[NHCOLL-L:5136] Responding to the "You Cut citizen science review"

[Jean-Marc Gagnon]

Dear US colleagues, 

(if, like me, you are not a US member, this should still be something
you pay attention to; this could happen anywhere).
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I'm sure you have seen or heard of this "You Cut citizen science
review", but just in case...

http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/Review.htm

... it's disturbing that "museum" is one of the keywords they suggest
using to search for NSF "wasteful" spending.

 

 

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) -- a member of the House Science and Tech
Committee -- has also put out a call to have people vote on NSF grants
that should not be funded.  

 

AIBS and NSCA have posted a couple of letters to the editor in the AIBS
Legislative Action Center at
http://capwiz.com/aibs/issues/alert/?alertid=20649876.  

 

When you go to this link, you will be presented with a prepared letter
you can send to local newspapers.  The letters can be modified or a
unique letter written.  At last check, more than 400 letters were sent
to papers across the country since last Friday.  

 

Now is not the time to stop. A number of other scientific organizations
have passed this alert on to their members and we hope to help continue
to build some good momentum.  

 

I encourage you participate and share this effort with your colleagues.
Feel free to use/modify the alert language at
http://capwiz.com/aibs/issues/alert/?alertid=20649876.



Sincerely,

 

Jean-Marc


Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ph.D.

President of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections (www.spnhc.org <http://www.spnhc.org/> ) 

 

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