As 2025 winds down, we’ve been reflecting on everything this community has built, protected, and imagined this year. From cold mornings in February to the blazing heat of July to the crisp fall days of October, you stood with us as we worked to make Georgia stronger, more resilient, and more connected.
It’s been a year defined by learning, co-creating, pushing back, and lifting each other up.
And we could not be more grateful.
Winter & Early Spring: Getting into the Groove
We started the year with the General Assembly session (watch the update shorts here) – communicating about data centers and environmental health and justice.
Jazz Hands Science Comedy packed the house and proved that humor can be one of the most powerful tools for connection. We were even featured on WABE!
We hosted a series of community workshops about worms, gardening, and go bags!
Michael debuted their misinformation workshop and started a trend. Our last count has us at 8 presentations to over 350 people.
Summer: Feeling the Burn
Our interns graduated and the General Assembly closed, but we were still hard at work.
We hosted our fourth annual Environmental Justice & Climate Protection Conference in lovely Valdosta, GA. We came together around bearing witness to individual stories, and we crushed it at Karaoke night.
We began a survey of the impacts of lost government services, data, and jobs.
We built even more maps highlighting the overlap of socioeconomic, health, and environmental burdens. Starting and updating portals on Augusta, S Fulton, S DeKalb, Data Centers, the SSE4 Pipeline Expansion, Rural Healthcare Access, and more.
We testified before a special committee about data center resource use and started a press tour on data centers.
Fall & Winter: Hope in Action
On Aug 8, over 500 bullets were fired at the CDC. On Aug 16, we had a press conference, and then hundreds of people, seven organizations (including Sci4Ga), and multiple policy makers rallied in downtown Atlanta to share that “Sound Science Saves Lives.” Despite of, or because of, their fear – people are still showing up and speaking up.
We provided a myriad of ways to ensure science continues to serve society.
We hosted even more Climate Survival Trainings, Georgia Science Junctions (even one on vaccines), and a second Jazz Hands.
This past month we rounded things out by hosting a data center workshop, a data center worldbuilding exercise, and multiple workdays (none of which were about data centers)
From citizen water testing to data-storytelling maps…
From misinformation workshops to EJ convenings…
From laughter-filled comedy nights to gut-punch data visualizations…
From community organizing to hands-on resilience training…
This year proved one thing:
DIY builds skills. But DITogether builds movements.
Your commitment — your time, your care, your humor, your energy — made this year possible.
As we prepare for next year, we are deeply aware of the challenges ahead:
funding cuts, data gaps, environmental threats, misinformation storms, and widening disparities.
But we are also deeply aware of something else:
Georgia is full of people who show up.
And in these hard times, when so many feel overwhelmed and overextended, we want to say this clearly:
Every bit helps. We value your contribution — no matter the size.
Together, we can keep Georgia awake, aware, and empowered.
If you’re able, help us carry this momentum into 2026: Please donate to our year end campaign.
Thank you for the laughter, the learning, the advocacy, the science, and the courage.
Thank you for believing in community.
Thank you for believing in each other.
Thank you for ensuring that Science Matters Here.