American Physical Society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record

The politicization of natural science goes on! This is insane! What's next?

Benjamin Franklin is spinning in his grave! It is time to boycott this society!

"... In November, the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, Maryland, which has more than 55,000 members, announced that it will consider police conduct when choosing cities for future meetings.

The organization is so far unique among US scientific societies in taking this step, which comes after a renewed call from researchers to make scientific institutions more inclusive to individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous or people of colour (BIPOC) — a group under-represented in their ranks. ...
In 2016, the APS moved a 2018 division meeting out of Charlotte, North Carolina, after the state passed a law requiring people to use public restrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates. The society said the law posed a risk to transgender people, and instead held the meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ..."

Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.