Thread by @LizBorkowski

So much great reporting and commentary about how the #shutdown is affecting science within and well beyond federal agencies! A thread (1/many):

EPA has furloughed inspectors who detect illegal levels of contaminants in air and water, @CoralMDavenport reports. Eric Schaeffer of @EnviroInegrity recalls damaging impact of 1995-6 shutdown on inspections & enforcement. nytimes.com/2019/01/09/cli… #ScienceNotShutdown 2/

With FDA surveillance of drugs & pharmacies down to a "bare minimum," workers in agency labs are concerned about slow responses if problems arise, @vyurkevich & @jechristensen report. #ScienceNotShutdown #ScienceShutdown #ShutdownStories
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FDA has halted inspection of low-risk food facilities; @juliaoftoronto (referencing @hbottemiller) puts the risk in perspective and notes that FDA inspections of high-risk facilities and USDA inspections are continuing during the #shutdown.
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EPA contractors got four hours to shut down their labs, and employees like @Earthwise82 are unlikely to get paid for furloughed time. @mcorkery5 reports on this "vital and vast network of workers." #ScienceNotShutdown #ScienceShutdown #ShutdownStories
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"It's thousands and thousands of scientists who are missing their weekly paycheck, but they are also running into delays, disruptions, sometimes ruination of their research projects," @AAAS's @RushHolt told @NewsHour's @WmBrangham. #ScienceNotShutdown 6/
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Data lost forever, contractor-run facilities shuttering, early-career scientists suffering, scientists missing collaborations and facing stress -- @lmorello_dc, @Sara_Reardon, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, @jefftollef, & @alexwitze add up the #shutdown toll. 7/ nature.com/articles/d4158…

#Shutdown imperils research on crop pests and rare astronomical phenomena, and it kept hundreds of federal scientists from a meeting that fosters collaboration to benefit all of society, @bbguari, @sarahkaplan48,⁩ @angelafritz, @Carolynyjohnson report 8/ washingtonpost.com/science/2018/1…

Many "rank-and-file scientists said the shutdown was exacting a gradual toll that might not be fully realized for several years, affecting research, morale and, perhaps, the recruitment of prospective employees," @alanblinder found. nytimes.com/2019/01/05/us/… #ScienceNotShutdown 9/

Govt scientists are canceling long-planned trips for field work & meetings & filing for unemployment, while academics who rely on shuttered agencies' funding fear research & career disruption, report @lmorello_dc, @amymaxmen, @Sara_Reardon, @alexwitze. 10/ nature.com/articles/d4158…

.@AndreaTWeather interviews Nat Weather Svc union steward @EricBlake12 about #shutdown impacts, including missing #AMS2019 meeting, likely delays in hurricane modeling and preparedness training for emergency managers, & problems with hiring and morale. 11/
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.@DrShepherd2013, past NASA meteorologist & current @GeographyUGA, warns #shutdown means databases going offline and hampering many scientists' productivity, plus #shutdown gamesmanship discouraging young scientists from considering government careers. 12/ forbes.com/sites/marshall…

Timely episode of @scifri features @sciencewritr & @lmorello_dc talking with @iraflatow about #shutdown impacts, plus Lupita Montoya of @CUEVEN & @SACNAS and Adie Wilson-Poe of @wustl describing harm to their research projects. sciencefriday.com/segments/scien… #ScienceShutdown 13/

“The shutdown has a dangerous effect on our ongoing efforts to diversify the STEM workforce ... Underrepresented minority students and STEM professionals are already vulnerable within the workforce." - @WINNETT_STEM of @SACNAS. #ScienceNotShutdown 14/
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Delaying National Science Foundation grant decisions by a few weeks might not seem like a big deal, but @AndrewDessler explains how academics could miss this year's window for hiring new grad students.

https://twitter.com/AndrewDessler/status/1081308185254875137

#ScienceNotShutdown #ScienceShutdown 15/

.@ametsoc's Keith Seitter told @AP how 700 govt employees missing #AMS2019 has broad impacts: “people getting together in the hallways, developing new relationships, developing new areas to collaborate ...that can't happen if those people aren't here.” 16/

“When people join an organization, when they take an oath, they want to have the resources necessary — free of political influence — so they can do their job,” EPA employee Gary Morton told @aviselk & @EllenMcCarthy about morale during the #shutdown. 17/ washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…

Shutdown may do long-term damage to Nat'l Weather Svc, which "provides a baseline of knowledge about the weather that helps power our transportation systems & airlines, as well as keep workers like construction workers and farmers safe." -@carolineha_ 18/ motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…

When hundreds of govt scientist miss an annual meteorological mtg, "it's a huge loss for our community. It's a loss for the scientific work that's being done. And it's an enormous loss for the country itself," @ametsoc's Keith Seitter tells @nprAudie 19/ npr.org/2019/01/09/683…

"If you’re not getting out there, you’re not collecting evidence, [and] the evidence is not necessarily going to hang around," @EnviroIntegrity's Eric Schaeffer told @ericwolff about furloughed EPA inspectors. 20/ politico.com/story/2019/01/… #ScienceNotShutdown #ShutdownStories

First hurricane training sessions for local emergency managers canceled due to #shutdown, & improvements to NOAA's Global Forecast System delayed. @FranklinJamesL, @EricBlake12, & @WCraigFugate tell @gallennpr how hurricane preparedness is suffering. 21/
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"Every year, we really focus our efforts on making better hurricane forecasts, intensity & track. We really pride ourselves on it. And right now, we're just unable to do it." @EricBlake12 & other Floridians tell @johnyangtv of harmful #shutdown impacts 22/
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The "government shutdown coming in the final year before the count of all people residing in the United States is akin to turning off the engine just as the rocket is revving up, critics say." @TaraBahrampour reports on affected Census Bureau work. 23/ washingtonpost.com/local/social-i…

The #shutdown hurts wildfire prep, @gflaccus writes: "Firefighting training courses are being canceled from Tennessee to Oregon, piles of dead trees are untended in federal forests and controlled burns to thin dry vegetation aren’t getting done." 24/ washingtonpost.com/national/energ…

World Magnetic Model needs an update to respond to a shift in Earth's north magnetic pole, @sarahkaplan48 explains. NOAA hosts the model and makes it available to the public -- but with the #shutdown, it's unavailable. 25/
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"On top of the missed paychecks, the cancelled trips to scientific conferences and the deadlines that loom despite the forced time off, scientists ... have plants, animals, insects and microbes to worry about." -@ScienceJulia on #ScienceShutdown 26/
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Even agencies that aren't shut down are suffering: NIH has to reschedule peer review panels because the Federal Register isn't publishing the required meeting notices as usual, @jocelynkaiser reports. 27/ #ScienceShutdown #ShutdownStories
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“This whole shutdown has made me seriously rethink my career goals,” NASA fellow Eva Bodman told @alexwitze. “... if the federal jobs aren’t that stable, do I really want to be at the mercy of Congress every single year?” 28/ #ScienceShutdown
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The shutdown hasn't entirely discouraged astronomy grad student @zpacefromspace from pursuing a government career, but he tells @RA_Becks that equity and excellence will suffer if only scientists with financial cushions apply to federal agencies. 29/
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"For each week of a shutdown, NSF falls behind about 4 weeks in the process of evaluating and funding research proposals because the shutdown 'backs up the system,'" Dave Verardo of AFGE Local 3403 told @RandyShowstack. /30 #ScienceShutdown
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"Collaborations and on-going projects grind to a halt, funding gets delayed, research sites and data become inaccessible, conference sessions have empty panels, and public lands and water get degraded." -@highlyanne on #ScienceShutdown 31/ nature.com/articles/d4158…

Shutdown hasn't halted weather forecasts, but @angelafritz reports on what isn't happening at NWS: "Forecasters and managers are not getting paid. Weather models are not being maintained, launched or improved. Emergency managers are not being trained." 32/
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“Most federal water research in the US is now at a standstill, which is inconvenient at best, and dangerous at worst,” hydrologist @JayFamiglietti told @kurtisalexander. #ScienceShutdown 33/
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