We will post updates soon on our work to secure sustained funding for the SCTN, but first want to reinforce our commitment to our community.

You are not alone. We may be quiet, but we are not still.

- The Working Board:
@vgwschutte.bsky.social
Marissa Weiss
Jacqueline Goldstein
Jessica Rohde

If you would like to take individual action, some of the resources that we’ve found most helpful are from:

@5calls.org
@indivisible.org
@ucsusa.bsky.social

If you would like to share opportunities for the SCTN to explicitly use our power as an organization to resist illegal and/or harmful actions taken by this administration, please feel free to reply/DM us your suggestions

If you would like the Working Board to help you with growing community connections or sharing or building your own initiatives within SCTN spaces, please reply/DM and we would be happy to assist.

While the end of our startup funding means we cannot currently sponsor SCTN programming, we invite you to use the SCTN Slack for support, and hope you feel empowered to use it to arrange collaborations, share joy or frustration, initiate hangouts, or take any other action that will help you thrive.

We just signed onto an open letter by @ucsusa.bsky.social that will be sent to members of Congress next week on behalf of a number of US-based scientific societies. This letter urges Congress to act immediately to safeguard the scientific process, including protecting DEI policies and initiatives.

We are firm in our commitment to create inclusive community spaces, and we will continue the pursuit of our mission secure in the knowledge that building relationships and support for the people who are strengthening connections between science and society is a goal worth fighting for.

We will continue to create and embody a culture of belonging. We will continue to support the right of every human on this planet to live a fulfilling life.

Our outrage goes far beyond anti-science moves; we condemn the full spectrum of ways in which the government’s actions are hurting people.

We are scared and furious, but our commitment to our community, has not wavered.

We are alarmed at how quickly and thoroughly the U.S. federal government and its agents have caused grievous harm to civil and scientific advancement, to ppl who power STEM enterprises, and to individuals all over the world.