I absolutely love seeing how the torrent of the removed Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports on #SciOp has reached >100 seeders 💜✊🏳️‍⚧️ https://sciop.net/datasets/amnesty-uk-2026-anti-rights-reports

"NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02574-6 "The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project." #DefendResearch #Funding #NSF #Trump […]

Would anyone here be interested in designing 2-3 custom emojis for use in the @SafeguardingResearch community? Sadly, I can only offer gratitude and public acknowledgement in return :/

New post: Understanding Federal Data Loss & Future Directions thanks to @dataindex.us and Christopher Marcum. www.datarescueproject.org/data-loss-re...

Understanding Federal Data Loss and Future Directions

At just about every presentation, webinar, interview, and hackathon, not to mention in-passing conversations and speculative Bluesky posts, we’re asked: “But exactly how many datasets have been remove...

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> "Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from https://dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Has anyone contacts with either the NDSU Department of Mathematics or the American Mathematical Society? We're asking re https://mathgenealogy.org, which has been offline for at least a couple of weeks and just came back online today. #mathematics #NDSU #AMS

This #MemeMonday we want to call attention to a serious problem: data that aren't properly documented. In our #Community of #DataRescuers, we know just how important it is to have robust documentation to understand (and use!!) datasets.

@gilduran.com Hi! I'm working with @SafeguardingResearch on preserving scientific data & cultural artifacts that are at-risk of being deleted from public access. We're using BitTorrent to keep the data alive; see https://sciop.net for more I'm currently downloading all videos on your YouTube […]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@kula/117089594051003540 The first in a series of events with us & #SciOp: August 27-28 10am-3:30pm at UVic Libraries (Canada), courtesy of @kula See quoted post and/or here https://lib.uvic.ca/safeguard

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117056274501107892 We saw @4thievesvinegar announcing their "So long and thanks for all the meds!" & raise you a torrent of all their materials: https://sciop.net/datasets/four-thieves-vinegar Not a rescue, but worthy of preservation nonetheless ✊

"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced the closure of the National Archives at San Francisco and its adjacent Federal Records Center [...] within three years. Save OUR National Archives (SONA) has learned from sources that the move of records [...] could begin as […]

Another part of the Deleted Data series by the @theguardian.com This time on #SaveOurSigns! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks against Trump administration censorship

Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them

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Some very good 'news among' all the bleak and worrisome stuff: Because of my hiatus, I completely missed the news re 700TB of #CulturalHeritage data from the Smithsonian. Last September, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School came trough (again) <3 […]

"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced the closure of the National Archives at San Francisco and its adjacent Federal Records Center [...] within three years. Save OUR National Archives (SONA) has learned from sources that the move of records [...] could begin as […]

We got another safeguarding request, this time about #reddit data: Since 2015, Pushshift has been collecting public reddit data and made it accessible to researches via academictorrents. But in late July, they were asked to take them down and complied. The torrent-metadata was/is still […]

Over on Bluesky, Alex Ip - a reporter with The Xylom - noticed the date for FY2024-FY2025 of the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub is missing. This is public data on employers who have submitted petitions to employ H-1B nonimmigrant workers. We got in touch and added the partial copies he managed to […]

Over on Bluesky, Alex Ip - a reporter with The Xylom - noticed the date for FY2024-FY2025 of the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub is missing. This is public data on employers who have submitted petitions to employ H-1B nonimmigrant workers. We got in touch and added the partial copies he managed to […]

Amnesty International UK caved and removed two of their anti-rights briefings: - “Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK” (May 2026) - “A Growing Threat – the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK.” (July 2026) Both contain 'gender critical' as a new category […]

Last week, it was brought to our attention that a part of our mission statement was very badly worded. The phrase "in a way that traditional archives cannot" caused harm. While we never intended to insult and devalue, it happened nevertheless. We regret this phrasing deeply - frankly, it's […]

Last week, it was brought to our attention that a part of our mission statement was very badly worded. The phrase "in a way that traditional archives cannot" caused harm. While we never intended to insult and devalue, it happened nevertheless. We regret this phrasing deeply - frankly, it's […]

3. @julian will be presenting some of the work surrounding #SciOp at @berlinfediday September 11.-13. in Berlinhttps://fietkau.social/@julian/116878314582792293 4. Big thanks to everyone who has been a part of our community and contributed time, energy, and insights to the preservation of […]

2. We will be closing our Discourse forum (https://forum.safeguar.de) in a couple of days (July 20, 2026). We are currently working to set up a new platform for community engagement. Once it goes live, we will make an announcement here and on the SciOp blog (https://blog.sciop.net). In the […]

RE: https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/116936125992580425 obligatory Monty Python gif ✅

Safeguarding Research/Culture@safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

We are not dead yet 👋 Capacities re public communication have been low, but internally work has continued. We're currently restructuring and have a couple of announcements: 1. We're cooperating closely with our friends at @tibhannover (namely @Lambo, @lipogg, @julian, @mickylindlar, @yala […]

We are not dead yet 👋 Capacities re public communication have been low, but internally work has continued. We're currently restructuring and have a couple of announcements: 1. We're cooperating closely with our friends at @tibhannover (namely @Lambo, @lipogg, @julian, @mickylindlar, @yala […]

I will be at @berlinfediday in September, presenting ongoing work around SciOp (https://sciop.net). 😀 The presentation will focus on ActivityPub-related aspects of the project, but there are many more facets to it. This will be my first public speaking appearance representing @tibosl. 🙂 […]

The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online: https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025 More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ #SafeguardingResearch #SciOp

2025-08-09_WHY2025_publish.pdf

Link für 2025-08-09_WHY2025_publish.pdf freigeben.

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Some of you may have seen the news re National #Climate Assessment Reports https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating A friendly reminder: They are all accessible here in this archive from November https://globalchange.govarchive.us/ As well as on […]

I will be at #WHY25 & give a talk about @SafeguardingResearch: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/ (Saturday, 22:35 - 23:00; should be the last talk of the day^^) Sadly, I need to leave Sunday before lunch :( If you want to meet, feel free to ping me!

Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings! WHY2025

Archives are vulnerable. Modern archival methods are robust, but no archive or institute alone can withstand the threats we are currently facing. Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage & scientific knowledge. We focus on publicly available material under threat of being deleted or altered. We preserve this data using open standards, open-source software, distributed storage and your help!

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This might be of interest to some attendees of the libraries meeting at #DH2025, who just mentioned the need to safeguard data. From: @SafeguardingResearch https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114852130478020946

A group dealing with at-risk educational materials is looking for help: "The Digital Public Goods Library is looking for librarian volunteers who have experience cataloging materials with education-related metadata in a digital library environment, to assist in identifying and making available […]