Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the 
My post-election Science Progress column--written after I woke up super early and felt the effect of all the champagne--is now up. You can guess the gist, so I'll just give you the punch line and you can follow the link for details:
Despite many challenges ahead, it's clearly a new day for science in Washington, and there are strong grounds for feeling optimistic. For scientists who so struggled under George W. Bush, there's a very real sense that the clouds are parting. Now, we await a still-clearer signal of how president Obama will govern science--his pick of a presidential science adviser, which should come soon, and will tell us a great deal. In the meantime, however, we can note that in his victory speech last night, Obama did not leave out science; rather, he gave it a central role in defining the course the nation has taken over the past half century: "A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination."Let the tradition finally resume.
Full column here.
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Hear, hear.
Posted by: James F | November 5, 2008 12:56 PM
Top of my head, I could think of a few choices for science advisors: Dick Garwin, E O Wilson, James Hansen, Roald Hoffmann
http://www.desipundit.com/ashutosh/2008/02/21/who-should-be-the-next-presidential-science-advisor/
Posted by: Ashutosh | November 5, 2008 1:52 PM
My alma mater college president sent out an email to the whole alumni community this AM (something he hardly ever does) on the subject of the election. This guy pasted it into his blog:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/gabe/archive/019072.html
Posted by: Jon Winsor | November 5, 2008 4:50 PM
AMEN!!! What a relief!
Posted by: Stephen Berg | November 5, 2008 6:09 PM