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"As researchers, we often say 'we need the data'. Today, the data needs us." — Kathy Reid (@KathyReid) [removed sentence, pending a rewrite] Together, we […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Frage an die Leute, die sich etwas mehr mit den Strukturen der Landespolitik und Zivilgesellschaft in #SachsenAnhalt auskennen: Ich habe hier im Kontext von @SafeguardingResearch und safeguar.de/src_sachsen-anhalt eine Liste mit 19 konkret bedrohten Institutionen, Initiativen und […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#Throwback That's how @SafeguardingResearch started, on January 15th 2025 Feels like half-a-lifetime-ago already...

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Geordi LaForge meme instead of the drake one: top image = disapproval, bottom image = approval

Top:
"I'm forgetting"

Bottom:
"I'm wgetting"

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Berichterstattung gibt es in der Zwischenzeit auch schon :) Danke an @netzpolitik_feed! Momentan ist die Webarchivierungsaktion in vollem Gange; in ein paar Tagen können wir da Sachen auch öffentlich zeigen und zugänglich machen

Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Berichterstattung gibt es in der Zwischenzeit auch schon :) Danke an @netzpolitik_feed! Momentan ist die Webarchivierungsaktion in vollem Gange; in ein paar Tagen können wir da Sachen auch öffentlich zeigen und zugänglich machen

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Der Aufruf von @SafeguardingResearch ist (ohne Überraschung) seit gestern noch dringlicher und wichtiger geworden: safeguar.de/src_sachsen-anhalt Nominiert weiter Webseiten zur Archivierung (~30 haben wir schon). Aber vor allem: Weist Leute in bedrohten Einrichtungen, Initiativen […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

As expected, Saxony-Anhalt has a right-wing extremist as president of the state parliament www.dw.com/en/germany-news-far-righ… Our webarchiving action is going strong; around 30 URLs got submitted. Stay tuned for […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

As expected, Saxony-Anhalt has a right-wing extremist as president of the state parliament www.dw.com/en/germany-news-far-righ… Our webarchiving action is going strong; around 30 URLs got submitted. Stay tuned for […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Wie erwartet: Sachsen-Anhalt hat seit heute einen rechtsextremen Landtagspräsidenten mastodon.xyz/@johl/1173935550024007… Unsere Archivierungsaktion läuft auf Hochtouren, mehr als 30 URLs wurden nominiert. Stay tuned für die Veröffentlichung auf SciOp und zum direkten Browsen

Jens Ohlig (@johl@mastodon.xyz)

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Wie erwartet: Sachsen-Anhalt hat seit heute einen rechtsextremen Landtagspräsidenten mastodon.xyz/@johl/1173935550024007… Unsere Archivierungsaktion läuft auf Hochtouren, mehr als 30 URLs wurden nominiert. Stay tuned für die Veröffentlichung auf SciOp und zum direkten Browsen

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Jens Ohlig @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: openbiblio.social/@tibosl/117371038… Be there if you are interested in rescuing research (data) from authoritarian deletions with methods usually associated with shadow libraries and pirates 🏴‍☠️ (arrr!)

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/1… It took some time, but it's finally here: @SafeguardingResearch's call-to-action re Saxony-Anhalt safeguar.de/src_sachsen-anhalt One part that's very important to me: "In addition, we call on the civil society to not […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117349693636… What this also means: We can only rescue things from the flames, can only try to pull them out of the burning building. But we can't stop the fire or extinguish the flames. Safeguarding only applies to 'dead" things, we can't safeguard a […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Safeguarding in Sachsen-Anhalt – Sicherung öffentlicher Daten vor dem Regierungswechsel Wir blicken besorgt auf Sachsen-Anhalt. Konkret unterstützen wir alle Demokrat*innen und Antifaschist*innen in Sachsen-Anhalt auf zweierlei Weise: 1. Webarchivierung von Regierungs- und Behördenseiten 2 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Announcing: SRC in Sachsen-Anhalt - Rescuing public data before the change in government We look worriedly at the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. There are two ways on how we support all democrats and anti-fascists there: 1. Webarchiving of websites by the local government and agencies. 2 […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Leak from the @SafeguardingResearch chat: One of our community members has found **the** best DOI :D "Oops! This DOI escaped from our testing environment before it was ready for the real world. Please disregard for citation purposes." doi.org/10.36967/2317000

Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

In a similar vain as our last post: Our friends at #SaveOurSigns also published an article in Library Trends Blake, Molly, Lena Bohman, Jenny McBurney, and Amelia Palacios. "Save Our Signs: National Park Signs and the Power of Crowdsourcing to Combat Censorship." Library Trends 75, no. 1 (2026) […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Not breaking news, but important nonetheless: Our partners at @datarescueproject.org published an article about their work Bohman, Lena, Lynda Kellam, and Mikala Narlock. "The Data Rescue Project: A Crowdsourced Effort to Preserve At-Risk US Federal Data." Library Trends 75, no. 1 (2026): 72-90 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Why Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate Data "[... T]he German Research Foundation in late 2025 set up a program, with a budget of $35 million, to provide a safe haven for permanently storing copies of U.S. data from public and open sources." […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Why Germany Is Building an Ark for U.S. Climate Data "[... T]he German Research Foundation in late 2025 set up a program, with a budget of $35 million, to provide a safe haven for permanently storing copies of U.S. data from public and open sources." […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

A message from our friends and partners at #SaveOurSigns, especially relevant for folks living in or near Washington D.C.: The Trump administration is moving ahead with signs outside the National Museum of American History […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/1… To be very clear about one thing: If we're not able to match the rate, then there are two options, either a) no stickers, or b) stickers that scream "graphic design is my passion" with subtly wrong colors and additional errors […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/1… To be very clear about one thing: If we're not able to match the rate, then there are two options, either a) no stickers, or b) stickers that scream "graphic design is my passion" with subtly wrong colors and additional errors […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/117274371643… We're working behind the scenes on metadata curation and better findability, in conjunction/cooperation with the other data rescue groups/initiatives. Good things are coming! #SciOp #Safeguarding

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

"👀 Oh, there is this very cool looking repository of the US National Park Service." "👀👀👀 Oh! There is stuff like "LGBTQ America. A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History" irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile… from 2016 which was funded by the National […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

In light of recent news, let us repeat: SRC is very much not only focused on USA and English language resources. If access to publicly accessible data is threatened, feel free to ping us. We might be able to help. safeguar.de Email: contact@safeguar.de Signal […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

In light of recent news, let us repeat: SRC is very much not only focused on USA and English language resources. If access to publicly accessible data is threatened, feel free to ping us. We might be able to help. safeguar.de Email: contact@safeguar.de Signal […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

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

2026 Amnesty International UK anti-rights reports - Dataset - SciOp

Preserving Public Information

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

"NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades." www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-… "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 […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

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 :/

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 18/08/2026

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

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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...

Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

> "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 dataindex.us, a group of data policy experts, researchers and […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

bar-chart from the Guardian article, showing "most common topics of federal data altered or deleted during Trump's second term":
'Health' trumps the list with 158 counts, followed by 'Education' with 24, 'Veterans' and 'Immigration' with 20. Last entry is 'Labor' with 17 counts.

Source of the data is dataindex.us

Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

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

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Welcome! - The Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 17/08/2026

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.

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@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 sciop.net for more I'm currently downloading all videos on your YouTube […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

RE: 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 lib.uvic.ca/safeguard

Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1170562745011… We saw @4thievesvinegar announcing their "So long and thanks for all the meds!" & raise you a torrent of all their materials: sciop.net/datasets/four-thieves-vin… Not a rescue, but worthy of preservation nonetheless ✊

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

"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 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

"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 […]

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 07/08/2026

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

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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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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

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 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

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 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

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 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

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 […]

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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

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 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

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 […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

In the coming weeks, we will be rewriting the whole mission statement to better reflect our values, what we want, and what we are not. Afterwards, a notice about the what and why of the changes will be part of the new mission statement. We think its important to preserve what has happened. We […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

We will always have shortcomings and weaknesses in our perspective and approach, as all groups do, and it is only by cooperation across our imperfect, under-resourced organizations that we can overcome the much more powerful threats to shared understanding. In short: We want to further […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

We don't need to wait for someone to save us, be it the law or some magical institution reversing the status quo. But that doesn't mean we can do it by ourselves and disregard everyone else who has been working in this space. We see our work as one among a diversity of tactics, part of a shared […]

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Safeguarding Research/Culture @safeguardingresearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Our criticism is directed at the systems that make it so that use, access, and contribution to our shared information space are dependent on the whims of a few political actors and powerful corporations. We are opposed to the decades of sociotechnological coercion that makes it possible for vast […]

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