Science in Solidarity

Writing about science, power, democracy, organizing, and what it means to build a better world together.

I’m Nic Bennett (they/them), a civic science researcher, facilitator, and organizer. I write about the questions that sit underneath science and science communication:

Who gets to decide what science is for? Who gets heard? Who gets left out? What does it take to build trust and belonging? And how do we build the relationships and collective power to make something different possible?

I'll still write about Science in Solidarity—what we're learning, what we're building, and what I'm learning from trying to organize with other science workers. But I'll also use this space for my own writing: reflections on civic science, science communication, organizing, identity, belonging, power, democracy, facilitation, and the strange work of trying to make a life and a future that feel worth inhabiting.

Sometimes that will mean research and ideas. Sometimes it will mean organizing lessons. Sometimes it will be a story, an observation, or a question I can't quite shake.

I’m interested in the social infrastructure that makes science possible as a public good: the relationships, institutions, cultures, practices, and forms of collective power that shape who gets to participate in science, whose knowledge counts, what science is able to do, and who it ultimately serves.

I’m curious about what it takes to build and sustain that infrastructure—and what becomes possible when we treat science not just as knowledge to produce, but as something we have to build together.

And I'm interested in the messy, creative work of building something better.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, subscribe.

And if something I write makes you want to talk, disagree, collaborate, or build something together, hit reply. I read them.