Science Homecoming

👩🏾‍🔬🐝🌌 Want to write popular science articles about your research for small-town newspapers in the U.S. to boost trust in science and support science literacy? Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has the information, tools, and volunteers to help you.

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Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.

The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

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Covers of the 2 leading science journals this week
@science.org and @nature.com
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Even more success, now at NIH. Our collective efforts worked 🇺🇸🧪

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Moving forward 🇺🇸. “When asked if the president would sign the bill, the White House directed NBC News to a statement earlier this month from the White House Office of Management and Budget. The statement said that the administration supported the bill.” 🧪🏠 NO MAJOR CUTS

Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

Our collective efforts to save science are working.

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This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine.

Scicomm matters now more than ever!

Returning from a trip to rural USA, realizing the messages so familiar to is are not getting out - both in terms of 1) disruptions to US science and 2) healthcare misinformation.

Efforts like @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social matter! /1

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How to Make Science and Health Funding Cuts Resonate with Readers - The Open Notebook By tracking funding losses and finding angles that illustrate the impacts of those cuts beyond the numbers, journalists can give readers a deeper understanding of how fiscal decisions have profound co...

Local reporters like @emilywoodruff.bsky.social are finding voices in their communities that speak to real-life ramifications, stepping beyond the immediate news cycle and humanizing policy choices, writes TON/@bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow Lucila Pinto. 🧪

As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.

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Science Homecoming

Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y
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Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

Science Homecoming Workshop. November 12, 2025. Steven T. Piantadosi, cofounder of Science Homecoming headshot.

Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.

Student workshop, BUCLD, Jessica Cantlon, Writing to Defend American Science

Come to the workshop at BUCLD @bucld.bsky.social, and bring a pen ✍🏻

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Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG

Whitney: Protecting what makes Vail great means supporting federal funding for science I am one of the lucky few to grow up in Vail. My childhood was surrounded by nature and adventure. Living in Maloit Park in Minturn meant that my backyard was essentially a forest, one...

Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠
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Homecoming isn’t just for football. Scientists, write an article for SCIENCE HOMECOMING

Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
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🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly

We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!

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@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed?

Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!

Published authors by career stage: Pre-doc 42%, Post-doc 18%, Faculty 39%

Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:

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Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Around 112 scientific grants in Pennsylvania from the National Institutes of Health have been impacted by cuts or freezes instituted by the Trump administration, according to a group of researchers an...

Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠

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Scientists studying how to improve human life

“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠

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ScienceSavedMe Testimonials - YouTube

Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare

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For his hometown in Montana, Nick Weber, PhD reminds his hometown that science once cured “black measles” and Rocky Mountain spotted fever—proof that investment in research saves lives, then and now. 🧪🏠

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Schumer, Jeffries propose strongly-worded letter to counter RFK Jr.'s purge at the CDC.