"What happened over the last year [was] a rupture. We're not going back. It's not possible. Too much damage has been done. Too much has changed,"
"There's an entire generation of scientists that have a scar, a scar that is not going to go away. But scars can make us tougher. Scars can become shields and build resilience."
"It's going to take protests. It's going to take politics. It's going to take the ability to not speak gibberish. All of that has got to come together if we're going to fight for the inheritance of the Enlightenment to continue to make our world a better place."
Federal research funding cuts over the past year produced grant cancellations, funding freezes, bans on topics such as race, gender and climate, layoffs, and damaged morale across U.S. science. Thousands of scientists and advocates from 45 countries gathered in Phoenix to reflect on those impacts and to emphasize resilience and collective action. Scientific leaders characterized the period as a rupture that left lasting scars on a generation of researchers but said scars can build resilience. The funding losses also spurred new activism, protests, and political engagement aimed at rebuilding support for research and defending scientific norms.
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