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Welcome back, U.S. government science and environment agencies!

Posted on October 17, 2013October 27, 2013 By David Shiffman

On October 17th, after a 16 day shutdown, the U.S. government re-opened. Here are what the twitter accounts from U.S. science and environment agencies had to say on their first day back. I’ll continue to update this throughout the day as more twitter accounts come back online


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