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Wouldn't an OSTP director wanting to “reinforce scientific rigor and excellence,” consider it a golden opportunity to inherit a scientific integrity project to build on? Instead, we got a golden facade, behind which lurk threats to science in federal spaces altogether. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

1. Trump cuts to science have massive impacts and deserve mainstream attention like this. 2. Health research focused on understudied populations conducted under the Biden Administration is in no way equivalent to the political interference in research happening now. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The richness of President Trump's Science Advisor accusing others of politicizing science as they gut Federal science agencies and target politically contentious science topics—like climate, equity, and vaccines—with surgical precision is really quite something. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Honored to be named to @bloomberg.com Ones to Watch List alongside an all-star set of folks announced today, and looking forward to the Bloomberg Green Seattle event next month. Let's get to work. 🧪⚡🌍 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Kings don't belong in America, y'all. #nokings

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Seeing all the "last day" posts from EPA staff today is heartbreaking. You deserved so much better, my friends.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

I was honored to give the @societyforepi.bsky.social #SER2025 plenary today about what it means to be a scientist in this challenging time. I'm energized from conversations with the epidemiology community and all we can collectively do to action.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

"Behind the rhetoric of scientific values like transparency, reproducibility, and integrity, the [executive] order disrupts longstanding process and policy in US science and undermines the principles it claims to uphold." - @gretchentg.bsky.social & @jbd-phd.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"If we are to achieve a true gold standard, we need federal leadership that supports, not dismantles, the U.S. science enterprise and whose actions follow a bold positive vision for the future of science." - Jacob Carter of @scilight.bsky.social & @gretchentg.bsky.social of @ucs.org

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

National Institutes of Health employees have had enough. Impressive showing of more than 300 staffers ask leaders to "return the NIH to its mission and abandon the strategy of using NIH as a tool for achieving political goals" in their Bethesda Declaration. www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration recently released the deceptively named “Gold Standard Science” executive order. The order disrupts longstanding process and policy in US science and undermines the principles it claims to uphold, @ucs.org www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The Gold Standard Science Executive Order should set off alarm bells for anyone who cares about evidence-based policy. The EO resurrects efforts to restrict the science that can be used in agency decisions. More from me and @jbd-phd.bsky.social in a new @bmj.com Opinion: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Our Federal agencies are facing dire threats. The cuts to staffing and programs across the government has already been devastating. And now Congress is working towards further destruction. Today I spoke at a rally outside NOAA. Keep up the pressure. #SaveNOAA. Save Science. Save Lives.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"The order, issued May 23, outlines new rules that put political appointees in charge of upholding high scientific-research standards...this executive order is setting up the permission structure to throw out valid scientific information, @gretchentg.bsky.social says." cen.acs.org/policy/Gold-...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

The order “steamrolls” longstanding efforts to create a buffer between science and politics, says @gretchentg.bsky.social , who helped to develop scientific-integrity policies under Biden that the new order revokes.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Great to see the scientific community mobilize immediately on this Gold Standard Science EO. This is the opening act. Expect more from this Administration under this directive. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

As the US prepares to spend as much as $38 billion to produce hundreds of new explosive cores, called plutonium pits, to arm new nuclear weapons, our new analysis argues new pits aren’t necessary to maintain the existing US nuclear arsenal. Read our report: act.ucsusa.org/4kZ4X9p

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Great to see these @standupforscience.bsky.social "Teach Ins" happening across the country. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Last week, President Trump issued an EO directing federal agencies to scrap Scientific Integrity Policies & undermine science-based decision making. ”The Trump administration intends to weaponize science to undermine public health and safety protections," said UCS President @gretchentg.bsky.social.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

While couched in science-supporting rhetoric, this EO reveals how the administration intends to weaponize science to undermine public health and safety protections. We've seen these moves before. www.ucs.org/about/news/e...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

There are presumably dozens of stories like this from across government: Mission-critical labs and components that DOGE /Trump officials didn't bother to learn about (or intentionally targeted) where the public will be harmed if they're eliminated.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

If we can't do the science showing harm of pollution, we can't protect people from it. "Virtually all of the air-quality standards that we have today are built around evidence from this exposure facility.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Since Lincoln was President, the National Academies has provided unbiased expert guidance to the government. I’ve had the privilege of serving on multiple committees, and the excellent staff takes their responsibility to help the country very seriously. What are we doing here?

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If true, this is a deeply concerning move from the Trump EPA. There is no meaningful path to reducing US carbon emissions without limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants--the largest domestic stationary source of GHGs. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

opening this, seeing 'rcp 8.5', immediately closing the tab and staring at the wall quietly for about 10 minutes or so

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 37 days ago • 31 comments

This is not how we do science. It is challenging to even articulate the scale and severity of disruption to the US science enterprise happening in real time. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I am saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Dick Garwin, eminent physicist and member of the @ucs.org board of directors. www.ucs.org/about/news/r...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

Thank you for your leadership and your wisdom in this moment, @alondra.bsky.social.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration is dismantling American science on multiple fronts. One of those fronts I’m deeply concerned about is the attacks on the Federal science advice. But this is an area where the scientific community can do something about it. 🧵 secure.ucs.org/a/2025-05-22...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

🧪 Curious about the state of science under the Trump admin? Join UCS President @gretchentg.bsky.social & our Federal Response Team for a webinar reflecting on the first 100 days of Trump's second term and our ongoing efforts in the Save Science, Save Lives campaign. 📅 Thursday, May 29, 4:30pm ET

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

We were learning how new technologies could improve mobility for communities. We were gaining insights on what transportation investments work best where. We were asking research questions that hadn't been asked before. Wild to see it all reduced to "woke research."

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

This budget is laced with racist, anti-science, petty, and cruel language that should be beneath the president. If enacted, it would leave communities at the mercy of devastating climate impacts and deprived of public protections that save lives and support the economy. www.ucs.org/about/news/c...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments