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Director #openscience @AIPP; political theory PhD dropout; former @PLOS-er; co-author of DefendResearch.org 📜 against #censorship: defendresearch.org #PostsAreMyOwn We're all wonder-wounded stars... ORCiD: 0000-0003-1803-6186
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An important #action today to #DefendResearch: submit your comment opposing the schedule F changes to replace knowledgeable civil servants with political appointees. Remember the MAHA report with fake references--this is just one example of why we need to stop this change!

La vida no es justa. La naturaleza no es justa. Los dioses (en caso de que existan) no son justos. La única justicia que hay en el universo es el ansia y el ideal del ser humano. En eso somos superiores a la vida, a la naturaleza y a los dioses (en caso de que existan).

@crooked.com @thebulwark.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social bulwark + er here. TELL TIM #worldpride

Really innovative act of mutual aid. Another way to @defendresearch.bsky.social #DefendResearch

Thank you Ubiquity( @ubiquityopen.bsky.social) and @brian-hole.bsky.social for speaking out against #censorship and being part of the community working to #DefendResearch! A strong, public, unified voice is essential in this moment!

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Keep it coming! Looking forward to these updates! MMWR back in the hoooooouuuuussseeeeee!

Well? Updates? What’s the word?

This is my only energy right now.

This point really resonated as it came up yesterday in different guises in the sessions on sensitive data and open qual research. There's something about creating frameworks which are flexible enough to allow these differences but are still supportive/offer sufficient guidance

France Pinter - "Frankly, we need to put aside the petty bickering around the minor details of OA models. We need to stand up together against govt, big business, and international adversaries. Find the commonalities, wherever they are otherwise there won't be much left making open." #openscience

Frances Pinter: How should we respond to all of this? Take refuge in the safety of numbers/protect together. Many cannot stand up alone. Form new coalitions w/ unlikely new friends -- easier said than done: vets! And now that's getting squashed: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #openscience

Frances Pinter: Ukraine may be an extreme case - really need to recognize "as open as possible, as closed as necessary" means diff things to diff ppl - must be locally specific and internationally understood. #openscience #openaccess @lselibrary.bsky.social #academisky #scisky

Frances Pinter: ISSN org is working to separate these real/fake ISSNs to maintain the integrity of Ukrainian research. Researchers now keeping work closed in some cases bc it's directly enabling the war. #openscience #openaccess @lselibrary.bsky.social

Frances Pinter: Russians have stolen journals from displaced Ukrainian unis - those in Russian occupied territories. "Stolen?" How can this be? Russians appropriated the ISSNs and recreated look/feel of journals and are pretending the unis are still producing research - mis/dis info #openscience

Frances Pinter: #openaccess in Ukraine was always about lack of funds - journals/books published by uni communities. Digitization was a godsend and enabled greater reach. Now has 200+ journals openly available on OJS. #academicsky #scisky #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

Frances Pinter taking the #openscience #openaccess convo to "real life" - research in Ukraine while dodging actual physical attacks. #academicsky #scisky #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

@eve.gd - do we need to rethink what #openaccess is for now that many reseachers/teachers really do not like where it has brought us. You can't "hide" from ANYTHING when everything is available. If you feel "at-risk" or targeted, is OA good? #academicsky #scisky #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

@eve.gd text and data mining has always been a "benefit" of #openaccess - the natural endpoint of those TDM policies/demands was always feeding #LLMs and #GenAI. You can't "hide" from the machines by publishing behind paywalls misunderstands how these tools work. #academicsky #scisky #openscience

Phew! Relieved my left/right take on #openaccess #openscience isn't a far cry from @eve.gd 's take. Of course he's bringing a ton of nuance that I didn't! #academicsky #scisky #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

@eve.gd #openaccess based on argument that taxpayers paid so they should be able to read it = neoliberal approach to transparency/accountability. #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

@eve.gd flagging the chilling effects of the attacks on science and #censorship and how they might undermine #openaccess = researchers saying they WANT paywalls bc it gives them "cover" to openly discuss findings w/o govt incursion/threat. (SR - this is bananas). #openscience @lselibrary.bsky.social

The Stand Together Toolkit is excellent!! www.standtogetherhighered.org/s/Stand-Toge... #AcademicSky

#censorship continues to be a daily practice of this admin. Consider signing the declaration to #DefendResearch and fight back @defendresearch.bsky.social - more from the guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We need to call out #censorship when it's happening. Researchers, share your testimonials if your grants are getting cut because of this "screening" (anonymously is fine). Your stories help the rest of us in our calls to elected officials, etc.! defendresearch.org

Most impressive aspect of @nationalacademies.org #StateofScience talk? Marcia McNutt CAN COMMUNICATE effectively, clearly, and concisely. I continue to believe that effective communication by scientists themselves is critical to rebuilding trust in science and making science bipartisan again.

BAU approach is failing. Opportunity to regain leadership and upgrade "Endless Frontier" approach. Science needs to be a nonpartisan issue again -- "We have to innovate to the next version of "Endless Frontier."" @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

People don't connect internet/medicine/iPhones as consequences of "investment in science." What have you done for me lately, is always the question. What does funding science do for the average citizen? #FundingHope @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

Action 7: We need to REBUILD TRUST. We have to earn and re-earned. Pandemic = unforced errors. Public believes STM solves problems but need to assure them it's working for ALL. Scientists need to LISTEN to everyday folks. Learn 2 communicate! @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

US Education continues to be a "high value" export (SR speaking of so-called "trade deficits"...) Education returns more to the US economy than natural gas or soybeans. @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

A cutting edge facility in high-energy physics now is too expensive for entire countries in some cases -- ocean, space, and polar exploration won't be possible without/o international cooperation. The current trend is wrong. @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

Action #6: Expand access to international resources - we cannot retreat. Biggest projects require international collab to share cost. "We squander opportunities by not taking advantage of fact that international 🧪 want to work with/ us" @nationalacademies.org #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

Action #5: Reduce red tape/expand processes - too much regulation -- 44.3% time lost from active research instead spent on paperwork. We have to recover lost productivity. AI might help here. Poor use of ppl/time. @nationalacademies.org #StateofScience #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky

#academisky hear this! Improve academic career path by using AI to rescale - cut the rote work, increase efficiency/repro, better match basic research workforce to the positions available. "Right size labs by lowering costs" @nationalacademies.org #StateofScience #sciencesky #scisky

@keckgrad.bsky.social getting a shoutout from Dr. McNutt advocating for better paths to industry from academia. Model is starting to spread nationally - easily transferable to other institutions. @nationalacademies.org #StateofScience #academicsky #sciencesky #scisky