TheOldSchool
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- Sep 21, 2012
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100,000 followers on Facebook in 4 days. The next mass rally against Trump is in the works. The left is waking up. ![thup :thup: :thup:](/styles/smilies/thup.gif)
The idea, as so many do these days, began on social media. This week, scientists across the country have been quietly and not-so-quietly freaking out over the Trump administration’s approach to science, particularly climate-change policies and what may lie ahead for science communication and research funding. (There are so many things to freak out about, but these seem to be taking priority just now.) Then, in the middle of a long thread on Reddit, someone suggested: “There needs to be a Scientists’ March on Washington.”
That was four days ago. Since then, the newly created Twitter handle @ScienceMarchonDChas gained more than 20,000 followers, and a (now-private) Facebook group has more than 100,000 members.
Scientists Want to March on Washington, Too
![thup :thup: :thup:](/styles/smilies/thup.gif)
The idea, as so many do these days, began on social media. This week, scientists across the country have been quietly and not-so-quietly freaking out over the Trump administration’s approach to science, particularly climate-change policies and what may lie ahead for science communication and research funding. (There are so many things to freak out about, but these seem to be taking priority just now.) Then, in the middle of a long thread on Reddit, someone suggested: “There needs to be a Scientists’ March on Washington.”
That was four days ago. Since then, the newly created Twitter handle @ScienceMarchonDChas gained more than 20,000 followers, and a (now-private) Facebook group has more than 100,000 members.
Scientists Want to March on Washington, Too