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Resources

Organizations

• Stand Up for Science.
• Union of Concerned Scientists.

Resources

• Cross Cultural Solidarity: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on the Scientific Community.
• Gretchen Goldman & Erica Chenoweth: Scientists’ role in defending democracy.
• Stand Up For Science: Resource collection.
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Running an Independent Science Advisory Committee: A Toolkit for Scientists to Continue the Work of Dismantled Federal Science Advisory Committees.
• Union of Concerned Scientists: Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions.
• Wikipedia: Political interference with science agencies by the first Trump administration.

News: 2025

February 25.   Scientific American: ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research.

May 28.   Jeff Tollefson & Dan Garisto: Trump’s call for ‘gold-standard science’ has prompted an outcry: Thousands have signed an open letter against the US president’s latest order, anxious about political interference in science.

June 5.   Virginia Gewin:‘We were ready for this’: meet the scientists suing the Trump administration to reinstate terminated grants. Judge sets court date to hear the US government detail how termination directives were made.

June 9.   Jocelyn Kaiser: NIH staff and biomedical community sound alarm about agency politicization.

June 10.   Shelby Bradford: NIH Scientists Issue ‘Bethesda Declaration’ to Protest Research Politicization.

June 17.   Flora Graham: Judge orders the restoration of hundreds of NIH grants

June 17. Katie Langin: U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers.

Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets

across the country.

July 21.   Jackie Wattles: In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency.

July 21.   The New York Times: Read the NASA ‘Voyager Declaration’ Letter of Dissent.

August 1.   Dharna Noor & Oliver Milman: Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation.

August 7.   Jeff Tollefson: Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back.

August 13.   Dharna Noor: Scientists rush to bolster climate finding Trump administration aims to undo.

August 26.   Evan Bush: The ‘Mozart of Math’ rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that. UCLA’s Terence Tao called the Trump administration’s actions an “existential threat” to academic research in the U.S.

August 26.   Dan Charles: Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress: Megan O’Rourke hopes to be a voice for science, also touts her blue-collar roots.

August 28.   Brandy Zadrozny: CDC employees walk out to rally in support of ousted leaders.

August 28.   The Washington Post: CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives.

August 30.   Eric Holthaus: Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump: Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission.