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In response to a request for information on accelerating the American scientific enterprise from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the NSC Alliance provided comments emphasizing the need to recognize natural history collections as essential national research infrastructure and provide sustained, inflation-adjusted federal investment to support their care, digitization, and data […]

A coalition of more than 50 scientific societies, including NSC Alliance, have sent a letter to Congress, expressing concerns over provisions in the August 7, 2025 Executive Order titled “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking.” The letter urges Congress to provide necessary oversight at federal science agencies to prevent potentially significant damage to US leadership in […]

The Natural Science Collections Alliance has submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on its reorganization plan, outlined in the 24 July 2025 Secretary Memorandum (SM 1078-015). The plan calls for closing the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center—home to the U. S. National Fungus Collection and the USDA Nematode Collection.   The […]

The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF)—an alliance of more than 140 professional organizations, scientific societies, universities, and businesses that advocate for the National Science Foundation (NSF)—has called on congressional appropriators to fund NSF at the highest possible level in fiscal year (FY) 2026. NSC Alliance is a member of CNSF. The letter reads in […]

NSC Alliance has joined the Entomological Society of America and 18 other scientific societies in submitting a joint response to the White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed rule-making, “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service,” also commonly known as “Schedule F.” The proposed rule would reclassify tens of thousands of federal […]

NSC Alliance 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 letter reads, in part: “We request the immediate public release of these plans and robust public and expert consultation before any […]

The Natural Science Collections Alliance has submitted testimony to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, requesting Congress to provide the National Science Foundation with at least $9.9 billion in FY 2026.  The testimony highlights the importance and role of natural history collections in improving public health, agricultural productivity, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and American […]