This week in #scipol: coronavirus stimulus package for research, negative oil prices, WOTUS rule finalized, pay cuts for university employees, and more!
Weekly Digest — February 11-17, 2020
This week in #scipol: coronavirus in Texas, criminal charges for Arkema CEO, human rights and climate change, border wall funding, funding for Native American women in STEM, colleges divest from fossil fuels, and more!
Weekly Digest — December 3-9, 2019
This week in #scipol: #UN climate summit, largest private environmental settlement in history, new Dept Energy Secretary, #RAWA passes out of committee, US education in trouble, #OED word of the year is climate emergency, and more!
Weekly Digest — May 7-13, 2019
Our last digest of the semester! We will switch to monthly digests for the summer. This week in #scipol: dune lizards, #txlege fails to future-proof the state, bird flu is back, recycling, rivers, science funding, and more!
Weekly Digest — April 23-29, 2019
This week in #scipol: measles, climate change, the Marsquake, kidney disease in San Antonio, global inequality, malaria vaccine rollout, the Transparency Rule comeback, new plastic, 75% of physics students harassed, tobacco, and more!
Weekly Digest — April 16-22, 2019
This week in #scipol: baby T rex for sale, measles outbreaks, gene therapy, controversy at #txlege, EPA gets in its own way, sexual harasser fired, publishing deals, scary climate news, Israel crashes into the moon, and more!
Weekly Digest — April 9-15, 2019
This week in #scipol: the Trump administration's legacy of environmental damage, twins in space and black holes come into focus, moves to a carbon-free future, Atlantis, a new human species, more sexual harassment news, and more!
Weekly Digest — March 26-April 1, 2019
This week in #scipol: red wolves are different from grey wolves, major floods on the way, Israel goes to the moon, anti-vaxx conversations in Texas and Japan, oil drilling banned in Arctic Ocean, HIV in the US, and more!
Weekly Digest — March 5-11, 2019
This week in #scipol: opinions on vaccines and climate change, legislative priorities of democrats and republicans, the "cure" for HIV, apologies for sexual harassment, Nature on ResearchGate, border wall in trouble, ANWR, and more!
Weekly Digest — February 26-March 4, 2019
This week in #scipol: lots of vaccine news in Texas and online, declines in global fisheries, Lake Erie gets rights, ANWR comments needed, the cost of publishing in Nature, carbon neutral Costa Rica, world's largest bee, and more!