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Science, Policy, and Other News that Caught My Eye
Greetings, SciLight readers ~~.~~ Never a dull moment. Trump wants states to change voting rules and holds housing bill hostage. Dazed and confused, he still manages to insult allies at NATO summit. Says ceasefire with Iran is over and call...
Stories That Change What We Know About Science
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There’s a moment when science stops being abstract. It’s when a forecast becomes a warning. When a pattern becomes a loss. When the data you’ve been watching quietly starts to describe something happening in real tim...
Science, Policy, and Other News that Caught My Eye
Greetings, SciLight readers. Happy Independence Day, as America celebrates its 250th birthday amid very high temperatures on the East Coast. And it was a busy week at the Supreme Court, as you’ll see under Court news below, with SCOTUS axin...
Science, Policy, and Other News that Caught My Eye
Greetings, SciLight readers. Lots of Supreme Court news this week; see below. A devastating earthquake in Venezuela. A fast-moving fire in Utah. And public school students in Texas now required to read the Bible! And then there’s Trump’s pi...
Music as Medicine: What Science Says About Music and Health
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My mother couldn’t always remember what she’d eaten for breakfast. But she could sing every word of the songs she loved from 60 years ago. We often sang them together during my visits with her in the nur...
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Dr. Jacob Carter studies and reports on how science influences government decision making. He is an expert in scientific integrity, science-informed policy processes, and holds a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Former Executive Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Current Board member of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) and The Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU.
I am a strategic communicator, storyteller, and nature enthusiast. I write about the fight to protect the environment, science, the politics of the planet, and the stories that shape our future.
Jessie has over 15 years of experience working in public policy development, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement at local to international scales.
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