Update: CaSE has an updated list of media coverage, and there were even Questions in Parliament (about 23 minutes in)!
A late Friday night building placards was followed by a busy Saturday morning collecting vans, preparing speeches and briefing marshals. At 1.50 the early arrivals were dotted around King Charles Street. The media and organisers only just outnumbered by the crowd.
Then as Big Ben started to chime, scientists in lab coats started to arrive en masse. The pictures from Flickr and many many others can tell the story.
Check out this video report from the BBC, and another from CBC (Canada)—about 4:24 in for the rally, and 5:12 for the petition delivery!
Others have written:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2010/oct/09/1
http://poddelusion.co.uk/blog/2010/10/09/science-is-vital-protest-live-updates/
http://nsnewsflash.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/science-is-vital-rally-treasury/
http://statisticallysignificantscience.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/science-is-vital-rally/
http://ceoamrc.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/science-is-vital-rally-in-london/
http://carmenego.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/science-is-vital/
Please leave links to ones I’ve missed in the comments and we’ll update later.
http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/science-still-is-vital/
http://www.jamescockburn.com/2010/10/science-was-is-and-always-will-be-vital.html
http://sciencedigestive.blogspot.com/2010/10/science-is-vital-rally-which-i-went-to.html
http://blogs.nature.com/binocular_vision/2010/10/11/why-science-is-vital
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A few more pictures and fun stuff at the Science is Vital rally at http://www.jamescockburn.com/2010/10/science-was-is-and-always-will-be-vital.html 🙂
http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/science-still-is-vital/
My own personal report on the rally.
http://sciencedigestive.blogspot.com/2010/10/science-is-vital-rally-which-i-went-to.html
It’s not particularly encompassing of the aims, but it might provide a minutes entertainment.
Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/steinsky/sets/72157625010466605/
Photoblog: http://cotch.net/blog/101011_0108
Faces of “Science Is Vital”. Can you spot yourself?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FHXCU85IvY
So glad I made it down from York.
another photograph from the rally http://www.flickr.com/photos/antoinedutilh/5065858512/
A few pictures I took are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34240754@N07/sets/72157625009517389/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_defiance/archives/date-taken/2010/10/09/
Report and photos
http://www.aworldtowin.net/frontline/sciencedemo.html
Quick post and a few photos from my phone:
http://www.ianhuston.net/2010/10/scientists-on-the-march
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianhuston/sets/72157625015183211/
Just a quick one of a very good LHC (inc projects!)
http://ow.ly/i/4qQA
More press:
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11508105
Sky: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Scientists-Demonstrate-Against-Proposed-Government-Cuts-To-Funding/Article/201010215755087
Metro: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/843534-geeks-protest-against-irritant-david-camerons-spending-cuts
Brand new science-y site, not even (quite) officially launched yet, but I was so impressed by the rally I really wanted to put something up. 🙂
http://nerd-alert.net/blog/2010/10/a-call-to-arms/
Dr. Evan Harris kindly agreed to host my write-up on his Political Science blog over at the Guardian Science blogs:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2010/oct/11/science-funding-crisis-science-policy
this includes links to several photos too…!
Chemistry World coverage: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/October/11101001.asp
It made it onto slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/10/0421249/UK-Scientists-Leave-Labs-To-Protest-Expected-Cuts
and my blog, too: http://kochanski.org/blog/?p=437
I can’t see it linked anywhere, so just in case – The Guardian’s Newton Channel has a nice video of the rally:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2010/oct/12/science-vital-cuts-research-funding
(I’m the slightly brummy one 🙂 )
Not a summary per se, but here’s a follow-on blogpost quoting Jenny’s nice letter to the signatories. Will be cross-posted in the usual place once I get around to it.
http://ricardipus.blogspot.com/2010/10/science-is-vital-for-as-they-say-win.html
…and here’s the pearoast:
http://products.scienceboard.net/index.php/archives/2010/10/27/453/
http://thesciencesays.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/trish-and-becky-think-more-about-why-science-is-vital/
Great day everyone – here’s our video of the rally. Thanks to everyone who let me video them. We were the ones with the ‘I like chocolate’ and ‘Feed the world! How?’ banners