Weekly News, June 23, 2025

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What UC Berkeley researchers need to know about NIH’s Updated Public Access Policy. Read this blog post about the policy, which includes information about the mandatory manuscript submission to PubMed Central, how to navigate acknowledgement requirements, copyright and licensing, and the NIH data sharing requirements. Authors will continue to submit their “Author Accepted Manuscript,” pre-publication manuscripts to PubMed Central. This is the author’s final version that has been accepted for journal publication and which includes all revisions resulting from the peer review process, including all associated tables, graphics, and supplemental material. The manuscript does not include publisher stylistic edits/copyediting. This implementation date will now take effect on July 1, 2025.  Key changes include:

  • Embargo periods will no longer exist. This replaces the previous 2008 Public Access Policy, which provided for an embargo of up to twelve months on the PubMed Central copy of the article. 
  • New definition of “Published”: Previously, “published” was defined as the later of the electronic or print publication date. In the new policy, “published” is defined as the date on which the article is first made available in final, edited form, whether in print or electronic. 
  • Publications must be compliant at the time of publication (print or electronic) . Submit your manuscript when the publisher accepts your paper.

Short-Term Extension to Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) Status. NIH has published a new notice that extends ESI eligibility through October 2025 for PIs who were affected by recent delays in the grants process. This applies to PIs whose ESI status would have ended for the October/November 2024, February/March 2025, or June/July 2025 due dates. Learn more.

Helpful Resources:

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/how/secure-funding/impacts-2025-federal-executive-orders-and-directives

State of World Population 2025 report: The real fertility crisis. The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has launched its State of World Population 2025 report, which reveals how the most consequential reproductive decision a human being can make — when, whether and with whom to have a child — is being undermined by economic and social barriers. Together with YouGov, UNFPA conducted a survey of 14 countries to ask people whether they are having the families they desire, finding that alarmingly high proportions of adults are unable to realize their fertility intentions. Read the full report.

See further announcements and opportunities below.

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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS

Research Centers Collaborative Network Workshop. RCCN Workshop: AI and Health Behaviors for Healthy Aging. Virtual. June 24-25, 2025.

Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2025: Development in the Age of Populism. Tuesday, July 22 to Friday, July 25, 2025 (start time varies by day). 

By most measures of human progress, the world is in better shape today than it has ever been—in life expectancy, in per capita GDP, in literacy rates, among other things. Yet, profound dissatisfaction has taken root in many countries, at every level of income. The global economic system that has powered much of this progress over the last 80 years is now widely regarded as broken. Nearly two-thirds of the global electorate went to the polls last year to register their displeasure regarding income inequality, cultural insecurity, and elite institutions. Populism, in short, is ascendant to an unusually synchronized degree, fueled by a fragmenting public consensus on the policies needed for economic progress. It will pose a formidable development challenge in the coming years. ABCDE—scheduled for July 22 to 25, 2025 and organized by the World Bank in conjunction with the Center for Global Development and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy—aims to assess the developments during the last decade, analyze the causes, and adjust our approach to economic progress. Register here. Hybrid event. Birdsall House / Preston Auditorium / Virtual.

State of Access:  A Contraceptive Policy Scorecard. With the Population Reference Bureau.  Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. 1-2:30pm EST.

Access to contraception in the U.S. varies widely—not because of individual preferences, but because of state policy choices. While some states have enacted policies that expand access, others have laws and regulations that limit options and autonomy. Join us for the launch of State of Access: A Contraceptive Policy Scorecard, an interactive web feature that untangles the complex policy environment for contraceptive access in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. We’ll reveal how policies in nine key areas—from Medicaid expansion to emergency contraception to sex education—create a tiered system in which an individual’s ability to access care depends on where they live. We’ll also share how the scorecard can help advocates and decisionmakers advance reproductive health access nationwide. RSVP Here.

Call for Abstracts – Kinsey Institute Conference on Sex and Aging. Present your research at the Kinsey Institute’s Symposium on Sex and Aging at Indiana University, Bloomington on October 4, 2025. We are currently accepting posters on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies from any discipline or field relating to innovative, scientific work that explores the intersection of sex and aging. Submission Deadline: Rolling basis until August 1. Details and apply here. 

DATA

IPUMS IHGIS. The IPUMS API now supports metadata browsing and data extract requests for IPUMS IHGIS. The functionality has also been incorporated into ipumsr and ipumspy.

IPUMS GLOBAL HEALTH. IPUMS PMA now includes eight new client exit interview surveys from Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria, and Uganda.

IPUMS TIME USE. IPUMS MTUS has released time use data for two new samples, Canada 1992 and Argentina 2021, and updated data for ten existing samples.

FUNDING

NIH

Russell Sage Foundation. Core Research Grants: Social, Political and Economic Inequality. The Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports original research on the factors that contribute to social, political, and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, political, psychological, and economic outcomes, including educational and labor market opportunities and consequences, social and economic mobility within and across generations, and civic participation and representation. We seek innovative investigator-initiated research that will expand our understanding of social, political, and economic inequalities and the mechanisms by which these inequalities influence the lives of individuals, families, communities, and the country. We welcome projects that explore the relevance of socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, geographic, immigration or other statuses for the distribution of social, political, and economic outcomes within and across different status groups. Deadline: July 16, 2025. Learn more here and apply.

Russell Sage Foundation. Pipeline Grants Competition. This initiative will support early-career scholars and promote diversity in the social sciences, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Pipeline grantees are paired with mentors who offer advice on their projects and career development. The competition funds innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are particularly interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. Early-career faculty who have not previously received research grants (not counting a dissertation grant) or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply. Award: $50,000. Deadline: October 1, 2025.

William T Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequality. The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports career development for promising early-career researchers. The program funds five-year research and mentoring plans that significantly expand researchers’ expertise in new disciplines, methods, and content areas. Applicants should have a track record of conducting high-quality research and an interest in pursuing a significant shift in their trajectories as researchers. We recognize that early-career researchers are rarely given incentives or support to take measured risks in their work, so this award includes a mentoring component, as well as a supportive academic community. 2025 application deadlines for major research grants are: January 8, May 7, and August 6 at 3:00 PM ET. Learn more here.

William T Grant Foundation Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence. This program supports research to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States. We prioritize studies that aim to reduce inequalities that exist along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, sexual or gender minority status, language minority status, or immigrant origins. 2025 application deadlines for major research grants are: January 8, May 7, and August 6 at 3:00 PM ET. Learn more here.

OPPORTUNITIES

The NIA Biomarker Network is requesting applications for their Visiting Scholars Program. The program aims to provide researchers with opportunities to engage with members of the Network for a variety of collaborative activities, including learning about sample collection and processing techniques, co-developing grant proposals or research papers focused on novel statistical or biological methods, and coordinating with other cohort research groups to harmonize data and methodologies. Learn more and submit your application by June 30, 2025.

Dr. Jessica Faul, co-I of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the NIA Biomarker Network, was a featured speaker at the May 2025 National Advisory Council on Aging. Her presentation, entitled What We Learn by Adding Biological Measurement to an Interdisciplinary, Longitudinal, Social Science Survey showcased data using biological measurements from the NIA-supported HRS. You can watch her presentation on the recording of the May 2025 National Advisory Council on Aging. Dr. Jessica Faul’s presentation begins at 1:04:15.

Join the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program for the inaugural ECHO Symposium. Translating Science to Action on September 15, 2025, at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, and online. This free, one-day event will bring together researchers, clinicians, policymakers, advocates, and community leaders to explore how early environmental factors influence child health—and how we can translate science into meaningful action. More info.

Recording Available: LINKAGE Webinar Series: Using Long Life Family Study- CMS Linked Data.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience & Aging is calling for paper submissions for a special issue in the Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological and Social Sciences on Decision Neuroscience and Aging. Submit a manuscript by August 15, 2025.

Complex Care: Stories from Fractured, Fraught, or Strained Family Relationships. Edited by Hannah Radcliff-Hoy (Minnesota State University, Mankato) and Aaron Hoy (Minnesota State University, Mankato). This edited volume seeks to showcase stories of caregiving shaped by fractured, fraught, or strained family relationships—contexts marked by rupture, silence, estrangement, and harm. We invite chapter proposals grounded in autoethnography or similar forms of personal storytelling that explore caregiving in families affected by trauma, addiction, incarceration, identity-based rejection, and more. We welcome traditional narratives as well as creative, multimodal approaches. Abstracts (max 500 words) are due by August 15 and should describe the proposed chapter’s focus, approach, and contribution to the volume’s themes.  For more the full call—including details regarding the submission process and review timeline—please visit: https://link.mnsu.edu/cccall. For questions, please email hannah.radcliff-hoy.2@mnsu.edu and/or aaron.hoy@msnu.edu.

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