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Last evening, WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD A BETTER SCIENCE ECOSYSTEM was the main course at a dinner at The Henri. The Science & Technology Action Committee -- led by AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh, Research America Inc. CEO Mary Woolley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Bill Novelli and University of California, San Francisco’s Keith R. Yamamoto raised the decibel and defcon level about the importance of fast-tracking science to a higher priority position in America's national agenda. I got to moderate the session and Widehall was part of the convening equation last night. Those who kicked their own thoughts into the discussion included The National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, US Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), Dept of Defense Asst Secretary for Science & Technology Aprille Ericsson, former FDA Administrator Margaret Hamburg, M.D., Qualcomm’s Nate Tibbits, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Chief of Staff and Deputy Director of Strategy Asad Ramzanali, DoD Science Laboratories Director Jagadeesh Pamulapati, Former Asst. Surgeon General Rear Adm. Susan Blumenthal, The Rockefeller Foundation's Eric Pelofsky, Bloomberg's Mike Shepard, CNN's Brian Fung, Bloomberg Industry Group's Jeannie Baumann, KIDS V CANCER's Nancy Goodman, Axios's Maria Curi, Smithsonian National Museum of American History Director Anthea M. Hartig, Ph.D, Axios Managing Editor Alison Snyder, Washington Office co-founder Evan Burfield, AAAS Chief of Staff Andrew Black, AAAS's Vice President for Advocacy Sheila Murphy, Issues in Science & Technology Editor at Large Kevin Finneran, UKRI North America Director Chloe Lianos, and Research!America's Shilpa Rajan. The 'bottom line' from the recently released "State of #Science in America" report is that the United States can no longer take its position in the world for granted. Read the report here -- it's brief and blunt.