After President Donald Trump issued an executive order that barred immigrants and visitors from some Muslim-majority countries, hundreds of labs responded by offering to host researchers affected by the temporary US travel ban until it is lifted. More than 100 individuals from Canada, Spain, the U.K., France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria have already registered on the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)’s website, offering lab space and places to sleep.
“Everyone agrees we must do something,” EMBO Director Maria Leptin told The Scientist. “It’s a feeling a solidarity with people who are stranded and with our colleagues in the U.S.”
As scientists across the country and around the work plan to march in the name of science, some researchers who’ve had a hand in policy-making efforts are calling for caution. In a New York Times opinion article published this week (January 31), Robert Young, a coastal geologist at Western Carolina University, ...
