The next e-mail was despatched to APS Members on February 11, 2025.
Pricey APS Member, As a member of the Affiliation for Psychological Science (APS), you worth scientific analysis and training. As scientists, we do essential work. We ask and reply questions that create new information, develop new instruments, remedy actual world issues, present evidence-based interventions, and help knowledgeable decision-making. Science is a world, collaborative endeavor that’s strongest when scientists are free to take part, have interaction, share findings, and study from colleagues. In latest weeks, scientific analysis and training in america has been disrupted and censored. Authorities scientists have been inspired to stop their jobs and directed to not take part with their skilled communities. We acknowledge that these latest assaults on U.S. science have been or are at present threats encountered by scientists in different international locations. United, we’ve got a chance to strengthen science all over the world. APS is working alongside scientific organizations representing the breadth of science, know-how, engineering, arithmetic, and drugs to advertise science. We’re a house the place you possibly can collect to advance psychological science. We just lately invited members of the APS neighborhood to take part in a brief survey to determine the science coverage problems with best concern to you. We have now additionally requested for volunteers to take part in future advocacy efforts in Washington, DC, in addition to in your area people and state capitals. We have now been energized by the a whole lot of people who responded inside hours of the request. We have now a lot work to do. Scientists should have interaction with policymakers and neighbors. We should hearken to their considerations and assist illustrate the alternatives and limitations of science. This can’t be a one and achieved dedication. We should dedicate ourselves to a marathon. Allow us to work onerous, stay vigilant, help one another, and maintain onto the sense of optimism supplied by science. As psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman mentioned, “I’ve all the time believed that scientific analysis is one other area the place a type of optimism is important to success”. APS is your scholarly dwelling. If in case you have concepts for a way APS may also help help psychological scientists on this tumultuous time, please ship them to us at membership@psychologicalscience.org.Sincerely,
