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#defendresearch

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Update. "Patient Safety Network Abruptly Cut by Trump Administration"
medpagetoday.com/opinion/faust

"The #Trump administration suddenly cut all funding for the Patient Safety Network (#PSNet) on Friday…PSNet is an influential and respected project within #HHS that has been dedicated to decreasing medical errors through research and knowledge dissemination. The endeavor has been credited with saving lives by helping change the culture by which clinicians learn from mistakes, thereby improving care."

Here's PSNet today.
psnet.ahrq.gov/

And here it is in the Wayback Machine.
web.archive.org/web/2025040214

www.medpagetoday.comOpinion | Patient Safety Network Abruptly Cut by Trump AdministrationThe project helped protect Americans from medical errors
#AHRQ#Censorship#DefendResearch
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Update. "Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies"
apnews.com/article/health-huma

"Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services [#HHS] Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated…The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the federal government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues."

Hundreds of employees wait in line wrapped around the outside of the Health and Human Services headquarters building, Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Amanda Seitz)
AP News · Layoffs begin at US health agenciesBy Carla Johnson
#CDC#CMS#DefendResearch
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Update. "More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science"
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

"More than 1,900 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine [#NASEM] signed an open letter warning Americans about the “danger” of the #Trump administration’s attacks on science. The letter comes amid the administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions which has included threats to private universities, federal grant cancelations and ideological funding reviews, mass government layoffs, resignations and censorship."

Here is the letter itself.
docs.google.com/document/d/13g

The Guardian · More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on scienceBy Jessica Glenza
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Takedowns
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Update. "Entire staff at federal agency that funds #libraries and #museums put on leave"
npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-53344

"According to a statement from AFGE Local 3403, which represents #IMLS [Institute of Museum and Library Services] workers, the agency's staff was notified by email about being placed on paid administrative leave for 90 days after a "brief meeting between DOGE staff and IMLS leadership." Employees had to turn in government property, and email accounts were disabled."

#DefendResearch#Trump#USPol
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Update. SCiMaP: View Impact of Federal Health Research Cuts
scienceimpacts.org/

"The National Institutes of Health (#NIH) funds crucial health research to address cancer, diabetes, dementia, and more. NIH funding also boosts the economy, returning >250% of the value invested. On Feb. 7th, 2025, the White House ordered across-the-board cuts to NIH funded research. This website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide."

scienceimpacts.orgSCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchDeveloped by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
#DefendResearch#Funding#Medicine
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Update. The National Museum and Library Services Board (#NMLSB) just sent an open letter to #Trump's acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (#IMLS), Keith Sonderling.
publishersweekly.com/binary-da

"It is our considered determination that the Museum and Library Services Act of 2018, as codified in Title 20 of the U.S. Code, outlines specific statutory mandates that cannot be paused, reduced, or eliminated without violating Congressional intent and federal statute…All such statutory obligations may not be discontinued or delayed under an Executive Order or other executive action."

#DefendResearch#Libraries#Museums
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Lisa Schiff

#libraries and #librarians Have you signed the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Gov #Censorship! If your name isn’t there, add it today and then take a next action, including asking at least one more person to sign. Make your voice heard!! #NoTimeForSilence #resist tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

Google DocsDeclaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government CensorshipThis Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication ecosystems – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and others – to sign this Declaration to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation. Please sign in your own name and/or on behalf of your organization. By signing, you commit to acting on at least one of these four recommendations: Support instances of resistance to U.S. government censorship. Promote venues for scholars to share, safeguard, and preserve their work, beyond the reach of censorship. Participate in efforts to track and record instances of U.S. government censorship. Share this Declaration broadly and encourage individuals and organizations in your communities to sign and support it. As part of your commitment to condemn and resist, consider using the #DefendResearch hashtag. Delayed resistance will only amplify censorship risks and cause irreparable harm. Now is the time to act! (Read the Declaration.) SIGNATORIES LIST WILL BE UPDATED DAILY. It may take up to 24 hours to update the public declaration to ensure signatories' privacy requirements are met. Please note that email addresses will never be publicly shared. Join our mailing list to receive ongoing information about the Declaration.
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Update. Speak up to help #AED reduce the odds that valuable public US govt datasets will be taken down.
essentialdata.us/

"Demonstrating the broad real-world value of federal data is the most strategic path to ensuring its continued flow. The goal of America's Essential Data is to make it easy for: … federal agency data stewards and their leadership to better understand the true value of their data, especially as it relates to administration priorities. Do you use a federal dataset that delivers important benefits for the American people? Help us tell the story of that dataset!"

essentialdata.usAmerica's Essential DataHighlighting examples of how our essential public data serve the American people.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#OpenData
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Frank Huysmans

#DefendResearch

We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication community – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and other stakeholders – to sign this Declaration to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. Please sign in your own name and/or on behalf of your organization at this link: tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f. All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation.

Google DocsDeclaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government CensorshipThis Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication ecosystems – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and others – to sign this Declaration to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation. Please sign in your own name and/or on behalf of your organization. By signing, you commit to acting on at least one of these four recommendations: Support instances of resistance to U.S. government censorship. Promote venues for scholars to share, safeguard, and preserve their work, beyond the reach of censorship. Participate in efforts to track and record instances of U.S. government censorship. Share this Declaration broadly and encourage individuals and organizations in your communities to sign and support it. As part of your commitment to condemn and resist, consider using the #DefendResearch hashtag. Delayed resistance will only amplify censorship risks and cause irreparable harm. Now is the time to act! (Read the Declaration.) SIGNATORIES LIST WILL BE UPDATED DAILY. It may take up to 24 hours to update the public declaration to ensure signatories' privacy requirements are met. Please note that email addresses will never be publicly shared. Join our mailing list to receive ongoing information about the Declaration.
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Lisa Schiff

@finnsend Fighting back is what we must do and what many of us are do! Join us and #resist! Sign and share the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Gov Censorship! Then take a next action #NoTimeForSilence tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

Google DocsDeclaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government CensorshipThis Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication ecosystems – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and others – to sign this Declaration to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation. Please sign in your own name and/or on behalf of your organization. By signing, you commit to acting on at least one of these four recommendations: Support instances of resistance to U.S. government censorship. Promote venues for scholars to share, safeguard, and preserve their work, beyond the reach of censorship. Participate in efforts to track and record instances of U.S. government censorship. Share this Declaration broadly and encourage individuals and organizations in your communities to sign and support it. As part of your commitment to condemn and resist, consider using the #DefendResearch hashtag. Delayed resistance will only amplify censorship risks and cause irreparable harm. Now is the time to act! (Read the Declaration.) SIGNATORIES LIST WILL BE UPDATED DAILY. It may take up to 24 hours to update the public declaration to ensure signatories' privacy requirements are met. Please note that email addresses will never be publicly shared. Join our mailing list to receive ongoing information about the Declaration.
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Lisa Schiff

‪Lisa Schiff‬ ‪@lschiff.bsky.social‬
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Over 4,000 individuals & organizations have publicly opposed #censorship by signing the Declaration to #DefendResearch Against U.S. Gov Censorship! If your name isn’t there, add it today and then take a next action! #NoTimeForSilence #resist #Academia #science tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

Google DocsDeclaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government CensorshipThis Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We call on members of the worldwide scholarly communication ecosystems – researchers, policy-makers, scholarly societies, libraries, higher education and research institutions, publishers, funders, and others – to sign this Declaration to publicly condemn and resist the censorship of academic research. All are welcome to sign, from any nation or occupation. Please sign in your own name and/or on behalf of your organization. By signing, you commit to acting on at least one of these four recommendations: Support instances of resistance to U.S. government censorship. Promote venues for scholars to share, safeguard, and preserve their work, beyond the reach of censorship. Participate in efforts to track and record instances of U.S. government censorship. Share this Declaration broadly and encourage individuals and organizations in your communities to sign and support it. As part of your commitment to condemn and resist, consider using the #DefendResearch hashtag. Delayed resistance will only amplify censorship risks and cause irreparable harm. Now is the time to act! (Read the Declaration.) SIGNATORIES LIST WILL BE UPDATED DAILY. It may take up to 24 hours to update the public declaration to ensure signatories' privacy requirements are met. Please note that email addresses will never be publicly shared. Join our mailing list to receive ongoing information about the Declaration.
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Update. "Global Science in Danger"
blog.scielo.org/en/2025/03/26/

"Recently, the government of the United States of America (USA) has frightened the scientific community…by censoring terms used in scientific communications and funding proposals…The idea that this is just relevant to American scientists or scientists from elsewhere working in America is not correct; with researchers the world over being affected. In the Netherlands, for instance, some researchers monitoring the state of forests…have received email messages, ostensibly from the #USGS (United States Geological Survey) and labelled “High Priority”. A list of questions was attached with the request to respond with answers within a week of receiving the email. The USGS indicated that sending these messages had been ordered by the United States Office of Management and Budget (#OMB)."

SciELO in Perspective · Global Science in Danger | SciELO in PerspectiveThe current American government is curtailing science in several ways. Certain terms are censored in scientific reports and publications, communications and collaborations between scientists are limited or even proscribed, and funding is withdrawn. The implications for scientific research in the US are vast, but the long arm of the American government has undesired effects on the global science community as well, particularly on the numerous ways scientists elsewhere collaborate with their American colleagues. The preeminence of American science seems truly being shattered.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Takedowns
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Update. "‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of #Education Dept.’s #Data Warehouse"
chronicle.com/article/breathta

"More than 160 contracts measuring educational progress across the nation’s schools and colleges were suddenly halted. Probationary workers were fired, employees were blocked from accessing information on their computers, and a national center that dates to the time of Abraham Lincoln was effectively decommissioned overnight. Employees worked late into the evenings downloading data that had taken decades to compile, according to interviews with more than a dozen people fired from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), an independent and nonpartisan agency within the U.S. Department of Education [#DOE], and its National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…IES, which had 173 employees before the cuts, was left with just over a dozen after Elon #Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept through the Education Department early last month. The crippling of the office was so swift and haphazard that it left serious doubts about how much of the educational data that has informed higher-education policy and practice will continue to be available."

#DefendResearch#OpenData#Takedowns
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Update. "As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them"
npr.org/2025/03/23/nx-s1-53265

"After President Trump's inauguration in January, some federal web pages vanished. While…were removed entirely, many came back online with changes that…officials said were made to conform to Trump's executive orders to remove "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility policies." Thousands of datasets were wiped — mostly at agencies focused on science and the environment…Information about climate change, reproductive health, gender identity and sexual orientation also have been on the chopping block…The #InternetArchive [@internetarchive] is among the few efforts that exist to catch the stuff that falls through the digital cracks, while also making that information accessible to the public. Six weeks into the new administration, #WaybackMachine director Graham said, the Internet Archive had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration."

#Censorship#DefendResearch#Preservation
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Update. Here are some press releases and news stories on the lawsuit against the #Trump admin by American Association of University Professors (#AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (#AFT).

* From the AAUP
aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-

* From the AFT
aft.org/press-release/faculty-

* From The Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

* From the NYTimes
nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregio

#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #MahmoudKhalil #Protests #Travel #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

AAUP · AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful SpeechThe national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
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Update. "#NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the #Health Effects of #Climate Change"
propublica.org/article/nih-fun

"The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica…While it’s unclear whether the climate guidance will impact active grants and lead to funding terminations, the directive appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies or academic programs focused on the health effects of climate change."

ProPublicaNIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
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