Nic Bennett (they/them)
@nicbennett.bsky.social
Scientists in Solidarity co-founder | Organizing scientists & allies to block authoritarian power and build a science that works for everyone | newsletter: https://buttondown.com/solidarityscience#subscribe-form
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We’re a growing community of researchers, educators, and science-adjacent workers who believe that science should serve the public good—not corporate profits or authoritarian power. We know that the f...
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Across race and class, scientists and allies are organizing to defend science as a public good.
We link arms so no one is left behind—because when we stand together, we all rise, and when the powerful divide us, we all lose.
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We link arms so no one is left behind—because when we stand together, we all rise, and when the powerful divide us, we all lose.
🔬Join Scientists in Solidarity:
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timely reminder of this resource
Repression is ramping up and the time is now to secure our communities and our organizations. That's why Catalyst Project is re-releasing A Troublemakers' Guide: 10 Principles for Activists Resisting State Repression. Help us spread this vital toolkit far and wide! bit.ly/10Principles2025
A Troublemaker's Guide (Updated 2025) - Catalyst Project
Suggested principles for building strong movements in the face of surveillance and repression from the state and non-state actors.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
timely reminder of this resource
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to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
to despair and embrace cynicism was to hand powerful weapons to the enemy
deep awe, deep love for the brilliance and bravery of us "everyday" people
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
deep awe, deep love for the brilliance and bravery of us "everyday" people
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When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 AM
When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.
New in @us.theconversation.com: Science is best communicated through identity & culture — how researchers from marginalized communities are reshaping science communication as relationship-building, belonging, and service.
Plus: I made a comic to go with it 🧪💬📚
theconversation.com/science-is-b...
Plus: I made a comic to go with it 🧪💬📚
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Science is best communicated through identity and culture – how researchers are ensuring STEM serves their communities
Scientists have traditionally focused on educating the public on science or correcting misinformation. But researchers from marginalized communities often have broader goals in science communication.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:52 PM
New in @us.theconversation.com: Science is best communicated through identity & culture — how researchers from marginalized communities are reshaping science communication as relationship-building, belonging, and service.
Plus: I made a comic to go with it 🧪💬📚
theconversation.com/science-is-b...
Plus: I made a comic to go with it 🧪💬📚
theconversation.com/science-is-b...
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Talk to our Neighbors about ICE: Phone Bank with SURJ!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
Talk to our Neighbors about ICE: Phone Bank with SURJ! · Showing Up for Racial Justice
#### Right now is the time to intervene. To step up. To move our people.
As the Trump Administration continues to deploy violent ICE agents to our nation's cities, we remain clear and centered on t...
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January 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM
I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Talk to our Neighbors about ICE: Phone Bank with SURJ!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
come join me tonight!
Tonight!
Feeling overwhelmed seeing ICE continuously endanger our communities but not sure where to start? Action hours are a great place. Come as you are and step into community to take action together. This week we'll be taking action together to say "ICE out of our communities!"
Sign up here:
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January 15, 2026 at 12:56 AM
come join me tonight!
@adambonica.bsky.social writes:
"The old playbook was caution: promise little, deliver less, call it pragmatism...Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt"
bit.ly/4jFyJjT
"The old playbook was caution: promise little, deliver less, call it pragmatism...Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt"
bit.ly/4jFyJjT
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
@adambonica.bsky.social writes:
"The old playbook was caution: promise little, deliver less, call it pragmatism...Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt"
bit.ly/4jFyJjT
"The old playbook was caution: promise little, deliver less, call it pragmatism...Political pragmatism is not about fighting only the battles you expect to win. It is the refusal to let probable failure dictate what you attempt"
bit.ly/4jFyJjT
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1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
"The biggest lesson the four of us have learned over this past year is that what feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others that share your values"
Four scientists and administrators who resigned in protest cite political interference, censorship of research, and a loss of integrity at the NIH. www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"The biggest lesson the four of us have learned over this past year is that what feels impossible and overwhelming when you’re sitting by yourself can begin to feel achievable and urgent when you are working with others that share your values"
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“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
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January 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/hono...
Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder
Demanding “calm” after ICE's killing in Minneapolis is misguided. The task isn't to extinguish anger, but to channel it in defense of life.
wagingnonviolence.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/hono...
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If we want to have power, let's name when we exert that power -- especially since the mainstream media or our opposition won't give us that credit.
The real reason Musk retreated
Elon Musk’s departure from DOGE was a massive, unplanned retreat by the richest person on the planet due to relentless noncooperation.
wagingnonviolence.org
June 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If we want to have power, let's name when we exert that power -- especially since the mainstream media or our opposition won't give us that credit.
excellent piece on our addiction to webinars, how webinars are insufficient to build a committed base of volunteers and donors alike (and are a part of our funding gaps right now), and ways we can shift virtual gatherings to build more commitment and connection www.unasbtheclub.com/p/the-revolu...
The Revolution Will Not Be Webinar-ed
For movement staff trying to build commitment, not just attendance
www.unasbtheclub.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM
excellent piece on our addiction to webinars, how webinars are insufficient to build a committed base of volunteers and donors alike (and are a part of our funding gaps right now), and ways we can shift virtual gatherings to build more commitment and connection www.unasbtheclub.com/p/the-revolu...
First @unbreaking.org briefing of the year 👀
Deeply grateful for this volunteer-powered formation helping us face this moment clear-eyed and regulated. We draw on it regularly for Scientists in Solidarity.
Join the mutual aid info network: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Deeply grateful for this volunteer-powered formation helping us face this moment clear-eyed and regulated. We draw on it regularly for Scientists in Solidarity.
Join the mutual aid info network: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, January 8 — Unbreaking
Our first briefing of 2026 is an unusually short one, but not because things are quiet. Far from it. Domestic and international news is breaking at a breathtaking rate, but our team is focused on what...
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January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
First @unbreaking.org briefing of the year 👀
Deeply grateful for this volunteer-powered formation helping us face this moment clear-eyed and regulated. We draw on it regularly for Scientists in Solidarity.
Join the mutual aid info network: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Deeply grateful for this volunteer-powered formation helping us face this moment clear-eyed and regulated. We draw on it regularly for Scientists in Solidarity.
Join the mutual aid info network: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
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This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/camp...
This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump
Winning high-stakes fights against powerful opponents like Avelo, an airline working with ICE, requires targeting its key pillars of support.
wagingnonviolence.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump wagingnonviolence.org/2025/05/camp...
this I know
"to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech after being elected NYC mayor
Mayor-elect centered affordability and the working people of the city in his speech while emphasizing: ‘Hope is alive’
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM
this I know
"to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm attending Working Families Party's event, “Working Families Party Mass Calls” - sign up now to join me! #willingtofight www.mobilize.us/hearamerica/...
Working Families Party Mass Calls · Hear America
## 2026 Starts Now! Join the Working Families Party Mass Call
Join us in December to continue to unpack the lessons from 2025 and chart the path to 2026 — a year that will define whether we can build...
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January 8, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I'm attending Working Families Party's event, “Working Families Party Mass Calls” - sign up now to join me! #willingtofight www.mobilize.us/hearamerica/...
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Woah the US withdrawing from this feels like it could be a big deal, and very bad news indeed. This has been one of the primary means of coordinating the scientific community's advice giving to governments and international organisations.
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Woah the US withdrawing from this feels like it could be a big deal, and very bad news indeed. This has been one of the primary means of coordinating the scientific community's advice giving to governments and international organisations.
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Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 AM
Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.
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When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
December 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?