Katie Langin
Reporter and Editor at Science Magazine
journalist covering the scientific community and the environment for @ScienceMagazine / Ph.D. in ecology / 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 / Find me here: @klangin.bsky.social
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1 week ago |
science.org | Katie Langin
Cornell University doctoral student Isako Di Tomassi was taken aback by comments on local social media after thousands of federal workers, including her Ph.D. adviser—a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist—were fired in February. Some posters on the neighborhood networking platform Nextdoor seemed pleased, with one writing that a lot of “stupid research has been stopped.” She saw it differently.
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2 months ago |
science.org | Katie Langin
In an about-face approved this week by the federal office overseeing national surveys, U.S. researchers responding to a flagship census of Ph.D. recipients will no longer be invited to share information about their sexual orientation, and their options for gender will go back to a strict binary: male or female.
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2 months ago |
science.org | Katie Langin |Adrian Cho
Marco Prado has rarely missed a meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry in 30 years. “I have deep ties to the society,” the Canada research chair and University of Western Ontario professor says. But after U.S. President Donald Trump began announcing tariffs on Canadian goods and repeatedly referring to the sovereign nation as the “51st state,” Prado says he scrapped his lab’s plans to attend the society’s next conference this August in New York City.
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2 months ago |
science.org | Katie Langin |Adrian Cho
Marco Prado has rarely missed a meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry in 30 years. “I have deep ties to the society,” the Canada research chair and University of Western Ontario professor says. But after U.S. President Donald Trump began announcing tariffs on Canadian goods and repeatedly referring to the sovereign nation as the “51st state,” Prado says he scrapped his lab’s plans to attend the society’s next conference this August in New York City.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
science.org | Katie Langin
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) were among the first to receive termination notices last month as President Donald Trump’s administration moved to fire tens of thousands of probationary employees. Now, those workers could soon return to their jobs—at least temporarily—after an independent federal board issued a 45-day stay to their termination, finding “reasonable grounds” to believe that USDA fired them illegally.
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