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I have resigned as a reviewer for the Royal Society. I encourage others to do the same.
Dear editors,
Today I saw some news about the Royal Society which made me very uncomfortable. As a result, I am afraid I will withdraw my voluntary reviewing work for Royal Society. I will not after all be completing this review for Royal Society Open Science.
[The rest of the letter: http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/letter-to-royal-society-about-reviewing-and-code-of-conduct.html]
@mike@sauropods.win@danstowell The #RoyalSociety is dead in the water. Three hundred and sixty-five years of history, and it's ended it as a beard for a facist. What an utterly utterly shameful end for a once-great society.
@mike @danstowell Had to go check the hashtag to see the story. Shameful and appalling.
@DaleHagglund @danstowell It really is. I feel a blog post coming on.
Shameful though it is, it is the ROYAL society, not PEOPLES society, not DEMOCRATIC society...
...from the very outset it was integrally interwoven with the opressive, colonial power structures.
Why are people surprised of its sycophantic submission to oppressive power structures?
@n_dimension @danstowell I'm surprised by its sycophantic submission to oppressive *American* power structures.