Your Voice: A Call for Contributors

Humanity stands at a precipice. From nuclear escalation to AI-driven warfare, climate collapse to weaponized quantum technology, the stakes have never been higher. The International Union of Scientists (IUS) invites scientists to contribute to a global dialogue on how scientists can help solve humanity’s most critical challenges. Submit proposals for articles, podcasts, webinars, artwork, and more. We invite proposals for pieces that are aligned with the IUS mission. Together, let’s work to redefine science as a force for justice and life on earth.

Email your proposal today to info@iuscientists.org

Deadline for this review round is 31 March 2025 at 23:59 UTC/GMT.

Why Contribute to IUS?

The time to act is now. Scientists cannot remain neutral in the face of genocide, ecological devastation, and extinction-scale nuclear risks. Stand alongside other researchers working to reclaim science for peace.

1. 🚫 Oppose the Misuse of Science
   Contribute to a global effort to challenge the militarization of science and technology. Your work will expose unethical applications of research and advocate for science that serves humanity, not destruction.
2. 🌍 Reach an International Audience
   Your contributions will inform scientists, educators, students, and activists worldwide. We aim to promote policies and actions that oppose critical threats like climate collapse, AI-driven warfare, and uncontrolled pandemics.
3. 🤝 Help Build a Global Coalition of Like-Minded Scientists
   Be part of a growing international community of researchers committed to ethical science and global justice. Interact with peers who share your support for the beneficial use of science and technology.
4. 🚀 Fast Turnaround
   Decisions on proposals will be made within a week, and publication of the finished piece can be typically finalized in days or weeks. In a world facing urgent crises, your voice can have an immediate impact.

Submission Guidelines

1. 📝 Format
   A short proposal, including a brief biography or bio link, that is altogether 500 words or less. For interviews, podcasts, and webinars, we request that the proposal also include a short biography and areas of expertise of suggested interviewees, guests, or speakers.
2. 🎯 Style
   Finished written pieces will be jargon-free and accessible to non-specialists. IUS content is intended for an audience that includes scientists and science students from all specializations, written in a journalistic style to support our awareness campaign. We encourage submissions from scientists across all STEM fields, and scholars in science and technology studies. We also welcome contributions from science activists, science communicators, social scientists, and those working at the intersections between the humanities or the arts, and science.
3. 📜 Terms: Licensing Options
   Works can be published under full copyright or Creative Commons licenses, depending on your preference. We currently operate without a budget to financially compensate creators, and our editorial team are all volunteers.
4. 📚🎙️ Content types
   Take-Action requests, News updates, Perspectives (opinion pieces), book and media reviews, artwork, interviews, podcasts, webinar Events, and more.

👩‍💻🎥🖼️🔧 We also need Producers: We would like to hear from volunteers interested in collaborative production, including e.g., remote video producers (OBS, VDO Ninja, Streamyard), video editors, photo editors, sysadmins, and coders. You would work with members of the interim coordinating committee (who are also volunteers) to create media that advances the IUS mission.

Priority Themes

We are especially interested in articles on the science and geopolitics of annihilation threats: extinction-scale pandemic, climate collapse, artificial super-intelligence, automated genocide, and nuclear conflict. Nevertheless, we are open to proposals on any topic that aligns with the mission and objectives of IUS. Below is a list of possible topics for which proposals are invited. Don’t see your topic? Surprise us—if it aligns with our mission, we want to hear it.

• War and Artificial Intelligence
• War and Climate Change and Environmental Degradation
• Industrial-Military Complex: Kill to Profit
• Militarization of Science and Technology
• Misuse of S&T in Agriculture
• Misuse of S&T in Health and Medicine
• Misuse of S&T and Antimicrobial Resistance
• Misuse of S&T in Violating Human Rights
• Privatization of Scientific Knowledge
• Should Knowledge be Free to All?
• Science and Scientists has a Moral Dimension
• Nuclear Weapons: Still a Threat to Humanity
• Science to Fight All Forms of Discrimination
• Science: An Instrument of War Against Oppression
• Why Should Scientists Unite and Act Against War?
• Weaponization of Medical Sciences
• Weaponization of Biological Sciences
• Weaponization of Agricultural Sciences
• Weaponization of Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
• Weaponization of Quantum Technologies
• Weaponization of Space Science and Technology
• Weaponization of Nuclear Sciences
• Weaponization of Environmental and Climate Sciences
• Weaponization of Chemical Sciences
• Social Science and Imperialism
• Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
• Why Is There No Funding for Basic Science Research?
• Zionism in Science, Technology, and Academia
• Scientists as Workers in Military-Industrial-Academic Complexes
• Unionization of Science Workers
• Scientists' and Engineers' Complicity in the Destructive Use of S&T
• What Can Scientists Do to Save the Climate and Environment?