‘Scientists will not be silenced’: Thousands protest cuts

Thousands of researchers and supporters of science protested in cities across the United States and Europe on Friday 7 March against actions taken by the administration of US President Donald Trump to cut the US scientific workforce and slash spending on research worldwide, write Julian Nowogrodzki, Humberto Basilio, Heidi Ledford, Brendan Maher and Alexandra Witze for Nature.

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.

Over the past month, “I’ve been waiting for someone to do something,” said Abraham Flaxman, a global-health metrics researcher at the University of Washington, who attended the Seattle rally. But “it’s dawned on me: nobody is coming to save us. We’re going to have to save ourselves.”
Full report on the Nature site