Government could and should add real value to sectoral initiatives by creating a cabinet level science minister with specific responsibilities to increase the representation of women at all levels of the STEM workforce.
We're waiting for action, and Trump is kidding nobody on climate as he simultaneously stacks his transition team and cabinet with climate science deniers and the dirtiest hacks the fossil fuel industry can offer.
President Obama famously stacked his first term Cabinet with a science "dream team", prompting the head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to comment, "We have never had quite this array of scientists in federal government leadership positions".
He has spent the past few days in meetings with cabinet colleagues, government science advisers and members of the scientific community in an attempt to find out why he was not consulted about the sacking and also how the government could come up with a solution.
The plan was hatched by a small group of White House officers meeting secretly for several weeks without input from most cabinet members, presidential science adviser John Marburger, or the institutes most affected by the proposal.
Cutting environmental regulations appears to be high on President-elect Donald Trump's list of priorities, as he stacks his proposed Cabinet with climate science deniers and fossil fuel executives.
Slashing environmental regulations appears to be a top priority of the next administration, as Trump fleshes out his proposed Cabinet with climate science deniers and those who have alarmingly deep ties to the coal, oil and gas industries.
Anti-science cabinet picks like former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson and Scott Pruitt, who sued the Environmental Protection Agency 13 times as Oklahoma attorney general, have done little to quell fears.
Other cabinet members besides the science minister would like to see the army leave south Lebanon, even without an agreement with Syria.
This Hayward Touring exhibition, curated by Brian Dillion, transformed the gallery into a cabinet of curiosities as science and art, reality and fiction, ancient and modern coincide.
