“…The stakeholders of science have not expanded, they have exploded. Everywhere on earth, people constantly interact with new knowledge, and when given the chance of a conducive environment, inconspicuous techies make contributions to widely used free and open-source software and hardware that elsewhere could be awarded a master's degree, high-schools command reagents and join cutting-edge drug discovery and synthetic biology research, math enthusiasts collaborate across the globe with professional mathematicians in solving some of the toughest problems, indigenous peasants document and share knowledge and biological material 2 (Albagli et al, 2015;Kothari et al, 2019), and the social sciences equally face a turn towards situated and participatory research (Albert et al, 2021). Science communication broadcasts proliferate, with massive followings, and recent US opinion polls show decent levels of trust in science, which may vary significantly across issues, but where a majority of people align with scientific standards of trust when it comes to funding sources, peer review and transparency (Funk, 2020).…”