Personal news: We got a heat pump! This seizes on the last days of the clean energy tax credits and eliminates our direct household fossil fuel burning. The big ugly bill will have huge costs for the US energy system, but I'm grateful for US progress and momentum so far. blog.ucs.org/julie-mcnama...

Some personal and political thoughts from me as #COP30 gets underway. We've come too far to give up now. Our kids' future is worth fighting for. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Today!

Join me to discuss combatting the New Climate Denialism at @carnegieendowment.org this Wednesday, Oct 1 in DC or online, along with my co-panelists @jeremywallace.bsky.social, @cathfraser.bsky.social, @leonardom-d.bsky.social, @noahjgordon.bsky.social and more. carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/...

Great to see more preservation and public access for critical Federal climate resources as the Administration guts Federal science.

Jumping into #ClimateWeekNYC

Join me this Thursday for a virtual panel on the state of play on US scientific research, along with Obama Administration Science Advisor John Holdren and @thebulletin.org President and CEO Alex Bell.

@ucs.org is headed to #ClimateWeekNYC! Join us with events all week, starting tomorrow. Here's a sampling of where we'll be. 🧵Join us! www.ucs.org/ucs-nyc-clim...

“I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. But that line does not disappear with me.” Important testimony today from former CDC director Dr. Susan Coller Monarez:

This week, a group of experts will step up in a big way to ensure that science goes on, despite Trump administration cuts to Federal science advice. They join several other independent science efforts fighting back. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Science and scientists are under attack like never before and we need all the tools in the toolbox to fight back. Here's my @nature.com book review of Science Under Siege. Thanks for speaking up for science, @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm looking forward to keynoting the 16th Annual National Postdoc Appreciation Week hosted by the National Postdoctoral Association next Monday. Join me! #NPAW act.ucsusa.org/41Hr1hy

Join me, @aaas.org Section X, Georgia Tech Public Policy, @crsugimoto.bsky.social, Kei Koizumi, and Barry Bozeman tomorrow to talk about the state of play on Federal scientific integrity and what's next. We have a ton to cover. Join us: gatech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In other news, today this transportation nerd rode the inaugural run of one of the Next Gen higher speed @amtrak.com Acela trains, complete is Acela-bration cookies. Let's build more nice things.

These HHS actions reflect an unthinkable level of disregard for science, public health, and the rule of law. Instead of firing the scientists who keep us safe, Sec Kennedy should be fired, and Congress must immediately conduct oversight of his mismanagement of HHS. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Environmental justice (EJ) is about fairness and access to a healthy and safe environment for all people. The Trump administration has disrupted and disbanded EJ initiatives including funding, research, and projects. Yet, this important work has and must continue. 🧵

It's hard to overstate the significance of what's happening at CDC right now.

If you read one thing today, let it be Dr. Daskalakis' resignation letter from CDC. This administration is now shattering the public trust and scientific truth it has taken the nation decades to build in public health. Devastated to think of the unnecessary deaths that will come from this HHS.

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today, @ucs.org and @envdefensefund.bsky.social filed suit to challenge the Administration's efforts to use a shoddy DOE report filled with climate disinformation to rollback federal climate action. Their actions are indefensible and we will not let it stand. www.ucs.org/about/news/e...

Another title for this new Trump Administration executive order could be "Creating Opportunities for Political Interference in Federal Science Grantmaking" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Astronauts everywhere agree. #SaveScienceSaveLives

The firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief is the latest move leading us down a dangerous path that threatens the future of US science and democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

By design, federal statistical agencies operate independently to guard against politicization of data collection and reporting. This is an alarming and dangerous move that threatens the scientific integrity of independent statistical agencies across the government. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

It's a sad day when our leaders turn their back on long established science to try and roll back public health protections while the dangers of climate change are palpable on a daily basis. We cannot let this stand. www.ucs.org/about/news/t...

The administration’s efforts to attack the endangerment finding and circumvent the Clean Air Act would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. This action would hurt people’s pocketbooks, slow the transition to clean transportation, and worsen the climate crisis. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Congress' aim at rescission at Federal science agencies is an existential threat to American leadership in science and technology. US science investments benefit all of us and drastic cuts will harm communities nationwide. As the science community, we cannot allow this to happen. #ProtectScience

The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting. Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

Excellent piece articulating how the provisions of the Trump Administration's Gold Standard Standard will be weaponized to weaken the role of science in policy, given the long history of use of these tactics by political and industry actors. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Grateful for the conversations and ideas this week at @bloomberg.com #BloombergGreen Seattle event. Given the scale of challenges, there is lots we can and must do together to make climate progress.

This kind of move wastes a lot of time and resources. I would even venture to say that firing a diverse, already vetted group of science advisors set to provide robust and independent expert advice to the government is far from "gold standard science."

Bad news for anyone who cares about science informed decisions in the US. The Administration now has a green light to try to indiscriminately fire en masse the civil servants who provide deep expertise and critical services to keep the public safe and healthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...

Deeply disappointing to see the Trump administration hire scientists who reject the scientific consensus on climate. This is a tired and long delegitimized tactic (involving the same actors) and one that stands to harm communities everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...

"DHS secretary Kristi Noem’s remarks about “working to upgrade technology” during a post-disaster media briefing are particularly galling when in fact this administration is taking a hatchet to NOAA’s science, data, and modeling capabilities." blog.ucs.org/rachel-cleet...

In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵

Completely unacceptable that EPA put on leave their employees who spoke up in defense of their agency's mission to protect public health. EPA officials are demonstrating their unwillingness to even engage with their own staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

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...

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...

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/...

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...

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

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

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.

"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/...

"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

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...

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/...