Hop on the BUS!

Mission Statement:
BUS is a diverse community of scientists and concerned citizens that holds firmly to the principle of equity for all peoples. We strive to create positive change toward equity and justice through education, engagement, and mobilization. We embrace and encourage skepticism and critical thinking as we tackle the challenges facing equity in our global society.

Established in 2016

BUS was established by a group of graduate students in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley in the wake of political, social, and scientific injustice.

Why

BUS ​is a diverse community of scientists, scholars and concerned citizens that hold firmly to the principle of equity for all peoples regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, religious/spiritual background, sex or sexual identity. Unfortunately, equity for all peoples is not our reality.

Action

Together we will educate, engage and mobilize toward a movement of collective action intent on bringing positive change toward the goal of equity.

Who

We are a collective group of scientists but we also play a role as citizens in a broader global community and your issues are our issues too.

How

• We approach issues with skepticism.
• We practice and endorse critical-thinking and logic-based decision-making.
• We are committed to the dissemination of accurate information.
• As scientists we are concerned with the politicization of science.
• We regret the rampant mistrust of the enterprise of science.
• We reject the notion of science as a practice of exclusivity and elitism (i.e., ivory tower).
• We reject the homogeneous representation of scientists.
  
• We celebrate and strive to increase the diversity of scientists.
• We aim to be transparent.
• We recognize that we each as individuals have more power than we’ve been utilizing, and that power is stronger together.

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Our Goals

• Self-education on political action   
• Generation, collection, dissemination, and execution of individual political actions    
• Generation, collection, dissemination, and execution of collective political actions    
• Mobilization of other individuals and organizations    
• Platform to promote participation, motivation, and accountability among group members

Science is the most durable and non-divisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries.
-Sam Harris