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by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Many key positions remain unfulfilled, divisions are understaffed, and process
has slowed to a crawl.—An anonymous US Fish and Wildlife Service staffer answering a survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists in which several thousand federal scientists weighed in on the state of science under the Trump administration (August 14)
Women have a huge capability, sense of problem solving and reasoning that they can contribute to science but both my own experience and general statistics suggest this capability is regularly overlooked and we don’t receive equal opportunity to participate.
—Michaela Kendall, an environmental scientist at Birmingham City University who made a freedom of information request to the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, revealing that 90 percent of the government...
| ACROSS 7. Cinematic player of a human hematophage 4. Dicotyledon used to make wreaths 8. 1911 atomic discovery of Ernest Rutherford 10. Grouping between class and family 11. Murder : crows :: ___ : monkeys 12. Element used to make semiconductors 13. Koala, possum, or wombat 17. Have as a natural environment 19. Venom-injecting snake 21. Peninsula bridging Asia and Africa 22. Secretion of an endocrine gland 23. Mammals with large calves 24. Hallucinogen from a cactus |
| DOWN 1. Wearing a natural coat of wool 2. Lizard that licks its own eyeballs 3. 1973 film of a cryopreservation subject 5. Bikini, for one 6. In math, the √ sign 7. Where phonatory muscles are housed 9. Hirsute biped of cryptozoology 13. Evergreen shrub with berries and spiny leaves 14. Division, vis-à-vis multiplication 15. Puzzle solved without pen or pencil 16. Change states of matter, in a way 18. Seawater 20. Prefix on synthesis |
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