AIBS has provided testimony to the House Appropriations Committee urging Congress to provide the National Science Foundation with at least $9.9 billion in fiscal year 2026.
AIBS has signed on to a community letter expressing strong support for the U.S. Geological Survey’s National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers.
The latest
Public Policy Report has been released. NSF to Abolish Programmatic Divisions, Executive Order Limits ‘Dangerous’ Research, Meet with Your Lawmakers This Summer and Help Inform Science Policy, and other news.
AIBS has signed on to a letter urging greater transparency and oversight regarding potential Reduction-in-Force (RIF) and reorganization plans for federal agencies critical to our nation's scientific enterprise and public health infrastructure.
The Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event enables scientists to meet with their federal or state elected officials in their home state and allows policymakers to learn first-hand about the science and research facilities in their district.
The latest
Public Policy Report has been released. Trump proposes drastic cuts for science, turmoil at NSF, NIH ends foreign research funding, and other news.
AIBS has signed on to an amicus brief asking the court to hold recent Executive Orders resulting in termination of grants supporting young scientists as unlawful and to order the National Institutes of Health to restore funding.
Scientists from across the country were in Washington, DC, on April 28-30, 2025, to participate in the AIBS Communications Boot Camp for Scientists and Congressional Visits Day.
A coalition of 77 organizations has sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators requesting at least $1.7 billion for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in fiscal year (FY) 2026.
AIBS has endorsed a letter to the Interior Secretary expressing full support for the Ecosystems Mission Area within the U.S. Geological Survey.
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