We are back with a weekly wrap-up, bringing you just some of the important content from the week. We can’t cover everything, we are only human.
This past week was a doozy. As Rebecca Solnit put it, “People are rising up. I feel a groundswell. There is a lot going on. There's a whole lot going on. And that's just what I can see, and I know that a whole lot of us are organizing, resisting, and not cooperating in a whole lot of ways we can't see yet. I'm horrified by what the Trumpists are doing and by the moral ugliness of it; but I'm moved and exhilarated by what a whole lot of the rest of us are doing, and the moral beauty of it. The horror and the wonder can coexist, just as the worst and best of us do.”
So lets get to it.
Take Action
Check out our Action Lab for inspiration and to take action, based on your interest and capacity. This week, we encourage you to:
Share your story about the benefits of federal science
Share the impacts you’ve seen or experienced from federal funding cuts or illegal firings at federal agencies with the Union of Concerned Scientists
Weekly Win
A second judge ordered US agencies to reinstate fired employees, including at DOE, NSF, National Park Service, and USDA. For now, that means folks are getting back to keeping our critical infrastructure running and people safe.
Student newspapers are crushing it. Check out this opinion piece from The Harvard Crimson “First They Came for Columbia”
Perennial Reads
Meditations on an Emergency by Rebecca Solnit - bookmark it and read weekly!
Waging Non Violence by Daniel Hunter - concrete things we all must do to keep ourselves grounded and effective.
Making Sense of it All by Liz Neeley - a weekly recap of what’s going on, with an emphasis on science and scicomm.
Book Nook
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
watch this
“The brain on authoritarianism” by The Horizons Project and Beyond Conflict
… by the way
We are starting a list of women & gender minority STEM folks on Bluesky - DM or message us to be added 💜
Happy belated International Women’s Day 🤦🏻♀️ with a word from McSweeney’s