USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues
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https://undark.org/2026/01/22/usda-directive-foreign-colleagues/
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USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues

A Trump administration policy asks agency scientists to Google their co-authors and report foreign collaborations.

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Who Gets to Decide How Much Is ‘Enough’ to Live a Good Life?
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https://undark.org/2026/01/21/opinion-climate-sufficiency-politics/
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Who Gets to Decide How Much Is ‘Enough’ to Live a Good Life?

Opinion | The concept of setting sustainable limits on consumption faces a political challenge as it begins to influence policy.

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Sitting without electricity and heating, but still thinking about… open #bibliometric data. Sharing our presentation from Bergen 2025. Even in these conditions, we keep building resilient research infrastructures:

👉 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30753224

The bibliometrics market is a textbook case of market failure: monopolies dominate, national research stays invisible, and profit beats #data quality. That’s why national infrastructures and #openmetadata really matter.

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Deepening Environmental Crises Are Fueling Protests in Iran

Iran has experienced decades of water depletion, dam building, and repression of scientists by a brutal regime.

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For EPA Pollution Rules, the Value of Human Health Is Changing

The agency plans to analyze the cost-benefit of PM2.5 and ozone regulation without using a dollar value for lives saved.

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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging Behind: Pew

A new report finds that a majority of Americans think the U.S. should be a world leader in science, but Democrats increasingly believe other countries are catching up

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The Looming Data Loss That Threatens Public Safety and Prosperity

Cuts to funding and staff needed to maintain trusted datasets of reference Earth system observations could limit their availability and quality, undermining hazard predictions and risk assessments.

https://eos.org/features/the-looming-data-loss-that-threatens-public-safety-and-prosperity

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The Looming Data Loss That Threatens Public Safety and Prosperity

Cuts to funding and staff needed to maintain trusted datasets of reference Earth system observations could limit their availability and quality, undermining hazard predictions and risk assessments.

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Why It Still Makes Sense to Limit Saturated Fats

The new U.S. dietary guidelines prioritize certain sources of saturated fats. The change concerns experts in nutrition.

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Abstinence From AI Is Not the Answer

Opinion | Refusing to use AI won’t protect society. Responsible resistance must include gaining knowledge about it.

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