Released Dec 8, 2025 and effective immediately, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a supplement to the 24-1 edition of the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedure Guide (PAPPG). PAPPG Chapter 11.D.2.i(ii) contains information on Data Management and Sharing Plan requirements for proposals, and the supplement adds to that section the following statement: Recipients…

Featured in: NIH grant to fund autism research center (Cornell Chronicle) Weill Cornell Medicine and CCSS have received a $5.1M, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) to launch the Autism Replication, Validation, and Reproducibility (AR²) Center. Principal investigator Judy Zhong, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Co-PI Peter Enns, Robert…

A New Name for Familiar Standards An executive order listing 9 tenets of Gold Standard Science was issued in May of 2025, but Cornell researchers have been upholding these standards for decades. If your federal funder asks you to adhere to this Gold Standard Follow the advice in our infographic about how existing data management…