Launching Projects

We invent, launch, finance and manage projects that improve science communication tools, practices, and policies, especially those used inside science.

Creating Networks

We unite stakeholders to share perspectives, and work on common ground to develop realistic, sustainable reforms that benefit everyone.

Improving Impacts

SCI’s work improves how science knowledge is shared and used, which leads to better science policies, better science, and more benefit for science and society.

2024-25 Priorities

Carbon Dioxide Removal

Combatting climate change requires coordinated global action to remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. SCI has launched the Carbon Dioxide Removal Action Network (CDRANet) to take on this challenge, a global network of 250+ high-level climate leaders and experts working together to develop the future of CDR policy.

Combatting Disinformation

Working across disciplines and countries, SCI will continue investigating the best way to fund and develop a global Disinformation Awareness Training & Education program (DATE). This program will unite diverse experts and combine their insights into practical and effective tools, resources and networks. 

Open Science Policy

Through our global Open Scholarship Intitiative (OSI) project, SCI will continue working with policy makers from around the world to develop the future of open science, with the goal of ensuring that this future is effective for research and researchers, evidence-based, and equitable.

Newest articles

Bill Gates is wrong about climate change

The world owes Bill Gates its heartfelt thanks a billion times over for his decades of humanitarian work through the...

Is the Republican Party a cult? When our belief bubbles become cages

We live in an era of disparate realities. We already know these realities aren't benign, but are some of them...

When everything sounds true: Free speech and the fracturing of reality

Freedom of speech is vital to democracy. But in the Information Age, this freedom also creates a cacophony of disinformation...

All hail liberalism

Liberal has become a four-letter word. But if you look at what the word actually means and it’s long and...

Greenland in the news for all the wrong reasons

Greenland has suddenly become synonymous with rare earth mineral deposits and geopolitical influence. But these aren't the real reasons the...

The substitution of science

The Trump Administration's attacks on science have kicked into high gear. What does this mean for science, our future, and...

At a loss for words

So much of what we’ve written about over the years pales in comparison to the carnage happening today. In one...

Americans still having a hard time trusting science

The global effort to remove carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere needs global policy coordination. SCI’s Global CDR Forum is being...

God and Science

Is “religious scientist” an oxymoron? As it turns out, the intersection of faith and science is a lot more nuanced...

The future of truth

Truth was on the ballot in America. It lost. What comes next?