"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
(#paywalled)

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice [#NIJ] and hosted on a #DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted."

Here's the archived copy in the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DOJ #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
(#paywalled)

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice [#NIJ] and hosted on a #DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted."

Here's the archived copy in the Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#Censorship #DefendResearch #DOJ #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Here's how censorship is starting to work in US universities:

"A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum."
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/

PS: Watch the video. The student didn't say to the prof, "I think you're teaching something untrue. Can you say more about the evidence?" She said, "You're teaching something that Donald Trump says is untrue." When the student brought her "documentation" to the university president, he fired the prof and the dean of her school.

h/t @lschiff

#Academia#AcademicFreedom#Censorship#DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
@academicchatter

Here's how censorship is starting to work in US universities:

"A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum."
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/

PS: Watch the video. The student didn't say to the prof, "I think you're teaching something untrue. Can you say more about the evidence?" She said, "You're teaching something that Donald Trump says is untrue." When the student brought her "documentation" to the university president, he fired the prof and the dean of her school.

h/t @lschiff

#Academia#AcademicFreedom#Censorship#DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
@academicchatter

"Germany’s Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net."
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/

" #Germany has stepped up to this challenge. On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine ( #ZBMED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to #PubMed."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenInfrastructure#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/climate-gov-website-trump

"Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov…was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process… Now, a team of climate communication experts – including many members of the former climate.gov team – is working to resurrect its content into a new organization with an expanded mission. Their effort’s new website, climate.us, would not only offer public-facing interpretations of climate science, but could also begin to directly offer climate-related services, such as assisting local governments with mapping increased flooding risk due to climate change."

#Censorship #Climate#DefendResearch#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/30/climate-gov-website-trump

"Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov…was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process… Now, a team of climate communication experts – including many members of the former climate.gov team – is working to resurrect its content into a new organization with an expanded mission. Their effort’s new website, climate.us, would not only offer public-facing interpretations of climate science, but could also begin to directly offer climate-related services, such as assisting local governments with mapping increased flooding risk due to climate change."

#Censorship #Climate#DefendResearch#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Yesterday President #Trump issued an executive order on federal research grants.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/

A few highlights:

* It criticizes previous granting criteria for promoting DEI and gender pluralism, providing legal aid to immigrants, and creating irreproducible research, fraud, and waste through high indirect costs.

* Agencies may peer-review grant applications provided that final decisions rest with political appointees.

* Agencies must review grants annually to ensure consistency with admin priorities.

* Grants must be subject to immediate "termination for convenience".

* Recipients must follow the Trump admin "Gold Standard" science. See my separate thread on the gold standard.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114569635375660780

#Censorship#DefendResearch#Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Yesterday President #Trump issued an executive order on federal research grants.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/

A few highlights:

* It criticizes previous granting criteria for promoting DEI and gender pluralism, providing legal aid to immigrants, and creating irreproducible research, fraud, and waste through high indirect costs.

* Agencies may peer-review grant applications provided that final decisions rest with political appointees.

* Agencies must review grants annually to ensure consistency with admin priorities.

* Grants must be subject to immediate "termination for convenience".

* Recipients must follow the Trump admin "Gold Standard" science. See my separate thread on the gold standard.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114569635375660780

#Censorship#DefendResearch#Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Update. "Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/
( #paywalled)

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine#NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Update. "Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, in an Appropriations Committee vote that represents a clear rebuke of President Trump’s plan to dramatically reduce the agency’s spending."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/nih-budget-senate-committee-replaces-trump-cuts-with-400-million-increase/
( #paywalled)

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine#NIH #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Wow. University and its president support DEI. Trump admin investigates them. Faculty write a resolution in support of the president and DEI policies. Trump admin investigates those faculty too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/justice-department-george-mason-faculty-senate-investigation.html

"In a letter sent on Friday, the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president…Free speech advocates quickly denounced the move as an attack on academic freedom."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#DEI#FreeSpeech #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Wow. University and its president support DEI. Trump admin investigates them. Faculty write a resolution in support of the president and DEI policies. Trump admin investigates those faculty too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/justice-department-george-mason-faculty-senate-investigation.html

"In a letter sent on Friday, the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president…Free speech advocates quickly denounced the move as an attack on academic freedom."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#DEI#FreeSpeech #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

Update. More evidence that #Republicans are joining #Democrats to #DefendResearch.

"Bipartisan senators seek to prevent #Trump from cutting #EPA science research office."
https://thehill.com/homenews/5418723-senate-funding-epa-science/

"A bipartisan Senate appropriations bill seeks to prevent the Trump administration from cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) scientific research office…This bipartisan pushback comes as the Trump administration said last week that it wants to eliminate the EPA’s Office of Research and Development ( #ORD)."

#Funding #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed #NIH funds."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/25/britt-leads-letter-urging-trump-administration-to-release-delayed-nih-funds-00476872

PS: The real news here is that these are #Republicans. "Suspension of these appropriated funds — whether formally withheld or functionally delayed — could threaten Americans’ ability to access better treatments and limit our nation’s leadership in biomedical science. It also risks inadvertently severing ongoing NIH-funded research prior to actionable results.”

#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?"
https://archive.is/7gF5f

"After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely. Their goal is to make sure they are available in the future, believing that democracy suffers when policymakers don’t have reliable data and that national statistics should be above partisan politics."

#Censorship#Data#DefendResearch#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

"Why are data nerds racing to save US government statistics?"
https://archive.is/7gF5f

"After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely. Their goal is to make sure they are available in the future, believing that democracy suffers when policymakers don’t have reliable data and that national statistics should be above partisan politics."

#Censorship#Data#DefendResearch#OpenData#Preservation#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics

We're losing #OpenAccess to #weather #data on the #NOAA web site. But #HamRadio operators can still access it directly from the #satellites. They can even decrypt most of it with a new #OpenSource decoder. Here's how.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder

PS: Very grateful to geeks.

#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics