{"id":72800,"date":"2026-04-29T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/she-set-out-to-become-a-clinical-psychologist-now-shes-leading-a-us-movement-to-save-science\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:56:42","slug":"she-set-out-to-become-a-clinical-psychologist-now-shes-leading-a-us-movement-to-save-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/she-set-out-to-become-a-clinical-psychologist-now-shes-leading-a-us-movement-to-save-science\/","title":{"rendered":"She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she\u2019s leading a US movement to save science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colette Delawalla launched Stand Up for Science to push back against the Trump\u2019s cuts to medical and scientific research<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen days into the second administration of Donald Trump, Colette Delawalla reached her limit.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old budding clinical psychologist and mother of a toddler had been eager to finish her dissertation and launch a scientific career dedicated to teaching and research on addiction. Now that plan seemed seriously at odds with where the country was headed. The Trump administration had <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/national-institutes-health-president-trump-cutting-4-billion-critical-medical-research-funding-bay-area-impact\/15880230\/#:~:text=Trump%20administration%20cutting%20%244%20billion,everything%20from%20cancer%20to%20HIV.\">just announced<\/a> $4bn in cuts to medical and scientific research. Government scientists had been ordered not to speak at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring#:~:text=Advertisement,advisory%20committees%20and%20study%20sections.\">conferences<\/a> or in public for the time being. The National Institutes of Health was purging grants that conflicted with presidential orders on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/#:~:text=the%20Administration%20%E2%86%92-,DEFENDING%20WOMEN%20FROM%20GENDER%20IDEOLOGY%20EXTREMISM%20AND%20RESTORING%20BIOLOGICAL%20TRUTH,Code%2C%20it%20is%20hereby%20ordered:\">\u201cgender ideology\u201d<\/a> and \u201cdiversity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/29\/colette-delawalla-science-profile\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colette Delawalla launched Stand Up for Science to push back against the Trump\u2019s cuts to medical and scientific research Nineteen days into the second administration of Donald Trump, Colette Delawalla reached her limit. The 30-year-old budding clinical psychologist and mother of a toddler had been eager to finish her dissertation and launch a scientific career &#8230; <a title=\"She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she\u2019s leading a US movement to save science\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/she-set-out-to-become-a-clinical-psychologist-now-shes-leading-a-us-movement-to-save-science\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she\u2019s leading a US movement to save science\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}