I just submitted my comment in support of the renewal of PRAMs and urging restoration of data access request review: https://osf.io/jkevx/files/697s5 You can submit your comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2025-0750-0001

GDEX is the NCAR-funded hub for geoscience data and it needs your help! Tell your story about how essential GDEX data has been to you: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKVUckQXn5drmi6wcgbRsZXYvUszcMJdg6IvCg3szn-odBaw/viewform

This is a wonderful vignette and compilation that summarizes the values of collaboration that we in the open science community hold. Participating in the #osfair2025 was a highlight of my year by a wide margin: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hWBshO1A0w #openscience

It's two-week-old news now: Nice to see H.R. 1695 pass the House. I provided TA on this bill with language to support open-source software and avoiding vendor lock-in for the agency plan provisions (Sec. 4.): https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr1695/BILLS-118hr1695pcs.xml

Reminder: you do not need to pay APCs to comply with federal public access policies. The NIH, for example, always has a free option available to researchers […]

Great reporting by Phie Jacobs in Science Magazine on the NIH APC RFI response to comments with thoughts from Stefanie Haustein : https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-s-proposed-caps-open-access-publishing-fees-roil-scientific-community

I've started a look-back for my annual year in review and I came across a nice surprise in finding this excellent summary of my closing keynote at CERN from the University of Cape Town: https://uct.ac.za/eresearch/articles/2025-10-27-uct-eresearch-open-science-fair-2025 "Marcum’s address […]

In case it helps you with your own analysis, I made the comments submitted in response to the NIH Office of Science Policy's RFI on Article Processing Charges openly accessible in three machine-readable formats here: https://github.com/cmarcum/nih-apc-rfi

The NIH has released the compiled comments on the APC RFI : https://osp.od.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Compiled-Public-Comments-on-the-RFI-on-Maximizing-Research-Funds-by-Limiting-Allowable-Publishing-Costs.pdf #openscience

"Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersedes any prior notices which may have been received related to grant termination." https://www.imls.gov/news/statement-agencys-reinstatement-terminated-imls-grants

Tomorrow House Oversight will mark up the Information Quality Assurance Act, which will codify many aspects of OMB information quality policy. This is a bipartisan bill that I have worked very hard on for years. With agencies misinterpreting or misapplying their obligations on information […]

We should probably rethink having single-source providers for our critical national infrastructure:

Don't panic (yet), but the NIH Office of Science Policy website is down this morning. I suspect this is a contract issue as passthrough to cloudfare (the provider) is where the blockage appears to be located. While they figure it out, you can find grants, public access, and data management and […]

I am honored to join this effort as a member of the planning committee: @CenterforOpenScience https://www.cos.io/about/news/center-for-open-science-awarded-grant-from-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-to-preserve-and-safeguard-publicly-funded-scientific-data

Are you passionate about building a peer-review ecosystem for preprints and datasets that is driven by community ? Apply to become a PREreview champion in the 2026 cohort! https://content.prereview.org/2026-prereview-champions-apply/

The Social Security Administration wants to share your data with the Department of Homeland Security. You might have something to say about that, and if you do, comment here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/12/2025-19849/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records

A wild story about State Department revisionism and the Cold War. Easter-egg for us data nerds: The Washington Post used R to analyze data scraped from Internet Archive to demonstrate how unprecedented this case was […]

I love seeing everybody's photos from the Aurora last night. Sharing two awesome #opendata resources about lights at night: NASA's human lights earth observation data: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/topics/human-dimensions/nighttime-lights NOAA's 30-minute Aurora forecast […]

Gretchen Goldman, PhD writes about why even the small efforts to protect the environment and combat climate change, even the ones not having an individually measurable impact, actually do matter: "I think about what I will one day say to my kids about this moment in our history. I want them to […]

Incredibly grateful to be participating today in this critical conversation on Federal statistics held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) : https://www.csis.org/events/federal-statistics-economic-security

This is PRC-style genetic surveillance and enforcement. You should tell DHS what you think of unconsented DNA collection from minors: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/03/2025-19747/collection-and-use-of-biometrics-by-us-citizenship-and-immigration-services

I'm so "Damm" proud of my sister for returning the Errol General Store into the family after a 50 year hiatus. Damm House Cafe will become Ice House Cafe under her entrepreneurship.. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MQXNGRejX/

If you, like me, read James Butcher 's Journal-ology this week and wanted an open-access version of Haven & Ionnidis's Reproducibility paper here it is in Open Science Framework metarxiv : https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/k5su6_v1

Yesterday, I submitted comments the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and OMB on the renewal of the Standard Application Process (SAP) common form. The SAP is a statutory requirement of the Evidence Act […] [Original post on sciences.social]

The Federal Data Funeral is underway this Halloween. How will you memorialize our "Dearly Departed Datasets"? See the graveyard from Denice Ross and team here: https://essentialdata.us/in-memoriam.html

"Open-washing" plagues frontier AI firms who shield themselves from transparent oversight and public accountability with a "private-by-design loophole" - Ilan Strauss and Tim O'Reilly argue it's time to close that loophole using existing SEC authorities in Tech Policy Press […]

Eva Campo and I responded to the OSTP RFI on AI Regulatory Reform. We argue that deregulation isn't needed at this time. Instead, more clarification on scope of AI work, stronger reliance on existing policies and laws, and better data governance should be prioritized. https://lnkd.in/ehSwD7wq

#TBT to last year's Halloween costume: The Ghost of Chevron Deference […]

The scariest thing this Halloween may be the horrors affecting Federal data: https://forms.gle/nGFj5Teqg6d7wHa76

Here's your reminder that the Lancet, owned by a European monopolistic publisher, is still headed by the same Editor in Chief that brought you the original vaccine hesitancy scare. Maybe it's time for the Netherlands to take ownership of their role in this mess? […]

An #openaccess book all about #opensource GIS? Yes please! And thank you to Jennifer Moore for living the values of #openscience in this tremendous (and beautiful) resource! https://wustl.pressbooks.pub/geospatialthinking/

A nice summary of the Data Foundation webinar that I participated in last week about data.gov with a link to the recording: https://datafoundation.org/news/blogs/707/707-Taking-Stock-of-Federal-Open-Data-in-

Early career #rstats feds who got DOGE'd or Voughted-out of government, you could work with the amazing Leanna Moron, M.S. at JHU: https://jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-Biostatistician-%28Epidemiology%29-MD-21202/1334417300/

Congratulations to the Nobel prize in economics winners announced today. Professor Mokyr warns that this Administration's assault on science by cutting public R&D investment is basically turning our economy into Andrés Escobar at the 1994 World Cup […]

Mohawk on the Hill! Had a productive day today discussing data and science policy and federal worker capacity challenges with members of Congress and their staff.

Excellent reporting by Carmela Guaglianone on the importance of longitudinal education data. Nice to see Stuart Buck quoted in her piece on DOGE's irresponsible cuts to the National Center for Education Statistics: 'He likened Trump's cuts to "someone showing up to your house and claiming they […]

Next week, I'll join fellow Data Foundation Senior Fellow and former chief of data.gov Hyon Kim in a webinar to discuss what's been going on with the nation's federal data catalog. 🚨 Federal workers - if you're still furloughed by next Tuesday and want to attend please (re)register with your […]

A few contacts reached out to ask about the "Out of Order" photo I posted alongside the dataindex.us blog post yesterday. It's available here for you to share and use for free under a Creative Commons CC-BY (attribution only) license: https://flic.kr/p/2rwZoqM

I had a great conversation with my academic sibling, Beth Jarosz on the dataindex.us team, all about what happens to federal data when the government is out of order during a shutdown. https://dataindex.us/newsletter/article/3362b9b8-a993-4741-92a9-25c720adeb7a

Displaced workers: If you're looking for a gig while searching for a full-time job, Mercor has a lot of roles open for short-term projects leveraging broad subject matter expertise to improve AI systems (they need diverse input from legal perspectives, to statistics, to poets). The pay is decent […]

AAAS and American Geophysical Union have issued statements on the shutdown and how bad it is for science. https://lnkd.in/eSaxk2Et https://lnkd.in/eyX8fBVi

"Where compute brings capability, data governance builds trust." Eva Campo and I call for stronger, more transparent, data governance for AI in our Tech Policy Press today. https://www.techpolicy.press/national-ai-ambitions-need-a-data-governance-backbone-rdaf-can-provide-it/

AAAS and the Science Magazine family of journals have responded to The National Institutes of Health APC RFI: https://www.aaas.org/news/response-nih-public-access-policy

The Evidence Act requires agencies to expand access to their federal data assets. It is absolutely wasteful, if not unlawful, for U.S. Census Bureau to produce data that it then hides from the public. Jon Freeman and Democracy Forward are fighting to make sure that federal investments in LGBTQ+ […]

In addition to providing the closing keynote at @osfair , I had the privilege of joining colleagues on a panel about the strange bedfellows of #openscience organized by my kickass friend Sara Rouhi. No holds barred in this frank discussion about efforts to co-opt the movement by distasteful […]

Food insecurity is often a hidden source of suffering for American families. This survey shone a light onto the needs of some of the most vulnerable. One way to cover up the inhumane consequences of food program cuts (e.g. SNAP, meals on wheels, school lunch) is to simply stop collecting the […]

Jack-o-Lantern mushrooms are popping up just in time for spooky season in Maryland. These can bioluminesce. (Omphalotus sp.)

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

Today is the final day at #osfair2025 at CERN kudos to the entire @osfair team for such a successful and impactful event. #openscience