Stand Up for Science (in Seattle)

Waiting for the bridge en route to the rally*

 This is, essentially, another photo dump post, this time from Friday's "Stand Up for Science" Rally at Seattle Center. They say it was organized in about three weeks which shows how very efficient and capable the scientific community is because they had a pretty good turnout (the Seattle Times says "thousands") with a dozen or more excellent speakers. You could hear all the speakers too, and the emcees included some humor, a stretching interlude, some crowd interaction, and a lot of call and response. Plus, the weather was glorious and an eagle flew overhead midway through. It was inspiriting and inspirational. My only complaint is that they never asked how many liberal arts majors were in the crowd; I am sure we were legion.

As promised, a ton of photos, in no particular order:

It's personal for this woman.

A crowd shot

Okay, this one made me laugh.

More than one speaker pointed out just how short-sighted it is to cut research funding.

The Space Needle seemed to approve of the crowd and its mission.

If only there were a vaccine for M***.

Zoom in to see the worms.

This was a favorite, . . .

. . . but I probably liked this one even more.

Duh!

D'oh!

Truth!

Crowd shot 2

Seriously, I love the simplicity here.

Scott is feeling poorly today, and I'm really capable of only so much social action in a week, so we've given the International Women's March a miss today. I'm trusting others to pick up our slack.

*and yes, I had to make a new sign that would fit in Bessie's basket for this rally. This site had templates!