I'm starting a #Mastodon thread on the new #Trump administration's actions and positions on #OpenAccess to research.

I posted frequently about the actions of his first administration. But I did it on #Twitter / #X, which I no longer use.

Also see my separate Mastodon thread on outside efforts to capture and preserve research and data that the admin has taken down or might take down.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114359552828366397

Also see this wiki page where I'm collecting my old Twitter posts on his first term and my new Mastodon posts on his second term.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_Trump_administrations_on_open_access_to_research

For updates, watch this space.

#DefendResearch #OpenWashing #OSTP #ScholComm #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Update. Here's a good use of #GitHub to track textual changes and page takedowns on federal govt web sites since #Trump took office.
https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/

This project is dedicated to the pages on #DEI. I hope someone launches a similar project on the pages dedicated to science and research.

#Censorship #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics

Update. As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250102141453/https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

#Takedowns #TrumpAntiScience #USPol #USPolitics

Update. If you're following this thread, also follow the Silencing Science Tracker from Sabin Center for Climate Change Law (at Columbia Law School) and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
https://climate.law.columbia.edu/Silencing-Science-Tracker

#Climate #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "Datasets aggregated on data.gov, the largest repository of U.S. government #OpenData on the internet, are being deleted, according to the website’s own information. Since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, more than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from the database."
https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/

#Data #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. "#USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/usda-climate-change-websites-00201826

"Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO...."

#Agriculture #Censorship #Climate #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Update. I just posted an item outside this thread that belongs in the thread. Sorry. Here it is. The #Trump #CDC is asking staffers to withdraw pending scientific publications that use newly-prohibited terms like #transgender, #immigrant, or #LGBT.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113946091994922725

#Censorship #ScholComm #USPol #USPolitics