Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

IN ONE WEEK, how can scholars resist in emerging autocracies? #DefendResearch and @vkempe.bsky.social share lessons from research behind the Iron Curtain. 📅 Wednesday, August 12th @ 11 AM EST 📍 Register for Zoom at tinyurl.com/defendresear... #censorship #EduSky #SciSky #research

"What happens to the scientific record when traditional journal publication is no longer a viable path to disseminate research?" Read more in @upstreamblog.bsky.social post by @csmarcum.bsky.social & @neurosarda.bsky.social #Preprints #DefendResearch #PeerReview upstream.force11.org/community-pe...

Community Peer Review for Resistance and Resilience

Growing concerns about political interference over what is allowed to be published, funder limits on paying publication fees, and rapid reductions in organizations' staff have all recently strained tr...

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If you're as outraged about this as I am then @everylibrary.bsky.social has made it easy to contact your senators & representatives to ask them to resist #censorship civicmail.org/about-campai...

Don't Ban Books in the United States

Across the country, politicians are trying to decide what Americans are allowed to read. Books are being pulled from school shelves, challenged in public libraries, and targeted for removal not becaus

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Mark@ferl67.bsky.social · 2d ago

Federal court allows Arkansas to start enforcing its book ban, ending 3-year injunction www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/fede... #Books #BookBan #Arkansas #USA

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Many thanks to @lschiff.bsky.social Anna Culbertson of @27unihted.bsky.social Eric Rubin of @nejm.org & @gazelleindminor.bsky.social for sharing their thoughts on what next re #OMB proposed rule change in today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/03/a...

Ask the Community: What’s Next for the OMB Rule Change? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today, we asked the community: What key message(s) do you want policymakers to take from the responses submitted to the OMB?

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Register for our 8/12 #DefendResearch webinar with @vkempe.bsky.social in conversation with @rouhiroo.bsky.social discussing “What Can I Really Do? Behavioural Choices for Scholars in Past and Emerging Autocracies” us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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What can today's researchers learn from those who have worked under authoritarian rule? Drawing on her experience as a scholar behind the Iron Curtain, Dr. Kempe will examine how authoritarian gover...

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This is what I worry most about. And I have literally no idea if the Dems are even thinking about how to fix all the damage thats been, being, and will be done 😱😱😱

Dr. Jack Brown@drjackbrown.bsky.social · last wk.

If undoing Trump's damage would only take 4 years, we'd be lucky beyond words. It's going to take much longer than that. We must rebuild everything better – and, crucially, to guard against future tyrants.

You may have never heard of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. But they are the only federal agency supporting work that brings basic research & discovery down to practice: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/s...

Health Care Agency Discontinues Dozens of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality slowed the awarding of new grants last year. Now it is stopping existing ones.

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INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

Really interesting @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post about scholarly publishing & the #SDGs in Bangladesh by the always thought-provoking @irfanullah.bsky.social & 3 of his colleagues. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/21/h...

How Bangladesh Is Reducing The North-South Divide In Scholarly Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen

Four Bangladeshi academics touch upon different aspects of academic publishing by linking them with the SDGs: accessing research; equity in co-authorship; editorial leadership; and SDG framing.

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I love love loved working on this paper with the @crossref.bsky.social team -- special thanks to @ginsta.bsky.social @qornik.bsky.social & Rocio Gaudioso Pedraza 😊

ore-consulting.bsky.social@ore-consulting.bsky.social · 2w ago

Delighted to see this @crossref.bsky.social position paper on #PIDs in national research strategies published! Proud to have played a part in getting it over the finish line & hope it will be useful to policymakers, funders & implementers of national strategies. www.crossref.org/publications...

"academia is “a profession built around individual autonomy that is now trying to solve collective problems.” Gt @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social by Lisa Colledge - 1st in a 2-parter on whether today's research system can evolve to support changing needs scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/20/g...

Guest Post — Why Research Expectations Have Outpaced the Systems That Enabled Them (Part 1) - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's guest blogger questions the operating model around scholarly research and asks why these capabilities are so difficult to sustain at scale.

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It's been amazing to see the response to our #DefendResearch webinar series -- attendance keeps on growing thanks to our excellent speakers & great moderation by @rouhiroo.bsky.social. The fact that registration is FREE probably helps too 😂🥰 Hope to see you at this next one!

#DefendResearch@defendresearch.bsky.social · 2w ago

What can today’s researchers learn from those who have worked under authoritarian rule? Join #DefendResearch & @vkempe.bsky.social on Aug 12 for a conversation about lessons from scholarship behind the Iron Curtain. Register tinyurl.com/defendresearch-aug26 #censorship #EduSky #SciSky #research

It's becoming harder and harder to disprove the belief that this Adminstration is trying to kill you, by sweeping research that would lead to procedures that would increase life expectancy (or suing companies for better care) under the table.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w ago

"As of Friday afternoon, more than 70 projects that had won an estimated $185 million in funding commitments had received these 'nonaward' ... That’s roughly half of all the active grants AHRQ had listed this week."

That was the most INSANE match I have ever seen!!!!! But YAY!!!!!!

Mike Lindell, a leader of the election denial movement who was endorsed by President Trump for Minnesota governor this week, acknowledged that he is not registered to vote in his home state. nyti.ms/3REK2zf

Remembering my darling dad today more than ever - 10 years after he died and I still miss him and mum every day ❤️❤️❤️ www.theguardian.com/science/2016...

Jack Meadows obituary

Other lives: Scientist who founded the astronomy department at Leicester University

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At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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Actually, 100s of thousands (not just thousands) pushed back against Vought's proposal -- nearly 500k comments were received, almost all of which objected to the changes

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: Artists, academics, city leaders, civil engineers, congressional lawmakers, doctors, housing experts and more are among the many critics of a White House push to subject $1T in federal grants to political review. In short, they say it would damage public services www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

FYI, you can still register for tomorrow's webinar with "The Anti-Autocracy Handbook" co-author @lewan.uk in conversation with #DefendResearch co-founder @rouhiroo.bsky.social discussing "Risk, Reality, and Opportunities to Resist Democratic Backsliding in Higher Ed" us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Authoritarian Playbook: Risk, reality and opportunities to resist democratic backsliding in higher ed. After registering, you will receive a confirmatio...

Universities are often among the first institutions targeted during democratic backsliding. From censorship and political pressure to self-censorship and coerced compliance, authoritarian movements se...

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This 👇👇👇 OMB proposed rule changes #DefendResearch

Meta’s AI Detector Can’t Detect Images It Generated Itself, Report Finds gizmodo.com/metas-ai-det...

Meta's AI Detector Can't Detect Images It Generated Itself, Report Finds

Once the images were cropped, the detection tool began to struggle, according to Reuters.

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Great to see this piece about the #OMB proposed rule change in @theguardian.com but please note that the deadline for commenting is July 13 not 14 as stated here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky

New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts

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Great contribution to @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social posts on #OMB proposal by @kawulf.bsky.social & Sarah Weicksel of @historians.org - a timely reminder that it’s “always also about the #humanities” scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/10/t...

The OMB Guidance Revision Threatens All Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

The OMB proposed revision is about all research — and humanities research is just as vulnerable as STEM.

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Continuing @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social's series of posts on the #OMB proposed rule change, it's great to get a #library perspective today from @marcellaflamme.bsky.social of @arl.org scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/09/g...

Guest Post — Why Research Libraries Oppose the OMB Revisions to the Uniform Guidance - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's post explains how the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) is resisting the proposed rule changes for US federal grants.

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Had my 1st random @silverchairnews.bsky.social hat inspired #PeerReview conversation today. I ❤️ Boston #NerdCity

Many thanks to Jessica Miles for sharing insights from scientific societies about the #OMB proposed changes in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today. “A ‘Going Out of Business’ Sign on the Storefront of American Science” scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/08/g...

Guest Post — Where Do We Go From Here? How Scientific Societies are Thinking about the Proposed OMB Funding Rule - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today's post features conversations with society publishing leaders resisting the proposed OMB rule change for federal research funding.

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Top of my to do list for today: Submit comment on #OMB proposed rule change ✔️ #DefendResearch

V happy to join fellow chefs @lyconrad.bsky.social @irfanullah.bsky.social @rharington1.bsky.social & Roy Kaufman in sharing thoughts on the proposed #OMB rule change in today's @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/07/a... More posts on this to follow!

Ask the Chefs: How Are You Responding to the OMB Proposed Rule Changes for US Research Funding? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today, we ask the Chefs how they (or their organizations) are responding to the proposed changes to how US federal research grant funds can be used.

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