On July 14, join me and @ucs.org for a critical conversation on the new book, "On Courage: How to be a Dissident in an Age of Fear", with authors, @juliaangwin.com and @fieldsmeyer.com for the second national call of our Science Rising Initiative. RSVP to join us: act.ucsusa.org/Courage

Excited to be doing this with my colleagues!

Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16

I reviewed the relaunch of the Standard Application Process portal by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics at the National Science Foundation. https://www.chrismarcum.com/marcum-blog/2026/06/27/A-Review-of-the-Standard-Application-Process.html . Original post bridged here.

Next week, join Merrilee Proffitt , James Jacobs, and myself in a conversation with Chris Freeland and David Hansen about the Fight for the Public Record on the Internet Archive podcast: https://blog.archive.org/event/the-fight-for-the-public-record/ . Original post bridged here.

Last month U.S. Census Bureau released a really "cool" new data product on local air conditioning estimates. I played around with the data in this short blog post: https://www.chrismarcum.com/marcum-blog/2026/06/12/LACE-and-Age.html . Original post bridged here.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@scimag/news-from-science-dgvs7ea7z/-/a-NgaDBEXoTKGsTRFRSEk-vg%3Aa%3A2427788627-%2F0 Entity resolution is a major data governance challenge. https://flipboard.com/users/SciMag/statuses/NgaDBEXoTKGsTRFRSEk-vg:a:2427788627 . Original post bridged here.

I reviewed the relaunch of the Standard Application Process portal by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics at the National Science Foundation. https://www.chrismarcum.com/marcum-blog/2026/06/27/A-Review-of-the-Standard-Application-Process.html

Thanks to Terry Gerton @federalnewsnetwork.com for launching the monthly Data Dish with @denicewross.bsky.social and I on the Federal Drive Podcast today! We discussed the federaldatafieldguide.us and data for Alzheimer's and Brain Health Awareness Month: federalnewsnetwork.com/big-data/202...

Excited that the Federal Data Field Guide by @denicewross.bsky.social and myself is a finalist for the Association of Public Data Users (APDU) 2026 Data Integrity Award! Vote on your favorites here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/YY6DTB2

Gov. Doc. Librarians set the record in The Fight for the Public Record. A chat on accessible public information amid political and technological change. Happening live now, starts ~1hr With @merrileeiam.bsky.social & @freegovinfo.bsky.social & @csmarcum.bsky.social & @authorsalliance.bsky.social

Today may be Father's Day (cheers to all those that celebrate), but it's also the 2026 start of summer! Thanks to free federal data provided by the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) , we know that summer officially started at 4:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time. Check it out […]

#academicSky #PublicHealthSky #EduSky #MedSky #PublicHealth join legends @chrismarcum.bsky.social @prereview.bsky.social for a PUBLIC #PeerReview of #MedArXiv #preprint #FDA COVID-19 vax that was censored. THURS 6/25 am ET #openscience sheds light on nonsense like this. Be a part of it!

Want to help government scientists get their censored work peer-reviewed? Please join us at @prereview.bsky.social for a community peer-review of an FDA paper on COVID-19 vaccine safety among older Americans next Thursday (6/25) at 11am ET. #openscience us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It would be so #metal if John Heyn and Jeff Krulik deposited their legendary documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot in the @internetarchive#metalHappy 40th! 🤘 https://wamu.org/story/26/06/02/dc-filmmakers-40th-anniversary-documentary-heavy-metal-parking-lot

Providing reliable, repeatable, and factual information about the US Federal Statistical System from an LLM ChatBot is one the reasons I'm really excited about the work that BrightQuery is doing to support the National Science Foundation National Secure Data Service. Both training data and […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@scimag/news-from-science-dgvs7ea7z/-/a-NgaDBEXoTKGsTRFRSEk-vg%3Aa%3A2427788627-%2F0 Entity resolution is a major data governance challenge.

I was pleasantly surprised to see Congressional push-back on DOGE randomly cancelling NASS & ERS surveys in the FY27 USDA appropriations bill related to the AgCensus. USDA is required to notify Congress 30 days prior to the termination of any datasets or reports (it would have been better if […]

Federal statistical agencies are required to do two things at once. They must protect confidential information, and they must publish useful public data. A new policy by Commerce threatens to take away a key tool those agencies use to do both. More by Meghan Maury, Beth Jarosz, and myself for […]

Last month U.S. Census Bureau released a really "cool" new data product on local air conditioning estimates. I played around with the data in this short blog post: https://www.chrismarcum.com/marcum-blog/2026/06/12/LACE-and-Age.html

Next week, join Merrilee Proffitt , James Jacobs, and myself in a conversation with Chris Freeland and David Hansen about the Fight for the Public Record on the Internet Archive podcast: https://blog.archive.org/event/the-fight-for-the-public-record/

An important editorial from @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social in @science.org on the X-Labs proposal. The critiquew of research project grants are legitimate and we need to experiment new models for publicly funded research. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nice to see Raymond in the permanent position.

new blog post from @csmarcum.bsky.social and @dataindex.us This is an ongoing attack on the federal data system. dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

Please join @prereview.bsky.social in a community review of a paper on #covid19 vaccine safety that was pulled from journal submission by the FDA this year.

Entity resolution is a major data governance challenge. In research, it can mean the difference between a reliable result and the need for a retraction/correction: www.science.org/content/arti...

Molly Hardy is doing great, smart things with federal data monitoring using a combination of @dataindex.us's data health check-up, real human people, and AI at @harvardlil.bsky.social : Read more about the project here: dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

Abraham Lincoln understood, perhaps better than anyone, how personal liberty and self-reliance are at the heart of the American experience. But he also knew there are certain things we can only do together. Read more in my essay for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social:

The Obama Presidential Center opens this month and it looks ready to receive people from all over. I spent a few moments on Saturday evening capturing the campus with a fiery sunset as the backdrop. Love the warm glow from within, too

Meghan Stuessy from Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress is on a role lately - her latest report is on the Presidential Records Act: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46129 . Original post bridged here.

Defend Research has an upcoming webinar (June 3rd, 11am ET) on science funding censorship with established leader Jeremy Berg and emerging leader Michael D. Green, PhD: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MVgVto7XTeiXIOsjLnLT4A#/registration

Meghan Stuessy from Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress is on a role lately - her latest report is on the Presidential Records Act: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46129

Defend Research has an upcoming webinar (June 3rd, 11am ET) on science funding censorship with established leader Jeremy Berg and emerging leader Michael D. Green, PhD: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MVgVto7XTeiXIOsjLnLT4A#/registration . Original post bridged here.

Congressional Research Service is hitting it out of the park on Federal Data these days. Here's an excellent comprehensive report by Clinton Brass and Meghan Stuessy on Data.gov: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48954#_Ref229337035 . Original post bridged here.

So what do we do when we find out that (pretty much) all of the mouse model studies are wrong? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01534-4 . Original post bridged here.

Denice Ross and I spoke with Jory Heckman about demystifying Federal data with the federaldatafieldguide.us: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/big-data/2026/05/federal-data-guide-aims-to-demystify-patchwork-of-laws-governing-data-sharing/ . Original post bridged here.

"Firing the Board was essentially a middle finger to Congressional intent..." - Rep. Lofgren et al. in this scathing rebuke of the Trump Administration's illegal firing of the National Science Board […] https://sciences.social/@csmarcum/116562224426577977 . Original post bridged here.

Here's the study that the Trump Administration tried to suppress because it presents data on the safety of vaccines, freely available for everyone to read as a preprint on medRxiv: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.03.25319975v1.full . Original post bridged here.

Abigail Haddad just made the #UFO files data dump much more accessible. You can search the text here 🛸 : https://ufo-releases.vercel.app/ . Original post bridged here.

@defendresearch.bsky.social has an upcoming webinar (June 3rd, 11am ET) on science funding censorship with established leader @jeremymberg.bsky.social and emerging leader Michael D. Green, PhD: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I'm really frustrated to be reading these stories today. I spoke to several reporters last year trying to blow the whistle about how the DOGEing of USAID was impacting insights into emergent biological threats on the ground in these countries. That was over a year ago. They should have been […]

@grahamformaine.bsky.social Maybe you will be more effective at protecting Maine farmers from Trump's tariffs than Susan Collin's "concerned" letter to Lutnik was: youtu.be/w8GIaxQ54mk?...

Bonus: there are incredibly good references to federal data assets here too, including the American Time Use Survey and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, both datasets under threat by the current administration.

We can't biologize our way out of a fundamentally social problem: goodscience.substack.com/p/mental-hea...

Lots of puzzling things in the GAO report - the methodology, data source, the framing, a balloon chart?! Thanks to @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social for the opportunity to comment with @csmarcum.bsky.social and @amudditt.bsky.social.

Congressional Research Service is hitting it out of the park on Federal Data these days. Here's an excellent comprehensive report by Clinton Brass and Meghan Stuessy on Data.gov: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48954#_Ref229337035

Alison Mudditt and @eschares thoughtfully fill in the gaps that the US Government Accountability Office left in their public access report from this piece by Jeffrey Brainard in Science Magazine (I spoke with him too) […]

@tyk314.net @csmarcum.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #Science #HigherEducation #HigherEd #politicalscience #Polisky - how did we get to state unis censoring their faculty? The answer is - very quickly. Join @defendresearch.bsky.social Tues May 19 @bparsonst.bsky.social talks #academicfreedom

I am honored to be giving one of two keynotes at #ICHPS2027 next year. Submit your papers and posters now!

Contributed abstract submissions for #ICHPS2027 has opened. We need statisticians to drive evidence-based policy for #AIsky. @cynthiarudin.bsky.social and @csmarcum.bsky.social will give great keynotes, and @rhubbbstat.bsky.social will organize a fantastic conference. #statsky #rwdsky #hpss