early career scientist

A younger person holds a sign that reads FUND SCIENCE at a national Stand up for Science rally in 2025.

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September 3, 2025

New to Advocacy? 3 Tips for Early Career Scientists

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

A man holding a purple sign that says #ScienceRising is standing in a crowded square with many other people, some of them also holding signs. There are skyscrapers in the background.

Anthony Eyring/UCS

November 1, 2021

Science Is Rising: STEM Students Rocked the Vote in 2020 Election

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

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October 19, 2021

Calling All Scientists: The Federal Government is Hiring

Taryn MacKinney
Former Contributor

a white man in a brown leather jacket holds up a sign that says 'register early to vote'

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September 28, 2021

Scientists: Make Your Voices Heard on National Voter Registration Day

UCS Science Network

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September 21, 2021

How to Apply for a Federal Job: A Toolkit for Scientists

Jacob Carter
Former Contributor

September 20, 2021

POSea 2021 Conference: Beyond the #Hashtag

UCS Science Network

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September 2, 2021

Science Carries Weight in Decision-Making. Be Heard.

UCS Science Network

Marchers hold signs including one reading "science has no borders" at the Los Angeles march for science in 2017

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September 1, 2021

3 Tips for Getting Started in Science Advocacy as an Early Career Scientist

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

a purple yard sign stuck into some grass reads, "this time Wisconsin deserves fair maps"

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August 3, 2021

How the Science Perspective Can Help Us Understand What the 2020 Census Means for Fair Representation

UCS Science Network

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June 23, 2021

Using Science for Equitable Policies: A framework for climate scientists

UCS Science Network

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May 5, 2021

Putting the Politics of COVID-19 “Under the Microscope” via Podcast

UCS Science Network

Marcia Cassidy Communications

February 25, 2021

Renewable Energy Technology is Not Fully Helping Communities That Need it Most

UCS Science Network

January 28, 2021

Using GIS to Center Equity for Clean Transportation Investments in Massachusetts: The MassROUTES Screening Tool

UCS Science Network

January 22, 2021

Using Workshops as a Tool to Build Scientists’ Engagement in Policy

UCS Science Network

Paige Greenwood

July 8, 2020

I Chose Protesting for Black Lives Matter Over Writing My PhD Dissertation

UCS Science Network

Elena Blanco-Suarez, Science Network member, engaging with the public at an event in San Diego.

January 16, 2020

Little Outreach, Enormous Benefits – The Size (of the Audience) Doesn’t Matter

UCS Science Network

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December 19, 2019

Making the grass GREENER on the other side with H.R. 763

UCS Science Network

CLAUDIO GONZÁLES

October 1, 2019

Our Next Generation of Scientists, Exploited

UCS Science Network

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September 20, 2019

Corporate Profit Motives Shape Our Food Environment, and It’s Killing Us

UCS Science Network

September 11, 2019

Giving a Voice to Students & Early Career Researchers in International Science Policy and Diplomacy in the Post-Truth Era

UCS Science Network

July 30, 2019

Tackling Health Disparities in St. Louis

UCS Science Network

Science and Democracy Fellows, along with trainers and fellows at COMPASS, gather for their first training.

May 29, 2019

Managing the Work: Reflections on a year of science advocacy from the 2018 UCS Science and Democracy Fellows (Part 2)

UCS Science Network

May 28, 2019

Drops, Ripples, Waves: Reflections on a year of science advocacy from the 2018 UCS Science and Democracy Fellows (Part 1)

UCS Science Network

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April 5, 2019

6 Ways to Make Your Science Advocacy Effective at the State and Local Levels

UCS Science Network