We Are The Scientists Against A Fascist Government
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Sarah Tuttle, and Joseph Osmundson
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI on Twitter) is a rowdy queer Black Jewish femme, theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, and Editor in Chief of The Offing. Sarah Tuttle is a noisy white Jew and a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle. Joseph Osmundson is a queer white writer and a cancer biologist at NYU with a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from The Rockefeller University.
Our research is often supported by government funding.
A s we face threats to humanity ranging from continued violations of Native American sovereignty and anti-Black violence, to anti-refugee policies and the denial of global warming — a phenomenon that promises to displace more and more people — now is the time for scientists to ask:
What is our moral duty as scientists?
We are writing as scientists who are concerned about the rise of an authoritarian, Trump-led, and GOP-dominated government. While new administrations always mean change — for federal agencies, for funding priorities, and for the direction of our…
