Jonathan Gilmour
@jonathang.bsky.social
climate & public health data scientist @ Harvard School of Public Health, open data advocate, lover of the outdoors
jonathan.05 on Signal
jonathan.05 on Signal
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if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
I just feel like we should just TRY matriarchy. After all, can’t possibly be worse than where we're at!!
June 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I just feel like we should just TRY matriarchy. After all, can’t possibly be worse than where we're at!!
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Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
June 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
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THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious."
"They are of no force and effect."
"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"
"They are of no force and effect."
"They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"
June 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!
Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!
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@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants
I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
A Harvard scientist built a database of 2,100 NIH grant terminations. Then his own funding was cut
Harvard's Scott Delaney helped build a database of NIH grant terminations that is being used in litigation against the Trump administration.
www.statnews.com
May 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@scott-delaney.bsky.social has had a front row seat to the Trump admin’s cancellation of NIH grants
I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
I caught up with Scott as his project to track research grant terminations became real personal — and his own funds were cut 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/n...
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
waysandmeans.house.gov
May 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
@noaa.gov axed their Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset: a crucial resource showing the inflation-adjusted cost/damages of U.S. extreme weather and climate disasters.
(We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.)
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
#climate #weather #disaster #NOAA
(We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.)
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
#climate #weather #disaster #NOAA
May 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@noaa.gov axed their Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters dataset: a crucial resource showing the inflation-adjusted cost/damages of U.S. extreme weather and climate disasters.
(We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.)
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
#climate #weather #disaster #NOAA
(We at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social grabbed it.)
www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
#climate #weather #disaster #NOAA
Kinda amazing that one of the biggest announcements of the year *in 2025* is still done by smoke signal.
Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!
Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!
May 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Kinda amazing that one of the biggest announcements of the year *in 2025* is still done by smoke signal.
Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!
Social media has destroyed democracy—let's go back to smoke signals & carrier pigeons!
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“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
May 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
April 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share!
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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[1/5] @jonathang.bsky.social, data scientist à Harvard, dénonce la destruction de données scientifiques par l’administration Trump. Ces bases de données sont essentielles pour analyser les risques globaux comme le climat, la pollution ou les pandémies, qui affectent tous les territoires. #geography
The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour
Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
[1/5] @jonathang.bsky.social, data scientist à Harvard, dénonce la destruction de données scientifiques par l’administration Trump. Ces bases de données sont essentielles pour analyser les risques globaux comme le climat, la pollution ou les pandémies, qui affectent tous les territoires. #geography
From me in @theguardian.com (!)
"Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour
Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
From me in @theguardian.com (!)
"Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Data is being stolen from us; our ability to understand the world is being stolen from us. Americans will die because the Trump administration is abdicating its responsibility to the people."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A clarion call to stand up for scientific data from @jonathang.bsky.social ⤵️
I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪
I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪
The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour
Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A clarion call to stand up for scientific data from @jonathang.bsky.social ⤵️
I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪
I have the privilege of working with Jonathan and have had a front row seat as he and his team have busted their asses to archive data the past several months. He's a warrior for science. 💪
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
Weird way to say that capitalism is on track to destroy the climate!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
April 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Weird way to say that capitalism is on track to destroy the climate!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hilarious juxtaposition. "'There's certainly a concern of retribution from the administration, but we feel strongly we're on the right side of history here,' Gilmour said. The White House did not respond to Context's request for comment before time of publication."
www.context.news/digital-righ...
www.context.news/digital-righ...
Volunteers on 'right side of history' fight Trump data purge | Context
U.S. volunteers restore health and climate data deleted by Trump administration - for everyone to use
www.context.news
April 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Hilarious juxtaposition. "'There's certainly a concern of retribution from the administration, but we feel strongly we're on the right side of history here,' Gilmour said. The White House did not respond to Context's request for comment before time of publication."
www.context.news/digital-righ...
www.context.news/digital-righ...
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NIH terminated *7* grants focused on mitigating the spread of misinformation just last week.
That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024.
So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool
That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024.
So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool
A second Texas child has died of a measles outbreak, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — infamous spreader of vaccine misinformation — reportedly plans to attend the funeral on Sunday.
Anti-Vax RFK Jr. to Attend Funeral of Second Child to Die in Texas Measles Outbreak
Anti-vaxxer and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy will attend the funeral of the second unvaccinated Texas child to die in a measles outbreak.
www.rollingstone.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
NIH terminated *7* grants focused on mitigating the spread of misinformation just last week.
That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024.
So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool
That's half of all grants that contained the word "misinformation" in their titles in 2024.
So he spreads misinformation, then prevents others from correcting it. Cool cool
Asking for help—do you have access (DUA) to any of these critical datasets? If so, now would be a great time to download them—and ensure that you're preserving rich metadata about them. Let's make sure these exist for posterity.
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
#nih #data #preservation #research
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
#nih #data #preservation #research
April 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Asking for help—do you have access (DUA) to any of these critical datasets? If so, now would be a great time to download them—and ensure that you're preserving rich metadata about them. Let's make sure these exist for posterity.
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
#nih #data #preservation #research
www.404media.co/nih-archives...
#nih #data #preservation #research
Abject contempt for our health and ability to understand the world from this administration
www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
Canceled contract means NOAA research websites slated to go dark
NOAA is under a mandate to slash its IT costs.
www.axios.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Abject contempt for our health and ability to understand the world from this administration
www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
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An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
An important point getting overlooked:
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.
They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.
So proud of this piece! Federal data and environmental justice tools that we use to make sense of the world are being stolen from us—we started @publicenvirodata.bsky.social to save these tools and data. We'd be honored if you gave it a read.
www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...
www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...
America's digital infrastructure belongs to you
COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting datasets and tools, to taking websites offline, to widespread layoffs.
www.nextgov.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
So proud of this piece! Federal data and environmental justice tools that we use to make sense of the world are being stolen from us—we started @publicenvirodata.bsky.social to save these tools and data. We'd be honored if you gave it a read.
www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...
www.nextgov.com/ideas/2025/0...
