From Jessica Cantlon and Steve Piantados, Science Homecoming is an effort to organize members of the scientific community to write op-eds for their own hometown newspapers or outlets.
Check it out and reach out to YOUR hometown community.
Jakob von Moltke, Patrick Mitchell, and Thornton Thompson of UW wrote one that appeared in the Everett Herald that had more than 100 (and counting) co-signers, representing the more than 450 biomedical researchers across Washington State.
Here’s a map of where local papers take Op-Eds and where people have already published—does your home town need your voice for Science ?
A combination of head and heart with a news hook will help get your piece run—maybe you tell a quick version of WHY you became a scientist and WHO affected your decision (a beloved teacher? a relative’s illness? A local environmental issue?) and HOW your work relates to the community and WHAT they will lose with all these new health research spending cuts and jobs erased?
Try it and let us know if you get published…and tell us what happened! (take a picture, share the feedback, and let’s keep it going!)
With thanks and credit to our friends at Liminal for putting together the Meeting The Moment initiative!