On March 4, 2025, AIBS led 52 scientific societies and organizations in sending a letter to congressional leaders urging them to oppose recent executive actions that are harming the U.S. scientific enterprise.
“Recent actions have disrupted vital scientific research, impeded scientific meetings and review panels, delayed salary payments for students and postdocs, dismantled key workforce development programs, and caused the unnecessary loss of vital experts from federal research agencies,” the groups noted. “We call on Congress to assert its constitutional authority and take immediate actions to reverse these policies, which threaten the integrity, progress, and global leadership of American science and technology.”
The letter also urged Congress to prioritize robust federal investments in science and technology to prevent economic stagnation and the loss of the United States’ competitive edge to other nations.
List of signatories:
American Anthropological Association
American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Geophysical Union
American Industrial Hygiene Association
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
American Institute of Biological Sciences
American Ornithological Society
American Pediatric Society (APS)
American Physiological Society
American Society for Microbiology
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
American Society of Mammalogists
American Society of Naturalists
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
American Society of Primatologists
Americans for Medical Progress
Animal Behavior Society
Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Botanical Society of America
California Botanical Society
Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
Ecological Society of America
Entomological Society of America
Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS)
Gerontological Society of America
Helminthological Society of Washington
Herpetologists’ League
National Postdoctoral Association
Natural Science Collections Alliance
Paleontological Society
Poultry Science Association
Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Society for Freshwater Science
Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
Society for Mathematical Biology
Society for Neuroscience
Society for Pediatric Research (SPR)
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Behavioral Medicine
Society of Herbarium Curators
Society of Systematic Biologists
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
The American Society of Parasitologists
The Organization of Biological Field Stations
The Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
Thomas More University Biology Field Station
University of Minnesota, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of North Texas
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