@rouhiroo.bsky.social now highlighting the important work being done by #DefendResearch @defendresearch.bsky.social and the need for mutual aid, collective actions and care across the ecosystem 👏#UKSG2026

Are you "proactive" in how you frame what your library does? #LibrarySky #academicsky #sciencesky In the context of Doug's org, the goals are more important than more publicly performative action (performative is good too, just not possible for all institutions). #DefendResearch #Resist #UKSG2026

Librarians losing their job isn't really a threat bc of the university's commitment to #academicfreedom. But concerns around #selfcensorship are real. How do we advance our university's mission in light of the threats? #censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #DefendResearch #UKSG2026

“If you want to #DefendResearch you need to defend libraries.” Doug way, UL at UKY. #UKSG2026

This is not just a US problem, #censorship affects all aspect of the #Scholcomm #academicsky #sciencesky #polisky #defendresearch

This is why we need to #DefendResearch!

🧪 #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #CDC #antivax

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Alex Bronzini-Vender reviews Elise Stefanik's new book, 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢’𝘴 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.
www.chronicle.com/article/elise-stefanik-g...
(#paywalled)

"Stefanik…has assembled here the most serious version of the Trumpist […]

An unnamed school in the UK used #AI to decide which books to ban from the library.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-s...

#BookBans #Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries

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"Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros."
www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/trump_science...

Among the new members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (#PCAST) are
#MarcAndreessen, #SergeyBrin, #MichaelDell […]

George Orwell's 1984 purged from school library by AI 'Big Brother', campaigners say The school library has purged nearly 200 books, using AI to deem titles like '1984' and ‘Twilight’ inappropriate

An unnamed school in the UK used #AI to decide which books to ban from the library.
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-s...

#BookBans #Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries #Librarysky

Libraries on Fire Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, organised a panel in Berlin to discuss: “Defending Scholarship in a time of Political Pressure”. In her introductory remarks, she explained the pu...

🔓 Read the #OpenAccess article via @dgb-lis.bsky.social now: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#DefendResearch #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholarlyCommunication (4/4)

🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience #RFKJr #Vaccines #HHS #factcheck

Looking forward to learning more at this 4/8 #DefendResearch webinar where @georgecoops.bsky.social will discuss #censorship in China and the role publishers have played, and what we can learn about the current U.S. experience. Registration info here: www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conditions of Censorship Complicity in Scholarly Publishing: A China case study. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the ... As part of DefendResearch.org's ongoing work to highlight the dangers of government censorship of science and research in the United States, we are launching a webinar series in 2026 dedicated to conv...

Join us for the next #DefendResearch webinar on April 8th with @georgecoops.bsky.social discussing his research on the "Conditions of Censorship Complicity in Scholarly Publishing in China" and what we can learn about government #censorship in the U.S. right now. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Update. Also see the 2026 Update to the Academic Freedom Index (#AFI).
academic-freedom-index.net/research/Academic_Freedo...

Extracts from University World News:
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php

"Academic freedom has declined […]

The law rejects the administration’s request to cut and consolidate institutes, keeping all 27 and making few changes to their budgets. #StandUpForScience #DefendResearch

Update. 24 US states have now filed their own lawsuit to restore the endangerment finding.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/19/...

#Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #EPA #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

Important training from @dataindex.us tomorrow--learn how to make more effective public comments on federal actions! If you register, recording and materials will be shared! #DefendResearch

These are just some of our actions so far:
Supporting at‑risk scholars with anonymous submission options, pushing back against censorship, and creating space for learning through #DefendResearch and our work with EveryLibrary. It doesn't stop here though.

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Love this: "The Forbidden Words Quilt, led by Lorraine Woodruff-Long and Patricia Hickey, is a community quilt project launched in August 2025 and completed in 2026 with contributions from 195 quilters from all 50 U.S. states and D.C. and 5 countries. The quilt features 384 words and phrases […]

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Update. It turns out that the National Academies of Science (#NAS) did 𝗻𝗼𝘁 acquiesce in this #censorship of #climate science. In a short statement (March 11) it said “The manual, including the chapter on #climate science, will continue to be available on the Academy’s website.” […]

Q: to @hughshanahan.bsky.social how do you thinking about the tension btw redundant RI in #openscience and the sustainability issue. The role of commercial actors? A: volunteer networks/redundancy is about the NEXT crisis, not this one. #RDAPlenary2026 #OpenData #DefendResearch

Climate Data Resilience Under Conditions of Institutional Failure Climate and environmental data underpin modern society. They are critical infrastructure that are sustained by professionals. Like all infrastructure, climate data systems face risks. Resilience, ther...

Great paper from @shelleystall.bsky.social and colleagues on #ClimateData #Resilience: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #RDAPlenary2026 #OpenData #DefendResearch

@shelleystall.bsky.social @agu.org position on #OpenData is robust:
1. Equitable access to trust reusable
2.Change culture to recognize data contributions
3. implement metadata standards across disciplines/domains
4. take collective responsibility

#RDAPlenary2026 #DefendResearch

#Resilience framework shared by @jeroenson.bsky.social @jeroenbosman.bsky.social in their blog post upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...

#RDAPlenary2026 #OpenData #DefendResearch

@briannosek.bsky.social 's strategic for cultural change featured in @jeroenson.bsky.social 's #resilience preso #RDAPlenary2026 #opendata #DefendResearch

Climate.us independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

@jeroenson.bsky.social can #openscience rescue? Resilience strategies include @datarescueproject.org Climate.us, alternatives/miroring @europepmc.org OLSPub @openalexix.bsky.social and sustaining/collaborating ORE in EU, carpentries.org/blog/2025/09... #RDAPlenary2026 #opendata #DefendResearch

@jeroenson.bsky.social this is not a "US thing." @unileiden.bsky.social is organizing events around these risks as far right parties take over in Europe and have similar priorities: #RDAPlenary #OpenData #DefendResearch

The resilience of open science in times of crisis The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

@jeroenson.bsky.social 's great thinking on #resilience up next #RDAPlenary #OpenData #DefendResearch upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...