Which means there’s a sudden upswelling in alternative twitter accounts claiming to represent the scientific views within agencies. When agencies have acted against the ban - like the Badlands account - they’ve swiftly been forced to apologize.

And each day this week, science has fought back: From the in-your-face climate change data the Badlands official twitter put out on Tuesday to points on the history of Japanese internment at Death Valley account Wednesday morning, #sciencetwitter is clearly feeling some urgency in protecting their field - normally a staunchly non-partisan one - from the administration.Ī number of media organizations, including BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post have been leaked memos showing that since Donald Trump has been inaugurated, massive gag orders on the National Park Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Transportation have been placed. The Trump administration has placed gag orders on government scientists, and researchers haven’t taken kindly to what they see as at best censorship and at worst, a dangerous muffling of science. It’s clear that they feel a sense of urgency in defending science from the administration. Every day a new account has picked up the fight, from the Badlands official Twitter on Tuesday to the Death Valley account Wednesday morning. The gag orders on government scientists have pushed a number of official Twitter accounts to go rogue, tweeting pro-science and anti-Trump information in defiance of the ban.

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