"Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository."
https://datascience.codata.org/articles/10.5334/dsj-2026-009

"Since the start of the second #Trump administration, we have seen a progressive removal of #climate, #environmental, and #socioeconomic #data from federal websites, with further threats to dismantle data infrastructure looming. This essay represents a short personal account of the data rescue efforts of the #NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (#SEDAC), which was run by Columbia University’s Integrated Earth System Information (#CIESIN) since the late 1990s."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #NASA #OpenData #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The Federal Depository Library Program (#FDLP) is calling for public comments on a draft new #preservation policy for US govt public information.
https://fdlp.gov/news/request-comments-draft-preservation-policy

PS: This is especially important when the #Trump admin is taking down public info, including publicly-funded research, and private data-rescue projects struggle to capture it all.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries #RFI #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #USPol #USPolitics

While the #Trump #EPA starts repealing #climate regulations…
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114909337147971539

…the Federal Judicial Center (#FJC) is removing the chapter on climate science from its "reference manual" advising federal judges on scientific issues. The removal was recommended by 27 #Republican attorneys general.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/us-court-agency-pulls-climate-change-from-science-advisory-document/

PS: The FJC manual is prepared with the National Academies of Science (#NAS). But I can't tell whether NAS acquiesced in this move. Does anyone know?

Thanks to RealClimate.org for posting the deleted 91-page chapter on climate science.
https://www.realclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/Reference_Guide_on_Climate_Science_RMSE_4th_Ed.pdf

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

"Federal Data Is Disappearing."
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/federal-data-is-disappearing

"Since retaking office, the Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some data altogether. This overhaul has left significant holes in data on everything from substance use to maternal mortality…Researchers estimate that well over 3,000 data sets have been removed from public access."

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

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

"Health Databases Have Gone Dark Under Trump: ‘The Consequences Will Be Dire’."
https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/

"Nearly half of routinely-updated CDC databases have experienced delays or shutdowns in 2025, with vaccination-related systems disproportionately affected, according to a new study."

Primary source: "Unexplained Pauses in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Surveillance: Erosion of the Public Evidence Base for Health Policy."
https://www.404media.co/dozens-of-cdc-health-databases-have-gone-dark-under-trump-the-consequences-will-be-dire/

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

"When data disappears: The impact of cancelled federal studies on student financial aid research."
https://www.pellinstitute.org/news-impact/blog/when-data-disappears-what-the-cancellation-of-federal-studies-means-for-financial-aid-research/

"In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Education made a quiet yet profoundly consequential decision to abruptly terminate major research contracts and lay off dozens of staff and contractors, [undermining] the nation’s ability to access credible, comprehensive data on college affordability, student success, and postsecondary outcomes."

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Data #DefendResearch #Education #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"US science after a year of Trump. A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html

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

Hydra was the dark web hub for Russian-based organized crime. Trafficking, fraud, money-laundering, narcotics distribution. Until the German cyber-ops took it down. Here's how they did it.

#hydra #darkMarkets #takedowns

https://negativepid.blog/the-fall-of-hydra/

"Trump’s #USDA Is Hiding the #Data on #FoodStamp Cuts."
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01/trump-rollins-usda-snap-food-insecurity/

"In normal conditions, said Tufts University food economist Parke Wilde, policymakers and government workers would ask, 'What are the consequences of policy changes…so that we can calibrate and improve the program in the future?’ We won’t be able to do that this year."

#Agriculture #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #SNAP #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"The Supreme Court has said legal fights over terminated federal grants 'likely' belong in the Court of Federal Claims. But judges there lack authority to restore them."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2026/01/13/researchers-may-be-forced-rely-obscure-court

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Grants #SCOTUS #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

"Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now? The American research enterprise has proven to be much more brittle than expected."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/american-science-shattered-series-analyzes-trump-research-funding-cuts/

This is Part 1 of a 10-part series. Recommended.
https://www.statnews.com/american-science-shattered/

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

Fair Use Is A Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/09/fair-use-is-a-right-ignoring-it-has-consequences/

📬 Fußball-Piratenabwehr: EFL setzt auf KI-Jagd gegen illegale Livestreams
#IPTV #Streaming #EnglishFootballLeague #FußballPiratenabwehr #iptvpiraterie #LiveSportPiraterie #Nagravision #streamingpiraterie #Takedowns https://sc.tarnkappe.info/9299c4

"NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/climate/nasa-goddard-library-closing.html

"Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #NASA #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

One of the most important examples of #Trump #censorship to date:

"DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing."
https://archive.ph/Ow3FE

Thanks as always to the #WaybackMachine for preserving a copy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf

#DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics

https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/cyble-downtime

#HackerNews #Flock #Cyble #Cybercrime #Takedowns #Critics #OnlineSafety

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

"The Year That Changed Research."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/19/how-2025-changed-research-and-whats-ahead

Summary from @insidehighered: "A year of mass federal grant terminations and sweeping policy changes to the nation’s research enterprise broke many scientists’ trust in the government. And those changes offer insight into what may come next year."

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

"Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/

"The #Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research [#NCAR] in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading #climate research labs."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics