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Nick Hart, Ph.D.
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Data Foundation President & CEO | NAPA & BPC Fellow | #opendata #Evidence #ai #evaluation | Anonymous messages: safetrack.org | * Share your #MyDataStory mydatastory.org *
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#openaccess summary of impacts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Impacts from October 2025 RIFs
Monitoring Impacts from October 2025 RIFs and Shutdown Last Updated: SHARE UPDATES DIRECTLY TO [email protected] (identifiable) or at www.safe-track.org (anonymous) TABLE OF CONTENTS: TOPLI...
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October 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Thank you!! Very much appreciate the support. Let's get this to #SXSW26 -- a much needed public discussion that affects #openscience and #nationalsecurity.
August 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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6. Data Foundation's @nickhartphd.bsky.social‬ says the independence of the U.S. federal statistical system "is not dependent on any single individual but is built into the system itself through robust policies, procedures, legal frameworks, and the culture and people of the statistical system"
The Data Foundation reaffirms its commitment to supporting the integrity and independence of America’s federal statistical system. Recent events underscore the importance of the institutional and legal safeguards that protect the objectivity of federal statistics and serve the American people and economy. Statistical independence is not dependent on any single individual but is built into the system itself through robust policies, procedures, legal frameworks, and the culture and people of the statistical system. The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act), signed into law by President Trump on January 14, 2019, established comprehensive protections for statistical agencies. Building on this foundation, the Office of Management and Budget’s Public Trust Rule—a regulation required by the Evidence Act—codifies four fundamental responsibilities for statistical agencies: producing timely information, conducting credible and accurate activities, maintaining objectivity, and protecting data provider confidentiality. We have confidence that federal statistical products retain their fidelity to those principles.
August 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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5. UPDATE: @nickhartphd.bsky.social of the Data Foundation, an open data advocacy group, says "DOGE interventions in the federal statistical system without transparency are concerning and may undermine the availability of future data..."
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The Data Foundation calls for attention from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and congressional oversight committees to: Conduct a review of statistical agency activities that have altered data collections in 2025, encouraging a transparent mechanism for documenting changes to Information Collection Requests under the Paperwork Reduction Act Request that the OMB Director and Chief Statistician of the United States issue an immediate memo to federal departments and agencies to halt implementation of recommendations that conflict with the Public Trust rule for statistical collections until a comprehensive review can be completed by designated statistical officials Provide transparency to the public about any changes to statistical data or methodologies, consistent with the Paperwork Reduction Act and OMB's pledge to adopt "radical transparency,” which has been supported by the Data Foundation
May 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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DOGE Tweet: / END
May 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM