I think it's finally happening. Enough scientists are looking around and saying "Maybe I can afford to skip this grant cycle to help guarantee future grant cycles still exist".

It's time to show people why they should trust science and scientists. Bumrushing them from a moral high ground standpoint is obviously not going to work. Cold logic? Doubtful. Not engaging enough. Personally, I'm going for comedy. It could be too late, of course, but exactly like you're saying, it's not like if Biden actually manages to move into the White House, the cultural rot is washed away overnight. If I don't really try, I'm going to a) go crazy and b) hate myself forever. Sorry if if this overlaps a bit too much with other recent content I've posted.

So I've started an influence operation / social movement with another grad student. But I'm gonna be the one exclusively on camera because they're dating an international grad student, and are thus worried about work visa renewal if we're implicated in political dissidence. Hence, y'know, yet another reason to launch an influence operation craftily (I hope) denouncing fascism.