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@petersuber@fediscience.org · 6 months ago

Update. "How #Trump is following #Project2025’s radical roadmap to defund science."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00780-2

"Indiscriminate firings. Terminated grants. Cancelled programmes. The barrage of actions by US President Donald Trump has shocked the country’s research community over the past two months. Yet, much of it was planned out years in advance and laid out publicly…The Wall Street Journal found that more than half of Trump’s executive orders (EOs) align with Project 2025 recommendations. And most of its 40 listed authors are now key figures on Trump’s team…Here, Nature examines science-related policies from Project 2025 that have already come to pass, and which ones might be on the horizon."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "How #Trump is following #Project2025’s radical roadmap to defund science."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00780-2

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/science/trump-national-science-foundation-grants.html

"In January, the #Trump administration attempted to freeze grant payments for existing awards at the #NSF. A temporary restraining order lifted the freeze. The order also said that the agency could not terminate active awards to comply with President Trump’s executive orders…In a statement on Friday, the NSF said that its grant cancellations were not in violation of the temporary restraining order. When asked by The Times to provide clarification on the legality of the grant cancellations, the agency declined to comment…On Friday, the NSF went further, canceling grants supporting ongoing research."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards

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@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "The federal Department of Education [ #ED] maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents [Education Resources Information Center, #ERIC] dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to #DOGE cuts."
https://www.governing.com/policy/major-education-resource-set-to-shut-down-this-week

PS: I use many sources in my attempt to stay on top of what's happening with #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, #OpenEducation, and so on. ERIC has been one of the stalwarts.

#DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Governing

Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week

The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.

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@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. The #OpenAccess Biodiversity Heritage Library ( #BHL) needs a new home. The #Smithsonian will stop hosting it next January.
https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-future-for-bhl.html

#Biodiversity #DefendResearch #ILoveBHL #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Biodiversity Heritage Library

A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

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@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. "Funding cut for landmark study of women's health."
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-5372892/womens-health-initiative-research-funding-gets-cut

"The #Trump administration is shutting down most of a landmark federal project studying women's health, stunning researchers around the country…The study, begun in the 1990s, has produced a series of groundbreaking results and was continuing to gather valuable data about women's health…Neither the #NIH, which funds the study, nor #HHS, which oversees the NIH, responded to NPR's questions about the matter…One big question is what will happen to the huge repository of #data…which represents a treasure trove that could be mined to make yet more important discoveries."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 6 months ago

Update. The long-running and wide-ranging study of women's health that #NIH cut two days was back on track the next day.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/health/womens-health-initiative-cuts.html

PS: This is another sign that some protests work. It's also an example of thoughtless pillaging, as opposed to a careful attempt to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse.

#DefendResearch #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com

Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative

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