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<p class=""><font face="Times" size="3" class="">To members of the Cognitive Science Society:</font></p>
<div class=""><font face="Times" size="3" class="">The message below has been crafted by a dedicated group of colleagues in the psychological and cognitive sciences, urging all citizens to support our science. The text of the message is pasted below along
with a list of Ways to Take Action (links included).</font></div>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 16.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">SOS2025: Support Our Science
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">American science is at risk. Action is needed!
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">The values of science – openness to new ideas, free exploration, commitment to reason and objectivity – are fundamental to the project of America. Science benefits every aspect
of our lives – business, agriculture, law, medicine, education, engineering and technology, manufacturing, and the military. For the past 80 years, the federal government has invested in science, with enormous benefits to our country and to the larger world.
Diseases have been eradicated, life expectancy expanded, new technologies and commercial products have been developed, and opportunities for economic growth and national security enhanced.
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">The private sector alone could not achieve these advances, and the scientists trained at universities and medical centers are an essential component of the engine that drives
our economy. Long-term federal investments have shaped American prosperity and established American science as the envy of the world. Merit-based science, drawing on talented and creative minds with innovative ideas,
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%)" class="">is cumulative, sometimes taking decades of committed work to produce bodies of verifiable knowledge yielding visible benefits – inventions
that fuel our economy, breakthroughs that save lives, and tools that enhance learning and creativity. Wholesale cuts to science funding put our economy and our national security at risk.
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">Many Americans are concerned about ongoing events in Washington that are already damaging science. See the list below for some positive actions we each can take before it is
too late for our leadership in science, our economy, and security to recover. </span>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">Thank you,<br class="">
Citizens Concerned about Science</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">SOS2025: Support Our Science
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">1.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">Leave a phone message for your senators
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://www.senate.gov/general/resources/pdf/senators_phone_list.pdf" class="">https://www.senate.gov/general/resources/pdf/senators_phone_list.pdf</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">2.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">Leave a phone message for your representative
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/TTD-119.pdf" class="">https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/TTD-119.pdf</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">3.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Connect with the broader scientific community<br class="">
Union of Concerned Scientists<br class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/" class="">https://www.ucsusa.org/</a>
<a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/take-action/save-science-save-lives" class="">https://www.ucsusa.org/take-action/save-science-save-lives</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">4.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">Go to a Local or DC March 7
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(13.333330%, 13.333330%, 13.333330%); background-color: rgb(100.000000%, 100.000000%, 100.000000%)" class="">Standupforscience protest
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(6.666667%, 33.333330%, 80.000000%)" class=""><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/standupforscience.bsky.social" class="">https://bsky.app/profile/standupforscience.bsky.social</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">5.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Tell your story</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">. Describe a project from your lab; how your business/farm/community
benefits from science; how medical science has helped you or your family </span>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">a.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Write a letter to the editor or an opinion piece
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">for local paper
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://sciencehomecoming.com/" class="">https://sciencehomecoming.com/</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">b.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Volunteer for interview
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">with local print, radio, TV or social media journalist
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">c.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Post a video
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">about your support of science
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">d.
<b class="">Send a copy/link to your story to your Senators</b> (The Honorable [Name], United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510 or to find
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">your Senator
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm" class="">https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm</a>
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">and/or Representative
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house" class="">https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">e.
<b class="">Leave a phone message or send a short note</b> expressing support for science or send a copy of/link to your story to one or more members of the relevant subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee (group that regulates expenditures of money
by US government): </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: AvenirNext;" class="">Both Democrat and Republican members listed at:
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: AvenirNext; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class=""><a href="https://democrats-" class="">https://democrats-</a>
<a href="http://appropriations.house.gov/subcommittees/commerce-justice-science-and-related-" class="">
appropriations.house.gov/subcommittees/commerce-justice-science-and-related-</a> agencies-119th-congress</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">6.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Find useful facts</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">. For example, NIH funding by state, can be found at
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="http://unitedformedicalresearch.org" class="">unitedformedicalresearch.org</a>
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">and
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">NIH Awards by Location & Organization (under Sources on same webpage) for examples of specific projects. Consider the impact of cuts
to science support to your family, community, or state. </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">7.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(21.176470%, 21.568630%, 21.568630%)" class="">Donate to organization litigating relevant cases
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Democracy Docket
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/" class="">https://www.democracydocket.com/</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Public Citizen Litigation Group
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://www.citizen.org/about/staff/about-public-citizen-litigation-group/" class="">https://www.citizen.org/about/staff/about-public-citizen-litigation-group/</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Democracy Forward
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://democracyforward.org/" class="">https://democracyforward.org/</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">State Democracy Defenders Fund
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/" class="">https://statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">American Civil Liberties Union
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://www.aclu.org/" class="">https://www.aclu.org/</a>
</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">8.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">Check out organizations that promote action Indivisible<br class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://indivisible.org/" class="">https://indivisible.org/</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; font-weight: 700" class="">MoveOn
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'; color: rgb(27.450980%, 47.058820%, 52.549020%)" class=""><a href="https://front.moveon.org/" class="">https://front.moveon.org/</a>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'AvenirNext'" class="">These are only suggestions, and you may have other ideas for action-- individual actions can add up to a powerful unified message. </span></p>
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