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lads i dont wanna get political here…..dont wanna seem like some kind of radical commie or anything……but a lot of botanists had to cancel their presentations at this convention on short notice bc their visas got denied out of nowhere. some of them were able to give their talks over video call into the convention but three (3) lectures i went to today alone ended up being cancelled because the researchers giving them got their visas denied. some of the colloquiums were hit really hard by this, like, had a sizable fraction of their presenters cut out of the program. a few of these botanists actually jumped on the convention’s message board to be like ‘hey guys i seriously was all ready to get over there to give my talk and my visa just like got denied out of the blue so ill see y’all next time????? im really confused’. the mood about this at the conference, whoever you talk to, is very thinly contained anger and frustration about current policy.

these are members of the scientific community. some of them have been coming to these conferences to present their research regularly for years. i know im kind of preaching to the choir on this one but denying visas to scientists coming to present vital research to other scientists at a conference lasting literally less than a week is really just like……..very hard for me to write off. we can’t ignore the effects these toxic policies have on science and the ability of scientists to communicate, collaborate, receive publication and further funding, etc. 

i would like to clarify that the first two sentences of this post are poking fun at how any sort of even mild resistance is considered radical by the right and are not genuine sentiments and also that i will not respond to messages attempting to bait me into starting an argument about politics on my plant sideblog lmaooooo

Reminder that the US gov’t is ACTIVELY SUPPRESSING SCIENCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELDS OF BIOLOGY AND CLIMATE STUDIES.

many scientific societies are refusing to hold meetings in the united states now. they go to canada if they really want north america, or just don’t come to the continent at all. and that’s the right decision.