@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
I work for #OpenAccess to research. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause. Also an […]
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@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyEven after #Trump slashed its budget, the #NSF left $1.4 billion unspent at the end of FY26 (Sept 30).
From Joel Widder (@jmwidder.substack.com): "NSF closed FY2026 having obligated $6.4 billion in research funds across 6,218 awards, down from $8.3 billion and 8,647 awards in FY2025, with […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyThe DOJ Civil Rights Division is abandoning civil rights …
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/11/g-s1-145063/justice-department-civil-rights-transformed
… just as …
✅the Environmental Protection agency has abandoned environmental protection
✅the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has abandoned […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyAll the editors of Elsevier's _Games and Economic Behavior_ just resigned in protest at Elsevier's firing of one editor and attempt to hire new editors without involving the current board. The Game Theory Society is cutting off its association with the journal, and "exploring the establishment […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy" ‘Complete devastation’ —How NSF gutted its social sciences research: Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year."
https://www.science.org/content/article/complete-devastation-how-nsf-gutted-its-social-sciences-research […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyAccording to Mona Nemer, #Canada’s chief science advisor, the #Trump admin is "planning a review of the #NelsonMemo."
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/open-science/open-science-compatible-research-security-says-canadas-chief-science-advisor
PS: This is new. As far as I know, no US official has […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyKudos to #Canada for the excellent new Tri-Agency #OpenAccess Policy on Publications. It upgrades and strengthens the 2015 policy, and applies to grants awarded on or after January 1, 2027 […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyUpdate. "21 States Sue #EPA to Reinstate Climate Pollution Rules for Power Plants."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02102026/states-sue-epa-over-power-plant-pollution-rules/
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyUpdate. "Why are members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) boycotting their own professional society? Let me explain."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123301
This account has new details on the #ADA's behavior in suppressing protests against #Trump policies and the […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyUpdate. "Dutch Research Council (#NWO) cancels subscriptions to #WebOfScience and #Scopus
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/dutch-research-council-nwo-cancels-subscriptions-to-web-of-science-and-scopus
It "will use open alternatives such as #Crossref and #OpenAlex where needed."
#Clarivate #Elsevier […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyI'm very glad to see that #Underlay is still under active development, and just reached a new milestone.
https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-10-06-underlay-protocol-v2/
Here's a good intro to Underlay, why it was dormant for a while, and why it revived in April of this year […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyIt shouldn't be newsworthy that one #Democrat and one #Republican are willing to go public in their agreement on this principle. But it is.
"Bipartisan lawmakers push colleagues to accept midterm results." […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy#MariaRessa -- 2021 winner of the Nobel peace prize -- talks about #Rappler (@rappler.com), the independent news platform she built for the #Philippines.
https://archive.is/uK6fQ
In the process, she talks about the problems with corporate social-media platforms, like #Facebook, and the […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy"OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03196-8
Very interesting, even apart from the mass #scooping of creative human mathematicians:
* Open AI has an advisory group of human mathematicians, which advised as recently […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyUpdate. The 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 (@jpsyexp) publishes in English but gives authors the option to add one-paragraph abstracts in their native language, no matter what the language.
https://jpsyexp.org/instructions-for-authors/
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy" ‘Ready to Blow His Stack’: How #Biden Nearly Cut Off #Netanyahu Over #Gaza."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/us/politics/mcgurk-biden-netanyahu-gaza.html
PS: I can't be the only one thinking that if Biden had cut off Netanyahu over Gaza, #Harris might have beaten #Trump in 2024.
#USPol […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyReally?
Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn on the lessons learned from the botched execution of Christa Pike:
https://www.wgal.com/article/christa-pike-failed-execution-sparks-tennessee-death-penalty-review/74040912
"If it's lethal injection, if it is electric chair, what we do know […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gyKudos to the University of Colorado Boulder for its 8th annual "State of Open" report on the university.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/reports/gm80hx21g
Every university should do this.
I hate to nitpick after kudos. But the report is limited to #OpenAccess for articles, books, and data […]
@petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy#Digitization plus #OpenAccess for botanical specimens has some predictable benefits, but also a slew of unexpected ones. Good article.
https://atmos.earth/climate-solutions/africas-ghost-plants-why-scientists-are-digitizing-centuries-of-botanical-history/
