I think this article is relevant in light of our discussion with Steve Hall last week about the March for Science. It details a march in Washington yesterday with the official title: “The People’s March for Climate, Jobs, and Justice.” The numbers for this march were higher than the March for Science. I think this event is an example of a march more unified under one specific scientific issue.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/the-people-who-came-to-the-climate-march/524865/

This quote from the article particularly stuck out to me:

Archana Dayalu, a doctoral student in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard, also came down from New England to be at the march. She had rallied the previous week at a March for Science event in Boston. “If you’re in your first few years of grad school, you can lull yourself into a false sense of complacency. You think, the work’s getting done. As long as I’m researching, I’m getting work done. But if you step out of that zone, you realize how little of your research is being translated into meaningful action,” she told me.

“I don’t think that I can solely be a research scientist anymore. If it’s an issue of this much importance, I need to show that action as well as research is important right now,” she said.