"In spite of being highly educated ..., scientists as a group are among the least engaged in advocacy." - true & worrying in 2012, but now even more pressing.
The Obligation for Biologists to Commit to Political Advocacy
A call for political action from 2012! Thomas Pollard
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(12)01170-1?cc=y
Current Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology at Mississippi State University.
Several years tweeting as:
https://twitter.com/BCHEPPdepthead?t=PdDGuAHUG6BETcVOxJrg8w&s=09
I start as Assistant Provost and Director of the UGA Griffin campus on January 1, 2023. Because of the new job, my twitter account of seven years was going to be mothballed anyway, so this was the perfect time to explore a new platform.
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