#takedowns — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #takedowns, aggregated by home.social.
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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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Welcome to the future, where AI agents hunt down alleged online copyright infringementAs readers of this blog have doubtless noticed, the latest hot tech – and investment – area involves “agentic AI”, where AI systems are allowed to operative autonomously on allocated tasks. There’s no doubt there are some exciting possibilities here, as well as some troubling issues concerning lack of control. It’s a rapidly-evolving area of research and experimentation, which makes […]
#agenticAi #agents #ai #ceaseAndDesist #crawler #digitalWatermarks #infringement #licensing #llms #patents #pricing #takedowns #universalMusicGroup https://walledculture.org/welcome-to-the-future-where-ai-agents-hunt-down-alleged-online-copyright-infringement/ -
"How the #Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the #EPA"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html"The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure…For more than a half-century, [it] did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change and myriad other health threats. In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"The Integrity of Public Access to Federal Data: Evaluating Disruptions to Open Government Data, 2025-2026."
https://zenodo.org/records/19556076"In the last year alone political interference led to the manipulation, suppression, or outright removal of [US] federal data assets on topics ranging from climate change, to economics, to LGBTQ+ issues, to public health…This report provides an analysis of the integrity of public access to federal open government data assets during the disruptions to the federal data ecosystem during 2025 and early 2026…The report clarifies the scale and mechanisms of data disruptions, discusses specific threats to data integrity, [and] highlights exemplar cases of data disruption from federal agencies."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #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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YouTuber Copyright Struck After Others Layer AI Voiceovers On Video Game Music
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YouTuber Copyright Struck After Others Layer AI Voiceovers On Video Game Music
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YouTuber Copyright Struck After Others Layer AI Voiceovers On Video Game Music
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YouTuber Copyright Struck After Others Layer AI Voiceovers On Video Game Music
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YouTuber Copyright Struck After Others Layer AI Voiceovers On Video Game Music
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NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 Demo Video Briefly Taken Down Because YouTube’s Take Down Process Sucks
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Also this week: Warner Music is acquiring independent music distributor Revelator, a US investment company has offered $64.3 billion for Universal Music Group, John Deere settled its right to repair class action and USB sticks to help people install ChromeOS Flex on older PCs and Macs sold out quicker than ChromeOS loads!
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-29/
#Anthropic #Claude #SafeAI #CopyrightAndAI #Takedowns #Music #WarnerMusic #UniversalMusic #RightToRepair #Chrome #ChromeOS #ChromeOSFlex
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To coincide with the MOU, Anthropic released research on how Australians are using Claude and the results are surprising. And they also released research on the emotions behind how Claude reacts to things and why that may be important to AI safety.
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-29/
#Anthropic #Claude #SafeAI #CopyrightAndAI #Takedowns #Music #WarnerMusic #UniversalMusic #RightToRepair #Chrome #ChromeOS #ChromeOSFlex
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Amodei being in Australia reignited the copyright and AI debate locally, with Anthropic and the content organisations each hosting opposing ‘future forums’ at Parliament House.
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-29/
#Anthropic #Claude #SafeAI #CopyrightAndAI #Takedowns #Music #WarnerMusic #UniversalMusic #RightToRepair #Chrome #ChromeOS #ChromeOSFlex
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Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too. openletter.earth/the-worlds-c... #Climate #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #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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Update. I just signed the open letter to save EM-DAT and hope you will too.
https://openletter.earth/the-worlds-collective-disaster-memory-must-be-preserved-66c88c44"Without EM-DAT, the global community would lose a critical shared empirical foundation for assessing disaster impacts and trends. In an era of intensifying climate extremes, cascading risks, and compounding crises, reliable data are not a luxury. They are the infrastructure for informed decision-making."
#Belgium #Climate #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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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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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 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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Fair Use Is A Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
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📬 Fußball-Piratenabwehr: EFL setzt auf KI-Jagd gegen illegale Livestreams
#IPTV #Streaming #EnglishFootballLeague #FußballPiratenabwehr #iptvpiraterie #LiveSportPiraterie #Nagravision #streamingpiraterie #Takedowns https://sc.tarnkappe.info/9299c4 -
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
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Indie Game Suffers After Fraudulent DMCA Takedown
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Update. The U of Virginia surveyed its community in October on how it should respond to the #Trump compact. The Chronicle of Higher Education got the results through a public-records request.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/uva-asked-its-community-to-weigh-in-on-trumps-compact-heres-what-they-said
(#paywalled)" 'Nope. Nothing. Nada.' 'Not at all.' 'No'. 'NO.' 'NO!'… Those curt replies were broadly representative of the responses as a whole…The F-word is used nine times…There were nearly 200 references to #UVa’s founder, #ThomasJefferson, almost all of which were in service of the argument that the compact went against his vision of the university. 'Stand your ground,' one wrote. 'You know it’s what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted.' "
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon
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Please help catalog federal datasets that have been taken down or censored since Trump took office for his second term.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzVsyd1ypzu0E0tomqaAqhNrJLIB-dEALA6BpWrpfxh_Jfwg/viewformThanks to #EssentialData.US, the Federation of American Scientists (#FAS), and Public Environmental Data Partners (#PEDP) for launching this project.
For some reason, the deadline is tomorrow, Oct 29.
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Trump tries bribery.
"Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html"The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."
#Arizona, #Brown, #Dartmouth, #MIT, #Penn, #USC, #Texas, #Vanderbilt, #Virginia
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The report the #Trump #DOJ just took down was originally released in June 2024, during the #Biden administration. But the Biden National Institute of Justice (#NIJ) wasn't the only research org to conclude that most domestic terrorism in the US is from the right wing.
The conservative #CatoInstitute (@cato) reaffirmed that conclusion last week.
According to Cato research, there were 620 politically-motivated murders in the US in the last half-century. 391 were from the right and 65 from the left. (The rest were from Islamism, separatism, or other ideologies.) Politically-motivated right-wing murder is more than 6x as frequent as politically-motivated left-wing murder.
These numbers do not count the deaths from the 9/11 attacks because they were not domestic terrorism.
See the numbers in the Cato Institute report from last week …
https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states… or in this graphic from Time Magazine based on Cato data:
https://time.com/7317383/political-violence-america-trump-crackdown-right/#DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Comments from early career researchers (#ECRs) on how Trump policies affect them:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1123166/trumps-policy-early-career-scientists/"Several had waited months for news on an application’s status or updates on when funds they had already won would be disbursed."
"One respondent, whose work focuses on fighting child sexual abuse materials, recalled rewriting a grant abstract '3x to remove words banned' by Senator Ted Cruz."
"As an academic, we have to be very careful about how we voice our personal opinion because it will impact the entire university if there is retaliation.”
"Four respondents said they were worried about their own immigration status, while 16 expressed concerns about their ability to attract or retain talent, including international students."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Comments from early career researchers (#ECRs) on how Trump policies affect them:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1123166/trumps-policy-early-career-scientists/"Several had waited months for news on an application’s status or updates on when funds they had already won would be disbursed."
"One respondent, whose work focuses on fighting child sexual abuse materials, recalled rewriting a grant abstract '3x to remove words banned' by Senator Ted Cruz."
"As an academic, we have to be very careful about how we voice our personal opinion because it will impact the entire university if there is retaliation.”
"Four respondents said they were worried about their own immigration status, while 16 expressed concerns about their ability to attract or retain talent, including international students."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Comments from early career researchers (#ECRs) on how Trump policies affect them:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1123166/trumps-policy-early-career-scientists/"Several had waited months for news on an application’s status or updates on when funds they had already won would be disbursed."
"One respondent, whose work focuses on fighting child sexual abuse materials, recalled rewriting a grant abstract '3x to remove words banned' by Senator Ted Cruz."
"As an academic, we have to be very careful about how we voice our personal opinion because it will impact the entire university if there is retaliation.”
"Four respondents said they were worried about their own immigration status, while 16 expressed concerns about their ability to attract or retain talent, including international students."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Comments from early career researchers (#ECRs) on how Trump policies affect them:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1123166/trumps-policy-early-career-scientists/"Several had waited months for news on an application’s status or updates on when funds they had already won would be disbursed."
"One respondent, whose work focuses on fighting child sexual abuse materials, recalled rewriting a grant abstract '3x to remove words banned' by Senator Ted Cruz."
"As an academic, we have to be very careful about how we voice our personal opinion because it will impact the entire university if there is retaliation.”
"Four respondents said they were worried about their own immigration status, while 16 expressed concerns about their ability to attract or retain talent, including international students."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Comments from early career researchers (#ECRs) on how Trump policies affect them:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/08/1123166/trumps-policy-early-career-scientists/"Several had waited months for news on an application’s status or updates on when funds they had already won would be disbursed."
"One respondent, whose work focuses on fighting child sexual abuse materials, recalled rewriting a grant abstract '3x to remove words banned' by Senator Ted Cruz."
"As an academic, we have to be very careful about how we voice our personal opinion because it will impact the entire university if there is retaliation.”
"Four respondents said they were worried about their own immigration status, while 16 expressed concerns about their ability to attract or retain talent, including international students."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Trust and Integrity: A Research Imperative." A joint statement from the Association of Research Libraries (#ARL), International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (#STM), Association of College and Research Libraries (#ACRL), Society for Scholarly Publishing (#SSP), and Association of University Presses (#AUPresses).
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/09/trust-and-integrity-a-research-imperative/(Yes, it's rare to see #libraries and #publishers issue joint statements.)
"This year has brought unprecedented challenges to the U.S. research enterprise – sweeping federal funding cuts, capricious reductions in the federal workforce, and destabilizing attacks on universities, laboratories, and federal research agencies…In response to these challenges, we believe in and support: Public investment in basic science and the humanities…The need for broad access to validated, trusted information…Protecting and advancing freedom of speech…and ensuring research and scholarship remain free from political interference."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"New #NOAA document spells out further deep Trump cuts."
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/noaa-document-deep-trump-cuts"A new NOAA document sheds further light on the Trump administration's proposed cuts and changes for the #weather and #climate agency…The proposal would eliminate NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (#OAR), which performs and coordinates climate research."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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"Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal."
https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-project-portal/The Data Rescue Project (#DRP) just launched the DRP Portal to supersede its spreadsheet-based Data Rescue Tracker.
"As of June 2025, DRP volunteers and other organizations have rescued over 1,100 public datasets from 80+ government offices…Built by volunteers with support from New America and using JKAN, a lightweight, backend-free open data portal, the DRP Portal is a centralized, searchable hub, integrating datasets from multiple rescue efforts such as Public Environmental Data Partners, Safe Guarding Research & Culture, ICPSR, and more. The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more."
Here's the portal itself.
https://portal.datarescueproject.org/#DefendResearch #DRP #OpenData #OpenSource #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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#Universities carrying water for the #Trump admin without apparently receiving any direct demands from the Trump admin. Obeying in advance:
"A #Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing #censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry’s health impacts and racial disparities in hiring had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials."
https://apnews.com/article/cancer-alley-tulane-university-researcher-resigns-0bca439d1c93049e24f7ed3708a7f81d#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "Because of #Trump: [The German] Central Library of #Medicine builds alternative to US database."
https://www.heise.de/news/Wegen-Trump-Zentralbibliothek-Medizin-baut-Alternative-zu-US-Datenbank-auf-10372291.htmlFrom Google's English: "The German National Library of Medicine (#ZBMed) has announced its intention to create an "open, reliable, and sustainable alternative" to the #PubMed database, one of the most important and comprehensive resources for biomedical literature worldwide. The meta-database, with references to relevant articles and over 38 million citations, is operated by the National Library of Medicine (#NLM), a division of the National Institutes of Health (#NIH) in the United States. ZB Med is responding to concerns that the US administration under Donald Trump is cutting funding for the NIH. There are also fears that political influences could compromise PubMed's scientific integrity."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Germany #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "The Latest #Trump and #DOGE Casualty: #Energy Data."
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data"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
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Update. "‘The Classified Catalog’ launches to track secrecy news"
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/the-classified-catalog-launches-to-track-secrecy-news/"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
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Update. Kudos to the Northwestern University Libraries for training people to take part in the #DataRescueProject. Other #libraries should follow suit.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/24/lateststories/nu-libraries-data-rescue-project-host-training-to-preserve-disappearing-federal-data/#DefendResearch #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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The Palestinian #digitalrights org @7amleh is collecting evidence from users based in Europe who have experienced content #takedowns, #shadowbanning, or account suspensions on #Instagram or #Facebook.
If you have encountered such things, you can provide the details here: https://form.jotform.com/250692597434063
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Update. "ERICA is a rescue catalog which preserves over 500,000 Open Access publications originally hosted by the US Department of Education in the #ERIC research repository. ERIC was defunded on the 23 April 2025 and the maintenance contract is set to expire soon, meaning that ERIC is likely to shut down. The PDFs were rescued using the Internet Archive's #WaybackMachine by a volunteer of the #DataRescueProject. When you click on one of the publication ID links, you will be redirected to the archived PDF in the the Wayback Machine. Feel free to host your own copy of ERICA by simply cloning this source code repo, which also includes the metadata for the catalog."
https://erica.datarescueproject.org/#DefendResearch #Education #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. Bad news from the #NEH for #KnowledgeCommons (and the rest of us).
https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/"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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Update. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/breathtakingly-irresponsible-former-workers-decry-decimation-of-education-dept-s-data-warehouse"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."
#DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/breathtakingly-irresponsible-former-workers-decry-decimation-of-education-dept-s-data-warehouse"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."
#DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/breathtakingly-irresponsible-former-workers-decry-decimation-of-education-dept-s-data-warehouse"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."
#DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics