They may not like it, but scientists must work with Donald Trump

Jack Stilgoe and Roger Pielke Jr: As they recover from Donald Trump's shock victory, US scientists must ask themselves three big questions.

Donald Trump has won. Science and scientists played almost no part in the campaign. Now, scientists must consider how they fit into a Trump future. This won't be easy. Many scientists are scared. In the tribal world of US politics, many now find themselves on the outside looking in. Most university scientists are Democrats, and the 2017 President, House and Senate will all be Republican. For this group, nothing portends disaster more than the elevation of a long-time opponent to national and international policies, Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to oversee the transformation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Even those academics who lean Republican (many of whom are engineers, since you ask) would despise Trump's rejection of what a George W Bush adviser once dismissed as the "reality-based community" (that is, anyone interested in prioritising evidence over faith).