Peter Suber
I post to #Mastodon more than #Bluesky. But see my bridge account for many of those M posts (Sorry, doesn't work for M threads.)
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
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- Reposted by Peter SuberCongratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪
- Reposted by Peter SuberOverseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Reposted by Peter SuberTrump's budget cuts: -$4.5B from programs for students in high-poverty schools -$49M from the Ed Dept's civil rights office -$26B from state rental assistance -$4B from low-income home energy assistance -$20B+ from the CDC and NIH All to give the rich another tax cut.
- Reposted by Peter SuberA federal judge has halted Trump's attempt to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services — the agency which provides federal funding to libraries and museums. District court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. issued an injunction, stating that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
- Reposted by Peter Suber1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵
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- Reposted by Peter SuberThe Constitution forbids bribery *3 separate times*. So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason. The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.
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- #Trump has vacillated on #healthcare about as much as he's vacillated on #tariffs. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... #Medicine #USPol #USPolitics
- Reposted by Peter SuberI talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- A new bill from NJ State Rep Kevin Miller (R) "mandates the euthanasia of a #dog if it has killed or seriously injured a person after due process." ohiohouse.gov/news/republi... PS: Why punish the dog if it gave the victim due process?
- #RFKJr has ordered the #NIH to stop studying #ebola and half a dozen other fatal infectious diseases. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni... #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
- Reposted by Peter SuberSCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.
- I just did an interview for @zbw-leibniz.bsky.social on the impact of #Trump admin actions on US research and higher education. Thanks to @avatter.de for the good questions. www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/pete... #Academicsky #Acadsky #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics
- People receiving an #NIH grant must now promise not to participate in #DEI programs or any boycott of #Israel or companies doing business in Israel. NIH calls this a #CivilRights condition on the grant. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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- "If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and treatment."
- I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new @NewYorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵 www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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- Kudos to these 200+ brave people for signing their names to an open letter criticizing #Trump for retaliating against critics. * their open letter statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u... * an NYTimes article about it www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...
- Reposted by Peter Suber🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net
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- New #Trump admin position on its letter to #Harvard: It was a mistake but we're standing by it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b... Trump : Harvard :: Trump : Kilmar Abrego Garcia #Acadsky #Academicsky #Edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- The US #StateDepartment "will no longer call govts out for…denying freedom of movement & peaceful assembly…retaining political prisoners w/o due process or restrictions on 'free and fair elections.'" www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n... #HumanRights #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
- New study: Graduate students in #STEM "often conflate issues around #copyright and #plagiarism and have little understanding of their own ownership over the materials they create." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... #ScholComm
- Juxtaposing two corporate trends: Pride rallies are losing sponsors… www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-... …and advertisers are returning to #Twitter/X. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ma... #Corporations #USPol #USPolitics
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- 1/ Kudos to #Harvard for standing up to the #Trump admin. 🧵 #AcadSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- A US immigration court has ruled that a peaceful protest for #Palestinian rights is a national security risk justifying #deportation. apnews.com/article/mahm... #MahmoudKhalil "isn’t accused of breaking any laws during the protests at #Columbia." #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
- It's not your imagination. Evidence-based speeches in Congress have been in "decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity…increasing partisan polarization in Congress and rising income inequality." www.nature.com/articles/s41... #USPol #USPolitics
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- "Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws" mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m... "One of the now deleted research collections focused on 'race relations' and the other on 'gender studies'.” #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
- "Marks Says He Was Forced Out of #FDA for Trying to Protect #Vaccine Safety #Data" www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth... #Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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- Reposted by Peter Suber“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)
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- More than 1 million reasons to think US #healthcare will decline further in the #Trump years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... (#paywalled) "More than 1 million noncitizen immigrants (one-third of them undocumented) work in health care in the US." #USPol #USPolitics
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- 𝗧𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱: Moms for Liberty removing books from elementary school libraries for age-inappropriate discussions of sex 𝗪𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱: Defense Dept removing books from US Naval Academy library for promoting diversity, equity, & inclusion apnews.com/article/mili... #BookBans #Censorship #DEI #Libraries #Trump
- Some of my thoughts on #AI are quoted in the new @elonuniversity.bsky.social report, _Being Human in 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI?_ imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/u... I'm grateful to be in such good company.
- Thank you to former @harvard.edu President #DerekBok for recommending that #Harvard abolish #legacy admissions. www.ft.com/content/32c1... #AcadSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
- Reposted by Peter SuberExcited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25
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- "75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving" www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #ECR #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Wow @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- I'm surprised to see this @newrepublic.com defense of higher ed focus almost entirely on the #economy. There's so much more to say. But that's part of the story and this piece does that part well. newrepublic.com/article/1932... #Acadsky #AcademicSky #EduSky #Trump @academic-chatter.bsky.social
- " #TheGuardian has recreated a searchable #climate future risk tool developed by #FEMA but then deleted. " www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Censorship #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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- New study: "NIH investment in drugs approved from 2010 to 2019 was not less than investment by the pharmaceutical industry." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... PS: Relevant to (1) #Trump admin cutbacks to #NIH funding and (2) industry #patents and licensing terms on approved drugs. #Medicine #Pharma
- See my Mastodon thread for many other examples of this mistake. fediscience.org/@petersuber/... #ScholComm
- Here's another piece that made it through peer review (at Oxford UP) falsely assuming that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. doi.org/10.1093/ejct... The author concludes that there is *not* too much OA, but only because APC discounts and waivers exist. #ScholComm
- Reposted by Peter Suber“Elias Law Group will not be deterred from fighting for democracy in court. There will be no negotiation with this White House about the clients we represent or the lawsuits we bring on their behalf."
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- Delusional. But also a tell. "Commerce secretary #HowardLutnick suggested this week that only 'fraudsters' would complain about missing a monthly #SocialSecurity check, and that most people wouldn't mind if the government simply skipped a payment." www.axios.com/2025/03/21/s...
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- "Here’s what repealing #Section230 would actually do: remove the law that explicitly protects websites when they resist government pressure to censor speech." #Censorship #Internet #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
- Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
- Reposted by Peter SuberOkay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
- Reposted by Peter SuberTonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
- #Publishers fear that #libraries will stop buying books on #DEI topics. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But the article offers no evidence that the publisher fears are justified. Has anyone seen evidence libraries plan to cut back on new titles on DEI topics? #Censorship #SelfCensorship
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- Watching with interest. US-based #KnowledgeCommons plans to co-locate in Europe and South Africa in order to preserve academic research beyond the control of the US govt. Good luck, @kfitz.info. about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/d... #Preservation
- Reposted by Peter SuberLe Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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- Reposted by Peter SuberThey're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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- I like the idea of #Docs, an #OpenSource alternative to G Docs developed by the French & German govts, compliant with #GDPR, and hosted outside the US. docs.numerique.gouv.fr But I'm having trouble finding reviews, perhaps bc it's new or bc it has such a generic name. Can anyone point to reviews?
- " #Trump Executive Order Targets #IMLS for Closure " www.wordsandmoney.com/trump-execut... If some parts of IMLS are "statutorily required" and cannot be shut down by an executive order, the order gives #OMB seven days to show it. #DefendResearch #Funding #Libraries #USPol #USPolitics
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- New study: "In the first three years after accusations became public, scholars accused of sexual misconduct incur a larger citation penalty than scholars accused of scientific misconduct…[But scholars predicted] the reverse pattern." doi.org/10.1371/jour... #ScholComm
- Reposted by Peter SuberopenRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
- "The United States has been added to the #Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global #CivilRights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 in civic freedoms." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
- Heard at yesterday Stand Up For Science rally in Washington: Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said he was glad to be in a crowd with so many "mad scientists." www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth... Other good lines from Francis Collins, Bill Nye, and former Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI). #DefendResearch
- New study: When journals publish "potentially untrustworthy" papers & must decide whether to issue a retraction, expression of concern, correction, or vindication, "it took a median time of 38 months for editors and publishers to decide." obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ScholComm
- The Stand Up For Science rally starts in two hours (noon ET). drive.google.com/file/d/1T5Cn... Project home page standupforscience2025.org #DefendResearch #StandUpForScience2025
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- The @apsphysics.bsky.social (American Physical Society #APS) is running a survey on the impact of cuts to US science #funding. Please take it if you're affected or likely to be affected. apsphysics.fillout.com/t/6ESUv
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- Reposted by Peter SuberI got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
- Kudos to the Society of College, National and University Libraries (#SCONUL) for its open letter opposing the #Clarivate decision to stop letting #libraries buy perpetual access to #books. www.sconul.ac.uk/News/View?g=... #AcademicSky #EduSky #LibrarySky #ScholComm
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- Here's the #Trump Dept of Education form "to report illegal discriminatory practices" in #schools. But it's really about #DEI. (See the URL.) enddei.ed.gov I hope some parents take it at its word and report #prayer in public schools and the removal of #books from #libraries. #BookBans #Censorship
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- "Although many medical journal #editors have made their position known, medical #publishers are, for now, conspicuously silent…The collective resolve of the medical publishing industry is being put to the test." #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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