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The mood is ‘uncertain, anxious’ at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting

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American Association for the Advancement of Science is largest science meeting to take place in U.S. since second Trump administration .

AAAS CEO: "We are gathered in a moment of turmoil. It’s turmoil,” says AAAS board chair Joseph Francisco .

Meeting was held against backdrop of threats to funding that supports research, purge of federal workers.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is collecting signatures to an open letter to Congress opposing the Trump administration’s actions against science.

Scientists should “continue to highlight how when science is censored, when scientists are censored, people get hurt,” one scientist says.

A rally called Stand Up For Science is planned for March 7 in Washington , D.C. , and at least 30 other cities around the country.

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