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Defend Public Research Comfort Colors Unisex T-Shirt

Defend Public Research Comfort Colors Unisex T-Shirt

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Unisex with a relaxed cut, true to size, S to 4XL. Garment-dyed heavyweight tee.

Defend public research. Publicly funded research is the pipeline everything else runs on, and the administrator in the tee can trace the private breakthroughs, the treatments, the climate models and the technology people take for granted back to a federal grant at a public lab. Cut the pipeline and the breakthroughs stop arriving a decade later. This tee defends the pipeline.

Wear it to the congressional office visit on research funding, the university senate session, the stand up for science rally, the grants office, and the family dinner where a relative says private companies will fund it. It is a strong gift for a research administrator, a principal investigator, a science policy analyst, and the friend who traced the breakthrough.

The tee is a Comfort Colors 1717, garment-dyed in 6.1 oz ring-spun cotton, soft and evenly colored, with a heavier hand than a novelty tee and three words that read across a university senate session on research funding. Direct-to-garment. It bonds with the cotton.

Unisex, relaxed, true to size. S through 4XL. Colors: Black, White, Bay, Blossom. Also Chambray, Graphite, Ivory, Banana. It is the traced-breakthrough entry in the science and climate collection.

Designed and printed to order in the USA. Machine wash cold, inside out, with like colors. Tumble dry low. Do not bleach or iron the design.

Details

  • Comfort Colors 1717 unisex tee.
  • Garment-dyed ring-spun cotton.
  • Weight 6.1 oz.
  • Direct-to-garment print, into the fabric.
  • Unisex, relaxed, true to size.
  • Sizes S through 4XL.
  • Eight colors, Black through Banana.
  • Made to order in the USA.

Common questions

Is this the same as science is not a luxury? Same cuts, this one as the case for the pipeline. That one is the postdoc's lab; this one is everything downstream of it.

Would a grants office order these for the office visit? Offices do. Every shirt is printed to order. Any mix of sizes, one order.

Which color do people pick? Black and Bay. White for the rally.

How does the 1717 fit? True to size, relaxed body. Order your usual.

Wear it to: the march for science, the school board, the park cleanup, the climate town hall.

Fabric and fit

Comfort Colors 1717: 6.1 oz 100 percent ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed and soft-washed so it feels broken in from the first wear. Relaxed unisex fit, true to size, S to 4XL in eight colors. Double-needle stitching, no side seams, sewn-in label.

Measurements for every size are on the size and fit guide.

Printing and care

Printed to order in the USA, direct to garment: water-based ink goes into the fabric rather than sitting on top, so the print stays soft and does not crack or peel.

Machine wash cold, inside out. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print. More on the fabric and care page.

Shipping and returns

Every shirt is made when you order it and ships from the USA. Current production and delivery times, and how returns work, are on the shipping and returns page. Ordering for a group? See group and bulk orders.

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