<p>Stuff going on in the blogosphere:</p> <ul> <li><a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/15/64611/5920″>Darksyde</a> writes about <a href=”http://www.bradmiller.org/”>Rep. Brad Miller</a>&#8217;s attempt to provide protection for scientific whistleblowers employed by the government. Since pressuring scientists to make their results conform to politically-desireable outcomes is standard operating procedure for the current administration, such protection is especially valuable and timely.</li> <li><a href=”http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/06/13/national-acadamies-of-science-to-congress-loosen-the-purse-strings/”>Phil Plait</a> reports that the National Academy of Sciences has released their <a href=”http://fermat.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11644″>advice to Congress concerning NASA</a>. Guess what? Not nearly enough money is being allocated to accomplish what the agency is being asked to do. Since science is one of the first things to go when the budgets fall short, let&#8217;s hope Congress actually listens.</li> <li><a href=”http://scienceblogs.com/”>ScienceBlogs</a>, you may have noticed, has expanded. Among CV favorites that have found a new home within the Borg collective are <a href=”http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/”>Dynamics of Cats</a>, <a href=”http://scienceblogs.com/loom/”>The Loom</a>, and <a href=”http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/”>Mixing Memory</a>; Bora Zivkovic of <a href=”http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/”>Science and […]

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