This week in #scipol: the Scientific Integrity Act, DNA collected at the border, opioid lawsuits, a new Senate climate caucus, transgender children in Texas, bird species in danger, and more!
Weekly Digest — September 17-23, 2019
This week in #scipol: interstellar visitor, University of California divests from fossil fuels and provides healthcare, climate strike, Senate climate caucus, climate denier leaves, birds disappearing, AI in Malawi, and more!
Weekly Digest — September 10-16, 2019
This week in #scipol: US House bans drilling in ANWR, Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf of Mexico, WOTUS guidance revoked, Sackler settlement, climate strike, a TB cure, uninsured Texans, mysterious seal deaths, and more!
Weekly Digest — September 4-9, 2019
This week in #scipol: NOAA silences scientists and hurricane information, lakes are drained in Texas, the Tongass in danger, Bolsonaro cuts grants 90%, deaths in academia, the climate change debate ahead of 2020, and more!
Weekly Digest — August 19-September 3, 2019
This week in #scipol: giraffes get new protections, border wall pardons, University of Alaska budget cuts reduced, fires in Brazil, methane, ocean drones, genetics of homosexuality, bag bans in Texas, bananas in trouble, 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 — February 19-25, 2019
This week in #scipol: space harpoons, FY2019 funding, STEM parents, record oil leases, China building genetic databases, estimating enslaved people worldwide, WOTUS comment period, climate funding redirected, and more!
Weekly Digest — January 22-28, 2019
This week in #scipol: chytrid fungus origins, pollution from natural gas and marijuana, 2018 is the fourth warmest year on record, skin color genetics, trouble at the Austin Zoo, and more!
Weekly Digest — January 15-21, 2019
This week in #scipol: Eddie Bernice Johnson in charge, James Watson stripped of honors, a step forward for open access, when does a zygote become a human, mites that eat llama poop, Antarctica in crisis, and more!
Weekly Digest — December 11-17, 2018
This week in #scipol: a butterfly sanctuary slated for the border wall, the sage grouse in trouble, cats outdoors, goodbye Ryan Zinke, PhD's get jobs, T rex makeover, Little Foot uncovered 3.67 million years after she fell, and more!