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The CDC this week cited some of our work in new guidance related to vaccines and autism. However, the citations do not provide the greater context of the full body of work on vaccine safety that is essential for informed debate about this topic.
Read our full statement: https://ow.ly/CA9R50XxETA
Read our full statement: https://ow.ly/CA9R50XxETA
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The CDC this week cited some of our work in new guidance related to vaccines and autism. However, the citations do not provide the greater context of the full body of work on vaccine safety that is essential for informed debate about this topic.
Read our full statement: https://ow.ly/CA9R50XxETA
Read our full statement: https://ow.ly/CA9R50XxETA
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Cumulative impact assessment is the process of identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of multiple proposed projects.
Learn about our new report advising how to advance the science and practice behind cumulative impact assessment at our October 9 webinar: https://ow.ly/rsOf50X4uwA
Learn about our new report advising how to advance the science and practice behind cumulative impact assessment at our October 9 webinar: https://ow.ly/rsOf50X4uwA
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cumulative impact assessment is the process of identifying and assessing the environmental impacts of multiple proposed projects.
Learn about our new report advising how to advance the science and practice behind cumulative impact assessment at our October 9 webinar: https://ow.ly/rsOf50X4uwA
Learn about our new report advising how to advance the science and practice behind cumulative impact assessment at our October 9 webinar: https://ow.ly/rsOf50X4uwA
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It is superpower suicide to stop the best foreign minds from coming to the United States and using their talents to propel American prosperity and technological advantage.
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It is superpower suicide to stop the best foreign minds from coming to the United States and using their talents to propel American prosperity and technological advantage.
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Many science-related issues demand action at the state, local, and regional levels.
The National Academies support policymakers and communities in understanding and addressing these challenges through studies, events, and other initiatives.
Learn more: ow.ly/iEie50VJ8a7
The National Academies support policymakers and communities in understanding and addressing these challenges through studies, events, and other initiatives.
Learn more: ow.ly/iEie50VJ8a7
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Many science-related issues demand action at the state, local, and regional levels.
The National Academies support policymakers and communities in understanding and addressing these challenges through studies, events, and other initiatives.
Learn more: ow.ly/iEie50VJ8a7
The National Academies support policymakers and communities in understanding and addressing these challenges through studies, events, and other initiatives.
Learn more: ow.ly/iEie50VJ8a7
When state support for science fails | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... the implications for the U.S are both obvious and disturbing
When state support for science fails
The establishment and growth of scientific communities require long-term planning, political backing, and social and economic support. In many Latin American countries, these entities have been repeat...
www.science.org
April 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When state support for science fails | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... the implications for the U.S are both obvious and disturbing
Re: the attacks on universities, RFK Jr. and autism, etc. -- the regime keeps inventing problems so they can announce they have the solution, which was their goal in the first place. #gaslightingcanbefun
April 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Re: the attacks on universities, RFK Jr. and autism, etc. -- the regime keeps inventing problems so they can announce they have the solution, which was their goal in the first place. #gaslightingcanbefun
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A jet fuel leak from the Red Hill storage facility in Nov ’21 contaminated drinking water & caused significant #EnvironmentalExposure. Join us on 4/8 to share your experience with the #PublicHealth response & and health care: buff.ly/XDtMABM #RedHillWaterCrisis
April 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
A jet fuel leak from the Red Hill storage facility in Nov ’21 contaminated drinking water & caused significant #EnvironmentalExposure. Join us on 4/8 to share your experience with the #PublicHealth response & and health care: buff.ly/XDtMABM #RedHillWaterCrisis
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The world is finding out what happens when the dog catches the car.
April 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The world is finding out what happens when the dog catches the car.
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Science & the innovation economy are under threat.
"We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Read & share ... 👇
"We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Read & share ... 👇
Stand up.
Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
docs.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Science & the innovation economy are under threat.
"We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Read & share ... 👇
"We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Read & share ... 👇
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The Trump administration pushed out Peter Marks, the nation’s top vaccine regulator and an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines.
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
In his resignation letter, Marks rebuked Kennedy for seeking “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies” about vaccines.
wapo.st
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Trump administration pushed out Peter Marks, the nation’s top vaccine regulator and an architect of the U.S. program to rapidly develop coronavirus vaccines.
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The potential closure of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development and promised rollbacks on environmental regulation are raising alarms in the scientific community. Learn what SETAC is doing and how you can make take action: www.setac.org/resource/nav...
#ScienceMatters #ProtectResearch
#ScienceMatters #ProtectResearch
Navigating Change as a New Horizon Emerges
www.setac.org
March 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The potential closure of the U.S. EPA’s Office of Research and Development and promised rollbacks on environmental regulation are raising alarms in the scientific community. Learn what SETAC is doing and how you can make take action: www.setac.org/resource/nav...
#ScienceMatters #ProtectResearch
#ScienceMatters #ProtectResearch
This is a profoundly important attack on American leadership in environmental science. #fightfightfight
The air quality and health models I have used throughout my career have emerged from EPA’s Office of Research and Development. Shuttering it would be a devastating loss.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/c...
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article)
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is a profoundly important attack on American leadership in environmental science. #fightfightfight
Dear Administrator Zeldin: "Eppur si muove" #climatechangeisreal
March 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Dear Administrator Zeldin: "Eppur si muove" #climatechangeisreal
I suggest this post has wide applicability to the sciences, not just museums, e.g. @nationalacademies.org www.aam-us.org/2025/03/04/l...
Living in a Wild Future
In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world for Americans and American museums, my job shifted from focusing on the far future to the immediate present. As museum leaders struggled …
www.aam-us.org
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I suggest this post has wide applicability to the sciences, not just museums, e.g. @nationalacademies.org www.aam-us.org/2025/03/04/l...
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NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
March 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
Come together, right now | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
www.science.org
February 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Come together, right now | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I am ashamed of my government. #saveUkraine
Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war.
Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
Washington’s shift on the Ukraine war marks a major break with European allies and comes as the Trump administration aims to repair relations with Russia.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am ashamed of my government. #saveUkraine
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I just discovered that the Dec 2024 issue of CBE - Life Science Education is a Special Issue on Equity, Inclusion, Access, and Justice. www.lifescied.org/toc/lse/23/4.
Bookmark this important collection of articles.
The issue starts with a powerful statement from the US National Academies 👇
Bookmark this important collection of articles.
The issue starts with a powerful statement from the US National Academies 👇
![“Despite substantial investments in programs aimed at helping people from systematically minoritized groups enter, persist, succeed, and thrive in STEMM, significant gaps persist. [These gaps] are the result of systemic and structural issues arising from the legacies of policies and practices designed to disadvantage people from historically minoritized groups along with institutional cultures that, intentionally or otherwise, create exclusionary and discriminatory environments based on biased notions of success and prestige.” (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023, p. 25–26) https://doi.org/10.17226/26803](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yblzreajvvx2titmogxu5g4p/bafkreicazzlatx2xzfonrxezxr5mqi2kkqzcxpnolm2l47qib5w4wsp6fy@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I just discovered that the Dec 2024 issue of CBE - Life Science Education is a Special Issue on Equity, Inclusion, Access, and Justice. www.lifescied.org/toc/lse/23/4.
Bookmark this important collection of articles.
The issue starts with a powerful statement from the US National Academies 👇
Bookmark this important collection of articles.
The issue starts with a powerful statement from the US National Academies 👇
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
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Much of the National Academies' work contributes to building a stronger, more competitive U.S. #economy.
Explore resources to spur innovation, bolster industrial capacity, modernize America’s #infrastructure, and develop a skilled technical #workforce: https://buff.ly/3Et3UOP
Explore resources to spur innovation, bolster industrial capacity, modernize America’s #infrastructure, and develop a skilled technical #workforce: https://buff.ly/3Et3UOP
February 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Much of the National Academies' work contributes to building a stronger, more competitive U.S. #economy.
Explore resources to spur innovation, bolster industrial capacity, modernize America’s #infrastructure, and develop a skilled technical #workforce: https://buff.ly/3Et3UOP
Explore resources to spur innovation, bolster industrial capacity, modernize America’s #infrastructure, and develop a skilled technical #workforce: https://buff.ly/3Et3UOP
This is deeply disappointing. So much for integrity.
Susan Collins, who can be counted on for saying she's "very disappointed," says she will vote for Tulsi Gabbard.
February 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is deeply disappointing. So much for integrity.
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person