Three recent events mark the Woods Hole scientific community’s first attempts to counter the Trump administration’s reductions of federal science funding. Falmouth’s science salaries pump about $500 million a year into our local economy, representing about a third of Falmouth’s total payroll. Thus, these funding reductions are sure to be felt by everybody in town.

The most visible event is the hanging of a billboard-sized banner reading, “This Village Runs on Science.” It appears on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Smith Laboratory wall facing the Steamship Authority’s ferry slips. A WHOI press statement says that the sign is “positioned to be visible to the millions of visitors traveling through to Martha’s Vineyard [to inform them of] the important scientific work happening he

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