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\title{Open Letter to The American Association for the Advancement of Science}



\author[1]{Jonathan P.  Tennant}%
\author[1]{Timothée  Poisot}%
\author[1]{M Fabiana  Kubke}%
\author[1]{François  Michonneau}%
\author[1]{Michael P.  Taylor}%
\author[1]{Graham  Steel}%
\author[1]{Jérémy  Anquetin}%
\author[1]{Emily  Coyte}%
\author[1]{Benjamin  Schwessinger}%
\author[1]{Erin C.  McKiernan}%
\author[1]{Tom  Pollard}%
\author[1]{Aimee  Eckert}%
\author[1]{Liz Allen}%
\author[1]{Dalmeet Singh  Chawla}%
\author[1]{Elizabeth  Silva}%
\author[1]{Nicholas  Gardner}%
\author[1]{Nathan Cantley}%
\author[1]{John  Dupuis}%
\author[1]{Christina  Pikas}%
\author[1]{Amy  Buckland}%
\author[1]{Lenny  Teytelman}%
\author[1]{Zen  Faulkes}%
\author[1]{Robert J.  Gay}%
\author[1]{Peter T.B.  Brett}%
\author[1]{Anders  Eklund}%
\author[1]{Johannes  Björk}%
\author[1]{William  Gunn}%
\author[1]{Philippe  Desjardins-Proulx}%
\author[1]{Joseph R.  Hancock}%
\author[1]{Joshua M. Nicholson}%
\author[1]{Scott  Edmunds}%
\author[1]{Steven  Ray Wilson}%
\author[1]{Stuart  Buck}%
\author[1]{B. Arman  Aksoy}%
\author[1]{Nazeefa  Fatima}%
\author[1]{Ross  Mounce}%
\author[1]{Heather  Piwowar}%
\author[1]{Avinash  Thirumalai}%
\author[1]{Jason  Priem}%
\author[1]{Clayton  Aldern}%
\author[1]{Marcus D.  Hanwell}%
\author[1]{Kristen L.  Marhaver}%
\author[1]{David Michael  Roberts}%
\author[1]{Brian  Hole}%
\author[1]{Alexander  Grossmann}%
\author[1]{David L. Vaux}%
\author[1]{Alecia  Carter}%
\author[1]{Alex O.  Holcombe}%
\author[1]{Ignacio Torres  Aleman}%
\author[1]{Sarah  Molloy}%
\author[1]{John  Lamp}%
\author[1]{Matthew  Todd}%
\author[1]{Anusha  Seneviratne}%
\author[1]{Guido  Guidotti}%
\author[1]{Joseph  McArthur}%
\author[1]{Carlos H.  Grohmann}%
\author[1]{Jan de  Leeuw}%
\author[1]{Jung H.  Choi}%
\author[1]{Ernesto  Priego}%
\author[1]{Brian  Pasley}%
\author[1]{Stacy  Konkiel}%
\author[1]{Elizabeth HB  Hellen}%
\author[1]{Raphael  Levy}%
\author[1]{Paul  Coxon}%
\author[1]{Nitika Pant  Pai}%
\author[1]{David  Carroll}%
\author[1]{Jacinto  Dávila}%
\author[1]{Marco Arieli  Herrera-Valdez}%
\author[1]{Juan Pablo  Alperin}%
\author[1]{Jan P.  de Ruiter}%
\author[1]{Xianwen  Chen}%
\author[1]{Jeanette  Hatherill}%
\author[1]{Katharine  Mullen}%
\author[1]{Pedro  Bekinschtein}%
\author[1]{Quentin  Groom}%
\author[1]{Karen  Meijer-Kline}%
\author[1]{Pietro  Gatti-Lafranconi}%
\author[1]{Jeffrey  Hollister}%
\author[1]{MooYoung  Choi}%
\author[1]{Oscar  Patterson-Lomba}%
\author[1]{Rowena  Ball}%
\author[1]{Daniel  Swan}%
\author[1]{Stephen  Curry}%
\author[1]{Abigail  Noyce}%
\author[1]{Jordan  Ward}%
\author[1]{Ben  Meghreblian}%
\author[1]{Ethan P.  White}%
\author[1]{Sean R.  Mulcahy}%
\author[1]{Sibele  Fausto}%
\author[1]{Lorena A.  Barba}%
\author[1]{Ed  Trollope}%
\author[1]{Stephen  Beckett}%
\author[1]{Andrew D.  Steen}%
\author[1]{Mari  Sarv}%
\author[1]{Noam  Ross}%
\author[1]{Erika  Amir}%
\author[1]{Martin Paul  Eve}%
\author[1]{Franco  Cecchi}%
\author[1]{Jason B.  Colditz}%
\author[1]{Philip  Spear}%
\author[1]{Mythili  Menon}%
\author[1]{Matthew  Clapham}%
\author[1]{Karl W.  Broman}%
\author[1]{Graham  Triggs}%
\author[1]{Tom  Crick}%
\author[1]{Diano F.  Marrone}%
\author[1]{Joseph  Kraus}%
\author[1]{Steven  Buyske}%
\author[1]{Gavin  Simpson}%
\author[1]{Colleen  Morgan}%
\author[1]{Kara  Woo}%
\author[1]{Peter Murray-Rust}%
\affil[1]{Affiliation not available}%


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  \date{May 21, 2024}


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