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Thanks 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.

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Google Docs

Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed

This Halloween season, we're remembering the federal datasets that have met an untimely end — the ones that were terminated or removed since January 20, 2025. Help us memorialize these Dearly Departed Datasets so we can all understand what was lost and why they matter. 🌕 Hosted by: EssentialData.US, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP), and The Impact Project 🐈‍⬛ Deadline: Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 11:59 pm ET 🕯️ Submission Note: One submission per dataset, please. In scope: ✅ Datasets that have been removed from public access ✅ Datasets that remain available but further data collections have been terminated ✅ Data elements that were removed from a dataset that still exists ✅ Specialized data tools that provide easy access to the data Not in scope: ❌ Datasets whose status is ambiguous (eg, no staff exist to collect the data, but no official announcement has been made about its termination) ❌ Reports, papers, or analyses that use data, but are not the data sources themselves ❌ Federal websites about a dataset that were pulled down Examples: 🪦 USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — terminated 🪦 EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) — terminated 🪦 NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database — terminated 🕸️ FEMA Future Risk Index — taken down 🕸️ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open — taken down 🕸️ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) — taken down 🕸️ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) — taken down 👻 OPM FedScope — race and ethnicity data removed 👻 BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — gender data removed 👻 BOP Inmate Statistics — transgender data removed

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 5 days ago

Update. #SyracuseU will also reject the Trump compact, according to an Oct 22 statement by Chancellor Kent Syverud to the University Senate. Apparently there is not a public letter announcing the decision.
https://dailyorange.com/2025/10/syverud-declines-trump-compact-senators-pass-portfolio-review-resolution/

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org replied · 3 days ago

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 3 days ago

Thanks 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

Google Docs

Memorialize the federal datasets that have been terminated or removed

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 5 days ago

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

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beSpacific

@bespacific@newsie.social · 6 days ago

Three #Iowa City West #highschoolers founded a #bookclub that reads some of the country's most frequently #banned #books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced. #bannedbooks #libraries #librarians #students #education #reading #maga #legislation #laws #booklaw https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/2025-10-15/banned-books-iowa-city-high-school-student-club #democracy #censorship

Iowa Public Radio

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 6 days ago

👍🏻 Keep trusting murrikah tech

｢ all accounts opened with American suppliers (Amazon, Airbnb, Netflix, PayPal, etc.) were immediately closed. American-owned delivery companies stopped delivering ordered packages, and the magistrate reported that a hotel reservation made for a stay in France was blocked by the Expedia platform in the name of the sanctions against him ｣

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/nouveau-monde/quand-les-sanctions-internationales-emises-par-washington-imposent-une-vie-deconnectee-a-un-magistrat-francais_7545724.html

#cloudsovereignty #bigtech #censorship

Franceinfo

Quand les sanctions internationales émises par Washington imposent une vie déconnectée à un magistrat français

Suite à un décret de Donald Trump contre la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), le juge français Nicolas Guillou n'a plus le droit d'accéder aux services numériques de certaines firmes américaines.

beSpacific

@bespacific@newsie.social · 6 days ago

Iowa Public Radio

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 6 days ago

👍🏻 Keep trusting murrikah tech

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/nouveau-monde/quand-les-sanctions-internationales-emises-par-washington-imposent-une-vie-deconnectee-a-un-magistrat-francais_7545724.html

#cloudsovereignty #bigtech #censorship

Franceinfo

Quand les sanctions internationales émises par Washington imposent une vie déconnectée à un magistrat français

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · last week

Update. #WashingtonU has now rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Chancellor Andrew Martin (Oct 22).
https://wustl.app.box.com/s/f3wwjqkrq9x1ovyz28d3r3cxmo8kwlk9

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Response to Faculty Senate Council.pdf | Powered by Box

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · last week

Update. Like Vanderbilt (above), #WashingtonU has not not accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But also like Vanderbilt, its Chancellor, Andrew Martin, just released a vague and inconclusive statement on where it stands (Oct 20).
https://andrewdmartin.washu.edu/washu-to-join-conversation-about-the-future-of-higher-education/

"We believe it is in the best interest of our university, and higher education more broadly, for us to participate constructively, share our experience and expertise, and help inform policies that strengthen the nation’s research and education ecosystem…We firmly believe meaningful progress will best be achieved through open, ongoing dialogue."

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petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · last week

Update. #Vanderbilt has not yet accepted or rejected the Trump compact. But Chancellor Daniel Diermeier just released a vague and inconclusive open letter on where it stands.
https://t.e2ma.net/message/tu4xiq/5vxmu1ke

"Last Friday, Vanderbilt participated in a discussion with members of the administration and other university leaders about shaping a productive process for providing such comments. We expect to share our input with the administration through that process. Our response will be grounded in our long-held principles and values…Vanderbilt believes deeply in the power of constructive dialogue."

The letter is undated (why?) but the Chronicle reports that it was made public on Oct 20.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/compact-live-updates-more-colleges-weigh-responses-as-deadline-for-feedback-looms

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Compact Live Updates: Syracuse and Wash U Say They Will Not Endorse Compact

But Wash U Chancellor Andrew D. Martin wrote that he will continue talking with the White House so that the institution can have “our voice at the table.”

email : Webview : Vanderbilt and the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · last week

Update. From Barbara Snyder, President of the Association of American Universities ( #AAU), on the Trump compact:
https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/statement-aau-president-administrations-higher-education-compact

"Federal support for higher education must never be tied to ideological alignment with any administration."

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Association of American Universities (AAU)

Statement of AAU President Barbara R. Snyder on the Administration’s Higher Education Compact | Association of American Universities (AAU)

AAU President Barbara R. Snyder issued a statement regarding the administration's recently proposed higher education compact.

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · last week

Update. The U of Arizona just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 20). Here's the public letter from #UArizona President Suresh Garimella.
https://president.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/Suresh-Garimella-to-Sec-Linda-McMahon.pdf

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The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

People who attended the "No Kings" protests against Donald Trump may be targeted for government surveillance, civil libertarians said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/19/world/politics/no-kings-protests-trump-surveillance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #dhs #ice #surveillance #privacy #censorship

The Japan Times

As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge

The Trump administration has declined to share details about how officials typically monitor demonstrators.

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 2 weeks ago

Journalists exit the Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules / AP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKqYSpNTguQ

#freespeech #censorship #uspol

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 2 weeks ago

🙊 OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them / @sfstandard

｢ In court filings and official complaints, OpenAI’s lawyers allege that groups opposed to its conversion to a for-profit company may be funded by Musk or are working with Zuckerberg ｣

https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-ai-regulation/

#openai #censorship #ai #techbros

OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now it’s going after them

The multibillion-dollar AI giant thinks it's critics are part of a billionaire conspiracy. We examined the evidence

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petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org · 2 weeks ago

Update. The U of Southern California just rejected the Trump compact (Oct 16). Here's the public letter from #USC interim president Beong-Soo Kim.
https://we-are.usc.edu/2025/10/16/update-from-interim-president-kim/

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We Are SC

Update from Interim President Kim

Earlier today, I sent this letter to the U.S. Department of Education regarding the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. I appreciate the various points of view shared with me by many members of our community. Although USC has declined to join the proposed Compact, we look forward to contributing our perspectives, insights, and Trojan values to an important national conversation about the future of higher education.CommunityEmployeesFacultyPresidentStudents