🚀 go-pugleaf

I have just seen the message re proposals to eliminate NSF
funding for the social, economic and behavioural sciences.
I am horrified, of course, but is there anything which can
usefully be done by social scientists outside the US to try
and influence your legislators to think again?  Both the UK
and the European Union are travelling in the opposite direction
and are opening up new funding opportunities for the social
sciences - not least because scientists, politicians and various
opinion formers have recognised that there are many imoportant
social and economic issues to which they need answers if they
are to develop the right policies for
the development of new technologies, new social policies, etc.
Has anyone shown your legislators the details of the EU's Fourth
Framework Programme? Or the UK's Foresight initiative?

Prof David Rose
Associate Director
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change
(The British Household Panel Study)

ps The BHPS is modelled on the NSF-funded Panel Study of
Income Dynamics - as are the German and EU Household Panels.