Daily briefing: Trump fires entire NSF advisory board

You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here . Researchers serving on the National Science Board, which advises the US National Science Foundation, received a brief e-mail on Friday telling them that they had been dismissed. Credit: Briscoe Savoy for Nature On Friday, all 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a leading funder of basic science — were fired by the administration of US President Donald Trump, without explanation . The National Science Board was founded by Congress in 1950 and can officially be dissolved only by Congress. The Trump team did not respond to Nature about the reason for the firings or whether the board members would be replaced. The move fits into a pattern of the Trump administration’s approach to science advice, which is being “systematically either dissolved or eviscerated”, says astrophysicist Keivan Stassun. Nature | 7 min read Researchers have collated data from more than 18,700 online advertisements selling research-paper authorships online into the largest database of its kind. The team found that the going rate for a first-author slot on a fake article was anywhere from US$57 to more than $5,600 . …