Ben Lockwood, PhD<p>I wrote an op ed for my hometown newspaper about the importance of science funding to the state and region:</p><p><a href="https://www.kpcnews.com/opinions/other_columnists/kpcnews/article_09b4796a-f077-11ef-84d1-93059018d92d.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kpcnews.com/opinions/other_col</span><span class="invisible">umnists/kpcnews/article_09b4796a-f077-11ef-84d1-93059018d92d.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/nsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nsf</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/usda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usda</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/forestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forestry</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p>