Echoing the Stand Up for Science movement organized in the USA to defend academic freedom, a call for mobilization was launched a couple of weeks ago following D Trump's declarations for US science. Conferences, rallies and marches were organized across France last Friday (March 7) at the initiative of scientists united behind the Stand Up for Science France banner. In Marseille, around 1,000 people from many laboratories gathered at the Palais Longchamp: of course, the INP was represented!