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Policy & Advocacy
At the March for Science blog: Why scientists care so much about gnats, weeds, and brewer’s yeast
Why are scientists so interested in the health of seemingly insignificant creepy crawlies, vermin, microscopic blobs, and spindly weeds? This question is considered in a guest post up today on the March for Science blog by GSA Communications Director Cristy Gelling and University of California, Berkeley grad student Nicole Haloupek. Artist and Sanger Institute postdoc Alex…
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Policy & Advocacy
Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Elaine Welch
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Elaine Welch Career Development Subcommittee Liaison University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Interest: I study vertebrate embryo patterning using…
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Policy & Advocacy
Why March for Science?
Three weeks into my term as GSA’s President I went to the Women’s March in New York with my daughters. The experience was energizing and uplifting on many levels—it was completely peaceful, attended by women and men of all ages, and focused entirely on affirming civil rights. The magic of the day came from the…
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Policy & Advocacy
Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Adam Ramsey
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Adam J. Ramsey Liaison Communication and Outreach Subcommittee University of Memphis Research Interest: I study mitochondria, which…
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Policy & Advocacy
Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Emily Lescak
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Emily Lescak Co-Chair Policy Subcommittee University of Alaska Anchorage Research Interest: Given the importance of the microbiome…
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Policy & Advocacy
Is science of value?
I had hoped that it would be a bit of cheery news that dragged me out of retirement from this blog to subject you to another edition of frameshifts. Alas, no. Instead it is the war on science that compels me again to set electrons to screen. The narrative that has become popular in some…
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Policy & Advocacy
GSA / March for Science T-shirts now available!
GSA is an official partner of the March for Science—we hope you will join us in marching on Earth Day, April 22! You can now wear one of our fantastic new GSA March for Science T-shirts, available in two designs. All proceeds go to the non-profit, volunteer-run March for Science organization, supporting the major logistics costs…
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Policy & Advocacy
Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Thomas Clements
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Thomas Clements Policy Subcommittee Liaison Rice University Research Interest: My work is focused on improving gene editing…
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Policy & Advocacy
Nine ways you can fight the proposed federal research budget cuts (without going to DC)
We have heard an outpouring of anger and fear from our members since the President’s budget proposal was released on March 16th. As GSA President Lynn Cooley and Vice-President Jeannie Lee argued last week, the proposed gutting of federal research budgets would be terrible for science—and worse for society. But this is just a proposal.…
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Policy & Advocacy
Early Career Scientist Leadership Spotlight — Sumeet Nayak
We’re taking time over the following weeks to get to know the members of the GSA’s Early Career Scientist Committees. Join us every week to learn more about our early career scientist advocates. Sumeet Nayak Communication & Outreach Subcommittee Co-Chair University of Massachusetts Medical School Research Interest: My research interest…
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Policy & Advocacy
GSA Members: Contact Congress to protest Trump’s catastrophic NIH budget cuts
President Trump has proposed crippling cuts to federally supported research —including a reduction of medical research funding by nearly a fifth—that would be a disaster not just for innovation, but for Americans’ health and economic prosperity. Cuts at this unprecedented scale would have both immediate and long-term consequences: Promising research projects abandoned, labs closed, and…