Science Advocacy

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

Alex Wong/Getty Images

September 3, 2025

New to Advocacy? 3 Tips for Early Career Scientists

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream

July 10, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Livestreaming 100 Hours of Weather and Climate Moved Thousands to Action

Michelle Rama-Poccia
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host, Union of Concerned Scientists

photo of three workers in white protective gear with their backs to the camera, collecting samples from an underground chamber following a nuclear test

National Archives at College Park via Wikimedia Commons

May 13, 2025

Putting Science to Work for Security: A Call to Prevent Nuclear Testing

Dylan Spaulding
Senior Scientist

a person's hand holds a sign at a protest that reads "It's a privilege to educate yourself about racism instead of experiencing it!!"

James Eades/Unsplash

February 6, 2023

Reflections on Black History Month—and the Present for Black Scientists

Tosin Fadeyi
Science Network Senior Outreach Coordinator

A small group of lay people standing in a field observe as a representative from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service discusses the benefits of using cover crops

Tracy Robillard/NRCS Oregon

November 29, 2021

Scientists Engaging the Public: 6 Steps to Make Participatory Science More Policy Effective

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

Science Rising sign held up at a march with the US Capitol in the background.

Ja-Rei Wang/UCS

July 6, 2021

How One Science Nerd Became Involved in Movement Building

Melissa Varga
Science Network Senior Manager

Reject Keystone XL -- NOW Protest Seattle. Damien Conway/flickr

June 21, 2021

Keystone Cancellation Is a Hard-Won Victory for a Social Movement That Must Keep Pushing for More

UCS Science Network

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June 15, 2021

Science Activism After Trump

UCS Science Network

Beto Lugo-Martínez

June 8, 2021

En Armourdale, Kansas, CleanAirNow imagina un futuro más equitativo y justo

Genna Reed
Former Staff

Christos Bacharakis/Flickr

May 11, 2021

How Can Scientific Organizations Support Science Advocacy? 5 Ways to Get Started

UCS Science Network

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April 22, 2021

For Effective Science Advocacy, Focus on Shared Values, and Speak Up Often

UCS Science Network

Anthony Eyring/UCS

April 22, 2021

Who Wants to Learn More about Climate Change? All Kinds of People!

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist

A bike lane, an MBTA bus, and the Green Line trolley in Boston

Eleanor Fort/UCS

March 15, 2021

Why Scientists Shouldn’t Heed Calls to “Stay in Our Lane”

UCS Science Network

January 29, 2021

Scientific Integrity, Climate Action and Environmental Justice, Oh My! Science Activists Be Proud!

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

January 22, 2021

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

UCS Science Network

Inside the platform of the massive Arecibo Radio Telescope, once the largest radio telescope in the world. Arecibo Observatory/Paulo Friere

December 16, 2020

Rebuild Arecibo Observatory: One Scientist’s Reflection on Advocacy and Research

UCS Science Network

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October 29, 2020

What Civically Engaged Science Can Look Like: Our Work Doesn’t End With Elections

UCS Science Network

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April 20, 2020

Social Distance and Social Movements During COVID-19

UCS Science Network

Photo: Rich Hayes/UCS

February 5, 2020

Sneak Peek: Five Ways to Become a Science Advocate in 2020

UCS Science Network

CLAUDIO GONZÁLES

October 1, 2019

Our Next Generation of Scientists, Exploited

UCS Science Network

Multiple generation climate strike at Seattle City Hall, June 2019. Photo: Heather Price

September 19, 2019

From Scientist to Activist

UCS Science Network

August 29, 2019

Women Scientists Form a Policy Advocacy Network in the Mid-Atlantic

UCS Science Network

June 10, 2019

Under Our Noses: PFAS Contamination in Southern Colorado

UCS Science Network