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coming up: President-elect @JoeBiden is introducing his science team https://twitter.com/Transition46/status/1350515235518623745
"It's in the DNA of this country, hope," Biden says, setting a ~ tone ~ with his science team introduction. He's brought up "possibility" "imagination" and "how can we make the impossible possible"
Introducing @eric_lander tapped for OSTP head, Biden calls him "one of the most brilliant guys I know." Says he knew him from when Lander lead PCAST, the Obama's advisory council "We're going to lead with science and truth - we believe in both."
. @Alondra will help open the door to a future in which "science serves ALL people" Biden says. He praises her science <> society scholarship and study "like few ever have in American history"
. @maria_zuber and @francesarnold will lead the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a volunteer group -- the first time two women will lead that elite group, Biden says
Biden thanks @NIHDirector for staying on under a THIRD president, even if it wasn't his original plan (??). Calls him a "pioneering leader" and "a model public servant"
Lander's up. V on brand with the hope-dream-inspire theme of this event. "No nation is better equipped than America to inspire he next generation" he says. Also: "America's greatest asset I think is our unrivaled diversity."
. @alondra is here: "Never before in living memory have connections between our scientific world and our social world been quite so start as they are today" she says. #COVID19 will be a first priority for this team.
. @alondra: "As a black woman researcher I am keenly aware of those who are missing from these rooms." Says she's spent her career thinking about whose input is needed and present.
. @alondra says: "It's never been a more important moment for scientific development to get scientific development right, or to situate that development, in our values of equality, accountability, justice, and trustworthiness."
. @francesarnold says the Biden agenda "resonates with me, not only as a scientist, but as a grandmother." Says she aims for science shaping "a society that is worth passing on to our children and grandchildren."
. @maria_zuber says she grew up in coal country Pennsylvania. Both her grandfathers were miners, and died of black. Says she hopes to "deploy science to help breathe new life into these places into so many communities, large and small, that are hurting today."
VP elect @KamalaHarris says she went with her mother (an endocrinologist) to the lab, where she got assigned jobs like cleaning pipettes (her least fav job).
VP-elect hits concerns top of mind for scientists today: "The science behind climate change is not a hoax, the science behind the virus is partisan" @KamalaHarris says
With this group the president elect is sending a clear message Harris says: "We are going to make sure that the USA once again leads the way in science and innovation"
. @KizzyPhD gets a shoutout in @KamalaHarris's speech mentioning the Moderna vaccine, says it was developed at NIH by "a team co-led by a 34-year-old black woman by the name of Dr Corbett"
Aaand that's a wrap. For more, here's our @NatureNews story from yesterday: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00118-8
