🚨 Our latest paper just came out in Science, where we report a simple, historical pattern:

From 1980 to 2020, Republican lawmakers consistently funded science at a higher level than their Democratic counterparts.

four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas

thread 1/n We leverage a unique & comprehensive database that categorizes discretionary base budget authority for federal science and research accounts, tracing 171 specific federal appropriations accounts across 27 federal agencies in a 40 y span.

We uncover four key findings.

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🚨 Our latest paper is out today in Science!

We uncover stark and systematic partisan differences in the amount, content, and character of science used in policy, which mirror differences in political elites’ trust in science.

Four years in the making. Led by @zfurnas

1/n Science has long been regarded as essential to policymaking. Its role has become especially vital, as many pressing societal challenges today--from climate change to technological advancement--are intimately linked with the latest scientific progress. 2/

special delivery for #IC2S2 - our latest in Nature Human Behavior: nature.com/articles/s4156…

Five years in the making. Accompanied by my essay in @HarvardBiz: hbr.org/2019/07/how-ne…

Findings may be relevant to a range of scholars, CSS, diffusion, #ScienceOfScience thread [1/n] Diffusion processes impact broad aspects of human society. our knowledge is mainly limited to spreading in non-substitutive systems. Yet, many ideas, products and behaviors spread by substitution-to adopt a new one, agents often need to give up an existing one 2/