Obama’s science diaspora prepares for a fight

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Date of Publication: March 24, 2017

Year of Publication: 2017

Publication City: Washington, DC

Publisher: The Washington Post

Author(s): Dave Levitan

Newspaper: The Washington Post

With only a bare-bones staff being maintained at the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) where are the former staffers from President Obama’s science office now and what are they doing?

“They are fanning out, finding jobs in academia, at nonprofits and elsewhere, but they continue to work together, largely behind the scenes. This science diaspora, as one former staffer called it, is ready to both push forward on the ambitious science-related agendas of the previous administration, and to defend against the attacks on science emanating from the new White House.”

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