The Trump administrations on open access to research - Revision history

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	* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116363746841473630 April 7, 2026]		* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116363746841473630 April 7, 2026]
	: The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.		: The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown of EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.
	: https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/		: https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/
	: #Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116363746841473630 April 7, 2026]		* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116363746841473630 April 7, 2026]
	: The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #~~ULouvain~~.		: The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #UCLouvain.
	: https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/		: https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/
	: #Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: "Every relevant court that has looked at this question — including the Supreme Court — has agreed: no one can own the law. When private standards get incorporated into binding legal requirements, the public has a right to access them freely…So naturally, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a bill to override all of that. Senators Coons, Cornyn, Hirono, and Tillis have brought back the Pro Codes Act, a bill that would grant copyright protection to standards that have been incorporated by reference into law."		: "Every relevant court that has looked at this question — including the Supreme Court — has agreed: no one can own the law. When private standards get incorporated into binding legal requirements, the public has a right to access them freely…So naturally, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a bill to override all of that. Senators Coons, Cornyn, Hirono, and Tillis have brought back the Pro Codes Act, a bill that would grant copyright protection to standards that have been incorporated by reference into law."
	: #Copyright #Enclosure #Law #Paywalls #SCOTUS #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics		: #Copyright #Enclosure #Law #Paywalls #SCOTUS #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116363746841473630 April 7, 2026]
			: The #Trump defunding of #USAID could lead to the shutdown EM-DAT, the world's largest database of natural and technological disasters, maintained by the #ULouvain.
			: https://statsandr.com/blog/em-dat-the-world-s-disaster-memory-is-at-risk/
			: #Belgium #Data #DefendResearch #EMDAT #Funding #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: "For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."		: "For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."
	: #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116363707108490631 April 7, 2026]
			: "Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again."
			: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/06/congress-wants-to-put-the-law-behind-a-paywall-again/
			: "Every relevant court that has looked at this question — including the Supreme Court — has agreed: no one can own the law. When private standards get incorporated into binding legal requirements, the public has a right to access them freely…So naturally, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced a bill to override all of that. Senators Coons, Cornyn, Hirono, and Tillis have brought back the Pro Codes Act, a bill that would grant copyright protection to standards that have been incorporated by reference into law."
			: #Copyright #Enclosure #Law #Paywalls #SCOTUS #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

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	: "Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."		: "Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."
	: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7		: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7
	: "For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%."		: "For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%…The budget would increase funding for…the military, which would receive US $1.5 trillion, a 44% increase."
	: #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: "They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called 'state directors,' embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way."		: "They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called 'state directors,' embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way."
	: #DefendResearch #Environment #Forests #Forestry #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #DefendResearch #Environment #Forests #Forestry #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116346836681333317 April 4, 2026]
			: "Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration."
			: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7
			: "For the second year in a row, US President Donald Trump has proposed significant cuts to the budgets of major US science agencies…[The plan] includes a ban on using federal funds for subscriptions and publishing fees for some academic journals…Some of the steepest cuts would be made to the National Science Foundation (#NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA): the budgets of both would fall more than 50% in 2027 compared to their current levels…The budget for the US National Institutes of Health [#NIH] would drop 13%."
			: #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: Hence, they argue, the new policy would reduce data sharing, reduce replication studies, increase burdens for researchers, and slow compliance, without improving privacy.		: Hence, they argue, the new policy would reduce data sharing, reduce replication studies, increase burdens for researchers, and slow compliance, without improving privacy.
	: #Data #OpenData #Medicine #Privacy #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #Data #OpenData #Medicine #Privacy #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116335921389549517 April 2, 2026]
			: "Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service."
			: https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders
			: "They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees called 'state directors,' embedded in state capitals alongside the very governors, legislators, and industry lobbyists who have spent their careers demanding that the Forest Service log more, protect less, and get out of the way."
			: #DefendResearch #Environment #Forests #Forestry #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: PS: Bravo to the NAS. Although it's not part of the govt, about 85% of its funding comes from govt agencies, making it highly vulnerable to retaliatory defunding. It's the first agency I've seen with that level of vulnerability flatly reject a Trumpist demand to censor research.		: PS: Bravo to the NAS. Although it's not part of the govt, about 85% of its funding comes from govt agencies, making it highly vulnerable to retaliatory defunding. It's the first agency I've seen with that level of vulnerability flatly reject a Trumpist demand to censor research.
	: #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116284390968296760 March 24, 2026]
			: Sorry I missed this: In December 2025, the #NIH called for public comments on a revision to its data access policy, proposing "controlled access" for certain kinds of data on human subjects. The proposal would also block access to researchers from certain "Countries of Concern" like China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela. The comment deadline was last week.
			: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-26-023.html
			: Many neuroscientists submitted objections to the proposal.
			: https://www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing/neuroscientists-challenge-nihs-proposed-human-data-access-policy/
			: One objection: The current policy already requires "de-identification" of shared data on human subjects, and tests show these steps to be effective in blocking re-identification.
			: Another: Existing data repositories don't have the needed access controls, and data would have to migrate to new infrastructure.
			: Hence, they argue, the new policy would reduce data sharing, reduce replication studies, increase burdens for researchers, and slow compliance, without improving privacy.
			: #Data #OpenData #Medicine #Privacy #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: This is not a temporary slowdown. It is a structural collapse."		: This is not a temporary slowdown. It is a structural collapse."
	: #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116250669373977981 March 18, 2026]
			: Update. It turns out that the National Academies of Science (#NAS) did 𝗻𝗼𝘁 acquiesce in this #censorship of #climate science. In a short statement (March 11) it said “The manual, including the chapter on #climate science, will continue to be available on the Academy’s website.”
			: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/
			: PS: Bravo to the NAS. Although it's not part of the govt, about 85% of its funding comes from govt agencies, making it highly vulnerable to retaliatory defunding. It's the first agency I've seen with that level of vulnerability flatly reject a Trumpist demand to censor research.
			: #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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	: Partly to halt its influential #climate research. Partly to punish #Colorado #Democrats. Partly to transfer its assets to private companies, other federal agencies, and universities in red states.		: Partly to halt its influential #climate research. Partly to punish #Colorado #Democrats. Partly to transfer its assets to private companies, other federal agencies, and universities in red states.
	: #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics		: #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

			* [https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116244892402930155 March 17, 2026]
			: From #ElizabethGinexi:
			: https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements
			: "In 2024, #NIH published 756 funding announcements.
			: In 2025, it published 120.
			: In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14…
			: This is not a temporary slowdown. It is a structural collapse."
			: #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics