FAS's work on metascience and open science: the evidence, and what we recommend the federal government does with it.
Every Future of Science publication since 2024. Point at a title to find it on the line.
Design note. The one bold element in this direction: FAS's own publication record as the front page. Every mark is a real publication, by date and type; the list underneath is the same content for anyone who can't see the chart, and it updates itself when FAS publishes. The February 2024 column is six Day One memos published in two days.
In FAS's own words, from its policy memos.
The research community lacks strategies to incentivize collaboration on high-quality data acquisition and sharing. The government should fund collaborative roadmapping, certification, collection, and sharing of large, high-quality datasets in life science.
Kickstarting Collaborative, AI-Ready Datasets in the Life Sciences with Government-funded ProjectsPolicy memo, Day One 2025, 2 Jan 2025
To improve program outcomes, federal evaluation officers should conduct “unmet desire surveys” to advance federal learning agendas and built agency buy-in.
How to Prompt New Cross-Agency and Cross-Sector Collaboration to Advance Learning AgendasPolicy memo, Day One 2025, 4 Dec 2024
Standardizing support for Accessibility & Accommodations in federally funded research efforts would open opportunities for disabled scientists and their research programs.
Not Accessible: Federal Policies Unnecessarily Complicate Funding to Support Differently Abled Researchers. We Can Change That.Policy memo, Day One 2025, 25 Nov 2024
Federal clearinghouses should incorporate open science practices into their standards and procedures used to identify evidence-based social programs eligible for federal funding.
Incorporate open science standards into the identification of evidence-based social programsPolicy memo, 9 Feb 2024
All 16 publications and recommendations
Design note. Policy memos lead with what government should do, so this page does too: the memo's own first sentence, its title and date. Officials and their staff read the recommendation first and the evidence second.
1,543 publications on fas.org since 2018, peaking at 268 in 2024. A featured-data block like this one takes a Datawrapper or Tableau link, or draws the chart natively with no third-party script, and always carries the numbers as a table.
Design note. RFP item A, featured data. Drawn in Public Sans to match the page, with FAS blue for the bars and a hatched bar for the year still running.
Counted from fas.org's own publication records on 22 October 2026. The 2026 bar (hatched) runs to that date.
| Category | Number of publications |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 162 |
| 2019 | 109 |
| 2020 | 158 |
| 2021 | 169 |
| 2022 | 92 |
| 2023 | 204 |
| 2024 | 268 |
| 2025 | 222 |
| 2026 | 159 |
FAS's latest posts appear here from its own accounts, through a feed service that loads after the page does, so the page stays fast.
Design note. RFP item B, homepage feed. We don't reproduce FAS's posts in a concept, so this shows the links and where the feed sits.