From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 23:10:55 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.193.181.76] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.17]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.7) with ESMTPSA id 37040779 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2020 21:51:01 -0400 X-Original-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 21:51:01 -0400 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20200902215101448567.4999e388@cni.org> Subject: COGR Report on Research Impact under COVID-19: Financial Crisis and the "Pandemic Normal" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.6.3 The Council on Governmental Relations (see www.cogr.edu) has recently issued an interesting (and worrisome) report titled Research Impact under COVID-19: Financial Crisis and the "Pandemic Normal" which seeks to map out the "pandemic normal" for research under COVID-19, and how this differs from normal the normal research environment, and to model the overall impact of COVID-19 on the research enterprise. Their work focuses heavily on extramurally (governmentally) funded research, and as with so much work in this area, emphasizes laboratory based research, so while it does recognize some effects on areas outside of science and engineering, it doesn't spend much time on these disciplines. The report can be downloaded from https://www.cogr.edu/sites/default/files/Research_COVID_August2020_COGR_FINAL.pdf Clifford Lynch Director, CNI