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I'm honored to be the inaugural guest on the new alpha podcast by Dr. Catharine Young, focused on telling the stories of the women whose ideas are changing how we understand ourselves, our planet, and what comes next. We had a lovely wide-ranging chat: www.alphapodcast.studio/gretchen-gol...

A devastating but lesser known part of federal science attacks is on the federal science advisory system. In a new post, I discuss the state of play on federal advisory committees and how the scientific community is pushing back through independent science efforts. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

How can we safeguard federal science policy decisions from political interference? Today, @jbd-phd.bsky.social, Joe Reed, and I have a new essay out with @knightcolumbia.org on reimagining federal scientific integrity, given progress and trials of past decades. knightcolumbia.org/blog/envisio...

Envisioning Federal Scientific Integrity As a Tool to Protect Democracy and Fight Corruptionknightcolumbia.org

On July 14, join me and @ucs.org for a critical conversation on the new book, "On Courage: How to be a Dissident in an Age of Fear", with authors, @juliaangwin.com and @fieldsmeyer.com for the second national call of our Science Rising Initiative. RSVP to join us: act.ucsusa.org/Courage

This week @ucs.org launches a new interactive tool on the staggering 574 attacks on science so far under the Trump Administration. It's hard to convey the full scope and severity of what's happening but this tool helps us make sense of it and what we can all do about it: www.attacksonscience.org

A US District Court ordered the Trump administration to stop censoring American history and science in national parks, thanks to our suit. Today is a win for science and for all national park visitors to learn the truth about our nation’s history and climate. democracyforward.org/news/press-r...

Court Blocks Censorship and Erasure of American History and Science at National ParksInjunction Halts Effort to Unlawfully Remove History and Science from Park Displaysdemocracyforward.org

The strong collective response of the science community to the proposed OMB rule has demonstrated the broad unity that’s possible when we all work together. We'd do well to apply this same level of activation to the larger assaults on science and democracy. My new post: blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

The Science Community Is Stepping Up. Let’s Go Bigger.The scientific community is fighting a proposed change to research funding. Let's keep this momentum going to take on more attacks on science.blog.ucs.org

Last week, moves from the White House showed how great threats to science and democracy are. This week, we're making moves to fight back in bigger ways. If ever there was a time for scientists to step into our power, it is now. Join us as we launch Science Rising: blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Science is Rising: Finding our Power to Protect Science and DemocracyWhat can scientists do in the face of assaults on our democracy? RISE UP!blog.ucs.org

Today, @ucs.org sends an open letter to the Australian Parliament and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) regarding CSIRO climate science cuts. (1/4) files.ucs.org/2026/CSIRO-l...

A beautifully written letter to Federal scientists on the occasion of the nation's 250th. Thank you for your service, friends. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Federal scientists, a great American invention: a letter to our federal colleaguesClick on the article title to read more.esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Join me, Arati Prabhakar, Erica Chenoweth and @ucs.org on June 3 to launch Science Rising, a new initiative to speak out and mobilize scientists and science supporters to protect science and our democracy. This moment calls for something new. Let's show up. Join us at www.sciencerising.org

No matter where you live and what you do, you can be certain that your life has been made better by a foreign-born scientist in more ways than you’ll ever know. My new post on science and immigration and the administration’s attacks on our international colleagues. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Science and Immigration Are Interconnected: On Higher Education, ICE, and the Assault on DEIOne day in graduate school, I confessed to my fellow students that I had never been outside of the United States. They hailed from all over the world, so I was embarrassed to admit it. “You don’t need...blog.ucs.org

On Friday, the Trump administration fired the National Science Board, a move that continues it's politicization at NSF and risks further interference at the nation's premier scientific research agency. My thoughts in a new post: blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Cutting Science Out: Trump Administration Fires National Science Board MembersThis is an attempt to silence independent scientists, shut down evidence-based decision making, and keep the public in the dark.blog.ucs.org

Really special to get to watch the #ArtemisII launch live with my kids. This is the power and potential of US science & technology, made possible by dedicated government scientists and engineers that the current Administration is undermining. Look what we can do when we invest in public science.

My new @npquarterly.bsky.social piece outlines a path for how civil society, including the scientific community, can fight US democratic backsliding, drawing from lessons in history. There's much we can do in this moment and many are already stepping up. nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-under...

How to Undermine Authoritarian Control: On Empowering Parallel Institutions | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.Science and democracy are under attack. We have the tools, knowledge, and lessons from history to preserve critical services and protect scientific truth—by building powerful parallel institutions.nonprofitquarterly.org

In the first Trump administration, the EPA appointed a Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee that skimped on expertise and subsequently failed to set science-based air pollution standards. They've just appointed a similar cast of characters. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

POLITICO Pro: Zeldin skips over academics for influential EPA advisory panelThe administrator appointed industry representatives and a member of a group that disputes mainstream climate science.subscriber.politicopro.com

Today we showed up. Feeling proud of scientists and science supporters in this moment. Thank you all. #Standupforscience

Join me, @standupforscience.bsky.social, @ucs.org and scientists around the country in supporting the National Day of Action Rally to Stand Up for Science tomorrow in Washington DC and cities nationwide! It's not a time to stay silent. #StandUpForScience

Happy birthday, @ucs.org! I'm honored and humbled to carry a legacy of scientists speaking up against powerful forces and insisting that science is be used for the public good. We're not done yet.

Today, @ucs.org joins @earthjustice.org and others challenging the Trump Administration's Endangerment Finding repeal. These moves abandon the EPA's mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the Clean Air Act and they must be held to account. www.ucs.org/about/news/u...

UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding RepealUCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repealwww.ucs.org