Dr. Autumn Brown

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control - Impact of Social Sciences Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?

“...unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness” (Sagan, 1995).

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Slouching into fascism Are we already past the tipping point?

The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.

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Are you working with Zines in STS? @drfairytalesci.bsky.social and I are bringing together a special issue "The Remix" (publication 2026) - and we'd love your contribution!!

Read more on PULSE, including instructions for submitting an abstract by 1st August: www.pulse-journal.org/cfp-vol-13-2...

"Nature has learnt that, as a result, some staff members are screening candidates’ social-media presences to check whether they have expressed negative views about the Trump administration or been involved in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts...at their institutions." 🧪

“R&D” Means Something Different on Capitol Hill issues.org/information-...

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct, and then penalize the researchers involved"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Save the Endangered Species Act By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. Speak up now to protect endangered species and their habitat — and the Enda...

And if you're not a scientist or part of an organization you can also submit your public comment by May 19th using this link: biodiv.us/3YOLBe6

At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided.

From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives.
We need everyone in this fight.

The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in?

The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU

Ok, time to help us fill the map!

www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight...

I just applied to participate in @agu.org's Days of Action (June 3 & 4) to meet with legislators in Washington, DC to advocate for strong, bipartisan support of science.

You can too ➡️ www.agu.org/science-poli...

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How to leak to a journalist Planning to leak? Read these tips first.

Just in case: www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...

You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.

Letter to Faculty on Self-Censorship and Boldness (opinion) In a letter to fellow faculty, Nolan L. Cabrera argues that self-censorship is not a strategy for self-preservation.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted …" Frederick Douglass

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Resist List They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup. Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact. Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE.

Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

Delighted to release the latest episode of our live Art+Science Salon,"The Science of Sex" featuring panelists whose expertise ranged from cultural anthropology, slime mould, trans-affiriming healthcare, and Hegelian dialectics! Listen here: www.artsciencesalon.org/spotify

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

You do not have to comply with illegal executive orders. I KNOW white people, especially the ones who have power apparently, are congenitally missing a backbone but you. have. cover. here!!!! “We will comply if and when this is proven legal” is a very fair and actually conservative position to take!

We had such a brilliant time talking to the provost of Trinity College Dublin Lind Doyle.

Listen to our chat about art, science and culture here: www.artsciencesalon.org/spotify

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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Reiterating my call to fellow federally-funded scientists: Call your reps, tell them how this hurts science and everything good that comes from science

(Also non-scientists, and scientists without federal funding! But the more of us who can directly speak to the impacts of these freezes the better)

The Art+Science Salon wouldn’t exist without the brilliant minds and creative spirits who’ve joined us along the way. From NASA to CERN, botanical artists to philosophers of mathematics—our community is the beating heart of the Salon.

Delighted to launch our new website: www.artsciencesalon.org

Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.

Let’s share this one more time: advice for US government scientists before the new administration takes over. 🧪🌎

therevelator.org/scientists-m...

The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival Recorded live at Beta Festival '24 in Dublin's Liberties, The Culture File Debate brings together artists Basil Al-Rawi and Conan McIvor, researcher Dr Autumn Brown and historian Ciaran Wallace to exp...

I had a brilliant time with Basil Al-Rawi, Conan McIver and researcher Ciaran Wallace chatting about art, archives, memory, and pleasure on RTE Lyric FM's Culture File.

Thanks to Beta Festival and the panelists for an awesome discussion!

listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...