@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".