by the STC Team — In the days fol­low­ing the re­cent gen­eral elec­tion in the United States, more than 2,000 sci­en­tists signed an open let­ter ad­dressed to Pres­i­dent-Elect Trump and the 115th Con­gress. The let­ter ad­dresses is­sues of great rel­e­vance to the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity and thus we be­lieve that our read­ers will be in­ter­ested in its full text...