posting this so i can pin it:

what up we're trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web:

• web: https://sciop.net/
• code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop
• in re: @SafeguardingResearch : https://safeguar.de/
• Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/

more details when i write them

I wrote a CDC Archive Archiver to pull public information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Just in case people get weird ideas of removing science from the public discourse. This is part of a larger effort that, among others, @lavaeolus initiated. You are welcome to chime in if that's up your alley.

- https://codeberg.org/antifascistDH/academia-preserver/src/branch/main/cdc_archiver
- https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113882207119609662
- https://codeberg.org/thgie/antifascist-archives-action-sticker

#AntifascistArchives #DigitalHumanities #ArchivalPractices

All external communications with #NIH have been shut down by executive order.

One of my colleagues was in the middle of an F99/K00 (specialized transition grant from grad school to postdoc for marginalized students) and the study section was shut down in the middle of the meeting.

Unclear what this means. Just passing on information.

The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, and is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring.

The NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments. Absolutely devastating.

Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?

edit (2025-09-21): this became https://sciop.net and its still going, in case anyone in this thread missed it

edit (2025-09-21 pt 2): do note the date on original post, nearly a year old, we have been rolling on sciop since February or so

#sciop