Ann Gibbons

@evolutionscribe

correspondent for Science/author who writes about evolution

Joined April 2009

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 28

“Trump is kindling bogus emergencies.” Opinion | Trump’s fake emergencies are the real crisis - The Washington Post apple.news/A-7LKgyhIRSOh2…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. His vague national security claims chill speech and action far beyond his individual targets.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 4

nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opi… via @NYTOpinion

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Jul 24

It's amazing to think about what it would have been like to be alive when other types of hominins shared the landscape. Three ancient human relatives once shared the same valley. Did they meet—and compete? | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The world’s greatest concentration of ancestral human remains, in South Africa, poses a 2-million-year-old riddle of coexistence

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Jun 11

U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · May 27

Researchers have shown that Bitcoin mining has added more energy production to the U.S. grid than the amount required by the city of Los Angeles. Bitcoin Mining’s Outsized Impact on the U.S. Grid spectrum.ieee.org/environmental-…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Bitcoin mining in the U.S. now consumes more electricity than Los Angeles. Harvard researchers found pollution hotspots affecting 1.9M people, raising health risks. #Bitcoin

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 24

Most Phoenicians did not come from the land of Canaan, challenging historical assumptions | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Culture with biblical roots spread across the ancient world, but its people did not

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 24

“Somebody has to be prepared to stand up if the director of the National Institutes of Health declares that mRNA vaccine technology is potentially dangerous,” Vaccine experts band together to counter U.S. government misinformation | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Vaccine Integrity Project intends to provide scientific responses to ill-founded vaccine moves

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 24

Women's Health Initiative study loses federal funding : Shots - Health News : NPR npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 23

“This was really meant as a makeup project for women, because women have been excluded from research for so many years,” NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 23

Cuts for research, including air pollution, and clean energy. EPA orders staff to begin canceling research grants | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Agency targets programs that award up to $40 million annually

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 23

Major cuts to research ranging from tuberculosis to military readiness to new technologies to test vaccines. Why? NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 23

“Democrats … released a rebuttal of Senator Cruz’s October report last week, noting several flaws, including the misinterpretation of scientific terms, such as “biodiversity,” as being related to D.E.I. “ nytimes.com/2025/04/22/sci… via @NYTimes

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 17

This is shocking even by today’s new standards where we get a shock every hour. And note the threats to the whistleblower even before he reported : NLRB whistleblower claims Musk’s DOGE potentially caused significant security breach | PBS News pbs.org/newshour/show/…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The National Labor Relations Board protects workers' right to organize and investigates unfair labor practices. A whistleblower complaint filed by an IT staffer claims Elon Musk and his DOGE team...

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 17

“We experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,” Dr. Hall said. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/wel… via @NYTimes

evolutionscribe's tweet card. Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 16

Federal cuts to fight, TB, detect, ALS, and other deadly diseases. “People are going to die…” wsj.com/us-news/educat…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The university is learning which projects will be hit as the emails arrive.

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nature@Nature · Apr 6

“These aren’t luxury items. They’re the core infrastructure of modern science.” Import taxes on staples such as microscopes, glassware and computer chips will affect institutions already feeling financial strain go.nature.com/4jaymMA

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 15

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and…

HHarvard University@Harvard · Apr 14

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 6

nytimes.com/2025/04/06/hea… via @NYTimes

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 6

This is real and terrifying: nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/… via @NYTimes

evolutionscribe's tweet card. The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.

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Ann Gibbons@evolutionscribe · Apr 3

What a surprise. Not. Federal R&D funding cuts could destroy a source of lab-grown unicorn startups - PitchBook pitchbook.com/news/articles/…

evolutionscribe's tweet card. In 2023, federal sources accounted for more than half of the total $108 billion that U.S. academic institutions spent on R&D. Much of that spending is at risk.

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