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White House
Washington Post: Fauci plans to step down in December after half a century in government
NIH: Statement by Anthony Fauci on intention to step down as NIAID director and chief medical advisor to President Biden
White House: Statement from President Joe Biden on the announcement of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Departure from NIAID
Fedscoop: White House Deputy CTO and National AI Director Lynne Parker to step down
University of Tennessee: Lynne Parker to lead AI research and education initiative at UT
OSTP: RFI to inform decadal strategic plan for the Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services
NNSA: Biden visits NNSA-supported manufacturing program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Washington Post: White House speeds monkeypox vaccines, but not everyone likes the pace
OSTP: Scholarly publishing community and research organizations respond to monkeypox outbreak
Lawfare: Can Trump just declare nuclear secrets unclassified? (perspective by Alex Wellerstein)
Congress
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): Transcript of Pelosi remarks at press event on CHIPS and Science Act
Government Matters: CHIPS and Science Act will be ‘transformative’ if Congress follows through: science policy writer (video interview with Mitch Ambrose)
Wall Street Journal: The CHIPS Act is simply swing-state pork for lackluster tech companies (perspective by Andy Kessler)
Wall Street Journal: Free enterprise, not central planning, will beat China (perspective by Nikki Haley)
Bloomberg: Bill Gates and the secret push to save Biden’s climate bill
AAAS: STEM earmarks in the 2023 appropriations cycle
Science, Society, and the Economy
Wall Street Journal: US companies on pace to bring home record number of overseas jobs, including in high-tech sectors
The Economist: Keeping up America’s standards is the job of NIST
Pew: Pew-White House event focuses on meeting evidence needs of government and communities
Scientific American: The public wants scientists to be more involved in policy debates (perspective by Naomi Oreskes)
Space Review: Chief communicator: How Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols helped NASA
Education and Workforce
Protocol: Move over, Silicon Valley. Engineers are quitting for climate tech
National Defense: High skills immigration a national security issue (perspective by Mark Lewis and Divyansh Kaushik)
Noahpinion: The case for high-skilled immigration reform (and how to make it happen) (perspective by Alex Stapp and Jeremy Neufeld)
NBC News: After protests, UC San Diego agrees not to fire Chinese postdoc who raised concerns
Chronicle of Higher Education: More colleges are adding diversity to tenure standards, but the debate’s not settled
Forbes: The CHIPS Act: Why women And non-binary technologists need protections now (perspective by Brenda Wilkerson)
American Astronomical Society: Special message on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Research Management
Commerce IG: USPTO should strengthen its planning and oversight of patent data capture contracts to manage risks and prevent unnecessary costs (report)
Day One Project: Strengthening policy by bringing evidence to life (perspective by Julian Elliott and Hannah Safford)
Issues in Science and Technology: Architectures of participation: Cloud computing and the future of innovation policy (perspective by Gerald Berk and Annalee Saxenian)
Nature: Nature's take: What's next for the preprint revolution (audio)
ARL: Association of Research Libraries applauds NSF open science investment
Retraction Watch: ‘It’s time to devise a more efficient solution’: Science editor-in-chief wants to change the retraction process
Scholarly Kitchen: Has peer review created a toxic culture in academia? Moving from ‘battering’ to ‘bettering’ in the review of academic research (perspective by Avi Staiman)
Forbes: It’s time to retire the terms ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ science (perspective by Marshall Shepherd)
Labs and Facilities
AP: Hawaii seeks end to strife over astronomy on sacred mountain
University of Rochester: Construction begins on new Laser Lab expansion
Fermilab: Excavation of huge caverns for DUNE particle detector is underway
Jefferson Lab: Experts go all in when CEBAF is in trouble
HPCwire: DOE and ORNL dedicate Frontier supercomputer
NASA: NASA awards next-generation spaceflight computing processor contract
LLNL: LLNL joins forces with supercomputing centers in Germany, the UK, and the US to form IASC
General Atomics: Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) tours DIII-D national fusion facility
DOD: Deputy secretaries of defense and energy visit Oak Ridge National Lab
NNSA: Comments invited on notice of intent to prepare a new Los Alamos National Lab site-wide environmental impact statement
AP: Watchdog groups call environmental review at LANL ‘sham’ process
NNSA: NNSA announces exercise of terms for Nevada National Security Site management and operating contract
Computing and Communications
DARPA: DARPA launches program to forge the future of US microelectronics manufacturing
MIT Tech Review: Inside the software that will become the next battle front in US–China chip war
SupChina: US finally passes semiconductor subsidy bill, but it’s not going to help competition with China (perspective by Paul Triolo)
DigiTimes Asia: No need for TSMC to take side between US and China (interview with Richard Thurston)
Nikkei Asia: China-born scientist Gang Chen, once US target, discovers 'best' chip material
Breaking Defense: Key senators renew push to undo FCC’s Ligado spectrum ruling
IEEE Spectrum: ‘Quantum-safe’ crypto hacked by 10-year-old PC
RAND: Assessments of quantum computing vulnerabilities of national critical infrastructure functions (report)
HPCwire: Glimpse into ORNL Quantum Science Center efforts to find the elusive Majorana and much more
NIST: NIST seeks comments on AI Risk Management Framework guidance, workshop date set
DOE: DOE announces release of the AI Risk Management Playbook
Commerce Department: Request for comments on AI export competitiveness
Space
NASA: NASA identifies candidate regions for landing next Americans on Moon
SpaceNews: SLS arrives at the pad for Artemis I launch
Leonard David: NASA’s Space Launch System: Countdown to controversy
AURA: Nancy Levenson new interim director of Space Telescope Science Institute
Today: Laurie Leshin is first woman to lead NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (video interview)
JPL: Europa Clipper spacecraft kicks assembly into high gear
Ars Technica: Rocket Lab will self-fund a mission to search for life in the clouds of Venus
SupChina: China’s space program, with NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao (audio)
Weather, Climate, and Environment
Nature: Scientists welcome ‘enormous’ US climate bill — but call for stronger action
Volts: Diving further into the Inflation Reduction Act (audio)
Federation of American Scientists: Environmental data in the Inflation Reduction Act
ScienceInsider: Can farmers fight climate change? New US law gives them billions to try
USGS: David Applegate sworn in as director of USGS
USGS: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps map underground geology across Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
DARPA: DARPA offering prizes for automating aspects of USGS’s critical mineral assessments
WUSA9: Montgomery County is working with NOAA and the NIHHIS to keep people safe during extreme heat events
Nature: We must get a grip on forest science — before it’s too late (editorial)
Energy
New York Times: Expansion of clean energy loans is ‘sleeping giant’ of climate bill
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: US will hash out clean energy details with global leaders in Pittsburgh
Financial Times: EU digs for more lithium, cobalt and graphite in green energy push
New Atlantis: Can the US wrest control of rare-earth elements back from China? (perspective by Tristan Abbey)
Berkeley Lab: Report highlights technology advancement and value of wind energy
GeekWire: Nuclear energy company co-founded by Bill Gates raises $750 million, one of the largest rounds in Seattle tech history
Nuclear Newswire: Abilene Christian University applies for molten salt research reactor construction permit
Nuclear Newswire: The state of US fusion
Defense
DOD: Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks' remarks on American innovation at Purdue University
National Interest: The Pentagon needs an innovation overhaul (perspective by Melissa Flagg)
Acquisition Talk: SBIR mills, dual-use tech, and the case for reform with Ben Van Roo (audio)
Reuters: Russia suspends START arms inspections over US travel curbs
Wilson Center: Re-writing the constitutional history of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NNSA: NNSA head Jill Hruby visits South Korea to discuss national security, nonproliferation, and nuclear security issues
Exchange Monitor: Early upgrades finished at Nevada site’s underground subcritical nuclear test lab, NNSA says
Stimson Center: DEI in nuclear security culture: Insider threat assessments at nuclear facilities (perspective by Sneha Nair)
Nature: Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine
National Academies: Effectiveness and efficiency of defense environmental cleanup activities of DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (report)
Biomedical
STAT: In an effort to address its missteps during COVID, CDC plans an 'ambitious' agency
ScienceInsider: Where did the pandemic start? Anywhere but here, argue papers by Chinese scientists echoing party line
New York Times: FDA clears path for hearing aids to be sold over the counter
OSTP: Making technology accessible: How policy delivers savings and support for Americans with hearing loss
STAT: ‘A poster child’ for diversity in science: Black engineers work to fix long-ignored bias in oxygen readings
Washington Post: The Inflation Reduction Act reflects the changing politics of RX drug (perspective by Jeremy Greene)
HHS IG: NIH did not ensure that all clinical trial results were reported in accordance with federal requirements (report)
NSF: Integrative biological science and training are the focus of four new institutes
International Affairs
Wall Street Journal: US approves nearly all tech exports to China, data shows
Wall Street Journal: Chinese research ship arrives in Sri Lanka over India’s objections
South China Morning Post: How Singapore’s scientists partner with Chinese peers despite complicated politics
China Daily: China–Russia science cooperation deepens
University World News: Crimes against the world — Russia’s attacks on universities
Nature: Will war in Ukraine mark a new era for European defense research?
The Guardian: UK research institute apologizes for rejecting Russian scientist
New York Times: A new Cold War could slow the advance of science (perspective by Michael Riordan)
BBC News: UK government enters endgame in Europe research standoff
Politico: Scientists face hard choices as UK prepares to abandon EU projects for years to come
Science|Business: New European Innovation Agenda to speed development and scale-up of innovation across Europe (perspective by Mariya Gabriel)
HPCwire: Australian government unveils new defense, weather supercomputers