Maryam Zaringhalam
webmz.bsky.social
Maryam Zaringhalam
@webmz.bsky.social
#openscience in service of society. Senior Director of Policy @cos.io and Senior Producer ‪‪@storycollider.bsky.social ‬. Previously: NLM/NIH, White House OSTP.

Views are my own. she/her.
"The ability to tell the truth… is an essential prerequisite for a free society. Scientists can leverage their substantial social standing&trustworthiness to preserve this vital ingredient."

@gretchentg.bsky.social's actionable call to scientists to defend democracy: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yesterday's EO on federal grantmaking makes several references to "Gold Standard Science" while at its core it violates the administration's own stated standard VI: "subject to unbiased peer review."
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM