{"id":20938,"date":"2025-06-24T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=20938"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:03:02","slug":"esa-policy-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2025\/06\/24\/esa-policy-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Policy Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/12\/800px-uscapitoldome-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2164 img-fluid\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/12\/800px-uscapitoldome-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/12\/800px-uscapitoldome.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ecological Society of America\u2019s Public Affairs Office, in partnership with ESA\u2019s Governing Board, are closely monitoring the status of federal policy that impacts the ecological science community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay up to date on recent developments with <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/policy-news-headlines\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/policy-news-headlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our curated list of policy news headlines and resources for ecologists<\/a>. And see <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/public-policy\/letters-from-esa-president\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/public-policy\/letters-from-esa-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a running list<\/a> of ESA\u2019s public statements, correspondence with lawmakers and other public policy positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Here are some actions we\u2019ve taken recently:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>June 2:<\/strong> ESA issued <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2025\/06\/02\/esa-action-alert-contact-your-senators-to-advocate-to-fund-science-agencies-and-programs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2025\/06\/02\/esa-action-alert-contact-your-senators-to-advocate-to-fund-science-agencies-and-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>an action alert<\/strong><\/a> urging members to contact their senators to advocate for FY26 science funding.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 3:<\/strong> The Coalition for National Science Funding (of which ESA is a member)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/CNSFstatementonFY26Presbudget.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>issued a statement<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0calling on Congress to reject the massive cuts to NSF proposed in the President\u2019s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>June 6:<\/strong> ESA joined 18 other scientific societies in submitting a joint response to a White House Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed rule change that would strip tens of thousands of federal workers of traditional civil service protections.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Community-response-re-OPM-2025-0004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the comments<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ESA\u2019s Public Affairs staff are <strong>meeting with congressional offices<\/strong> to advocate for federal support for science, reminding lawmakers of the critical research being conducted by government and federally-funded scientists, and its benefits to constituents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recipients of the 2025 Graduate Student Policy Award are sharing their perspectives on science policy and the importance of engaging with decisionmakers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/category\/ecology-in-policy\/gspa\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/category\/ecology-in-policy\/gspa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>read their posts on our blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent actions ESA has taken in the science policy arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecology-in-policy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20971,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions\/20971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}