"scientists who are willing and able to do so will have to enter the public arena"
I would venture to say as well that keepers of public arenas should be inviting and platforming scientists...you will lose what you don't fight for
@grimalkina Many privileged scientists are like many privileged tech people, they eschew "politics" because they don't personally benefit from understanding "it".
They are to be avoided.
@CartyBoston I don't think it's much worth our time to be sitting around criticizing scientists right now vs figuring out how to literally still get to have science
@CartyBoston and there are rather large differences between scientists and tech people which can be easily calculated by salary
It's an anecdote, but I worked with e.g. very wealthy and influential researchers at Harvard Medical School who did very little to help us with "politics".
Jun 2, 2025, 12:38 PMJun 2, 2025, 1:31 PM@bjc as a person who publishes science I often cannot afford the open access fee. Many scientists have been advocating and working for years on this. I simply challenge you to stop replying to a stranger online and do something to help us if you care about it.
@bjc also feel free to help people land editorials, there's an entire movement on this. https://sciencehomecoming.com/
Jun 2, 2025, 1:48 PM@bjc I'm suggesting actionable things to you because your reply suggested you wanted conversation about this
Jun 2, 2025, 1:57 PM@bjc I'm not looking for your analysis either.
@bjc also clearly I took this as a genuine question which it wasn't. But you're the one who asked dude.
https://tines.spork.org/objects/a30c868e-6773-455b-85e6-51d62a71c47d
@bjc here is the author literally posting the article in public and on here