petersuberJan 22, 2025

I'm starting a #Mastodon thread on the new #Trump administration's actions and positions on #OpenAccess to research.

I posted frequently about the actions of his first administration. But I did it on #Twitter / #X, which I no longer use.

Also see my separate Mastodon thread on outside efforts to capture and preserve research and data that the admin has taken down or might take down.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114359552828366397

Also see this wiki page where I'm collecting my old Twitter posts on his first term and my new Mastodon posts on his second term.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_Trump_administrations_on_open_access_to_research

For updates, watch this space.

#DefendResearch #OpenWashing #OSTP #ScholComm #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

petersuber (@[email protected])

Update. "With the recent announcement that numerous datasets — such as those from #NOAA — are scheduled for decommissioning in May, #PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of any endangered datasets, please don't hesitate to contact us. PANGAEA data!" https://pangaea.de/ #Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

FediScience.org
Show threadpetersuberJan 22, 2025

Update. "The mad dash to protect environmental data from Donald Trump"
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346025/data-donald-trump-climate-environment-epa
(#paywalled)

"Information about climate change vanished from federal websites under Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called climate change “a hoax.” Now, federal agencies could face deep staff and budget cuts overseen by Trump cronies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The proposed cuts not only threaten what kind of data the government shares but also whether it can collect and organize it at all....

One key resource that could languish under the Trump administration is the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool, #EJScreen.…Even if it stays online, the tool is not as useful without constant upkeep....

Much of the environmental data included in EJScreen is collected by the #EPA itself. The EPA isn’t likely to abandon its air quality monitors anytime soon, but #Project2025…proposes eliminating the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights that manages the tool...."

#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Takedowns

The mad dash to protect environmental data from Donald Trump

Researchers are bracing for new threats to government data on pollution and climate change under the Trump administration.

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Show threadpetersuberJan 24, 2025

Update. Here's a good use of #GitHub to track textual changes and page takedowns on federal govt web sites since #Trump took office.
https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/

This project is dedicated to the pages on #DEI. I hope someone launches a similar project on the pages dedicated to science and research.

#Censorship #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics

GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

404 Media
Show threadpetersuberJan 25, 2025

Update. "For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the #CDC's [#OpenAccess] Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (#MMWR) did not go out as scheduled because of a communications pause at federal health agencies issued by the #Trump administration."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/generalinfectiousdisease/113905

#Censorship #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics

Trump's Gag Order Halts CDC Publication

MMWR did not publish as usual at 1 p.m. today

Show threadpetersuberJan 26, 2025

Update. As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250102141453/https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

EDIT 01/09/26: The course is now back up on the #NASA website. (h/t @csmarcum)
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/training/

#Takedowns #TrumpAntiScience #USPol #USPolitics

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Show threadBrian Nosek
Do you have any insight why the open science modules would have been perceived as running afoul of any of the recent executive orders, or otherwise?
Jan 27, 2025 at 3:18pmWeb
Show threadpetersuberJan 27, 2025
@briannosek.bsky.social
No. But the first module opens with some #DEI language: "#OpenScience is the principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity."
https://web.archive.org/web/20250102141453/https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/#ethos-tools-data
Show threadThomas LavergneFeb 5, 2025

@petersuber @briannosek.bsky.social

Right before the #NASA #OpenScience 101 curriculum was taken off github, a git commit had edited out all reference to inclusiveness from the course modules.

This commit can still be seen in forks like this one (by @jcolomb )

https://git.tu-berlin.de/colombj/transform-to-open-science/-/commit/bb7560bd1c35f6e2e200a1ad78f4c78d28ab282b

Merge pull request #969 from bressler1995/main (bb7560bd) · Commits · Julien Colomb / Transform To Open Science · GitLab

Update main readme, faq file, area 4 folder, and area 1 folder

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