Document the MAGA attack on science

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Scope: Use this community to share news, developments, initiatives, pertaining to the MAGA attack on science, including political resistance of individual scientists or collective bodies, as well as pro-science communication strategy, and data rescue initiatives.

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Rule 1: Anti-vax and flat-earth are strictly prohibited.

Rule 2: Discipline/paradigm tribalism is frowned upon. Bashing the humanities on the basis of an "orden scientis" greatly overlaps with the purge rationale, and will be proactively moderated.

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Rule 4: Cis-genderism is considered a form of science-denialism.

Rule 5: Ableism, eugenics, and gender/race essentialist pseudoscience will be removed upon detection, and reported to anti-nazi collectives.

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"The whole #NIH system has gone down repeatedly. I assume someone is messing with the backend.This threat is coming from the inside."-CO Bueno"PubMed is down It's run by the NIH & the main way to search for academic papers.If this isn't a temp. thing, & is a #TrumpMusk doing, academics around the world are royally screwed right now."-N Stone"As the NIH-run lifeline for accessing academic #research, this isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a crisis for researchers worldwide."-GP#USPol

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The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

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This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

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