Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates.

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DonFerrari said:

Scoobes said:

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. There are a lot of different people on these sites. 

They each have individuals and groups dedicated to the pursuit of science and discussion of different fields.

On facebook alone there are groups of scientists dedicated to Bioinformatics for Next Gen Sequencing, Biochemical Engineering, there's even a group dedicated to the CRISPR/Cas-9 enzyme. Some of the more popular or mainstream ones would include Brian Cox, Carin Bondar or I Fucking Love Science (IFLS). All the major companies involved in science research also have their own dedicated pages. 

On Twitter these sames scientists tweet about their work or comment on the latest advances. 

LinkedIn is a bit more obvious as it's a professional networking site but you get the idea. 

Those aren't sites... I though you were talking about something else. So you are basically saying some pages inside the social media, ok.

Have this decree ordered that they can't participate in discussion or that they can't release information by themselves? There is a big difference.

And the place for major scientific discussion are usually universities, companies, simposiuns, etc. Not twitter.

They can't post anything work related on social media, so those social media groups would count, effectively eliminating discussion on these sites. 

And science is a growingly collaborative endeavour. Social media sites are an instanteous way to bounce ideas off from scientists around the world. Of course that happens in the smaller groups within a university or company but it has far greater reach on social media. Conferences/sympossiums are also great but they take time to setup and are costly.