Use your power for good: Collective action to overcome institutional injustices impeding ethical science communication in the academy.

This article examines how ethical science communication (scicomm)—defined as the inclusive, equitable exchange of scientific information beyond academia—is impeded by systemic injustices rooted in the academic prestige paradigm. This paradigm, entrenched in higher education institutions primarily in the Global North, reinforces hierarchical, exclusionary, and exploitative structures that undervalue scicomm and those who practice it across five realms: scientific communication, teaching scicomm, academics engaging in scicomm, scicomm research, and scicomm careers beyond academia. The authors highlight how biases related to identity, credentialism, and economic capital intersect to create barriers for marginalized groups and limit the recognition and support of ethical scicomm efforts. They propose a novel framework for individuals to assess their axes of influence—academic, social, economic capital, and privilege—and offer actionable recommendations for leveraging these to foster systemic change that values and supports ethical scicomm within academia.