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

Protesters say firings, budget and grant cuts in health, climate, science and other research government agencies by the Trump administration are endangering not just the future but the present.

Researchers, advocates and community leaders gathered in Center City on Friday for the Stand Up for Science March, to push their call to restore federal funding for biomedical research.

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,