Peter Suber

The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files

This is why the #DOJ took 72 days to release the #Epstein files after Congress ordered it to do so. It had to redact them to protect the privacy of victims.

"The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

GSA ends U.S. participation in ‘open government’ initiative | Federal News Network GSA argued the initiative was ineffective. Civil society experts say it’s another example of the Trump admin turning its back on openness and transparency.

"The #Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from the #OpenGovernmentPartnership, ending for now U.S. engagement with a near 15-year-old initiative aimed at promoting #transparency and combatting #corruption."
federalnewsnetwork.com/open-datatra...

#OpenGovernment #USPol #USPolitics

If universities are going to suspend students for Gaza protests, they’d damn well better have an equivalent response for their white students when they advocate murder.

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

Secret police put a beat down on a grandmother in Oregon, tearing her rotator cuff while pulling her from a car, before dumping out her purse and fleeing the scene after finding a US passport.

Takeaways from AP report on ICE claims that immigrant shattered his skull running into wall A Mexican immigrant was taken to a Minneapolis hospital earlier this month after bones in his face and skull were broken while he was in federal custody.

This is what happens when #ICE violence is 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.

"ICE agents…claimed Alberto Castañeda Mondragón…'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'…But [the hospital said] that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man’s…brain."
apnews.com/article/immi...

Mamdani names reformer Stanley Richards to steer chaotic Rikers complex Exactly one month into his term, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated person to manage the facility.

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner

Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system

@gothamist.com @wnyc.org

gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Donald Trump executive order "imposing new requirements for verifying the U.S. citizenship of people registering to vote or applying to receive absentee ballots."

Another BIG Victory for the Democratic Party and free and fair elections!

😂😂 Lindsey melting down. Blames Mike Johnson for a UNANIMOUS House vote to strip out the provision allowing Lindsey to sue the taxpayers because DOJ got his phone records and vows revenge.

Portland, Maine

www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

True, but surprising to see in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦:

" #Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on. "
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it."

I welcome the new Alliance for Higher Ed ( #AHE ).
allianceforhighered.org

"We stand in opposition to authoritarian policy and actions, financial intimidation, and political interference."

#AcadSky #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky #EduSky
#Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Project Home Emergency Housing Fund All donations support households unable to cover housing costs due to loss of income from ICE enforcement and fear of detention Families in our community are facing an immediate housing crisis. When p...

A friend with Project HOME in Maine is asking for urgent help.

With ICE descending on neighborhoods, people are afraid to go to work—cutting off income and putting families at immediate risk of eviction.

This is a solidarity fund: 100% of donations go straight to rent.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

"Some 10,109 [Ph.D.s] in science and related fields left their jobs last year as President Donald Trump dramatically shrank the overall federal workforce."
www.science.org/content/arti...

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Kudos to #NeilYoung: "I'm honored to give a year's free access [to all my #music] to all of our friends in #Greenland … You can renew for free as long as you are in Greenland."
neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/artic...

Rolling Stone article about this.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports

"Morale is plummeting among #ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

More evidence that protests work, sometimes.

#Trump #USPol #USPolitics

When #Trump and #Vance were boosting false rumors that Haitian migrants in Ohio were killing cats and dogs (Sept 2024), I started a #Mastodon thread on prominent #Republicans who actually killed cats and dogs.
fediscience.org/@petersuber/...

Doug Hamlin (of the #NRA) is just one in a long list.

America's Censored Campuses: DefendResearch.org and PEN America discuss US academic censorship 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...

We are proud to be launching our webinar series on the dangers of #censorship in research and education by hosting a discussion with @penamerica.bsky.social about their new report "America's Censored Campuses" Register soon and share! tinyurl.com/437aybub #DefendResearch #ScholComm #SciSky

Trump is wrong.

The US already operates a major military base in Greenland today and monitors missiles and regional threats from there. Existing agreements with Denmark allow the US to expand its military presence as needed.

Owning Greenland would not improve U.S. defenses.

screen shot of trumpcensorship.com dashboard including timeline, map, and bar charts in red, white, and blue

‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began.

From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.

4/ Please share this call with your networks.

Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.

3/ If your org is interested but could not do the work on its own, consider doing it in partnership with some other nonprofit orgs. Several very capable ones already expressed interest but are unable to take the lead.

2/ The main qualifications are strong interests in (1) staying on top of what's happening in #OpenAccess, (2) sharing what you learn, (3) recruiting, training, and motivating the crowd for a crowd-sourced project, and (4) applying for grants as needed to enhance OATP and/or TagTeam.

1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project ( #OATP, @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy ) and the open-source software on which it runs.

Details in this Google doc:
bit.ly/TransferOATP

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm

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Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film ICE agents for future prosecutions • Minnesota Reformer “News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities,” Walz said.

1. "Gov. Tim Walz encourages Minnesotans to film #ICE agents for future prosecutions."
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/14/g...

2. "How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE."
archive.is/ZBjKV

#FirstAmendment #LittleBrother #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

The 2025 edition of the #AcademicFreedom Index ranks the United States in the fourth decile, below Madagascar and Mongolia. (See Fig 8.)
academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
#AcadSky #AcademicSky #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Researchers May Be Forced to Rely on an Obscure Court The Supreme Court has said legal fights over terminated federal grants “likely” belong in the Court of Federal Claims. But judges there lack authority to restore them.

"The Supreme Court has said legal fights over terminated federal grants 'likely' belong in the Court of Federal Claims. But judges there lack authority to restore them."
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

#DefendResearch #Funding #Grants #SCOTUS #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last?

TIL that Alexander McMillan subsidized 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 for 30 years until it began to make a profit.
www.asimov.press/p/nature

#ScholComm

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand