New Matt Faherty study of the NSF
From the Executive Summary: Therefore, the NSF, NIH, and the federal government should put far more resources and effort into developing metascience. With proper metascience efforts, the NSF could run experiments on science funding reform proposals, such as shifting to a people-over-projects funding model or directly funding replication efforts, and determine which reforms will most […] The post…
The NSF, NIH, and federal government should allocate significantly more resources and effort into the development of metascience, according to a new study by Matt Faherty. This field of study could enable the NSF to conduct experiments on various science funding reform proposals, such as adopting a people-over-projects funding model or directly funding replication efforts.
By doing so, the NSF could determine which reforms are most likely to improve its outcomes. The NSF's September 2026 announcement of an Office of Metascience is a positive step towards achieving this goal, and Faherty's recommendations can serve as a guide for the office's development, its experimental agenda, and the evaluation of its results.
The report "Science: A New Golden Age" released by Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on July 21, 2026, contains several recommendations that Faherty strongly supports and believes the wider science community should as well. The full study is available for further reading.
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