Virginia Gewin
@virginiagewin.bsky.social
PDX-based science journalist writing about climate change, food security, land use, biodiversity loss, and diversity in STEM she/her
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Stories here: www.virginiagewin.com
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Stories here: www.virginiagewin.com
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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
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NSWA showed up at @sciencewriting1.bsky.social conference in Chicago last weekend!
The big news—the 2026 NASW conference will be in the PNW. Join us in Corvallis at @oregonstateuniv.bsky.social in October.
The big news—the 2026 NASW conference will be in the PNW. Join us in Corvallis at @oregonstateuniv.bsky.social in October.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
NSWA showed up at @sciencewriting1.bsky.social conference in Chicago last weekend!
The big news—the 2026 NASW conference will be in the PNW. Join us in Corvallis at @oregonstateuniv.bsky.social in October.
The big news—the 2026 NASW conference will be in the PNW. Join us in Corvallis at @oregonstateuniv.bsky.social in October.
The Bureau of Land Management proposed to overturn a rule that conservation is an official "use" of public lands.
As the comment period closes tonight, the folks at @westernpriorities.org analyzed the comments so far-->
98% oppose the rescission.
infogram.com/public-lands...
As the comment period closes tonight, the folks at @westernpriorities.org analyzed the comments so far-->
98% oppose the rescission.
infogram.com/public-lands...
Public Lands Rule a by Kate Groetzinger - Infogram
infogram.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Bureau of Land Management proposed to overturn a rule that conservation is an official "use" of public lands.
As the comment period closes tonight, the folks at @westernpriorities.org analyzed the comments so far-->
98% oppose the rescission.
infogram.com/public-lands...
As the comment period closes tonight, the folks at @westernpriorities.org analyzed the comments so far-->
98% oppose the rescission.
infogram.com/public-lands...
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The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE.
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE.
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024.
As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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"Cornell is the fourth institution to achieve an agreement with the Trump administration to restore federal money, following Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University." www.chronicle.com/article/corn...
Cornell Will Pay $60 Million and Provide Admissions Data in Deal to Restore Federal Funding
The university, which had seen hundreds of millions of dollars frozen, said the deal “will enable us to return to our teaching and research in restored partnership with federal agencies.”
www.chronicle.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Cornell is the fourth institution to achieve an agreement with the Trump administration to restore federal money, following Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University." www.chronicle.com/article/corn...
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Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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BREAKING: Trump administration must fully fund food aid benefits by Friday, US judge rules reut.rs/3LtkSQz
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration must fully fund food aid benefits by Friday, US judge rules reut.rs/3LtkSQz
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BREAKING: A judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters and media.
Judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters and media
A judge said Thursday she will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against peaceful protesters and media, saying current practices violate their constitutional rights.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
BREAKING: A judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters and media.
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Land Degradation Threatens Billions of Lives Worldwide, Warns UN Food Agency countercurrents.org/2025/11/land...
Land Degradation Threatens Billions of Lives Worldwide, Warns UN Food Agency | Countercurrents
A report published Monday by a United Nations agency revealed that nearly 1 in 5 people on Earth live in regions affected by failing crop yields driven by human-induced land degradation…
countercurrents.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Land Degradation Threatens Billions of Lives Worldwide, Warns UN Food Agency countercurrents.org/2025/11/land...
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🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
buff.ly
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
🔴 NEW 🔴 Lomborg for years has argued in op-eds, lectures, and the media that there are more important global issues to prioritize than climate change, writing in April that “it is not the existential threat that some would have us believe.”
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In @virginiagewin.bsky.social's impressive and sobering feature for @nature.com, she talks to 19 scientists @ EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA and USGS and explains how cutting the science will come at a cost to public health, environmental quality, and US scientific standing.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In @virginiagewin.bsky.social's impressive and sobering feature for @nature.com, she talks to 19 scientists @ EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA and USGS and explains how cutting the science will come at a cost to public health, environmental quality, and US scientific standing.
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Good morning. We crunched 4.6GB of trade data to find out how much of U.S. imports are getting tariffed (quite a bit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Almost Half of U.S. Imports Now Have Steep Tariffs
President Trump has transformed U.S. trade policy. Here's how much of his tariff agenda is under threat at the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Good morning. We crunched 4.6GB of trade data to find out how much of U.S. imports are getting tariffed (quite a bit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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More than three dozen experts interviewed by @apnews.com said negotiators have already pinned down the goal. "What’s needed now is more money and political will for countries to put decades of words and promises into action and policy." @borenbears.bsky.social apnews.com/article/cop3...
On eve of UN climate talks in Brazil, a call for less talking and more doing
World leaders and diplomats have gathered for 30 years to tackle climate change, but progress has been slow.
apnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
More than three dozen experts interviewed by @apnews.com said negotiators have already pinned down the goal. "What’s needed now is more money and political will for countries to put decades of words and promises into action and policy." @borenbears.bsky.social apnews.com/article/cop3...
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Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.
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NEW from me:
Eight on-air personalities were fired from CBS News yesterday as part of the layoffs -- and every single one of them is female, with half of them being POC.
Also, sources tell me a male correspondent saved his job by whining to Bari Weiss.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Eight on-air personalities were fired from CBS News yesterday as part of the layoffs -- and every single one of them is female, with half of them being POC.
Also, sources tell me a male correspondent saved his job by whining to Bari Weiss.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
CBS News fired 8 on-air personalities in latest layoffs. All of them are women
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources told The Independent that senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was added to the layoff list following a last-minute change by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.
www.independent.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
NEW from me:
Eight on-air personalities were fired from CBS News yesterday as part of the layoffs -- and every single one of them is female, with half of them being POC.
Also, sources tell me a male correspondent saved his job by whining to Bari Weiss.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Eight on-air personalities were fired from CBS News yesterday as part of the layoffs -- and every single one of them is female, with half of them being POC.
Also, sources tell me a male correspondent saved his job by whining to Bari Weiss.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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For this reason, the Gates memo presupposes a false dichotomy regarding climate outcomes: The choice we are faced with is not between "good for us" & "the end of the world," but instead how much harm we are willing to tolerate, and endure, in the years to come. [8/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For this reason, the Gates memo presupposes a false dichotomy regarding climate outcomes: The choice we are faced with is not between "good for us" & "the end of the world," but instead how much harm we are willing to tolerate, and endure, in the years to come. [8/n]
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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
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SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. www.wired.com/story/disinf...
No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. www.wired.com/story/disinf...
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Here’s How Much Obamacare Prices Are Rising Across the Country
The new prices make it official: Americans will need to pay more for insurance next year if extra subsidies are allowed to expire.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Oof, WY, KS, AR, SD, NE, KY, ME
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Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’
Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’
Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’
Just what you want to wake up to
Russia warns Trump nuclear tests 'will lead to chaos': Live Updates
Russian MP warns US nuclear test plans could destabilize global security, violate CTBT obligations. Follow Newsweek's live blog.
www.newsweek.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just what you want to wake up to
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In September, @nswa.bsky.social members journeyed to the Olympic Peninsula to see the Elwha River restoration.
Vanessa Castle, a Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe member, shared how the removal of the river's two dams has brought both ecological renewal & spiritual healing. John Gussman led us on a hike.
Vanessa Castle, a Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe member, shared how the removal of the river's two dams has brought both ecological renewal & spiritual healing. John Gussman led us on a hike.
October 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
In September, @nswa.bsky.social members journeyed to the Olympic Peninsula to see the Elwha River restoration.
Vanessa Castle, a Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe member, shared how the removal of the river's two dams has brought both ecological renewal & spiritual healing. John Gussman led us on a hike.
Vanessa Castle, a Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe member, shared how the removal of the river's two dams has brought both ecological renewal & spiritual healing. John Gussman led us on a hike.