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Fed Update: COGR News Digest
Follow COGR on LinkedIn 5/8/26Nature  Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023 5/7/26  How fe…
Read MoreZOT IRB / hSCRO System Update — Enhancements & Bug Fixes
Dear IRB Staff and Researchers, We are pleased to announce that ZOT IRB and hSCRO will be updated with the latest enhancements and bug fixes on May 11, 2026. Version Updates: ZOT IRB: 10.5.7 → 10.5.12 https://research.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026-M…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 5/6/26STAT, Opinion  Trump’s executive order on psychedelics is the right move. But is my field ready for it? Psychedelics researchers have been waiting for this moment. We can’t blow it 5/6/26Chemistry World  Former NSF lead…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 5/4/26Inside Higher Ed  After Board Wiped Out, 13 Former NSF Leaders Call for New Members, Director Thirteen former leaders of the National Science Foundation are asking the Senate and the Trump administration to install leade…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 5/1/26Inside Higher Ed  Research HBCUs Launch Association to Foster Collaboration A group of historically Black research colleges and universities announced the launch of a new coalition, the Association of HBCU Research Insti…
Read MoreFood and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance on Safety Reporting
An archived version of this message may be found at news.research.uci.edu Human Research Protections (HRP) Institutional Review Board Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Guidance on Safety Reporting ​In December 2025, FDA released two final guidance do…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 4/28/26Nature  Key US science panels are being axed — and others are becoming less open President Donald Trump and his administration downsized US science by historic margins last year as it reduced the workforce at federal re…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 4/27/26Inside Higher Ed  White House Ousts Entire National Science Board The White House on Friday terminated all members of the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, Nature  and Science  re…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 4/24/26  Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place? (Nature) Several other lists have been launched in the past year, but some scholars want research evaluation to take…
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Follow COGR on LinkedIn 4/22/26Axios  Scoop: Trump set to reclassify marijuana soon The Trump  administration is expected to move to reclassify  marijuana as soon as Wednesday, per an administration official familiar with the matter 4/22/26New York…
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