Archive - Heterodox STEM

The Institute for Progress and Science Funding

by Jennifer Woods

Jun 7

If the Sun-Eating Space MacGuffins Attack, We’re All Doomed!

Summer is upon us and with it the summer movie season, this year is teeming with films that seem...adequate?

Jun 6 • Daniel Nuccio

May 2026

Why Auger Decay Should Remain “Auger Decay”

In 2019, Physics Today published a page-and-half essay titled “A Renaming Proposal: ‘The Auger–Meitner Effect.’” The authors (who include a science…

May 31 • Anna Krylov

UC STEM Professors Speak Out

Over 1400 STEM faculty at the University of California (UC) have signed an open letter exposing the profusion of UC undergrads unprepared for basic…

May 27 • Kent Osband

Grade Inflation: A Simple Solution

A guest essay by J.E.R. Staddon

May 27

FY27 Science Budget: A Fuller Picture of Implications for Social Psychology and Beyond

Trump is not killing science and not even killing social psychology (though he did propose eliminating NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economics Science…

Published on Unsafe Science • May 25

Panel Event (June 3 2026) on IRB Reform - Let the Discussions Begin

This is a follow-up to an earlier post: Why we need to reform the IRB review process and how we propose to do it.

May 24 • Evan D. Morris

Federal Funding of Science—Issues and Recommendations

Editor’s note: This post is a part of “How to Reform U.S.

May 20 • Judy Parrish

To Reform US Science Funding, Reward Curiosity, Talent, and Honesty

Editor’s note: This post is a part of “How to Reform U.S.

May 17 • Rick Born

How to Judge a Basic Research Proposal

Right answer or RIGHT QUESTION?

May 13

To Reform Science, Take a Seat on the SOFA

Editor’s note: This post is a part of “How to Reform U.S.

May 10 • J Scott Turner

Free Inquiry on Campus Remains in Jeopardy

The power of alumni non-giving

Published on MIT Uncanceled • May 8