Thousands of people gathered Friday in cities across the United States to protest the Trump administration’s jobs and funding cuts to science agencies and research programs. “The banning of federally funded research in my own field of climate science,

The Stand Up for Science rallies are a response to the Trump administration’s actions, which critics see as a threat to scientific progress.

Across the United States, scientists organized similar protests Friday under a single call to arms: “Stand Up for Science.”