My foray into political activism began after reading a letter from
Weeks after my response letter was published2, the training director at the Burnham Institute said to me: "I don't understand why postdocs feel so powerless. You can help yourselves in so many ways!"
The next day I got a chance to do just that. I was invited by the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy, a think tank for a coalition of scientific societies, to attend what it calls Capitol Hill Day...