0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit. They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*. 0.1 When some hack confuses a job and paycheck with the calling to be part of a vast humanistic endeavor carried out by millions of people over hundreds of years, they are in for a big surprise. People who feel themselves called, people who've worked so hard to follow that calling—they don't fold. 🧵
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.