Document the MAGA attack on science
- [20250314] Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Modelswww.wired.com Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
- [20250302] "The whole #NIH system has gone down repeatedly. I assume someone is messing with the backend.This threat is coming from the inside."-CO…
> "The whole #NIH system has gone down repeatedly. I assume someone is messing with the backend.This threat is coming from the inside."-CO Bueno"PubMed is down It's run by the NIH & the main way to search for academic papers.If this isn't a temp. thing, & is a #TrumpMusk doing, academics around the world are royally screwed right now."-N Stone"As the NIH-run lifeline for accessing academic #research, this isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a crisis for researchers worldwide."-GP#USPol
- [20250228] Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trumpwww.democracynow.org Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump
Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the Internet Archive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources. The...
- [20250210] Federal judge blocks Trump administration cuts to medical research fundingwww.cbsnews.com Federal judge blocks Trump administration cuts to medical research funding
The National Institutes of Health says the cuts will save more than $4 billion a year, but critics say it puts potentially lifesaving research in jeopardy.
- [20250316] Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health Newskffhealthnews.org Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promising field of medical research.
- [20250315] Journal Article: “Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption”www.infodocket.com Journal Article: “Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption”
The article linked below was recently published by the journal, Marketing Science. Title Book Bans in American Libraries: Impact of Politics on Inclusive Content Consumption Authors Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan Carnegie Mellon University Naveen Basavaraj Carnegie Mellon University Sabari Rajan Karmegam...
- [20250220] Science under Siege during Trump’s First 30 Dayswww.scientificamerican.com Science under Siege during Trump’s First 30 Days
The Trump administration has acted fast to attack science with a range of funding and policy tactics
- [20250220] National Science Foundation Mass Firings Go Beyond Trump’s Orders, Sparking Outragewww.scientificamerican.com National Science Foundation Mass Firings Go Beyond Trump’s Orders, Sparking Outrage
At an emotional meeting, NSF officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come
- [20250226] Now That Trump Has Banished the Woke From Science, This Truth-Telling New Scientific Paper Reveals What COVID Vaccines Actually Do to Childrenfuturism.com Now That Trump Has Banished the Woke From Science, This Truth-Telling New Scientific Paper Reveals What COVID Vaccines Actually Do to Children
A pair of new scientific papers flagged by Ars Technica has revealed what COVID-19 vaccinations actually do to children and teens.
- [20250226] US climate research agency braces for ‘efficiency’ cuts: ‘They will gut the work’www.theguardian.com US climate research agency braces for ‘efficiency’ cuts: ‘They will gut the work’
Workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fear crackdown will have global fallout
- [20250225] ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Researchwww.scientificamerican.com ‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research
Amid President Donald Trump’s attacks on government scientists and science funding, researchers are arranging rallies to “Stand Up for Science” in Washington, D.C., and nationwide on March 7
- [20250210] The Attacks on Sciencebadastronomy.beehiiv.com The Attacks on Science
Science is under siege like never before in the US. What can we do?
- [20250302] Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orderswww.nature.com Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders
The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
> The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.
- [20250130] Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government datafediscience.org petersuber (@petersuber@fediscience.org)
This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data. https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/ "In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law@bird.makeup] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil@bird.makeup] has created a data v...
> This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."