Scientists' mass letter to Congress

Over 2,500 researchers, including more than 35 Nobel laureates, signed a single coordinated letter from the National Academies/Stand Up for Science asking Congress to force reinstatement of fired National Science Board members. The petition frames the firings and grant cancellations as an 'alarming attack' on U.S. research capacity and calls for congressional intervention. — If repeated, this kind of large, public mobilization by elite scientists could become a standard political tool to defend scientific independence and reshape how Congress mediates executive interference in research governance.