Kathleen Garrigan
@kgarrigan.bsky.social
Director of Research Communications at The George Washington University | Previously with the National Science Foundation & the African Wildlife Foundation | Exploring bluer skies | Views my own.
In a new article in @science.org, GW's @jhelvy.bsky.social shows that China is outpacing the US in EV quality, range and price, and that current protectionist policies will only undermine US innovation, competitiveness and national security. The US needs to rethink its strategy, writes Helveston.
🚗⚡ New in @science.org: My piece on why the U.S. needs to rethink its approach to China's electric vehicle industry (and what's at stake if it doesn’t).
The competitive gap is bigger than you think. Thread 🧵
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The competitive gap is bigger than you think. Thread 🧵
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How collaboration with China can revitalize US automotive innovation
Strategic collaboration, not protectionist barriers, should be pursued
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October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In a new article in @science.org, GW's @jhelvy.bsky.social shows that China is outpacing the US in EV quality, range and price, and that current protectionist policies will only undermine US innovation, competitiveness and national security. The US needs to rethink its strategy, writes Helveston.
In research hubs around the world, GW experimental nuclear physicists are piecing together the building blocks of the universe one subatomic Lego piece at a time ... and they're using some pretty heavy duty machinery to do it. Check out our latest feature 👉 researchmagazine.gwu.edu/particle-whi...
The Particle Whisperers | GW Research Magazine | The George Washington University
GW experimental physicists are pioneering big science at the smallest scale. With cutting-edge tech and state-of-the-art systems, faculty and students are on the frontlines of a subatomic revolution.
researchmagazine.gwu.edu
July 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In research hubs around the world, GW experimental nuclear physicists are piecing together the building blocks of the universe one subatomic Lego piece at a time ... and they're using some pretty heavy duty machinery to do it. Check out our latest feature 👉 researchmagazine.gwu.edu/particle-whi...
"Democracy was not in danger of being overthrown, but overentertained." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The world is choking on screens. Just as this book foretold.
Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” at 40 is truer than ever.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Democracy was not in danger of being overthrown, but overentertained." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
“In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments …
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments …
"Curiosity can be a bridge." Interesting article and experiment from Your Local Epidemiologist.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
What I’m learning from MAHA
And why public health needs to catch up with the curiosity-driven movement
open.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Curiosity can be a bridge." Interesting article and experiment from Your Local Epidemiologist.
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
When vaccine rates drop, outbreaks rise – not just because of misinformation, but because of how people weigh personal vs. collective risk.
Game theory explains why these rational choices can lead to public health failure.
buff.ly/tzGLY0X
#health #wellness #measles #vaccineswork
Game theory explains why these rational choices can lead to public health failure.
buff.ly/tzGLY0X
#health #wellness #measles #vaccineswork
Game theory explains why reasonable parents make vaccine choices that fuel outbreaks
Vaccine hesitancy isn’t a moral failure – it’s a property of a system in which people must balance personal and collective interests.
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
When vaccine rates drop, outbreaks rise – not just because of misinformation, but because of how people weigh personal vs. collective risk.
Game theory explains why these rational choices can lead to public health failure.
buff.ly/tzGLY0X
#health #wellness #measles #vaccineswork
Game theory explains why these rational choices can lead to public health failure.
buff.ly/tzGLY0X
#health #wellness #measles #vaccineswork
“Basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress." - Vannevar Bush
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything
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May 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress." - Vannevar Bush
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Space exploration has evolved from a two-nation race into a dynamic, global enterprise. In this new era, experts at GW’s Space Policy Institute are shaping the next generation of policymakers, industry leaders and scholars. researchmagazine.gwu.edu/new-space-race
The New Space Race | GW Research Magazine | The George Washington University
Space exploration has evolved from a two-nation race into a dynamic, global enterprise. In this new era, experts at GW’s Space Policy Institute are shaping the next generation of policymakers, industr...
researchmagazine.gwu.edu
May 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Space exploration has evolved from a two-nation race into a dynamic, global enterprise. In this new era, experts at GW’s Space Policy Institute are shaping the next generation of policymakers, industry leaders and scholars. researchmagazine.gwu.edu/new-space-race
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
This is so thoughtful and generous. Thank you, Holden Thorp.
March 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is so thoughtful and generous. Thank you, Holden Thorp.
“So, as America appears to be copying the worst aspects of China’s recent history, China is copying the best aspects of America’s, striving to take the edge as the United States goes through its own cultural revolution.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Trump is launching America’s version of the Cultural Revolution
The way the White House has attacked research funding and free speech recalls China’s Cultural Revolution.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“So, as America appears to be copying the worst aspects of China’s recent history, China is copying the best aspects of America’s, striving to take the edge as the United States goes through its own cultural revolution.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
I went to AAAS this weekend and talked to lots of scientists about how they're feeling In These Times
www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...
www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...
The mood is ‘uncertain, anxious’ at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting
Scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administration. Researchers at the AAAS meeting shared fears and coping strategies.
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February 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I went to AAAS this weekend and talked to lots of scientists about how they're feeling In These Times
www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...
www.sciencenews.org/article/defu...
Happening at the #AAASmtg on the Sci-Mic Stage at 4:00-5:00pm: "Scientists Under Siege: Addressing Researcher Harassment," with GW’s @rebekahtromble.bsky.social and Science Editor-in-Chief @holdenthorp.bsky.social. 👉 aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/36099
Scientists Under Siege: Addressing Researcher Harassment
Researchers across disciplines are facing unprecedented levels of intimidation and harassment that aims to discredit, delay, or end their work altogether. This abuse has dire consequences for research...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Happening at the #AAASmtg on the Sci-Mic Stage at 4:00-5:00pm: "Scientists Under Siege: Addressing Researcher Harassment," with GW’s @rebekahtromble.bsky.social and Science Editor-in-Chief @holdenthorp.bsky.social. 👉 aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/36099
Workshop happening at the #AAASmtg at 2:30pm-3:30pm - Be Your Own Character: Develop a Unique Voice & Story to Bring Science to Life with GW’s Frank Sesno & WBGH/NOVA aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0
2025 Annual Meeting
aaas.confex.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Workshop happening at the #AAASmtg at 2:30pm-3:30pm - Be Your Own Character: Develop a Unique Voice & Story to Bring Science to Life with GW’s Frank Sesno & WBGH/NOVA aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0
Happening at the #AAASmtg today: Join us at 11:00am at the Sci-Mic Stage as Slate’s @lizzieohreally.bsky.social talks w/ political communications scholar @davekarpf.bsky.social about disappearing data, the changing digital landscape & what all this means for scientists. aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
GW Research at AAAS | The George Washington University
Come see GW research faculty and staff present at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
February 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happening at the #AAASmtg today: Join us at 11:00am at the Sci-Mic Stage as Slate’s @lizzieohreally.bsky.social talks w/ political communications scholar @davekarpf.bsky.social about disappearing data, the changing digital landscape & what all this means for scientists. aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
GW is proud to be sponsoring this year's #AAASmtg! If you're at the meeting, stop by our booth, #922, to take our brain-computer interface challenge & check out some of our (very timely) programming 👇 aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu/
GW Research at AAAS | The George Washington University
Come see GW research faculty and staff present at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
February 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
GW is proud to be sponsoring this year's #AAASmtg! If you're at the meeting, stop by our booth, #922, to take our brain-computer interface challenge & check out some of our (very timely) programming 👇 aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu/
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
Come for the snark. Stay for the practical tips about what scholars, universities, and scientific associations can do to respond to this moment.
February 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Come for the snark. Stay for the practical tips about what scholars, universities, and scientific associations can do to respond to this moment.
If you're attending the #AAASmtg in Boston this week, check out some of our programming, including two conversations on the Sci-Mic Stage that are more relevant than ever 🧵 aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
GW Research at AAAS | The George Washington University
Come see GW research faculty and staff present at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
February 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you're attending the #AAASmtg in Boston this week, check out some of our programming, including two conversations on the Sci-Mic Stage that are more relevant than ever 🧵 aaasmeeting.research.gwu.edu
A direct hit | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A direct hit
Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A direct hit | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Kathleen Garrigan
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
F.D.A. Approves Weight-Loss Drug to Treat Sleep Apnea
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
From top honors to new discoveries, our scholarly community set a high standard for innovation, creativity, impact and excellence this year. Check out the 2024 GW Research Year in Review. 👉 yearinreview.research.gwu.edu
GW Research Year In Review | The George Washington University
In 2024, the GW community reached new heights of research excellence and impact. Here we celebrate a year marked by prolific scholarship, influential partnerships and a dedication to translating knowl...
yearinreview.research.gwu.edu
December 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
From top honors to new discoveries, our scholarly community set a high standard for innovation, creativity, impact and excellence this year. Check out the 2024 GW Research Year in Review. 👉 yearinreview.research.gwu.edu