🚨 #StandUpforScience2025 Rally Live from Washington D.C. 🚨 Dozens of people start gathering in the Lincoln Memorial to protest against Trump's administration attacks on science. Researchers, students and federal scientists are present. I’ll be covering the event today for @nature.com. Stay tuned 🧪 - ThreadSky

humbertobasilio.bsky.social • 2 days ago

🚨 #StandUpforScience2025 Rally Live from Washington D.C. 🚨 Dozens of people start gathering in the Lincoln Memorial to protest against Trump's administration attacks on science.

Researchers, students and federal scientists are present.

I’ll be covering the event today for @nature.com. Stay tuned 🧪

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humbertobasilio.bsky.social•2 days ago

Protestors demand the reinstatement of federal research funding, rehire of federal employees, and defense of DEI accessibility.
“We are reacting to the worst possible outcome of what could have happened last time, and what the March for Science organizers were afraid of,” a co-organizer said.

humbertobasilio.bsky.social•2 days ago

The dozens quickly turned into hundreds of attendees. Some show their faces, while others cover them out for fear of facing retaliation. “Science saves lives,” “Think while it's still legal,” “We cannot afford to lose a generation of scientists,” some signs say.

voiceofjeff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Would going to Europe for grants help?

humbertobasilio.bsky.social•2 days ago

Time for speakers. Surgeon and health researcher Atul Gawande says he has seen several scientists leaving their dreams behind, holding their whole careers in boxes after being fired. Scientists arte targets because “Science doesn’t always give the answers that power wants,” he says.

humbertobasilio.bsky.social•2 days ago

At least 2000 attendees are here now. “We need more and more people. Thousands here in DC is great, but there are hundreds of thousands of millions of Americans, and it affects all of us, so let’s keep building a movement,” says Haley Chatelaine, vice president of UAW 2750 NIH fellows united.

humbertobasilio.bsky.social•2 days ago

“The most fundamental resource for progress in science is not the technologies or the buildings. It’s all the good people who do it,“ says former NIH director Francis Collins. “They are all of you who are here today to declare your support for this noble human enterprise.”

ikergarcia.bsky.social•2 days ago

So proud of people like you! 👏👏👏

humbertobasilio.bsky.social•2 days ago

“So maybe we could sing about all those good people,” says Collins while he grabs a guitar.

angel29100.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dozens? Where is the rest of you?

670rv.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Science doesn’t always give the answers that power wants,”

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