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petersuber

"The #NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy."
forbes.com/sites/johndrake/202

PS: By now we've seen many versions of this story. I'm struck by the fact that this one, in Forbes, for the business world, contains this editorial aside: "Public research should serve the national interest. It should be transparent, #OpenAccess and aligned with real societal needs. Not every idea merits federal support. But there are better ways to modernize the research ecosystem — by improving data-sharing, strengthening accountability, developing special programs and expanding capacity — than by gutting trusted institutions and replacing them with opaque, politicized systems."

ForbesThe National Science Foundation Is Being Dismantled. What The Economy Needs Is More InvestmentThe economic consequences of restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Funding
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ReDATA, University of Arizona

🔋⚡🧠 Bulky batteries and power delivery issues have long posed a challenge to muscular stimulation #implants. A study by Alex Burton, Dhrubo Ahmad, Philipp Gutruf and collaborators introduces a battery-free, high-power implant solution! Discover their innovative dataset, software, and article at doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.2432, doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/AN4BS and doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-436. Image: Burton et al. (2023). CC-BY 4.0
#opendata #openscience #neuromuscularstimulation #UniversityofArizona

a. Block diagram of communication scheme. b. Photograph of return, spinal and muscle electrodes. c. Temporal control of stimulation patterns. d. Amplitude control of biphasic stimulation. e. Change in the impedance of the electrode, measured at 1 kHz, after continuous stimulation of over 9 million cycles.
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petersuber

"Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980."
cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noa

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [#NOAA] announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired,” a move that will make it next to impossible for the public to track the cost of extreme weather and #climate events…The disasters database, which will be archived but no longer updated beyond 2024, has allowed taxpayers, media and researchers to track the cost of natural disasters — spanning extreme events from hurricanes to hailstorms — since 1980."

CNN · Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980By Andrew Freedman
#DefendResearch#OpenData#Trump
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petersuber

Kudos to the Environmental Defense Fund (#EDF, @edf) for using the Freedom of Information Act (#FOIA) to obtain the latest greenhouse gas inventory from the Environment Protection Agency (#EPA), and making it #OpenAccess.
edf.org/freedom-information-ac

"As a party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States is obligated to submit a national greenhouse gas emissions inventory report by April 15 each year. This year, for the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. failed to meet that obligation and did not publicly release a greenhouse gas inventory."

Here's the OA inventory itself.
library.edf.org/AssetLink/145k

Natural gas storage buildings in an agricultural field
Environmental Defense FundFreedom of Information Act documents for the EPA’s greenhouse gas inventoryThis year, for the first time in almost three decades, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency failed to publicly release its greenhouse gas inventory.
#Censorship#Climate#DefendResearch
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Ordnance Survey National Geographic Database (OS NGD) [UK]
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ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/ <-- shared link to OS NGD overview
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osdatahub.os.uk <-- shared OS data portal
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A Very British Map – and spatial datasets!
“The OS NGD is a single store of all Ordnance Survey’s authoritative data for Great Britain. The OS NGD delivers the richer data you need for better analysis and our download service, OS Select+Build, makes it easier to find, package and analyse the data you need, such as address and building data for emergency planning…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #OSNGD #OrdnanceSurvey #UK #OS #opendata #dataportal #national #database #Britian #England #Scotland #Wales #NorthernIreland

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Kompetenzzentrum Open Data

Wie können #OpenData 📂besser sichtbar & nutzbar gemacht werden? 👀
Damit beschäftigt sich ein #Forschungsprojekt 🔬
der TU Dresden 🎓und möchte das #Datenportal der #SmartCity 🌃 #Dresden verbessern.
Dazu finden verschiedene Tests🧮 und Umfragen📝 statt.
Mehr Infos hier:👇
tu-dresden.de/bu/der-bereich/n

TU DresdenMaking open data more visible and usable: TUD Business Information Systems researchers launch online surveyTwo Chairs of Business Information Systems at the TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD) are designing the new research project "Open Data for Citizens, Business and Administration". As part of the Smart City Dresden Model Project (MPSC), it aims to improve the visibility and use of freely …
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