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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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An important new lawsuit challenges the Trump admin practice of using visa denial -- and fear of visa denial -- as tools of censorship.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/09/nx-s1-5741213/trump-censorship-visas-deportation-lawsuitThe Trumpists argue that fact checkers and people working against misinformation are "censoring Americans".
#Censorship #CITR #DefendResearch #Immigration #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #Visas
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"After #USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school."
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school"A faculty member at #IndianaUniversity, who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the United States, has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #China #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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"After #USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school."
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school"A faculty member at #IndianaUniversity, who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the United States, has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #China #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).
The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.
* See the judge's ruling.
https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Memo-opinion.pdf* Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
https://www.historians.org/news/federal-judge-rules-to-restore-national-endowment-of-the-humanities-funding-in-historic-case/#DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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A federal judge just overturned the Trump admin termination of 1,400+ research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (#NEH).
The grants were terminated by #DOGE in April 2025, and amounted to more than $100 million.
* See the judge's ruling.
https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Memo-opinion.pdf* Also see the statement by the American Council of Learned Societies (#ACLS), American Historical Association (#AHA), and Modern Language Association (#MLA).
https://www.historians.org/news/federal-judge-rules-to-restore-national-endowment-of-the-humanities-funding-in-historic-case/#DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump administration cut funding to study #hantavirus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak."
https://archive.is/Ik3Sl"In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship that is now believed to have caused the deaths of three people and sickened several more."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump administration cut funding to study #hantavirus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak."
https://archive.is/Ik3Sl"In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship that is now believed to have caused the deaths of three people and sickened several more."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump administration cut funding to study #hantavirus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak."
https://archive.is/Ik3Sl"In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship that is now believed to have caused the deaths of three people and sickened several more."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump administration cut funding to study #hantavirus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak."
https://archive.is/Ik3Sl"In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship that is now believed to have caused the deaths of three people and sickened several more."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump administration cut funding to study #hantavirus behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak."
https://archive.is/Ik3Sl"In 2025 the Trump administration eliminated funding for a pilot project aimed at studying the type of hantavirus that has been confirmed to be behind an ongoing outbreak on a cruise ship that is now believed to have caused the deaths of three people and sickened several more."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"During #Trump’s second term, the number of peer-reviewed studies authored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) scientists has dramatically declined…[reflecting] a steep reduction in the scientific research being conducted at EPA. So far in 2026, there have only been 61 peer-reviewed publications by EPA scientists, compared to 339 in 2024."
https://peer.org/sharp-dropoff-epa-scientific-publications/#Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Funding #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Key US science panels are being axed — and others are becoming less open."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01301-5"A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain… Researchers say that the elimination of panels and other changes seemingly contradict the Trump administration’s… executive order on ‘gold-standard science’ … to improve transparency in federally funded science."
#DefendResearch #GoldStandard #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-agenda/heres-who-was-harmed-by-trumps-cancellation-of-research-grants
(#paywalled)"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."
This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/home#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body."
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board"U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (#NSB), the body that oversees the National Science Foundation (#NSF). Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode—some would say destroy—the independence of the 76-year-old research agency."
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I deplore the defunding of US science, and often post about it here. But I try to deplore it without nationalism. That is, I care more about the harm to science than the harm to America-firstness. However, those who are defunding US science are nationalists, and this news is karma for them.
"China surpasses US in research spending – the consequences extend far beyond scientific ranking and clout."
https://theconversation.com/china-surpasses-us-in-research-spending-the-consequences-extend-far-beyond-scientific-ranking-and-clout-280543?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4"China’s…investment in research and development has reached parity with – and by purchasing power measures has surpassed – that of the United States, according to a March 2026 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development."
FYI, here are some news stories I tagged with "oa.nationalism" for the Open Access Tracking Project.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.nationalism#China #DefendResearch #Funding #Nationalism #OECD #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/19/science-research-funding-cuts-trump/
(#paywalled)"A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area - including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health. Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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#Ithaka did a national survey on how state and federal policies are repressing research, researchers, and research institutions.
https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-impact-of-state-and-federal-policies-on-academic-researchers/Key findings:
<quote>* State and federal policies targeting divisive concepts or #DEI are shaping research agendas at scale and across disciplines. Twenty percent of all respondents, and 29 percent of researchers working in states with divisive concepts or similar laws, reported having avoided certain research topics because of state laws and policies.
* Eight percent of respondents representing a wide range of disciplines reported having had a federal grant cancelled in 2025.
* Eleven percent of respondents reported that federal and state policies restricting research activities are compelling them to seek employment out of state, to leave the academy, or to look for academic positions overseas.
* Researchers, particularly those at doctoral institutions and those employed in states with divisive concepts legislation, report concerns about whether university presidents and, especially, boards are willing to advocate for their academic freedom as researchers.</quote>
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
Harvard Weathers a Year of Tur... -
One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
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"Trump administration drops court fight to cap #NIH payments for research overhead costs."
https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/trump-administration-drops-nih-indirect-costs-court-challenge/In April 2025, a federal district court judge ruled against the 15% cap. In January 2026, an appellate court upheld the ruling, and gave the Trump admin until April 6, last week, to appeal to the Supreme Court. The admin chose not to appeal
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain. statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-... #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown of EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.
https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/#Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html"Last month, the Partnership for Public Service…estimated that 95,000 employees had departed federal science agencies from September 2024 to December 2025…To the rest of the world, the Trump administration’s cuts to science seem like an unbidden gift…Several are making sizable investments to attract American talent."
#BrainDrain #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7"For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"According to an @[email protected] analysis of more than 60 key #HigherEd lawsuits, the [Trump administration] has the upper hand in just 17 cases." www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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"According to an @[email protected] analysis of more than 60 key #HigherEd lawsuits, the [Trump administration] has the upper hand in just 17 cases." www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/trump_science_tech_panel/Among the new members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (#PCAST) are #MarcAndreessen, #SergeyBrin, #MichaelDell, #LarryEllison, and #MarkZuckerberg.
If you're curious, Wikipedia lists the PCAST members under Biden and Obama.
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Update. The #Trump plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (#NCAR) are proceeding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate/ncar-breakup-plan-nasa-noaa.htmlPartly to halt its influential #climate research. Partly to punish #Colorado #Democrats. Partly to transfer its assets to private companies, other federal agencies, and red-state universities.
#DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"How #DOGE Gutted the #NEH in 22 Days."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2026/03/11/how-doge-gutted-neh-22-days"[A newly released] trove of documents—including depositions with top NEH administrators and DOGE staff, as well as emails, spreadsheets and text messages—suggest rushed, chaotic funding termination decisions and reveal the extent of DOGE’s influence in terminating 97 percent of the agency’s grants."
Example: DOGE terminated an NEH grant to replace the HVAC system at a museum, acting on this #ChatGPT rationale: "Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Here's a #DOGE bro testifying in the lawsuit about terminating #DEI-related #NEH grants. He's being asked: What is DEI? If that's too complicated, what is your understanding of DEI?
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mgpkttntsk2t#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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I've accused #DOGE of terminating #NEH grants (and other grants) by using dumb keyword searches to look for prohibited words. It turns out that DOGE used dumb #ChatGPT prompts instead. Like this one (quoting verbatim): “Does the following relate at all to D.E.I.? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/arts/humanities-endowment-doge-trump.html#Censorship #DefendResearch #DEI #Funding #Humanities #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Happy 1st birthday, #DataRescueProject! www.datarescueproject.org/a-year-in-da... "In a single year, we have rescued over 2500 datasets from over 90 govt agencies. This work was supported by over 900 volunteers." #Data #DefendResearch #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
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Happy first birthday, #DataRescueProject (@datarescueproject.org)!
https://www.datarescueproject.org/a-year-in-data-rescue/"In a single year, we have rescued over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies. This work was supported by over 900 volunteers."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.htmlEye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.htmlEye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.htmlEye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.htmlEye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.htmlEye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:
#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The American Enterprise Institute (#AEI) defends the #Trump compact and offers some improvements.
https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/the-trump-administrations-higher-education-compact-eight-proposals-for-delivering-on-its-vision/After the compact was introduced (Oct 2025), "a rough consensus emerged that the Trump administration had identified crucial problems but that its solution needed work. This project is an attempt to do some of that work."
By "rough consensus" I suppose AEI means "rough consensus of the people and orgs we read." If so, take that as a sign of how it reads.
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics