Data Rescue Project #DataRescue
@datarescueproject.org
Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
Hey #DataRescuers! If we were to do an Ask Me Anything #AMA, would y'all be interested in participating?
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Alt: a cat wearing glasses sits in front of a laptop with the words ask me questionss
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January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Hey #DataRescuers! If we were to do an Ask Me Anything #AMA, would y'all be interested in participating?
Concrete ways to speak out about PRAMS!
January 8, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Concrete ways to speak out about PRAMS!
You can comment on the importance of PRAMS here: tinyurl.com/PRAMS-FRN
If you want to learn how to write a comment, you can attend this webinar next week: tinyurl.com/PRAMScomments
If you want to learn how to write a comment, you can attend this webinar next week: tinyurl.com/PRAMScomments
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of its continuing effort to reduce public burden and maximize the utility of government information, invites the general public and other ...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
You can comment on the importance of PRAMS here: tinyurl.com/PRAMS-FRN
If you want to learn how to write a comment, you can attend this webinar next week: tinyurl.com/PRAMScomments
If you want to learn how to write a comment, you can attend this webinar next week: tinyurl.com/PRAMScomments
We are attending this webinar. PRAMS is a critical data source for understanding experiences with pregnancy and infancy in the US and at the state level. Presenters say PRAMS helps us understand barriers to optimal health as well as emerging issues.
Reminder to tune in to our Rapid Response Data Briefing next Thursday, January 8, at 2:00 PM ET to learn—in just 30 minutes—how you can support PRAMS and the critical data it provides.
🗓️ Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓️ Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Rapid Response Data Briefing: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
Join us to learn:
🔵 What's in PRAMS
🔵 Why it's important
🔵 The risks facing its continued collection and publication
🔵 How you can help support this essential data resource
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us to learn:
🔵 What's in PRAMS
🔵 Why it's important
🔵 The risks facing its continued collection and publication
🔵 How you can help support this essential data resource
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
We are attending this webinar. PRAMS is a critical data source for understanding experiences with pregnancy and infancy in the US and at the state level. Presenters say PRAMS helps us understand barriers to optimal health as well as emerging issues.
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🌟Excited to announce Mikala Narlock & Dr. Lynda Kellam as closing keynote speakers for #IDCC26!
🗓️Mikala, from @IndianaUniv, excels in data curation, while Lynda of University of Penn Libraries champions FAIR principles & digital scholarship.
🔗 dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
🗓️Mikala, from @IndianaUniv, excels in data curation, while Lynda of University of Penn Libraries champions FAIR principles & digital scholarship.
🔗 dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
January 8, 2026 at 3:18 PM
🌟Excited to announce Mikala Narlock & Dr. Lynda Kellam as closing keynote speakers for #IDCC26!
🗓️Mikala, from @IndianaUniv, excels in data curation, while Lynda of University of Penn Libraries champions FAIR principles & digital scholarship.
🔗 dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
🗓️Mikala, from @IndianaUniv, excels in data curation, while Lynda of University of Penn Libraries champions FAIR principles & digital scholarship.
🔗 dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc2...
New Post on work to back up the BRFSS. Big thanks to @quetzal1234.bsky.social for a huge undertaking!
www.datarescueproject.org/cdc-brfss/
www.datarescueproject.org/cdc-brfss/
CDC BRFSS Data: Uncensored Data Now Available on Data Lumos
According to the CDC, “The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation’s premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding ...
www.datarescueproject.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:55 PM
New Post on work to back up the BRFSS. Big thanks to @quetzal1234.bsky.social for a huge undertaking!
www.datarescueproject.org/cdc-brfss/
www.datarescueproject.org/cdc-brfss/
We are very excited about this project @amstatnews.bsky.social ! The NCES is so critical that it was the first data rescue effort we conducted back in February. If you know of resources that demo the value of NCES add them! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
We are very excited about this project @amstatnews.bsky.social ! The NCES is so critical that it was the first data rescue effort we conducted back in February. If you know of resources that demo the value of NCES add them! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Love this slidedeck! Great one to look through for up to date info!
Happy New Year!
If you want to brush up on federal statistical system changes, we've just added some updates to our tracking presentation.
Highlights:
✔️A few staff added to NCES
❌State JOLTS survey cut to annual, not monthly
❌New info on agricultural stats staff cuts
docs.google.com/presentation...
If you want to brush up on federal statistical system changes, we've just added some updates to our tracking presentation.
Highlights:
✔️A few staff added to NCES
❌State JOLTS survey cut to annual, not monthly
❌New info on agricultural stats staff cuts
docs.google.com/presentation...
Data System Changes and Challenges 2025
NOTES ABOUT THIS SLIDE DECK Please feel free to use information from these slides in your own presentations. Attribution to APDU is appreciated but not required. These slides are intended for an audie...
docs.google.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Love this slidedeck! Great one to look through for up to date info!
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What's new in #EarthScienceData?
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👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/
💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/
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👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/
💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/
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January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
What's new in #EarthScienceData?
🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe
👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/
💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/
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🚀 Get the weekly Update to your inbox: esipfed.org/subscribe
👀 Go to our Community Calendar to find all ESIP Cluster Meetings ➡️ esipfed.org/community-calendar/
💫 More about Collaboration Areas: esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/
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Happy New Year! 2026 already feels long. If you are looking for some possible ways to take action this new year, check out the work of @esipfed.bsky.social You can help them develop their Repository Crisis Scorecards tool
Repository Crisis Scorecards Submission
Repository Crisis Scorecards Submission.
survey.alchemer.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Happy New Year! 2026 already feels long. If you are looking for some possible ways to take action this new year, check out the work of @esipfed.bsky.social You can help them develop their Repository Crisis Scorecards tool
Thank you for bringing attention to the issue so early in the effort!
As DOGE began its purge of government data, I reported on the librarians and Reddit hobbyists fighting to preserve them (@datarescueproject.org) www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Thank you for bringing attention to the issue so early in the effort!
Even when data rescue efforts are #FastAndFurious, we never forget the documentation. #Family
December 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Even when data rescue efforts are #FastAndFurious, we never forget the documentation. #Family
Us, realizing that we've actually only (already?) been at this for 11 months.
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Us, realizing that we've actually only (already?) been at this for 11 months.
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Thanks @dataindex.us for hosting webinar on Trump administration's cancellation of PRAMS, the only national long-term survey data on perinatal & infant health. Register to learn more, including action steps: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @popassocamerica.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Thanks @dataindex.us for hosting webinar on Trump administration's cancellation of PRAMS, the only national long-term survey data on perinatal & infant health. Register to learn more, including action steps: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @popassocamerica.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social
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🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉
Finn Dymond-Green, Director of Impact at the UK Data Service, reflects on a year of impact in the final Data Impact blog of 2025.
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025-a-year-...
Finn Dymond-Green, Director of Impact at the UK Data Service, reflects on a year of impact in the final Data Impact blog of 2025.
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025-a-year-...
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎉New on the Data Impact blog🎉
Finn Dymond-Green, Director of Impact at the UK Data Service, reflects on a year of impact in the final Data Impact blog of 2025.
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025-a-year-...
Finn Dymond-Green, Director of Impact at the UK Data Service, reflects on a year of impact in the final Data Impact blog of 2025.
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025-a-year-...
Quick break from the winter break to send out our support for NCAR. Read more and sign on to the open letter.
www.datarescueproject.org/support-for-...
www.datarescueproject.org/support-for-...
Support for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
On December 17, we learned from news reports that the Trump administration planned to dismantle the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). In response the Union o...
www.datarescueproject.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Quick break from the winter break to send out our support for NCAR. Read more and sign on to the open letter.
www.datarescueproject.org/support-for-...
www.datarescueproject.org/support-for-...
Posted within minutes of each other: one article about the #DataRescue movement and one about the #SaveOurSigns efforts.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Government’s historic role as trusted information source is under threat
The U.S. government for decades has been the world’s leading provider of reliable data. Many researchers wonder if that is still the case.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Posted within minutes of each other: one article about the #DataRescue movement and one about the #SaveOurSigns efforts.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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The support to #SaveNCAR has been overwhelming. Rep. @joeneguse.bsky.social has extended the deadline for members of Congress to show support for NCAR has been extended to Monday because of the response of our community. Keep calling and emailing! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The support to #SaveNCAR has been overwhelming. Rep. @joeneguse.bsky.social has extended the deadline for members of Congress to show support for NCAR has been extended to Monday because of the response of our community. Keep calling and emailing! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
The DRP Steering committee will be taking a winter rest from December 20 - January 11. ❄️⚓💾❄️
You'll still see us around, but with a decreased activity level. We hope that your holiday break is what you need it to be-- and we'll see you in 2026. ❤️
www.datarescueproject.org/winter-metam...
You'll still see us around, but with a decreased activity level. We hope that your holiday break is what you need it to be-- and we'll see you in 2026. ❤️
www.datarescueproject.org/winter-metam...
December 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The DRP Steering committee will be taking a winter rest from December 20 - January 11. ❄️⚓💾❄️
You'll still see us around, but with a decreased activity level. We hope that your holiday break is what you need it to be-- and we'll see you in 2026. ❤️
www.datarescueproject.org/winter-metam...
You'll still see us around, but with a decreased activity level. We hope that your holiday break is what you need it to be-- and we'll see you in 2026. ❤️
www.datarescueproject.org/winter-metam...
We are honored to be included in this incredible group in @thenation.com
Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
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Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
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Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We are honored to be included in this incredible group in @thenation.com
Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
🫶🛟
Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
🫶🛟
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Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
In recognition of an increasing number of coalitions being created related to data rescue, data preservation, and more, we have created a new Coalitions page on our Current Efforts website. Feel free to get in touch with us if you are aware of more!
Current Efforts
There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based efforts to capture and preserve data in early 2025. Below are the efforts we are aware of and their collecting scopes. This list was…
www.datarescueproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In recognition of an increasing number of coalitions being created related to data rescue, data preservation, and more, we have created a new Coalitions page on our Current Efforts website. Feel free to get in touch with us if you are aware of more!
New guest post: Where do Official Statistics Come From?
Great question! Barry Johnson has answers for you!
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-w...
Great question! Barry Johnson has answers for you!
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-w...
Guest Post: Where do Official Statistics Come From?
Today, we have the sixth post in the series to help diverse audiences understand and support the federal statistical system. This post is from Barry Johnson, and provides an overview of different sour...
www.datarescueproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
New guest post: Where do Official Statistics Come From?
Great question! Barry Johnson has answers for you!
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-w...
Great question! Barry Johnson has answers for you!
www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-w...
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Thanks to all who responded and tried to help. Feel free to share with other climate folks/ES teachers ,so they don't need to spend the same hours I just did
@altusfs.altgov.info @deepseadawn.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com @altusda.altgov.info @datarescueproject.org @phaneritic.bsky.social
@altusfs.altgov.info @deepseadawn.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com @altusda.altgov.info @datarescueproject.org @phaneritic.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Thanks to all who responded and tried to help. Feel free to share with other climate folks/ES teachers ,so they don't need to spend the same hours I just did
@altusfs.altgov.info @deepseadawn.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com @altusda.altgov.info @datarescueproject.org @phaneritic.bsky.social
@altusfs.altgov.info @deepseadawn.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com @altusda.altgov.info @datarescueproject.org @phaneritic.bsky.social
And you can send a message about the dismantling of NCAR secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...
Thanks to the @ucs.org
Thanks to the @ucs.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
And you can send a message about the dismantling of NCAR secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...
Thanks to the @ucs.org
Thanks to the @ucs.org