosystem, it does provide a picture of what could happen next week, should a funding patch not be signed into law. www.aaas.org/news/researc...

Research on R&D Funding: Impacts of Federal Shutdowns | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Today the House committee marked up their LHHS bill, which means all of the House appropriations bills have had their report language released and I could update the House R&D estimates in my report. You can find the updated report on the same page as before: www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

It's August recess, congress has left DC and I've got another report - this time highlighting what the Senate was up to. Just as with the House, they're missing some bills so we've worked around those gaps to try to bring you the best picture of what they've passed. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations: Senate R&D Report | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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With the House potentially starting their recess early, here's a report on what they've proposed so far for FY 2026 Appropriations. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations: House R&D Report | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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I've just released a new report that expands on the data that was featured in a certain NYT article last week. On top of how basic, applied, and developmental science fares in the PBR, it looks at agency R&D capacity, functional classifications, and historical trends. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

A whole lot of bills were just released by the House in the last 24 hours, and I've updated the dashboard with all of them. More details to come as the report language gets released after the markups, but there's already a lot to process: www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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All eyes might be on the House and Senate, but I'm not done extracting everything I can from the PBR. So here's the Federal R&D Workforce tracker, that uses the FTE numbers to show historical data on employment at key agencies and programs, plus proposed FY 2026 levels: www.aaas.org/news/trackin...

Tracking the Federal R&D Workforce | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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All the major R&D agencies' budget justifications are now out, and thus the dashboard and PBR report are as complete as I can get them. You can now download the latest report for the (just added) summaries of Defense, NIST and NOAA. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations: The Presidential Budget Request | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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New Report alert! I tried to compile as much of the funding and organizational changes that the FY 2026 PBR outlines for the R&D accounts that we track. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations: The Presidential Budget Request | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Agencies are starting to upload their FY 2026 congressional justifications, so the Appropriations Dashboard is updating as fast as I can find the documents. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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With the release of the skinny Presidential Budget Request, the FY 2026 season officially kicks off and the dashboard goes live! Because this is a -skinny- request not everything was mentioned, so we'll keep updating as more details roll out in the next weeks and months. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Today @aaas.org's CEO, testified before the Senate Appropriations committee and stated that the U.S. is at a crossroads — it needs to decide if it wants to remain a dominant R&D economy or give up the title Watch the recording here: www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/bio...

Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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The State Dashboard keeps evolving! We were donated new data so you can know how many full-time PhD and postdocs are funded by state, institution, and agency. Check out the new #Researchers tab on the dashboard, plus another data donation coming next week! www.aaas.org/news/state-r...

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I know I only launched the state R&D dashboard last week, but the Science is US team granted me access to their data so there's a new tab with all of their analyses; looking at STEMM jobs by state, sector, and economic impact: www.aaas.org/news/state-r... Also, obviously, go read their full report!

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A new #STEMM economic analysis from Science is US, "Science at Work: The People and Industries Powering America's Prosperity," is here. Professionals working in STEMM fields now number more than 73.6 million, a 9.7% increase in the past two years.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

It's Hill Visit season in DC, so we created the State R&D Dashboard, which uses (largely NCSES) data to showcase the prevalence of STEM jobs, use of federal R&D funding, and FFRDCs across the 50 states (and Puerto Rico). Click around and have some fun: www.aaas.org/news/state-r...

State R&D Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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The full-year CR was signed into law this weekend. While it's quite likely that FY 2025 R&D funding will change again before the fiscal year is through, here's my (first) Final FY 2025 R&D Appropriations Report where I estimate how much R&D will occur under this CR. www.aaas.org/news/final-f...

The US has 3 days of funding left, with either a CR or a shutdown afterwards. Uncertainty about funding has impacts, and in our latest in the Research on R&D Funding series we summarize the studies that have looked into the effects of funding uncertainty on researchers. www.aaas.org/news/researc...

I've updated the dashboard with the R&D accounts that got anomalies in the CR bill text. All accounts that were not called out will stay at FY 2024 levels and thus show up as blank in the dashboard since there's no change. www.aaas.org/news/fy-2025...