Standing Against Censorship in Research Why We Signed the Declaration to Defend Scholarly Freedom

Many thanks to @everylibrary.bsky.social for signing the Declaration to #DefendResearch against US government censorship & for sharing this powerful statement about why they did so!
www.everylibraryinstitute.org/standing_aga...

One of the more obsequious, facile and quietly unhinged statements I've read in a long time, which is perfectly aligned with the nature of this business decision

Brave powerful stuff

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Is Digital-first Publishing Finally a Reality? An Interview with Liz Ferguson of Wiley - The Scholarly Kitchen We're finally seeing a move to truly digital-first publishing systems and in today's post Alice Meadows interviews Liz Ferguson of Wiley about this transition, including their own Research Exchange pl...

For today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social I got to talk to my old @wiley.com colleague Liz Ferguson about the rise of digital end-to-end publishing systems including Wiley's Research Exchange (REX) scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/01/i...

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Many of these sites were restored under a court order (if laws still apply). We urge data rescue groups to ensure webpages are archived and local public health agencies to use caution when linking to CDC sites.

Consider alternate sources. 💔

Time to cancel my Disney subscription 🤬🤬🤬

I hope all state governors will pay attention

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In a couple of hours I’ll be moderating a #NISOPlus2025 panel on the @pkp.sfu.ca Publication Facts Label w/ John Willinsky of PKP, Hannah Heckner Swain of @silverchairnews.bsky.social & Jane Taylor of @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
Hope to see you there!

If you're attending #NISOPlus2025 I hope you'll join me tomorrow (9/16) at 11 ET for a thought-provoking discussion w/ @epentz.bsky.social Peter Suber & @tteleen.bsky.social on Is Scholarly #Metadata a Tool of Resistance or a Point of Vulnerability?
nisoplusglobalonline.cadmore.media/Home

Delay in Brookline's annual audit, caused by accounting firm consolidation, worries town's finance director - Brookline.News The annual audit for fiscal year 2024 is six months late, and town officials say they are trying to get answers from accounting firm CBIZ.

One for the municipal policy wonks (and hopefully maybe a few other people): Brookline's annual audit is delayed by six months, part of a newly-emerging statewide problem caused by rapid consolidation in the accounting industry and unresponsive big firms.

brookline.news/delay-in-bro...

Ask the Chefs: What’s a Bold Experiment with AI in Peer Review You’d Like to See Tested? - The Scholarly Kitchen To kick off Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs, What’s a bold experiment with AI in peer review you’d like to see tested?

Welcome to #PeerReviewWeek2025 on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social - many thanks to @roohighosh.bsky.social & Maryam Sayab for this years week of posts incl today’s thoughts from @irfanullah.bsky.social Tim Vines, Hong Zhou, Maryam & me scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/15/a...

‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved Bride finally tracks down awkward-looking stranger she and husband noticed only when looking through photos

A fun Friday post for your reading enjoyment 😊
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

#censorship in action
#DefendResearch

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Revisited: On Being a Leader Who Happens to Be a Woman of Color  - The Scholarly Kitchen Three women of color revisit their conversation with Alice Meadows during the first Trump administration, in the light of their new positions and today's political environment.

It was a pleasure to work with Salina Gray, Raquel Tamez & Rochelle L. Williams on this update to their 2019 @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social interview on being leaders who are women of color. My thanks to them for sharing their wisdom & experience 6 years on
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/08/r...

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.

So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

I'm really looking forward to both of these (very different!) sessions. Great speakers with lots of interesting ideas to share!And as @nisoinfo.bsky.social conferences always focus on concrete outcomes, hopefully we'll be able to make some of those ideas a reality 😊

No spoilers please @leerandall.bsky.social - we don't get it here until Friday!

senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽

Trump revokes Secret Service detail for Harris that Biden had extended The move by Donald Trump, who faced Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, comes as she prepares to travel nationwide for a book tour.

President Trump has revoked the Secret Service detail for former vice president Kamala Harris, extended by President Biden, about a month before Harris is scheduled to embark on a national book tour.

And here's the @orcid.org white paper itself in case you're interested 😊
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

ORCID launched more than a decade ago, but has yet to fulfil its potential Many author-identifier profiles are ‘empty’, making it difficult to track who’s publishing what.

It’s not every day (or ever actually!) that I get quoted in @nature.com - this piece about @orcid.org draws on my @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post on our recent @morebrains.coop white paper 🥰
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And now Trump & co are outright destroying it 🤬😢

😢🤬😢🤬

I’m looking forward to what should be an interesting & thought-provoking discussion between @lschiff.bsky.social who initiated the Declaration to #DefendResearch against US govt #censorship & reps from 2 orgs that signed it - @cilip.bsky.social & @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social
Thanks to them all!

There are way fewer of these weird but amazing crabs in the Wellfleet bay near us than there were when we first started visiting 25+ years ago 😢