{"id":1309,"date":"2011-04-23T17:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T21:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2011-04-23T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T21:51:43","slug":"first-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"First newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the folks here at Florida Citizens for Science have dipped their toes into new water, producing the first edition of a newsletter: Florida Science Matters. You can see the pdf file as a large file (8 mb)<\/a> or a smaller size (1 mb)<\/a>. Takes a look and let us know what you think. Feel free to share it with others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the folks here at Florida Citizens for Science have dipped their toes into new water, producing the first edition of a newsletter: Florida Science Matters. You can see the pdf file as a large file (8 mb) or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-l7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1167,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1167","url_meta":{"origin":1309,"position":0},"title":"Call for submissions","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science is working on the inaugural issue of a newsletter that will debut soon. 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Sample questions are \"can the state meet the demand for STEM skills,\" \"are students exposed to challenging and engaging\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1682#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2551,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2551","url_meta":{"origin":1309,"position":4},"title":"“A solution in search of a problem”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science needs your help! It's going to be a busy year for us and we need all the vocal, passionate, action-oriented science advocates we can find to support our cause. Please read all the way to the end of this post and consider our call to action.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Religious Liberties Act 2017"","block_context":{"text":"Religious Liberties Act 2017","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=33"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2857,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2857","url_meta":{"origin":1309,"position":5},"title":"Lots of news","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"There's all sorts of interesting news items related to science education lately! I'll list them here by general topic ... 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