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Stand Up for Science aims to revive a movement that started in 2017, but with an all-new team and a more focused vision.<\/p>\n

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On Feb. 8, Colette Delawalla, a graduate student in psychology at Emory University, nervously announced to the online world that she was planning a national protest in defense of science. \u201cI\u2019ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world,\u201d she wrote in a post on Bluesky, a social media platform.<\/p>\n

A team of scientists quickly coalesced around her and formed a plan: a rally on the National Mall, satellite protests across the country, March 7. They threw together a website so rudimentary, initially, that visitors had to type the \u201cwww\u201d manually, or else the web address raised an error. Within days, the (improved) site received so much traffic that it crashed.<\/p>\n

The event, dubbed Stand Up For Science<\/a>, is something of a revitalization of the March for Science that took place in cities around the world in April 2017, not long into President Trump\u2019s first term. But this time, in a greatly sharpened political climate and a post-Covid world, the protests are being organized by a completely different team, and with a distinct vision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe spirit of it is the same,\u201d Ms. Delawalla said. But, she added, \u201cnow we are in a position of being on defense as opposed to offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Colette Delawalla, a doctoral student in clinical psychology and an organizer of Stand Up for Science, on the Emory University campus.<\/span>Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Many of the threats that mobilized scientists during the first Trump administration, such as the widespread deletion of federal databases<\/a> and deep slashes to the science budget<\/a>, never came to pass. But this time, within weeks of the presidential inauguration, Mr. Trump has already reshaped much of the federal scientific enterprise, which funds a significant chunk of academic research.<\/p>\n

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Stand Up for Science aims to revive a movement that started in 2017, but with an all-new team and a more focused vision.On Feb. 8, Colette Delawalla, a graduate student in psychology at Emory University, nervously announced to the online world that she was planning a national protest in defense of science. \u201cI\u2019ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world,\u201d she wrote in a post on Bluesky, a social media platform.A team of scientists quickly coalesced around her and formed a plan: a rally on the National Mall, satellite protests across the country, March 7. They threw together a website so rudimentary, initially, that visitors had to type the \u201cwww\u201d manually, or else the web address raised an error. Within days, the (improved) site received so much traffic that it crashed.The event, dubbed Stand Up For Science, is something of a revitalization of the March for Science that took place in cities around the world in April 2017, not long into President Trump\u2019s first term. But this time, in a greatly sharpened political climate and a post-Covid world, the protests are being organized by a completely different team, and with a distinct vision.\u201cThe spirit of it is the same,\u201d Ms. Delawalla said. But, she added, \u201cnow we are in a position of being on defense as opposed to offense.\u201dColette Delawalla, a doctoral student in clinical psychology and an organizer of Stand Up for Science, on the Emory University campus.Kendrick Brinson for The New York TimesMany of the threats that mobilized scientists during the first Trump administration, such as the widespread deletion of federal databases and deep slashes to the science budget, never came to pass. But this time, within weeks of the presidential inauguration, Mr. Trump has already reshaped much of the federal scientific enterprise, which funds a significant chunk of academic research.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23384,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23385,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382\/revisions\/23385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}