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NSF funding for US social sciences collapses, archaeology and economics hit hardest

The National Science Foundation funded fewer than 100 new social-science grants in fiscal year 2026, down from a historical average of about 850 per year, according to data from Grant Witness and the NSF itself. Entire programme areas, including archaeology and economics, received no new awards at all, even as the agency touted that 75 Nobel economics laureates had previously received NSF support.

nature.com · 2026-11-03

World Bank requires reproducibility packages for all published research since 2025

The World Bank has begun attaching 'reproducibility packages'—containing raw data and analysis code—to all research it publishes, following concerns that findings in social and behavioural sciences are often hard for independent researchers to replicate. The move, underway since 2023 and standard since 2025, follows broader studies this year documenting widespread reproducibility problems across scientific fields.

nature.com · 2026-09-08