Morning folks, time for my first Mastodon thread (!)

Ahead of the #midterms tomorrow, I want to talk about the tragic politicisation of science in the US.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the Republicans became the anti-science party, but the process probably began in the 1980s, when the Christian right first emerged as a major force in conservative American politics.

Since then, the journey has been smooth and swift, and there is now a stunning partisan divide on confidence in science 😥

I'm really enjoying following @Curator because they deliberately boost stuff from a bunch of different people, which means I get to see new content even though I'm on my own instance (a lonely situation)

What other good accounts are there that do this kind of thing? Feels like a particularly useful genre of account given the federated nature of this place