In view of Donald Trump’s attacks on science, the academic world reacted quickly. On March 7, researchers and academics mobilized to defend the science and to denounce a threat to democracy, whose future effects beyond the United States beyond the United States.
Donald Trump lasted almost a month to trigger a world resistance movement against him. While in the United States, budget cuts accumulate with decrees, scientists from all over the world, this Friday, March 7, call to mobilize their disciplines and support their American colleagues.
In France, the “Stand Up for Sciences” movement is particularly broadcast by the university community. Initiated by astrophysicist Olivier Berné, the biologist Patrick Lemaire and historian Emmanuelle Perzziser, they signed a platform in Tuesday, March 4 The world With the title “Defense of science in the face of new obscurantisms”.
In Toulouse, Marseille, Montpellier, Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and Rennes, the big university cities mobilize all over France to defend the science as a “pillar of democracy”.
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#Sistaupforscience : Collect #Rennes In order to support science, university education and research, both the wind of obscurantism from the United States of Trump and the budget cuts imposed by the government of Bayrou. pic.twitter.com/tfd6Mywrqq
– Lahais Tristan (@tlahais) March 7, 2025
The movement was launched in the United States after several attacks by Donald Trump against science. Since his arrival in the White House, the American President has taken a number of measures against scientific research and his financing, which has an impact on concern and outrage for many researchers around the world. In view: climate, public health and environmental protection.
Specifically, the Trump government has removed a NASA program for monitoring the country. It also reduced the enrollment of the American environmental protection authority and research in connection with renewable energies.
Europe worried
In France, from February 18, the Academy of Sciences in a press release “its solidarity with the scientific world of the United States” in this chaotic time “that” today’s censorship, which is practiced today, will be reduced in the most promising sectors “and that this decision will prove to be” catastrophic for future generations “. It also remembered that the “damage caused in such a short time can be repaired”.
The fears are international and the researchers are aware of the consequences of these attacks in Europe. The astrophysicist and researcher of the CNRS, Olivier Berné, explained to France Info This “international cooperation and data exchange are success factors and knowledge knowledge” for research and scientific knowledge. Before the claim that “the budget cuts in American laboratories influence the research work on the climate, health and space in France, but also in Europe”.
The researcher of the CNRS always insisted on the crucial question of such a decision with France information: “We do not do what is taking place in these circles in France at all. In the United States there is an extremely strong attack against the scientific world.” Censorship, which is not worthy of the university community and undermining the international cooperation.