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

It is hard to overstate how wildly inappropriate it is to replace a National Climate Assessment--A process normally involving hundreds scientists, significant public and expert input, and US government-wide coordination--with five climate skeptics using AI. www.eenews.net/articles/its...

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

Congratulations to the Infectious Diseases Society of America and to Dr. Marrazzo. Wishing them all the best in this next phase. www.idsociety.org/news--public... 1/2

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

📌 Take Action on the Data Regulation of the Week: Collection and Use of Biometrics by USCIS 🔍 Take Action! blogs feature proposals for federal collections that are seeking public input. ✍️ Check out more opportunities to tell the government what you think. dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

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 […]

My quote of the day Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. Charles Ruff

This is going as well as expected for #NIH, which is not at all. The AI summary is on point, for once.

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

Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here. h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social

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

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 . Original post bridged here.

"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

We should probably rethink having single-source providers for our critical national infrastructure: . Original post bridged here.

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 . Original post bridged here.

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/ . Original post bridged here.

Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true. I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems. Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.

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 […]

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

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/

We filed a brief in SCOTUS case Trump v. Slaughter on behalf of a number of scholars and public servants who were unlawfully removed from independent federal boards by President Trump. This case is about more than individual firings – it's about blocking the president's efforts to seize more power.

Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-13T21:01:26Z EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected Extension to Serial Number: 5148 Valid From: 2025 Nov 11 2230 UTC Now Valid Until: 2025 Nov 14 1200 UTC Warning Condition: Persistence Additional Details Here.

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 […]

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

I make my statement in my personal capacity at 4:30. It frightens me that health policy and health systems are not priorities when we told our leaders we need a fighting CR to keep the ACA afloat. #hspr #hpsr #hpss #shutdown

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 . Original post bridged here.

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/ . Original post bridged here.

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 https://osf.io/k5su6_v1 . Original post bridged here.

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

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 . Original post bridged here.

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

Did you hear the news from the Dutch election? Finally, it seems that RW populist Wilders is done. Out of government-building coalition territory. Phew 🥳 It will be a centre left coalition, most likely. Thank you NL☺️

"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 […]

#TBT to last year's Halloween costume: The Ghost of Chevron Deference […] https://sciences.social/@csmarcum/115463991644354882 . Original post bridged here.

#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 . Original post bridged here.

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/ . Original post bridged here.

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- . Original post bridged here.

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/ . Original post bridged here.

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@markhisted.org explains the importance of the #NIH ICO directors being non-partisan civil servants as opposed to political appointees. Search committees must choose them based on their leadership and scientific expertise.

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

Got plans on Saturday the 18th for #NoKings, 9 AM ET? Come hear @allstrike.bsky.social at @nihvigils.bsky.social ! Food bank donations accepted. Come to the #NIH Metro off the red line.