Washington DC. Boston, Massachusetts. Denver, Colorado. Seattle, Washington. Trenton, New Jersey
Thousands of researchers and collaborators protested in more than 30 cities in the United States and in Europe from the actions carried out by the Donald Trump President Administration To cut the US scientific employee and Expenditure on research around the world.
He defended the humor in many sweeps, “the scientists are not silenced”, “events about fear” and “What do we want?” Peer review! When do we want? Now! “They heard.
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Quoting Bob Marley musician, Rush Holt Jr., former director of the American Association to advance science, in Trenton, New Jersey, “Get up, standing.”
In Boston’s Rally, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, is a psychologist at Harvard Medical School.
Last month, “I’ve been waiting for someone to do something,” said Abraham Flaxman, a global health researcher attended Seattle Rally at the University of Washington. But “It’s sunrise: no one is saved with us. We’ll have to save ourselves.”
Marie Walde, biophysician in the biological Roscoff resort of France, About Posted Of Rally went to the Social Media Platform for BlueskySaying: “In solidarity with our colleagues in the US, researchers carried out throughout France and the citizens protest today as a public goodness for science and knowledge”.
‘Five Alarm Fire’
As the science rally stands the Trump Administration response is Siege of US Research Enterprise. In January, Trump and his team took charge, and in some cases, the US science agencies tried to make thousands of agencies, and their work is nuclear safety, extreme weather care, extreme weather and more. The administration also has He has tried to freeze research grants in scientific financing agencies Including the National Foundation of the US Science. And if he has Try to “supervise costs” The U.S. National Health Institutes (NIH) has been given to biomedical research organizations. However, the federal judge has blocked this action. This week, Nature He revealed, Trump, NIH – the largest money career in the world of biomedical research – The grants of active research has begun to end For analysis projects, which are not aligned with the political ideology of the Administration.
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But the organizers know from past protests, for example 2017 International Science March – Organized by Critically organized researchers by the first presidency policies of Trumpen – Rally will not only change. “It’s not a single thing,” says Samantha Goldstein, who learns women’s health at Gaboresville at the University of Florida and is one of the standing organizers of science. It adds: Organizers “to be around, ensure our policy goals and demands are complying – that is important.”
A generation is lost
In today’s various matrans, speakers and attendees are concerned about the actions of Trump Administration for future science and scientists.
In Nancy Kanwisher, the Massachusetts Institute of Cognitive Institute of Cambridge Institute, people said: “You can’t just fire it and then take it again. A generation of scientists will be lost.”
Activists are involved in Lincoln Memorial on 2025 Rally on 7 March 2025 in Washington, DC. Hold science for science, “Politicians, institutions and scientific communities to protect the integrity of science, to protect accessibility, and their benefits serve to all people.”
Atul Gawande, International Development Agency and former administrator assistant, when US scientists caught scientists with US scientists in Washington DC. (Trump Administration has maintained the relief of USAID and disaster.
Others expressed anger when scientists are being treated. “I am a scientist and angry,” says Carolee Caffrey, the University of Rider, was welcoming the Rally of the Tronths of New Jersey. I’m “D” d’words: desperate, depressed, disgusted. “
Some people watched scientists offering a safe shop for scientists to voice their feelings. Valerie H., which fell to a full name for fear of reprisal, is a software engineer who works in crop sciences. In national administrations of the US Oceanic and Atmosphere and other agencies have had a tremendous impact on Valerie’s research. “I know hundreds of people in Linkedin looking for work,” said Denver Rally. “People are happy to have a place to say something.”
People “to stand the science of” science “in the face of science” to protest the final cuts from the Federal Finance, Washington Square Park, New York, USA, March 7, 2025.
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Past lessons
It is not clear about what impact they will have in the direction of today’s science. Jonathan Berman, the kidney physiologist at the University of Arkansas, helped to organize March for the 2017 Science, which he finally disappointed that the effort did not affect the effects of concrete. Today he decided to carry a rally, even if you stand up to the organizers of science.
Political changes are tough, peaceful and non-second rallies, says Eric Shuman Social Psychologist at New York New York New York. Such mits are good to increase support for movement, especially sympathetic people. But the great sweeps like those who do not create interruptions are not at all for people who do not pay much attention. “
This does not mean that protests are not worth it: it can be important to galvanizing a community, Schuman says.
Austrian students and scientists go to a protest in the “Science Sciences” Motion, Vienna, Austria, March 7, 2025.
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Standing for science organizers are already discussing future plans. Among them is a grant program to talk about their science and talk about their science, says Emma Courtney, Standing in the Hot-Basin Oak Laboratory in New York, standing for science. The team also interested in supporting training programs to help develop skills to defend scientists. “People are an important skill to be,” Courtney said.
In Washington DC, Haley Chatelaine, Nih’s Postdoctoral Nih Science and the Presidents of the Union of Nih Fellows, said that the crowd rose mitines: “We believe in our collective power.”
JP Flores, the basic organizer of today’s Rally and the Bioinformatic Researcher of the University of North Carolina, said in Hill Chapel Nature: “March 7 is home – I don’t have to see it as the last point.”
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