Climate scientists publish natl climate assessment after Trump admin halts publication of 6th natl assessment www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

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Oh yeah it’s fat bear week again! explore.org/fat-bear-week

Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org

Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...

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Final report of @archive.org Information Stewardship Forum 2026: Creating Community and Purpose Around US Government Information. Thanks @merrileeiam.bsky.social and everyone who attended. Hope there will be a 2027 forum!! archive.org/details/ia-i...

Information Stewardship Forum 2026: Creating Community and Purpose Around US Government Information

A report from the inaugural Information Stewardship Forum, a three-day convening hosted by the Internet Archive in San Francisco on March 18–20, 2026, that brought together 120 people working to prese...

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The panel examines how government websites, datasets, public health guidance & other records can be altered, removed or lost, & the role of libraries, archives & civil society in safeguarding public knowledge. #democracyslibrary #InternetArchive @merrileeiam.bsky.social @csmarcum.bsky.social

Government information was meant to be distributed, & libraries play a key role in making the public record available. On the Future Knowledge #podcast, Merrilee Proffitt, James Jacobs & Christopher Marcum discuss why preserving it matters. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the... 🧵

📚 What happens when a library doesn’t just preserve knowledge, but gives people the tools to use it? Find out at Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation, an IN-PERSON Internet Archive event. 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902...

ATLAS will support 100 government and partner institutions with training and access to Archive-It and Vault. It will also develop an access portal and toolkit. The Internet Archive is partnering with the Council of State Archivists on the two-year project. #Archives #PublicRecords @archive.org

Local and state government records help communities understand their history and participate in public life. But digital records can be hard to preserve and access. The Internet Archive’s new ATLAS program will help address that. Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/a... 🧵

very cool visualization of the federal govt (and SF city govt!). It shows every piece of the govt with who’s connected to what entity and the latest news about that entity. freegovinfo.info/node/15071/

Check out US gov graph network visualization of the US (and SF!) government. Thanks CivLab - Free Government Information (FGI)

Wow check out this very cool visualization of the federal govt (and SF city govt!) called US GOV GRAPH. CivLab has built a complete data model of the United States federal government – entities, posit...

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So rude of me to not include a link to the original report! Go nuts, folks. secretariat-intl.com/wp-content/u...

Libraries being bad for capitalism is good for society, actually. #SorryNotSorry 📚 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Study Says Library E-book Lending Hurts Industry Sales

Amid new attempts by states to legislate e-book agreements between publishers and libraries, a new report from the AAP and Authors Guild found that increased e-book lending at libraries is threatening...

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📣 Exciting updates from the DRP! We've got a new #datarescue workflow and several upcoming office hours. ⚓ www.datarescueproject.org/new-workflow...

New Data Rescue Workflow and Fall Office Hours

Since our earliest days, we have used a Google spreadsheet to track and manage the dataset rescue workflow, ensuring that data identified as at-risk are preserved, curated, and made accessible. The…

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⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.

1/ In a gross violation of basic scientific integrity principles, Trump’s Commerce Department has deleted “protection from inappropriate influence” from the scientific integrity policy that governs the Census, weather forecasting, and other vital public data sets.🧵⬇️

Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report

After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.

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Great idea for FOIAs!

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 3w ago

Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.

🎉 COS has established an independent subsidiary organization in Brussels! While the Belgian organization is legally independent from COS in the US, it will not operate separately—it's part of one integrated, global COS organization with a shared mission, strategy, & brand

A New Chapter for COS in Europe

The Center for Open Science (COS) has officially established an independent subsidiary organization in Brussels, Belgium. This presence gives COS flexibility to engage with European institutions, organizations, funders, and communities.

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"In an alternate universe where Rs were held to the same standard, the Trump admin would already be saddled w/the term 'Trumpflation.' Predictably, Trump is trying to shift blame elsewhere: Biden, Canada, the Fed. But Trump owns it — & he should, because his short-sighted policies created it."

Trumpflation is here

He broke it, he bought it.

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register for #DefendResearch 9/15 webinar re surfacing aggregate impact of censorship in public health and creating tools to strengthen efforts to fight back. "From Anecdote to Evidence: Mapping the Impact of US Government Censorship on Public Health Research"  us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: From Anecdote to Evidence: Mapping the Impact of US Government Censorship on Public Health Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation emai...

Since January 2025, public health and epidemiology research in the United States has faced funding withdrawals, data removal, and institutional pressure — but the evidence has so far remained largely ...

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Internet Archive Receives #IMLS Grant to Expand Access to Local and State Government Information (via @archive.org) blog.archive.org/2026/09/10/a... #archives #funding

"Fight for the public record" Future Knowledge podcast hosted by @archive.org and @authorsalliance.bsky.social. Conversation with @merrileeiam.bsky.social @csmarcum.bsky.social and yours truly. freegovinfo.info/node/15067/

We're doing an event September 15 with the brilliant Julia Stoyanovich of NYU, who is trying to get all these bots under control. NYC, free, snacks! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_S... luma.com/aboard-qmfz

Who’s Responsible for AI? A conversation with Julia Stoyanovich and Paul Ford · Luma

Join Aboard for a conversation with Dr. Julia Stoyanovich, NYU professor and director of the Center for Responsible AI, about what it means to build and use AI…

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Rothfritz, Laura. "Data Rescue Revisited: Episodic Invisibility, Activism, and Institutional Gaps." Library Trends, vol. 75 no. 1, 2026, p. 28-49. dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.....

FYI a job posting at Stanford Libraries. Could be a cool job! fa-exuf-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Sure would be nice if @sfmuni.bsky.social 55 would align with Caltrain. I was coming up the stairs at 22nd st Caltrain station with 6 others and the 55 drive off instead of waiting 10 seconds so we could board. #fail.

Final analysis of the analysis: "The report lacks methodological rigor, transparency, and accountability."

James R Jacobs@freegovinfo.bsky.social · last mo.

Solid analysis of the Census "report" on noncitizen voting. TLDR it's complete bunk! Thanks Massive Data institute. mdi.georgetown.edu/response-to-...

Solid analysis of the Census "report" on noncitizen voting. TLDR it's complete bunk! Thanks Massive Data institute. mdi.georgetown.edu/response-to-...

The life of the hugely influential ‘people’s historian’ is explored in a wide-ranging new book that brings in everything from wars to civil rights to Matt Damon

‘Like if John Sayles directed Forrest Gump’: the incredible life of historian Howard Zinn

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DC area friends. We hope to see you this eve at @politicsprose.bsky.social with @edgeofsports.bsky.social for talk about Dave Zirin's new book about Howard Zinn. Or join us next Thursday at BBP -- or both! More tour dates: www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th... politics-prose.com/david-zirin-...

Dave Zirin — The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn — at Conn Ave

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