🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science flavour, you can now archive conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #doi.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and ORCID integration means it can be automatically published […]

Re-upping this from The Onion, 2018.
https://theonion.com/man-with-20-rifles-can-t-remember-if-his-goal-to-start-1826236224/

#uspol #uspolitics

Update. Forgot to add this important response last week:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/governor-newsom-no-state-funding-for-sell-out-universities/

"Governor #gavinnewsom today [Oct 2] issued the following statement in response to the White House’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence […]

Update. "#deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/deloitte-will-refund-australian-government-for-ai-hallucination-filled-report/

PS: Deloitte is only giving a partial refund because it's not changing any of the […]

Update. Also see the American Council of Learned Societies (#acls) statement on the Trump compact.
https://www.acls.org/news/acls-statement-regarding-white-house-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education/

"Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge…Interfering […]

The editorial board of _Progress in Community Health Partnerships_ (Johns Hopkins University Press) condemns the Trump admin censorship of science and refuses to change its independent editorial policies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970147

"In January 2025 the new Administration began issuing […]

Update. The NYTimes has a good collection of institutional responses as of Oct 2, the day after Trump sent his letter to nine colleges and universities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/trump-universities-compact-funding.html

#academia #academicfreedom #academicmastodon #censorship […]

Update. The #ucalifornia Academic Council unanimously called on the UC President and Regents "to
unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and academic freedom." […]

Update. The American Association of Colleges & Universities (#aac&U, @aacu) just issued a statement on #Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”.
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac-u-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education […]

The #pope is correcting #Trump on #Climate science.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl1pgr2zn8o

#bruno #galileo

"The damage done."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03994-z
(#paywalled)

"When #clinicaltrials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders."

#defendresearch #funding #medicine #Trump #trumpvresearch […]

"Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk [<a href="https://bird.makeup/users/scholarsatrisk" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@scholarsatrisk] Academic Freedom Monitoring Project."
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/

"Even in societies that have long had strong and stable democratic institutions, elected officials with autocratic impulses are […]

The federal govt shutdown is halting or slowing operations at #openaccess #repositories like #pubmedcentral: "Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be […]

Update. Adrian Smith, President of the #royalsociety, has decided to criticize #elonmusk rather than expel him.
https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/10/statement-from-president-royal-society/

Smith's criticism focuses on Musk's "language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation" […]

"Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html

"The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge […]

From PEN America (https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/), "The Normalization of Book Banning."
https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/

"In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have […]

"White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change; Orgs Working to Rescue Climate Data Before It Disappears."
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted

"In a follow up to a previous […]

The U of California Council of Faculty Associations has launched an "SOS" coalition -- when SOS stands for Save our System! Support our Students! Save our Science! and Support our State! One purpose is to organize the response from faculty to attacks from the Trump admin. Well-done […]

Sometimes a #nonprofit org will buy an ailing #newspaper to keep it from failing or being acquired by a for-profit corporation. -- See my old Twitter thread on a few examples:
https://x.com/petersuber/status/1356266979452203008

But I haven't heard of an ailing newspaper being bought by a […]

Update. "#nasa ordered to destroy fully functional carbon-monitoring #satellite despite its vital #Climate data contributions."
https://www.africaninspace.com/space/nasa-ordered-to-destroy-fully-functional-carbon-monitoring-satellite-despite-its-vital-climate-data-contributions-49273/

"NASA is […]

"Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

"The Energy Department has added 'climate change,' 'green' and 'decarbonization' to its growing 'list of words to […]

Update. "#austria's military has switched from #microsoftoffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy." […]

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

"For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

Kudos to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#HHMI) for strengthening its 2022 #openaccess policy to require the immediate sharing of new research through #preprints under #ccby licenses.
https://hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Immediate-Access-to-Research.pdf

This kind of policy is […]

I'm proud to be counted one of the "Voices of Change" by the European University Institute, along with so many close friends and allies.
https://blogs.eui.eu/library/online-exhibition-who-owns-our-knowledge-exploring-open-access-through-voices-of-change/

#EUI #openaccess