Who We Are
We are a group of Princeton graduate students and postdocs who have organized to understand what we, as scientists and scholars, can do to tackle the societal issues we face today and promote democratic participation and evidence-based policy-making. We’ve formed task forces on a wide range of issues including climate change, nuclear nonproliferation, and immigration. We seek to train and inform ourselves through dedicated workshops, weekly discussion and joint research.
As Citizen Scientists, we are a community dedicated to the values of equity, human rights, international cooperation, and access to knowledge. We believe in vibrant democratic institutions and the public’s right to be informed in making collective choices for its future. We embrace people of all ethnicities, religions, nationalities, genders, and identities, and are committed to defend the free and vigorous exchange of ideas.
Mission
- Build a network of Princeton students, affiliates, and allies dedicated to evidence-based policy and to researching and effectively communicating science and policy measures.
- Develop our capacity as researchers, policy-analysts, communicators, and active participants in the democratic process.
- Provide an independent, scientific analysis of key policy issues in the public interest.
- Inform, engage, and communicate with the public by any and all available methods.
- Demand science not be antithetical to the public interest by supporting open, ethical practices and policies in the scientific community.
- Support democratic institutions and fight for our ideals by organizing and taking political action. We are determined to communicate directly with our government officials and to protest where necessary.
Values
We are a group of civically engaged and politically conscious scientists. We strongly believe in the important role that scientific literacy plays in modern democracy, and are firmly committed to idea of science as a public institution. We work on issues related to science outreach, communication, and advocacy on the local, state, and national level.
Vision: To bring about a world where policy is guided by evidence, compassion, and respect, and where the public has reliable access to scientific knowledge, and is empowered to demand effective, evidence-based policy grounded in science.
- Collective action and democracy,
- Respect, compassion, and human rights,
- Evidence, transparency, inclusivity, freedom of expression, and
- A dedication to education and progress.
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