The next talk in our 2024/2025 talk series will be given by Sol Tovar.
The talk will be on the topic of "Queering the linguistics classroom".
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Stable Steam Client update for Desktop and Steam Deck brings a whole lot of fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/stab…
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Stable Steam Client update for Desktop and Steam Deck brings a whole lot of fixes
Valve released a fresh stable update to the Steam Client this week bringing numerous bug fixes and improvements for Desktop and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie
https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-section-31-interview-rob-kazinsky-omari-hardwick-kacey-rohl-2000553661?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie
The cast and crew of Section 31 tell io9 why stories about the controversial Star Trek organization are necessary for the franchise's utopian vision.James Whitbrook (Gizmodo)
"#Amazon closing all #Quebec warehouses, cutting jobs"
"Barbara Agrait, a spokesperson with Amazon, denies that the decision was made following the #unionization of 200 employees last spring at Amazon’s DXT4 warehouse in #Laval, Que."
Yeah right!
You have to #unionize
Amazon's stunt here is a threat to other places thinking of forming a #union. But if enough unionize, the plutocracy has to give in and accept it
That is the only way forward
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/am…
Amazon closing all Quebec warehouses, cutting jobs
Online retail giant Amazon is closing all its warehouses in Quebec, a spokesperson confirmed to CTV News. The company says it will cease operations over the next two months in various centres and facilities.Rachel Lau (CTVNews)
We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid
For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities…Literary Hub
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Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
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Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog
The Trump White House has told three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired, which would stop the independent agency from functioning.Charlie Savage (The New York Times)
Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments. How would that work? (Ed O'Keefe/CBS News)
cbsnews.com/news/trump-recess-…
memeorandum.com/250122/p97#a25…
Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments. How would that work?
No president has ever exercised this constitutional power, but "this remains a significant possibility in the eyes of the White House," one source said.Ed O'Keefe (CBS News)
Kennedy Would Keep Stake in H.P.V. Vaccine Suit if Confirmed (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/poli…
memeorandum.com/250122/p98#a25…
R.F.K. Jr. Would Keep Stake in H.P.V. Vaccine Suit if Confirmed
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to be health secretary, would have oversight power over the vaccine’s maker, Merck, if confirmed.Christina Jewett (The New York Times)
The FTC’s Ban on GM and OnStar Selling Driver Data Is a Good First Step
#privacy #locationalprivacy #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
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The FTC’s Ban on GM and OnStar Selling Driver Data Is a Good First Step
The Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement agreeing that General Motors and its subsidiary, OnStar, will be banned from selling geolocation and driver behavior data to credit agencies for five years. That’s good news for G.M.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
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The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
Trump hopes to gut birthright citizenship via executive order. In lawsuits filed across the country, immigrants seek to stop him.Shawn Musgrave (The Intercept)
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Please support goods from Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Denmark/Greenland, as we face Trump's bull$hit.
Global support is needed.
Thank you.
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A 2UK Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a russian #spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables.
In a message to putin, Defence Secretary John Healey said: "We see you. We know what you are doing. And we will not shy away from robust action to protect this country."
news.sky.com/story/royal-navy-…
Royal Navy attack submarine warned off Russian spy ship from UK waters
Defence Secretary John Healey said Russia "remains the most pressing and immediate threat to Britain", and added that "any threat will be met with strength and resolve".Sky News
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Trump administration orders health agency communication pause
Trump administration orders federal health agencies to pause external communications, including health advisories, website updates, scientific reports.Associated Press (STAT)
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Unknown parent • • •@academicchatter @GhostOnTheHalfShell
Columbia U thought if they kissed orange ass they would not be fucked
They did, and they were
petersuber
Unknown parent • • •Update. "US #NIH reverses conference travel ban for scientists"
reuters.com/business/healthcar…
"Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health had been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they paid their own way and went during time off… After Reuters reported the travel restriction policy earlier on Thursday, an #HHS spokesperson said, 'Effective April 10, official travel may resume following established approval processes within each Institute and Center.'"
Neither the original travel restrictions nor the recent reversal have been put in writing.
#DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Phillip Levine lists the 77 US #universities that stand to lose the most from three kinds of funding cuts threatened by the #Trump admin: (1) capping indirect costs for #NIH grants at 15%, (2) cutting the #NSF budget by two-thirds, and (3) endowment taxes.
chronicle.com/article/these-77…
(#paywalled)
PS: Note that there are other kinds of cuts that Levine does not bring into this calculation, like withholding funds from targeted institutions because of their DEI or antisemitism policies.
#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "More Than $110 Million in #NIH Grants to #Harvard, Affiliated Hospitals Terminated Since Late February"
thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/…
"All of the grants were terminated before the #Trump administration announced a $9 billion review of funding to Harvard and affiliated health care centers. At least four grants to Harvard-affiliated scholars — specifically those related to research on Covid-19 — have since been temporarily reinstated as the White House battles court challenges. The affected projects had more than $43 million in undisbursed funds at the time of cancellation…All of the canceled projects prominently featured themes of #gender and #sexualidentity, #Covid-19 and its #vaccine, or health disparities."
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
More Than $110 Million in NIH Grants to Harvard, Affiliated Hospitals Terminated Since Late February | News | The Harvard Crimson
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Judge permanently blocks #NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle"
highereddive.com/news/judge-pe…
"Research #universities won an extended reprieve Friday when a federal judge permanently barred the National Institutes of Health from capping funding for indirect research costs at a 15% rate, a move that would cost institutions billions a year. US District Judge Angel Kelley ruled NIH had violated federal statute, was “arbitrary and capricious” in creating the cap, failed to follow rulemaking procedures when doing so and violated constitutional prohibitions on applying new rules retroactively."
The NIH will surely appeal.
#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Judge permanently blocks NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle
Ben Unglesbee (Higher Ed Dive)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency. White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted."
science.org/content/article/tr…
(#paywalled)
"President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to end nearly all of the #climate research conducted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (#NOAA)…The administration is also preparing to ask for deep cuts to #NASA’s science programs."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Massive cuts to #NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan"
washingtonpost.com/science/202…
"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions…'This is an extinction-level event for NASA science,' said Casey Dreier, chief of space policy for the Planetary Society…'It needlessly terminates functional, productive science missions and cancels new missions currently being built, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars in the process.'”
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#CDC's #STD Lab Shuttered by #Trump Layoffs"
medpagetoday.com/infectiousdis…
"A critical laboratory for surveilling sexually transmitted diseases (#STDs) in the US has been lost in the Trump administration's mass layoffs…One of its most remarkable projects is a one-of-its-kind repository of 50,000 isolates of gonorrhea used to monitor antibiotic resistance, which is quickly becoming a global health concern. The lab has been doing this work for nearly 40 years -- but will now, at best, have a gap in data."
Also see the public statement by the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (#ASTDA).
astda.org/statement-from-astda…
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #OpenData #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
CDC's STD Lab Shuttered by Trump Layoffs
Kristina Fiore (MedpageToday)Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧
in reply to petersuber • • •I have long suspected their aim is a 'cull' of 'the weak' and 'empathetic'.
Hitler already used the term 'useless eaters' but we may hear it again.
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •The Food and Drug Administration (#FDA) has already lost 19% of its staff, the Centers for Disease Control (#CDC) 18%, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (#CMS) 9%.
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…
#DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Can HHS Still Function? Health Data at Risk; Inside Docs' $421M Jury Award
Kristina Fiore (MedpageToday)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "The National Science Foundation (#NSF) has abolished its chief mechanism for getting the scientific community’s input on its programs."
science.org/content/article/ns…
(#paywalled)
#DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Faculty Letter to #Yale University Administration"
sites.google.com/view/yalefacu…
"We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association, and academic freedom. We write as one faculty, to ask you to stand with us now. We urge you to: …Resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance…Protect science and other research at Yale from funding cutoffs… Defend the rights to free speech on campus…Work purposefully and proactively with other colleges and universities in collective defense."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Yale Faculty Letter
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "The #Trump administration’s cuts have slowed operations in #Antarctica to a crawl. Scientists warn that #climate research conducted there is vitally urgent. Despite this, the #NSF is preparing for an operational retreat from Antarctica."
explorersweb.com/new-funding-c…
PS: This one is more personal for me. In 1996 I visited Palmer Station, an NSF-funded base for polar biology on Anvers Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, and had a wonderful talk and tour with its director, Polly Penhale.
#DefendResearch #Funding #USPol #USPolitics
New Funding Cuts Forcing U.S. Researchers Out of Antarctica » Explorersweb
Lou Bodenhemier (Explorer's Web)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Faculty From 14 Universities Join Forces to Call on Administrative Bodies to Stand Up to Attacks on Higher Education"
docs.google.com/document/d/1hF…
"Faculty from fourteen universities across the United States signed and released letters calling for their respective university’s administrative bodies to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and other democratic principles. Nearly 5,100 faculty have collectively signed these letters on what the American Association of University Professors has called a Day of Action for Higher Ed. This is a collaborative effort independently organized by passionate faculty across four universities… Following the extraordinary sign of leadership from Harvard University on April 14, 2025, these faculty are speaking out to encourage their own institutions to stand up and fight back collectively against the illeg
... show moreUpdate. "Faculty From 14 Universities Join Forces to Call on Administrative Bodies to Stand Up to Attacks on Higher Education"
docs.google.com/document/d/1hF…
"Faculty from fourteen universities across the United States signed and released letters calling for their respective university’s administrative bodies to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom, freedom of inquiry, and other democratic principles. Nearly 5,100 faculty have collectively signed these letters on what the American Association of University Professors has called a Day of Action for Higher Ed. This is a collaborative effort independently organized by passionate faculty across four universities… Following the extraordinary sign of leadership from Harvard University on April 14, 2025, these faculty are speaking out to encourage their own institutions to stand up and fight back collectively against the illegal and unprecedented actions of the federal government."
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Press Release - A Day of Action for HigherEd
Google Docspetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Bad news from the #NEH for #KnowledgeCommons (and the rest of us).
about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/…
"On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately…On April 10, 2025, we received further…notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access #Repository was also being terminated…This loss is devastating…both for the financial impact it represents…but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we’d set for ourselves years ago…Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer
... show moreUpdate. Bad news from the #NEH for #KnowledgeCommons (and the rest of us).
about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/…
"On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately…On April 10, 2025, we received further…notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access #Repository was also being terminated…This loss is devastating…both for the financial impact it represents…but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we’d set for ourselves years ago…Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer be funding research, and thus there will be no results of research to make publicly accessible."
PS: All the agencies covered by the #OSTP #NelsonMemo must designate #OpenAccess repositories for their OA content. NEH was the only agency to designate a repo not hosted by the govt. All the other agency repos will be hosted by the govt, where they will be subject to political censorship or takedowns.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #GreenOA #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More"
propublica.org/article/trump-d…
"The data collection efforts that have been shut down or are at risk of being curtailed are staggering in their breadth. In some cases, datasets from past years now sit orphaned, their caretakers banished and their future uncertain; in others, past data has vanished for the time being, and it’s unclear if and when it will reappear. Here are just a few examples."
PS: What follows is one of the best lists of deleted or endangered datasets so far published.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Trump Halts Data Collection on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change, More
ProPublicapetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants"
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"All new research grants have been frozen at the US National Science Foundation (#NSF) — an action apparently ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE)… Documents seen by Nature show that two members of DOGE…have been given access to grant management systems and used that access to prevent grants from receiving funding that were already approved but awaiting finalization. 'That, of course, raises the hairs on the back of our neck in a worrisome way,' an NSF programme officer says."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
Garisto, DanNed Hamson
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in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "U.S. climate data websites go dark"
science.org/content/article/us…
"U.S. scientists, state policymakers, farmers, and others who depend on up-to-date #climate data on Thursday confronted an information blackout from federal regional climate centers across much of the country. “Unfortunately, all data and services offered under the base contract, including this website, will be unavailable unless and until funding is resumed,” a statement on the Southern Regional Climate Center’s website read…The disruption appears to be a temporary paperwork bottleneck within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA), rather than a policy decision by agency leadership, officials at several of the centers say. The centers are managed by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.
... show moreUpdate. "U.S. climate data websites go dark"
science.org/content/article/us…
"U.S. scientists, state policymakers, farmers, and others who depend on up-to-date #climate data on Thursday confronted an information blackout from federal regional climate centers across much of the country. “Unfortunately, all data and services offered under the base contract, including this website, will be unavailable unless and until funding is resumed,” a statement on the Southern Regional Climate Center’s website read…The disruption appears to be a temporary paperwork bottleneck within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA), rather than a policy decision by agency leadership, officials at several of the centers say. The centers are managed by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. But they are housed chiefly at #universities operating under 5-year agreements. The contracts for payment are approved each year. The last annual cycle ended on 16 April."
#Climate #DefendResearch #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Trump’s #DOJ Sends Intimidating Letters to Medical #Journals for Supposedly Being ‘Partisan’ "
gizmodo.com/trumps-doj-sends-i…
"The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to medical journals for supposedly being “partisan,” heavily suggesting that they’re spreading misinformation and are influenced by “funders” rather than medical science. Gizmodo has confirmed that the journal CHEST, a peer-reviewed publication on pulmonary care published by the American College of Chest Physicians, received a letter this week. And MedPage Today reports that at least two other journals have received similar intimidating letters."
PS: The letter to Harvard shows that the Trump admin wants to control what universities teach. These letters show that it also wants to control what scholarly journals publish.
#AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Trump's DOJ Sends Intimidating Letters to Medical Journals for Supposedly Being 'Partisan'
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in reply to petersuber • • •Everyone hits the end of their rope eventually.
#Trump's memory isn't large enough to rememeber every person and institution he resents and want's to punish.
He is simply a crazy old man who intends to break everything he an put his little hands on.
Now medical journals? Soon he'll ask us to drive on the left side of the road. He'll send intimdating letters to traffic engineers.
Robert H
in reply to petersuber • • •After the #Trump storm is over, what do we do with folks like Ed Martin?
We need to let them retire in obscurity. We don't need to chase them, even if they pulled stupid stunts like writing to medical journals.
#Martin is the only US Attorney in the last fifty years to have no experience as a judge or federal prosecutor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Marti…
American politician and lawyer
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Martin Reinhart
in reply to petersuber • • •Donald Trump's NIH Pick Just Launched a Controversial Scientific Journal
Emily Mullin (WIRED)Matt Hodgkinson
in reply to Martin Reinhart • • •petersuber
in reply to Martin Reinhart • • •Not directly but good point that there is now at least one journal reflecting the Trumpist take on the science that matters to them, e.g. on vaccines. Will we see more of these on climate, gender, and US history?
Martin Reinhart
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
science.org/content/article/ni…
(#paywalled)
"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [#Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."
#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
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in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying #Trump administration"
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
"More than 150 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with higher education – the strongest sign yet that US educational institutions are forming a unified front against the government’s extraordinary attack on their independence. The statement, published early on Tuesday by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, comes weeks into the administration’s mounting campaign against higher education, and hours after Harvard University became the first school to sue the government over threats to its funding."
The letter itself:
... show moreUpdate. "Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying #Trump administration"
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…
"More than 150 presidents of US colleges and universities have signed a statement denouncing the Trump administration’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with higher education – the strongest sign yet that US educational institutions are forming a unified front against the government’s extraordinary attack on their independence. The statement, published early on Tuesday by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, comes weeks into the administration’s mounting campaign against higher education, and hours after Harvard University became the first school to sue the government over threats to its funding."
The letter itself:
aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-c…
EDIT. As of April 24, 2025, the tally of signatures is up to 425.
EDIT. As of August 1, 2025, the tally of signatures is up to 660.
#AACU #Academia #DefendResearch #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) maintains a public list of datasets and databases it's terminating.
nesdis.noaa.gov/about/document…
Transparency about pulling the plug on transparency.
#Climate #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Notice of Changes
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Servicestiffelman
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "How #Trump is following #Project2025’s radical roadmap to defund science."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"Indiscriminate firings. Terminated grants. Cancelled programmes. The barrage of actions by US President Donald Trump has shocked the country’s research community over the past two months. Yet, much of it was planned out years in advance and laid out publicly…The Wall Street Journal found that more than half of Trump’s executive orders (EOs) align with Project 2025 recommendations. And most of its 40 listed authors are now key figures on Trump’s team…Here, Nature examines science-related policies from Project 2025 that have already come to pass, and which ones might be on the horizon."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
How Trump is following Project 2025’s radical roadmap to defund science
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards"
nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science…
"In January, the #Trump administration attempted to freeze grant payments for existing awards at the #NSF. A temporary restraining order lifted the freeze. The order also said that the agency could not terminate active awards to comply with President Trump’s executive orders…In a statement on Friday, the NSF said that its grant cancellations were not in violation of the temporary restraining order. When asked by The Times to provide clarification on the legality of the grant cancellations, the agency declined to comment…On Friday, the NSF went further, canceling grants supporting ongoing research."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #USPol #USPolitics
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards
Katrina Miller (The New York Times)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "The federal Department of Education [#ED] maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents [Education Resources Information Center, #ERIC] dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to #DOGE cuts."
governing.com/policy/major-edu…
PS: I use many sources in my attempt to stay on top of what's happening with #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, #OpenEducation, and so on. ERIC has been one of the stalwarts.
#DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week
GoverningJoshua McNeill
in reply to petersuber • • •Kate Nyhan
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to Kate Nyhan • • •Fortunately the Data Rescue Project (@datarescueproject.org) lists it as completely backed up as of April 5, 2025.
baserow.datarescueproject.org/…
The DRP tracker points to the April 5 back-up here in the #WaybackMachine.
web.archive.org/collection-sea…
#Preservation
Wayback Machine
web.archive.orgJohn Mark Ockerbloom
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to John Mark Ockerbloom • • •Good question. I don't know the answer. But if you could identify one of those rights-restricted docs, you could look for it in this #WaybackMachine collection.
web.archive.org/collection-sea…
Wayback Machine
web.archive.orgpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. The #OpenAccess Biodiversity Heritage Library (#BHL) needs a new home. The #Smithsonian will stop hosting it next January.
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2…
#Biodiversity #DefendResearch #ILoveBHL #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Biodiversity Heritage Librarypetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Funding cut for landmark study of women's health."
npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-53728…
"The #Trump administration is shutting down most of a landmark federal project studying women's health, stunning researchers around the country…The study, begun in the 1990s, has produced a series of groundbreaking results and was continuing to gather valuable data about women's health…Neither the #NIH, which funds the study, nor #HHS, which oversees the NIH, responded to NPR's questions about the matter…One big question is what will happen to the huge repository of #data…which represents a treasure trove that could be mined to make yet more important discoveries."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. The long-running and wide-ranging study of women's health that #NIH cut two days was back on track the next day.
nytimes.com/2025/04/24/health/…
PS: This is another sign that some protests work. It's also an example of thoughtless pillaging, as opposed to a careful attempt to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.
#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative
Roni Caryn Rabin (The New York Times)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Groups Decry Loss of Funding for 'Critically Important' GI Disease Network."
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…
"Physicians and patient advocates are sounding the alarm after the #NIH abruptly withdrew a grant renewal application for the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers (#CEGIR), the only clinical care network for eosinophilic gastroenteritis patients in the U.S."
The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (#AAAAI) says that NIH defunded the project, not on the merits, but because it uses "foreign components".
aaaai.org/about/news/news/2025…
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Groups Decry Loss of Funding for 'Critically Important' GI Disease Network
Jennifer Henderson (MedpageToday)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. At least five medical journals have now confirmed that the #Trump Justice Dept sent them letters asking what steps they take to deal with "misinformation" and "competing viewpoints".
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…
The three willing to be named are:
1. 𝘊𝘏𝘌𝘚𝘛, from the American College of Chest Physicians
... show more2. 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 & 𝘎𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
3. 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦, from the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Update. At least five medical journals have now confirmed that the #Trump Justice Dept sent them letters asking what steps they take to deal with "misinformation" and "competing viewpoints".
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…
The three willing to be named are:
1. 𝘊𝘏𝘌𝘚𝘛, from the American College of Chest Physicians
2. 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 & 𝘎𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
3. 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦, from the Massachusetts Medical Society.
#DefendResearch #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics
NEJM Gets Letter From DOJ
Kristina Fiore (MedpageToday)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update from Gary Price (@infodocket). "Accessing Archived Material From #ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via the #InternetArchive."
infodocket.com/2025/04/23/acce…
"Here are a couple ways to access archived material from ERIC on the open web. We will do our best to keep this post updated if/when new open web sources become available to access ERIC material."
#DefendResearch #Education #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Accessing Archived Material From ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via the Internet Archive
Library Journal infoDOCKETpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update from Lisa Schiff (@lschiff), "Protecting your work – and your values – in US higher education."
timeshighereducation.com/campu…
"With US higher education under attack from the federal government, what can scholars do to ensure their research is preserved and to stand up for academic freedom? Lisa Schiff, a co-author of the Declaration to Defend Research."
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Protecting your work – and your values – in US higher education
THE Campus Learn, Share, Connectpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Impacts of Restrictions on Federal Grant Funding in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Programs."
ww2.aip.org/statistics/impacts…
"37% of the responding department chairs [in #physics and #astronomy] said they expect to enroll fewer first-year graduate students in the fall of 2025 than they did the previous year…The number of first-year graduate students in physics and astronomy is anticipated to decline by about 13%. This is a projected decline of about 600 first-year graduate students."
#DefendResearch #Funding #ERC #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Impacts of Restrictions on Federal Grant Funding in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Programs
AIPLisa Schiff
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. People receiving an #NIH grant must now promise not to participate in #DEI programs or any boycott of #Israel or companies doing business in Israel. NIH calls this a "civil rights" condition on the grant.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/no…
#CivilRights #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
grants.nih.govpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Noam Ross and Scott Delaney maintain a crowdsourced database of #NIH grant terminations. Extremely helpful.
airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy…
Meagan Parrish has put together a useful overview of what it contains.
pharmavoice.com/news/nih-hhs-c…
Ross and Delaney also maintain a database of #NSF grant terminations. Right now it lists 501.
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXniQZkFC…
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
What’s being cut at NIH
Meagan Parrish (PharmaVoice)bk
in reply to petersuber • • •Fachportal Pädagogik
in reply to petersuber • • •#ERIC ist mit knapp 2 Mio Nachweisen (Stand: Mai 2024) die weltweit umfangreichste bildungs- & erziehungswissenschaftl. relevante bibliografische Datenbank. Nachgewiesen wird seit 1966 überwiegend englischsprachige Literatur (Bücher, Zeitschriftenartikel, Forschungs-, Konferenzberichte u.a.) zu allen Bereichen der #Pädagogik.
Auch in unsere Suche ist #ERIC eingebunden. Künftig wird es also dank #DOGE viel weniger Treffer geben.
fachportal-paedagogik.de/liter…
Erweiterte Literatursuche im Fachportal Pädagogik
www.fachportal-paedagogik.deFachportal Pädagogik
in reply to petersuber • • •ERIC ist mit knapp 2 Mio Nachweisen (Stand: Mai 2024) die weltweit umfangreichste bildungs- & erziehungswissenschaftl. relevante bibliografische Datenbank. Nachgewiesen wird seit 1966 überwiegend englischsprachige Literatur (Bücher, Zeitschriftenartikel, Forschungs-, Konferenzberichte u.a.) zu allen Bereichen der #Pädagogik.
Auch in unsere Suche ist #ERIC eingebunden. Künftig wird es also dank #DOGE viel weniger Treffer geben.
fachportal-paedagogik.de/liter…
Erweiterte Literatursuche im Fachportal Pädagogik
www.fachportal-paedagogik.depetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Scientist Who Helped Prove Humans Changed the Climate Watches Evidence Being Erased"
sfpublicpress.org/scientist-wh…
"Ben Santer never imagined that 12 words could change the trajectory of his life and humanity’s understanding of what it was doing to the planet: 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.' He wrote that sentence as the lead author of a pivotal chapter in the 1995 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [#IPCC]…Now the #data sources that made that discovery possible are under threat… 'There’s real concern that the data may go away, that the satellites, measurements that have been collected for 40 plus years, may not continue.'"
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Evidence That Humans Changed the Climate is Being Erased
Michael Stoll (San Francisco Public Press)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. I just did an interview for the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (#ZBW, @ZBW_MediaTalk) on the impact of #Trump admin actions on US research and higher education. Thanks to @avatter for the good questions.
zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/peter…
EDIT. ZBW has now released a German translation of the interview.
zbw-mediatalk.eu/de/2025/04/pe…
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
Peter Suber über gefährdete Wissenschaft: “Hosten Sie Ihre offene und unzensierte Forschung an mehr als einem Ort und möglichst in mehr als einem Land.” | ZBW MediaTalk
Team ZBW Media Talk (ZBW MediaTalk)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment."
reuters.com/sustainability/cop…
"President Donald Trump's administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government's signature study that informs federal and local governments on how to prepare for climate change impacts…The dismissal of nearly 400 contributors to the sixth National Climate Assessment, which is mandated by Congress, leaves the future of the report in doubt."
#Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#NIH Grant Cuts Aren't Saving Money. They're Wasting It."
bloomberg.com/opinion/articles…
"The Trump administration’s waves of massive cuts to funding at the NIH are framed as a recasting of research priorities and a way to save taxpayer money. Another way to frame it is an exercise in massive waste. In terminating nearly 750 NIH grants over the past two months, the government dumped years of investment down the drain…Funding was pulled just as some of these projects were getting off the ground, while others were rounding into their last year of funding — a point where enough data would finally be collected to offer concrete results. Our analysis found that nearly 40% of the canceled R01 grants supported research that had yet to produce findings, meaning all of the agency’s prior investments won’t benefit the public."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "‘The Classified Catalog’ launches to track secrecy news"
freedom.press/the-classifieds/…
"The [Trump] administration is eroding the information environment in ways this country has never seen. More secrets are being kept, more data is being deleted, and more government employees are being censored. This excessive secrecy prevents the public from meaningfully participating in self-government on domestic policies from climate and health issues to foreign affairs. To combat this, Freedom of the Press Foundation (#FPF) began tracking reports of government secrecy in January 2025."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Journalism #Monitoring #Secrecy #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
‘The Classified Catalog’ launches to track secrecy news
Freedom of the Presspetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Will US science survive Trump 2.0?"
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"In just the first three months of his second term, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. His administration has fired thousands of government scientists, bringing large swathes of the country’s research to a standstill and halting many clinical trials. It has threatened to slash billions in funding from US research universities and has terminated more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and HIV prevention. This looks likely to be just the beginning."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Usha Lee McFarling has put together a very useful timeline of #Trump's major actions on science and health in his first 100 days.
statnews.com/2025/04/24/trump-…
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
Timeline: How Trump is roiling science and health | STAT
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wobweger
in reply to petersuber • • •highlight 2025-01-31 banned language
pen.org/banned-words-list/
how incomprehensible was that,
and it looks like researchers are actually following at path to insanity
Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
ltolin (PEN America)Carolleisa
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. One of many good points by Alice Meadows and Suze Kundu:
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20…
When #Trump cuts budgets and staffing at science agencies, and terminates research grants, #journalists should write about the effects on people (less cancer research, more cancer), not just the effects on universities (less funding, more belt-tightening).
#DefendResearch #Journalism #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Trump v. Research: How We Could Turn the Threats into Opportunities - The Scholarly Kitchen
Alice Meadows (The Scholarly Kitchen)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 #NIH Public Access Policy"
nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/n…
"I am excited to announce that one of my first actions as NIH Director is pushing the accelerator on policies to make NIH research findings freely and quickly available to the public. The 2024 Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1, 2025."
PS: This announcement is from the Trump-appointed NIH director, #JayBhattacharya. It's another sign that Trump has not revoked or weakened the #OSTP #NelsonMemo, despite oth
... show moreUpdate. "Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 #NIH Public Access Policy"
nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/n…
"I am excited to announce that one of my first actions as NIH Director is pushing the accelerator on policies to make NIH research findings freely and quickly available to the public. The 2024 Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1, 2025."
PS: This announcement is from the Trump-appointed NIH director, #JayBhattacharya. It's another sign that Trump has not revoked or weakened the #OSTP #NelsonMemo, despite other attacks on research, including #takedowns of #OpenAccess texts and data. At the NIH, the largest funding agency, implementation of the Nelson memo is even speeding up.
EDIT. Another NIH reaffirmation of its NelsonMemo OA policy. From Lyric Jorgenson, NIH Ass Director for Science Policy, April 30, 2025: "We revised our Public Access Policy to eliminate the embargo period so that researchers, students, and members of the public have rapid access to these findings. NIH leadership believes strongly that transparency in all we do is critical and that we should not waste a moment in fulfilling our promise to the public."
osp.od.nih.gov/transforming-tr…
#DefendResearch #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics
Transforming Transparency Through Policy - Office of Science Policy
Joel Gingrich (Office of Science Policy)petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. #RFKJr has ordered the #NIH to stop studying #ebola and half a dozen other fatal infectious diseases.
wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-…
#DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Exclusive: #NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. The policy prevents the NSF, one of the world’s biggest supporters of basic research, from awarding new research grants and from supplying allotted funds for existing grants, such as those that receive yearly increments of money. The email does not provide a reason for the freeze and says that it will last 'until further notice'."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
Garisto, Danpetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis."
washingtonpost.com/science/202…
"The 75-year-old government agency [#NSF] has one function: keep the U.S. science enterprise at the leading edge. In the past two weeks, however, the $9 billion agency, which exists entirely to fund science researchers, projects and facilities…hit reverse on its main mission."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#NIH under siege."
science.org/content/article/ni…
"Nearly 3 months into President Donald Trump’s administration, NIH in-house scientists and other workers [are] reeling from mass layoffs of colleagues; the removal of leaders; and limits on travel, communication, and purchasing that have shut the agency off from the outside world, hamstrung experiments, and crushed the community’s spirits…The atmosphere is one of 'chaos and fear and frustration and anger,' said a senior scientist with NIH’s intramural research program…This scientist added: 'It’s this feeling of utter powerlessness and repeated insults.'"
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Education Department restarts online library #ERIC."
hechingerreport.org/proof-poin…
"The US Department of Education announced Monday that it would continue to operate its online library, known as ERIC, after allowing it to lapse last week. The Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) had sought significant cuts to the document repository that is used by 14 million people a year, and allowed funding to run out on April 23…A new, albeit much smaller contract was signed on April 24…[Matthew Soldner, the acting director of the Institute of Education Sciences] said that 'no content has been removed or deleted from ERIC. The preservation policy is unchanged [and] we will not remove an article in ERIC unless it is retracted by the publisher.'"
#DefendResearch #Education #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Education Department restarts online library ERIC
Jill Barshay (The Hechinger Report)WallOffTrump
in reply to petersuber • • •Georgiann Baldino
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. PEN America (@pen_ev) is pulling together separate federal agency lists of banned words to make one, growing master list. It currently has more than 350 entries.
pen.org/banned-words-list/
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
ltolin (PEN America)J Miller
in reply to petersuber • • •In retrospect, peanut allergies were an early example of just how resistant many people are to a) reality and b) the idea that they should make even a fairly minor change in their behavior to save someone else’s life.
So, surprised and not surprised to see that on the list.
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#Trump says he’s yanking #Harvard’s tax-exempt status."
politico.com/news/2025/05/02/t…
PS: We could say that Trump has moved from threat to action. Or we could say that he's started another two-step dance to energize the MAGA base, first with a futile gesture ("look at my strong action!") and second with the inevitable loss in court ("look at those radical judges!").
#Academia #DefendResearch #Nonprofits #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
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in reply to petersuber • • •Orwell at work
inspired by 1933 newspeak:
the 1984 newspeak
and now proudly presented:
the 2025 newspeak
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns."
statnews.com/2025/05/01/nih-ha…
"The National Institutes of Health announced Thursday it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how the agency manages its $47 billion research funding portfolio. The change is likely to cause immediate disruptions to research projects around the world."
#Collaboration #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Nationalism #NationalSecurity #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
NIH halts funding for research projects with foreign collaborators | STAT
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in reply to petersuber • • •Anne Ominous
in reply to petersuber • • •science in the US is done.
(honestly, i saw the writing on the wall during COVID - lotta mistrust, lots of 'disbelief' and undermining)
and no one likes to hear this but we were the world leader. maybe one of our last bastions of achievement.
there is no country... not even the entire EU could absorb even half of our scientists and keep their work going.
there is simply no funding for that. we're talking billions of dollars, every year.
irreplaceable, and now, GONE
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"The budget document released by the White House on Friday for the upcoming fiscal year…would cut all non-defence spending by 23% but targets the US National Science Foundation [#NSF] for a 56% funding reduction, and would slash the budget of the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] by roughly 40%. The Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA], which on Friday also announced plans to dismantle its primary research division, would be hit by a 55% cut as the administration seeks to eliminate what it calls “radical” and “woke” #climate programmes."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
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in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "#NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases."
fiercebiotech.com/research/nih…
"The #Trump administration has blocked access to multiple data repositories maintained by the NIH…The ban is effective April 4 and applies to institutions in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela…The numerous controlled-access data repositories (CADRs) that are affected by the rule hold data on a vast swath of subjects including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, mental health disorders, substance abuse and adolescent brain development."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Nationalism #OpenData #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases
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in reply to petersuber • • •Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD
in reply to petersuber • • •Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
in reply to petersuber • • •samiamsam
in reply to petersuber • • •MASA
make america stupid again
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
in reply to petersuber • • •@pen_ev Dicktatorships are censoring vocabulary.
The Trump regime certainly learned from Soviet bloc policies.
#USPol #TrumpRegime #ServingPutin #Fascism #VladolfPutler #AmericaHasBetter #Freedom #Democracy #Law #RuleOfLaw #Justice #USPolitics #RaiseYourVoice #UnseatTheDisgrace
Optimistic Moron
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Kudos to the American Meteorological Society (#AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (#AGU). Less than a week after the #Trump admin fired the 400 scientists working on the sixth National Climate Assessment (#NCA), due in 2028, these two scientific societies stepped up to continue the work in a new form.
news.agu.org/press-release/agu…
#Climate #DefendResearch #USPol #USPolitics
AGU and AMS join forces on special collection to maintain momentum of research supporting the U.S. National Climate assessment - AGU Newsroom
AGU Newspetersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "One of California’s largest collections of history could go dark."
sfgate.com/local/article/calif…
"One of #California’s largest collections of digitized #newspapers, going back nearly 200 years and spanning approximately 54 million articles, could disappear due to gutted state #funding. The unexpected news has delivered a heavy blow to historians, journalists, researchers and educators who rely on the archives for their work…The California Digital Newspapers Collection, housed at UC Riverside’s Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, said on its website that its future “is in jeopardy” after…its budget was completely decimated, leaving [it] with just a few weeks to source $300,000 or face the possibility of getting shut down."
#DefendResearch #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
John Carlos Baez
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters."
washingtonpost.com/entertainme…
"Arts organizations across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether."
#Arts #DefendResearch #Funding #NEA #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "The Latest #Trump and #DOGE Casualty: #Energy Data."
propublica.org/article/the-lat…
"The #EIA [Energy Information Administration, an independent agency housed inside the Department of Energy, #DOE] has privately informed staff that it is scrapping publication of its closely followed International Energy Outlook for 2025. The previous edition of the international outlook, released every two years, contained 70 pages detailing global trends. The paradox: That will leave the field open to the equivalent publication from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which conservatives accuse of bending its forecasts to promote climate-change goals."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
Energy Information Agency Data Scrapped as DOGE, Trump Hobble Agency
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Visions of Napa
in reply to petersuber • • •"Peanut allergies" and "safe drinking water" is banned. The regime is totally insane.
K_L_Cooper
in reply to petersuber • • •petersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. "Protecting research from censorship: resources for scholarly publishers."
blog.scholasticahq.com/post/pr…
"The onslaught of executive actions introduced over the past few months to impose significant funding cuts and workforce reductions on federal research agencies, take down public data, and prohibit the use of words related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has left many in the crosshairs grappling to wrap their heads around the implications of hastily issued government directives and policy changes. While there are still more unknowns than answers, initiatives are forming to track, assess, and help individuals and organizations respond to threats to research, including the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship (#DefendResearch declaration), which #Scholasti
... show moreUpdate. "Protecting research from censorship: resources for scholarly publishers."
blog.scholasticahq.com/post/pr…
"The onslaught of executive actions introduced over the past few months to impose significant funding cuts and workforce reductions on federal research agencies, take down public data, and prohibit the use of words related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has left many in the crosshairs grappling to wrap their heads around the implications of hastily issued government directives and policy changes. While there are still more unknowns than answers, initiatives are forming to track, assess, and help individuals and organizations respond to threats to research, including the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship (#DefendResearch declaration), which #Scholastica has joined. We’ve developed this blog post to help scholarly publishers and editors stay abreast of guidance and initiatives pertinent to their operations and communities…We will update this post with new information as it becomes available."
#Censorship #Takedowns #Publishers #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Protecting research from censorship: resources for scholarly publishers
blog.scholasticahq.competersuber
in reply to petersuber • • •Update. Thank you to the Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, Grant Foundation, and Sloan Foundation for this bridge funding program.
spencer.org/grant_types/rapid-…
"In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (#NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars…While it is impossible for private philanthropy to close the gap left by federal funders, we can provide modest grants to mitigate some of the impact on scholars, projects, and project teams. These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
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in reply to petersuber • • •𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱.
I've been tracking the impact of #Trump actions on US research, primarily in this Mastodon thread. But the thread is becoming long and unwieldy, and this problem will only get worse.
I'll continue to track this news but I want to stop doing it primarily in threads. Once I depend less on threads, I'll depend more on #tags to help readers find the posts in this collection.
I already use #DefendResearch and will to continue to do so.
It comes from the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship.
defendresearch.org/
But I want to supplement it with a more Trump-specific tag. After mulling
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I've been tracking the impact of #Trump actions on US research, primarily in this Mastodon thread. But the thread is becoming long and unwieldy, and this problem will only get worse.
I'll continue to track this news but I want to stop doing it primarily in threads. Once I depend less on threads, I'll depend more on #tags to help readers find the posts in this collection.
I already use #DefendResearch and will to continue to do so.
It comes from the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship.
defendresearch.org/
But I want to supplement it with a more Trump-specific tag. After mulling over a few possibilities — like TrumpAdminOnResearch and ResearchUnderTrump — I've decided to go with #TrumpVResearch.
Thanks to Alice Meadows and Suze Kundu for the suggestion.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20…
I won't add this tag retroactively to (many) past posts. But going forward I'll use both #DefendResearch and #TrumpVResearch for posts in this collection.
To follow these topics, consider following these tags.
I encourage others to use these tags too, in posts on the same topics. It's one way to #crowdsource this tracking project.
Here's more on this tracking project and the need to crowdsource it.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/11…
#USPol #USPolitics
Trump v. Research: How We Could Turn the Threats into Opportunities - The Scholarly Kitchen
Alice Meadows (The Scholarly Kitchen)petersuber
2025-02-19 18:22:54
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